I pressed a kiss to her lips. “Smartass.”
She grinned at me, and I joined my men outside.
Mika disabled the cameras and unlocked the doors, and we made our way inside, not making a sound. We’d done this together hundreds of times, every move like clockwork.
The first guard we came across didn’t so much as see us coming. It took us too long to come across anyone else, and I was getting a bad feeling. And my feelings had never steered me wrong.
There should be more people here. Cian had an army at his command. Only putting a handful of guards in a place that held Sofie was unlikely. We disabled five more guys before heading down to the basement.
We made quick work of checking every cell, finding them all empty.
Chapter26
Freya
A car pulledup next to us, and I tensed. When I recognized Blake, my finger hovering over the phone relaxed.
He knocked on my window, and I opened it.
“Please tell me they found her.”
His usually tanned skin was a sickly gray, and his once vibrant eyes were now dull and lifeless. I remembered him as a confident man, but now he was hunched over and looked like he’d blow over in the slightest breeze.
“Not yet.”
And I didn’t think they would find her either. She wasn’t in any of the cells, and there wasn’t much else in the warehouse. There had also been hardly any security. If you had something valuable, you’d keep it safe. I had a bad feeling that I’d been wrong.
He groaned and looked at the ground, his hands gripping my door. “This is all my fault. I don’t know what I’ll do if they hurt my little girl.”
He looked up then, and my heart broke for him. I reached out and placed one of my hands on top of his. “Gunner will find her. If she’s not here, there has to be another place Cian stashed her. She’s only a little girl. Anyone could look after her. Even—”
Holy shit. I’d been wrong. She wasn’t at the warehouse. Because there was an even better place to stash a six-year-old. “His mom.”
Blake stood up straight at my whisper. “What about her?”
“She has her. I’m sure of it. She lives out in Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. It’s the only place of his I’ve never been to. That’s gotta be it.”
His body straightened. “Do you have an address?”
When I nodded, he waved me out of the car. “Let’s go.”
I hesitated. “Shouldn’t we wait for Gunner?”
“The Irish most likely know he just broke into their warehouse and might move her. We can't waste time waiting for them to come out.”
He had a point, and I had no way of communicating with Gunner. But I also wouldn’t just leave with someone who looked unstable at best.
I got out of the car, texting Mika.
Me: Sofie with Cian’s mom in Lake Geneva. Meet me there.
Blake didn’t waste time and peeled away from the curb before I’d so much as touched my seat belt.
“You’re not helping Sofie if you get killed on the way there,” I snapped.
He slowed down marginally, and I clicked my seat belt in place. The action made me feel slightly better, but Blake was still driving like he was on a racetrack. If we didn’t crash, we’d have the cops following us instead.
My next text went to Jude, whose number I had memorized along with all my other brothers’. I’d lost my phone so many times, remembering numbers had become important for my survival.
