Luke wisely left it at that, and they headed out, taking two vehicles.
Chapter 32
Carson’s heart thumped wildly in his chest as he drove up and saw Allie’s door open.He pulled into the same spot as he had last night and got out.The neighborhood felt eerily quiet as they all walked up to the house.
The team spread out as they surveyed the area.Each took a section of the house while a few went around the property.
Carson gasped when he stepped into the house and took in the mess.Some pictures were askew on the walls as if they had been bumped into.One was on the ground, and the glass shattered.Her couch was pushed at an angle as if someone had fallen into it.There were a few dark drops on the floor that Carson knew was blood.Hers or theirs, he wouldn’t know without a DNA test.
“It looks like a small fight, but hardly any damage,” Luke remarked, his eyes taking everything in.
“The door doesn’t appear tampered with or broken, which means she opened the door for them,” Barry pointed out, studying the door lock and keyhole.
“Allie would never just open the door for a stranger,” Sandy assured him.Carson knew that as well.She must have seen him last night and thought the knock on the door had been him.“They must have showed up right after you left, Carson,” Rob stated, confirming his own thoughts.
Carson had left her vulnerable, and he hadn’t been watching his surroundings.If he had been paying better attention, he would have known something was off and could have prevented this.If anything happened to her because of him, he’d never forgive himself.
“Did you see anyone else while you were here?”Barry asked him.
Carson wracked his brain, hoping in vain to remember something, anything to help, but was coming up blank.He hadn’t been thinking about his surroundings at the time.Only talking to Allie then chickening out and leaving.
They walked around the rest of thehouse, but didn’t find any more clues other than they guessed by the damage left that there had been more than one person that came into the house.
“Nothing outside,” Rob and Daniel confirmed, coming inside.“The grass looks undisturbed.They stuck to the driveway and pathway as if they knew we’d be looking for something like that.”
“I’m not seeing anything here that can help us find her unless she has some kind of security camera,” Jack said, looking defeated.
“It’s as if they cleaned up any evidence they could have left,” Rob commented.
“This isn’t the work of some random kidnapping.These are people that know what they are doing,” Luke expressed.
That didn’t bode well.
“Wait, Carson, don’t you have a dash cam?”Greg asked.
“Yeah,” Carson answered, not sure why Greg was asking, then it hit him.“If they were waiting for me to leave, it might be on the cam.”He pulled out his phone, pulled up the app, and started going through the footage.
“Would you see anything if they were parked behind you?”Sandy questioned, looking hopeful.
“I have front and back cameras.”The screen was too small to try and see if anything could be helpful in finding Allie.
Barry took his phone from Carson and plugged it into his laptop that he never went without.The images from the camera were enhanced across the screen, making it easier to see if there was anything.His teammates all gathered around and studied the footage.
“There.”Sandy pointed to a car parked across thestreet, but facing the opposite way.It was a black sedan that looked empty, but when Carson turned on his truck, the taillights had cast a light on them.A person was barely visible in the back passenger window.
“Barry, can you enhance that?”Luke inquired.
They all watched in anticipation as Barry typed away on his computer, isolating the person and filtering it.Within a few minutes, the image cleared up, and they could all see who it was.
“Fuck me,” Barry hissed.
“How?”Carson asked, staring in disbelief.
“Who is that?You all seem to know who that is,” Sandy accused.
It was Yurgio.Carson didn’t understand.Why was he here?Why had he taken Allie?It didn’t make any sense.
“We have a major situation on our hands,” Luke announced.
