Before I knew it, I had a small line of people wanting me to take a look at things that had happened. Gashes and infections. Smells and things that were seeping.
“King!” I called out.
“What?” he barked from outside.
“You need to get in touch with Doc! He needs to get out here and help us!”
“I’ll place a call to Cap!”
“Thanks.”
The older woman spoke up, and I quickly found out that she was sort of the leader of this band of people that settled in the warehouse. They all looked at her before they spoke. They all followed her lead.
Which meant I had to get in good with her.
“Do you really know a doctor that will help?”
I smiled softly. “I do. He can set that wrist and make sure no damage has been done to your extremities.”
Another voice piped up. “Does he do stitches?”
“He does.”
“Does he have pain medication?”
“Tylenol, but that’s about it without a formal prescription.”
“Anything is better than nothing,” someone grumbled.
I made a mental note to start putting things like little bottles of Tylenol and Midol and stuff into the baggies I handed out to them.
“Do you mind if I ask you a question?” I asked the older woman.
She crooked an eyebrow. “So you’re not just here to help. I figured.”
I just cupped her good hand in between mine. “There’s a woman who’s been kidnapped. We’re trying to see if anyone saw anything that happened to her.”
No one answered me.
“Please,” I said softly, begging the older woman to lead the charge and tell me what she knew. “She’s only twenty-two. She’s just disappeared off cameras. Her mother is worried sick.”
But the older woman just stared at me.
Fuck, I had to get her to unlock somehow.
“You’re not in trouble,” I said as I sat down cross-legged and shook my head. “There’s no police in this. My brother and his crew are helping another crew from another town that has experienced the same kinds of kidnappings.”
That got the woman to tilt her head. “There’s been more than one?”
I nodded. “This is the first one in our hometown, but it’s not the first kidnapping. Whatever is happening, they’re pushing through territory. We’ve got to figure out what’s going on so that we can call the proper authorities. That’s all we’re trying to do.”
A small voice spoke up. “You’re not kicking us out of the warehouse?”
I turned my head toward the young woman. “Absolutely not. Though, I’m worried about you guys being out here with a kidnapping that happened so close. That’s it, though. No one’s kicking you out of anywhere.”
That was when the woman looked around at everyone who gathered around us before nodding her head.
“She’s safe. Speak.”
