“Sorry, Neith. Technically, he hasn’t escaped, but rather someone has broken him out. He was still knocked out cold from what I did to him,” Van replies immediately over the speakers.
“Fuck,” I growl. Pulling out my phone, I immediately call Rana.
“Did he escape?” She asks as soon as she picks up.
“The convoy was attacked, and someone has freed him,” I reply.
“Fuck,” she hangs up, and the line goes dead.
I look down at my phone and try to call her back. I didn’t get a chance to tell her that Trip is on the way to her, or at least he might be.
She doesn’t pick up.
“Is she going underground?” Raiden asks me with concern.
I nod and sigh, “I would. I can’t get through to her, and I didn’t get the chance to tell her that Trip might be heading to the compound.”
“Dare is messaging me when he shows up, I’ll get them to tell him that The Owner escaped, and is most likely going after Rana,” River replies.
I frown, “I really don’t like that she’s gone, but there was no way that I was going to convince her otherwise.”
“We have to respect her wishes,” Van says. “Even though it doesn’t feel right. Ty has sent several teams out to the location and onto the portal where they were driving to in order to transport The Owner back home to where the strongest prisons are. Hopefully, we’ll pick him back up.”
“We’re going to have to trust that the other agents know what they’re doing and leave it in their hands,” Griff says unhappily. “Hopefully, Rana will get in contact with you soon, and we can try to convince her to either accept help from SID or maybe even come here and stay with us.”
“Well, we have got a couple of spare rooms,” River reminds us.
“That’s true. Now I just need her to pick up, and she can come and stay with us,” I reply. Not needing to give it any more thought and silently cursing myself that I didn’t think of it sooner.
I try to call her again, but it goes straight to voicemail, and the text I send just bounces back as undelivered.
She’s ditched the phone.
I can’t even let Trip know that Rana is in danger because The Owner’s escaped because none of us have any way to contact him.
There is nothing that we can do, apart from wait it out and hope that SID catches The Owner quickly.
Judging from our past experiences with him though, he's going to disappear, and we’re not going to find him for a long time.
“It’ll be okay,” Reed says. “Ty has the best of the best working for him, and he knows that Rana will be under threat from The Owner, so he will be working around the clock to find him.”
I nod, “I know. I just don’t like it.”
“None of us do,” Coen replies.
Trip
Iwasn’t going to go to the compound like River suggested, even though I do trust him, and I felt more comfortable with all of them than I have felt with anyone else for a really long time. I was going to do what I had originally decided to do and get my head sorted before I saw Rana.
Being regularly tortured, not allowed to shift, and kept in solitary confinement does something to a shifter. Especially one like me. I want to run and enjoy being free for a while before I face Rana.
That was the plan, but something has shifted.
I don’t know what, but something has changed, and I suddenly have the need to head to the compound as quickly as I can.
My instincts are screaming at me, and I kick myself for not grabbing any of their phone numbers before I shifted and ran. I briefly consider heading back, but I move really fucking fast when I’m shifted, and although I could make it back to them just as quickly as I got here, something is urging me forward toward the compound.
Plus, I have no idea if they’re even at the location where the sales were anymore, so it could just be a huge waste of time.
