“Yeah, we can talk about him later. If it’s who I think it is, you aren’t in danger from him. But I’d be careful how much you trust him.”
He moved to stand in front of her as Maizie was saying that. “Put it on Speaker.”
Eliana lowered the phone and tapped the button.
Tony said, “I need you to get me access to the traffic cameras. Or you find him and tell us where they’re taking him.”
“I can’t do that,” Maizie replied. “I took an oath.”
Eliana ducked her head and looked at the ground, not wanting to acknowledge that her sister refused to break the law to help Carlos. She wanted the people she loved to have integrity, and that meant their hands were sometimes tied by legalities.
But did that mean she had to like the fact that Carlos was currently suffering?
Given the fact that Lydia Rosenberg seemed to be in the middle of all of this, Eliana knew who she wanted to blame.
In fact, she wanted to march right up to the woman and demand to know where Carlos had been taken. That was the route she’d use to find him. Not traffic cameras…
And she realized Maizie had been talking while she was ranting in her mind about what to do next.
“Seriously, Bear?” Maizie said. “I cannotevenwith you right now. We need a statement, and we need someone to go before the judge, to get a warrant to look at traffic cameras.”
“There’s no time for that, and you know it.” He shook his head.
Eliana saw drops of something dark and wet on the ground. She crouched and touched her fingertip to the liquid, which came away red and bright. Not car oil. This was blood.
Carlos had put up a fight, and now he was bleeding.
Eliana sucked in a breath that broke a couple of times, but she got the air she needed and her throat didn’t hurt too badly right now.
“Just find the car and tell me where it went so I can get Carlos back.” Tony jabbed a finger on the screen.
Eliana looked over at him. Taking her phone back at the same time, she said, “Bear?”
“Long story.” He looked at his watch, the screen glowing against the gray of his eyes. “Sylvia is in the lobby. Let’s go.”
“Go where?”
“You can stay in the waiting room and wait for word about Luci. Or I can take you home and someone will stay there with you.”
She would rather go to Carlos’s house, but wasn’t sure that would be an option right now. As if she really wanted to sit around and do nothing? That’s what Tony seemed content to have her do. Eliana would quite like to hit the streets and start searching.
“We should call the FBI.” She glanced over at him as they turned the corner at the front of the building, circling around the hospital to get back to the lobby. “Get them to help us search for Carlos. Since it’s connected to their case.”
Tony made a noncommittal noise in his throat.
Around the front of the hospital, a line of three taxis sat in front of the building. She slid her phone back into her pocket and said, “Seriously, Carlos was probably targeted because he ID’d Maloney to the FBI. This is all connected to the Reverence Sisters.”
She couldn’t figure out why else they might have taken him.
“If you get their number, you can loop them in.” He pushed open the front entrance door and headed inside, probably presuming she was right behind him.
Eliana spun toward the street, dashed up to a taxi, and jumped in the back. “Drive fast!”
The taxi driver flinched, glancing at her. His tablet was on his lap, resting against the steering wheel.
Tony pushed back out the front door, looking for her.
“Go!”
