Page 66 of Wolf Bound

“Okay, let’s check with Everett.” Demetria took her bag from Fisher and when they reached Everett, she said, “We’re not sure where Kira is.”

Immediately, Everett shoved his credit card in his wallet and pocketed it.

“Fisher only got voicemail when he called her.” Demetria sounded a little panicked.

“I’ll let the others know,” Fisher said, and texted his brothers and cousin. “I’m going to run out to the car and make sure she’s not there.” Though he couldn’t understand why she wouldn’t answer her phone if she was.

“We’ll look over the pizza place and the mini mart further,” Demetria said, and she and Everett began searching for Kira.

Fisher hurried outside but when he reached Kira’s car, his heart sank. She wasn’t there. Which made him think of Oscar and Reggie. What if they had followed them here, but in a new vehicle and took Kira hostage to do an exchange for Royce?

“As long as someone is here to watch Royce, I’m going to search around the building,” Brock said.

“I’ll stay with the prisoner. If those bastards took Kira, they could come here and try and take Royce if we’re not sufficiently monitoring him,” Shawn said.

“I’ll stay too,” Tanner said. “I thought some of Dan’s people were coming.”

“He said they would. It probably took them a bit of time to get organized. I’ll contact Dan and see if they’re on their way and tell him that we may have an issue,” Fisher said.

“I’ll head out,” Brock said.

“Thanks, cousin,” Fisher said, then he called Dan. “Hey, this is Fisher. Did you send anyone to help back us up?”

“Yeah. Leyton, Bridget, Chet, Jack, and Travis from the CSF. They should be catching up to you.”

“We’re having an issue. Kira seems to be missing. We’re at a service station mini mart.”

“Okay, relaying the message to them.” Dan waited for a moment. “They said they went past the service station. They’re headed back your way. If you need more help, we’ll send it. Just let me know.”

“Thanks.” Then Fisher ended the call. “They missed us when we stopped at the service station.”

“Then we’ve got more help coming,” Shawn said.

“From the CSF. Five special agents. I’m going to check the security video and see if it shows anything.” Fisher hurried off to the mini mart and went inside. As soon as he saw Demetria, he joined her and said, “We need to see the security video for the store. I don’t have a badge.”

“I do, but we need to get you one pronto also.” Demetria waved at Everett to join them. “Time to see their security video.”

When they went to the manager, he hurried to show them the security video, and in horror, the USF agents watched as two men accosted Kira as she came out of the restroom and one of them threw her over his shoulder and took her outside through a side door. That was Reggie, Fisher believed. He was angry that the bastards had gotten hold of her.

“That’s Oscar leading the way and that’s Reggie.” Fisher asked the manager, “Do you have a security video of the parking lot?”

“Yeah, here you go for the one on that side of the store.”

Fisher, Demetria, and Everett watched the video closely and then saw the men put Kira in the back seat of a maroon Volvo. “Hell,” Fisher said.

“I’ll see if I can read the license plate,” Demetria said.

Everett and Fisher ran out of the office and were out the side door to the parking lot in an instant. In that direction, they smelled both Oscar and Reggie—Kira also. But they didn’t see the car parked where it had been. Fisher felt the worst kind of dread.

Even so, they looked all over the parking lot in case the vehicle was still there, just parked somewhere else. But he didn’t expect it to be. They would have been foolish to sit there once Fisher and the others realized Kira was missing.

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Kira wasn’t sure what was going on. She’d woken up and was groggy, sitting in an unfamiliar car and she smelled Oscar and Reggie’s scents, plus human scents. What the hell? Her heart was pounding, she felt confused and angry at the same time.

A rope tied her wrists together. Then she remembered coming out of the women’s restroom at the mini mart…and having a…a cloth covering her mouth. She had felt her knees give out, her head swimming, and then nothing. Damn it! This was her case and she just screwed it up by getting kidnapped!

Her phone rang, and her heart skipped a beat, but she couldn’t reach her cell in her back pocket.

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