Drew shakes his head.His face is pale as he checks his phone again.
Wyatt comes up from the other direction.“Nothing that way.You said Peabody was alone.”
“In the lobby.”I pick him up so he doesn’t growl when Wyatt steps in close.
“What’s that around his neck?”Wyatt reaches and that’s when Peabody decides to growl.
“I’ve got it.”Drew pockets his phone.As he undoes Peabody’s collar, he says, “I’ve been in contact with a few people who are usually in the know about things.”
“That’s cryptic as fuck,” Wyatt mutters.His eyes are wild but he’s focused.This is our worst nightmare brought to life.Sara missing.Without any way to track her.
Finn searches the park behind us, even though we can see everything clearly from here.He looks in trash cans and under bushes.A knife drives into my heart and cold runs through my veins.
He’s looking for her body.
All the blood rushes from my head.She can’t be dead.I’d feel it because part of my heart would die if she were.
“Writing on the inside.”Drew brings my attention back to the collar.“‘Return what’s mine and I’ll give you back yours.’”
“Finn!”I yell.
He lifts his head at my voice.I gesture with a nod that we need to go inside.We need to regroup.I need to call Theo.He might be able to hack into the traffic cams or the surrounding buildings’ security cameras.
“We have to assume she’s safe.”Drew takes Peabody from me.Wyatt’s eyes dart around like he can find her just by willing it so.
“We can’t assume shit.”Wyatt thrusts his hand into his hair as he storms toward our apartment building.“We can assume whatever Tom is doing is the reason for this.When I find him, he’ll regret it.”
I follow after them as Finn joins us.I don’t bother with a text, but call Theo.
“Yeah?”His voice is groggy from sleep.
“I have an emergency.Cost is no issue.Charge me whatever you want.I need to tap into the cameras facing the park across from our building.Can you do that?”My mind races.I need to get Sebastian Cross on Peter Sokolov as well.I need everything they can find on him.
The diamond necklace he bought Sara and the diamond collar can’t be a coincidence.
“Everything okay?”Theo seems more alert.
No.Everything is not okay.“Sara’s missing.”
“On it.I’ll get it to you as soon as I can.How long has she been gone?”Theo asks.
Those words…She’s gone.I stop walking on the sidewalk and bend over as the pain slices through me.I want to scream and pummel something, but I can’t.Focus on the problem.Find the solution.Ignore the pain.
Finn grabs my shoulder.
I straighten and meet his concerned green eyes.“I’m not sure.An hour.Maybe more, maybe less.”
“I’ll find her.”The call disconnects.
“We’ll find her,” Finn says, not an ounce of doubt in his tone.
We walk into the building and the doorman is there straightening his jacket.I don’t think.I just head toward him, but Wyatt gets there first.
“Where the fuck were you?”Wyatt pushes the guy into the wall behind him.“Did you fucking see anything?”
“Sir, I was on a break.”The guy holds his hands up.He’s barely twenty-five.He still looks a little rumpled, like he was asleep or was doing other things.All while Sara needed his fucking help.
“Did you see Sara?”Drew’s voice is calmer than Wyatt’s but there’s a tension in it.
