“Tucker, where’s Lucas?” Marilyn asked.
Tucker stood to his feet, worry grew in the pit of his stomach. “What do you mean 'where’s Lucas'? He’s home with the twins.”
“No, he’s not, Tucker. The twins are here, but he’s not. Tucker, there’s blood . . .”
“Don’t touch anything. I’m on my way.” He hung up the phone before she could ask or say anything. Hurrying to the door, he opened it and almost knocked Stephen over.
“Whatever it is you need to tell me later, Lucas . . .”
“Has been kidnapped,” Stephen said finishing for him.
“Ki . . .” he gasped unable to put the words together. “H . . . w . . .”
Stephen held up the tablet he had in his hand and on the screen was his husband. His face was covered but Tucker would know Lucas’ body anywhere. There were blood stains on the front of his shirt where the doctors had cut him open. Tucker reached out with shaky hands and took the tablet from his nephew; his vision was clouded with tears. He closed his eyes taking a deep breath, hoping to calm himself, but he didn’t see that happening.
“We’re trying to track down the IP address to see if we can find him, but whoever took him is very good at covering their tracks.”
He opened his eyes and looked down at his nephew. He needed to treat this like any other case because when he found the person who took his husband, he was going to kill him with his bare hands.
“How long ago was this?” he asked with a calm in his voice that shocked not only himself but Stephen as well.
“About five minutes,” Stephen answered.
“And you’re fucking telling me now?” he roared not caring who heard him. “Tell me you have more information. Did they ask for a ransom?”
“No, but we figured out what the message meant.”
“What message?”
“They will all come out of the shadows,” Stephen said looking at him as if he was waiting for him to snap and maybe he would, but right now he needed to find his husband. “They want to let the world know about the Seeker organization.”
“Find out who took him,” Tucker instructed as he walked past Stephen. He needed to get to his children, hold them and make sure they were okay.
“We know who took him,” Jaxson said coming up the stairs to meet them, stopping him in his tracks.
“Who?”
“Daniel Ritter,” Stephen answered.
“Why does that name sound familiar?”
“It sounds familiar because he was once Lucas’ partner with the Seeker organization, the one that's supposed to be dead,” Stephen said.
“Obviously he’s not,” Tucker snapped.
No one told him to calm down. They’d all gone through their own shit, from Christen getting kidnapped when he was pregnant with the triplets. And Nicholas who was taken by Brenden’s ex-girlfriend. Tucker took another deep breath, he couldn't stay there, he needed to see his babies.
“I want everyone working on this,” he ordered.
“It’s already done . . .” Brenden’s explanation was cut short when his cell phone rang, seeing that it was Tyler he answered it right away. “Tell me you have something.”
“Yeah, Chance was finally able to get into January’s computer, and I think we know where they took Lucas.”
How convenient,thought Tucker.
“Does it have anything to with this Daniel Ritter?”
“That’s where things are a bit confusing,” Tyler said to him.
