Page 67 of Wolf Bound

Then she heard footfalls running toward the car door, and Oscar jerked it open. Reggie and Oscar stared down at her. Reggie yanked her onto her hip and grabbed her phone from her pocket.

He glanced at the caller ID. “It’s from some clown called Fisher Greystoke.” He answered it and put it on speakerphone. “We need to make a swap.”

“Who am I speaking to?” Fisher sounded like he was ready to fight him wolf to wolf.

She wanted to shift herself and tear into both men, but she loved hearing Fisher’s gruff voice.

“The guy who has got your girl, I guess. She looks pretty perturbed, but the only way this is going down is you bringing Royce to the place where we had the kid in the national park,” Reggie said.

“You mean where you shot at us? I’m speaking with Reggie, the guy in charge of the kidnapping spree,” Fisher said.

“Yeah. You’re quick. But you can’t have anyone follow you or go with you. You alone will bring Royce to the exchange site.”

“No,” Fisher said.

Kira wanted to clap her hands, but she couldn’t with them being tied and she needed to be calm and just listen. Fisher hadn’t had his training, but he was doing good on his own during this hostage negotiation. If he had said he would go along with Reggie’s plan, she would have shouted, “No, don’t do it!” They would both be dead, she was sure, and Reggie and Oscar would have Royce back.

“You don’t have any say in this,” Reggie finally said, sounding shocked.

“This isn’t the offer of money for someone. We both have a lot to lose. All you would need to do is carjack us and grab Royce and then you would kill both Kira and me like you had tried to before,” Fisher said.

“Okay, so what do you propose?” Reggie asked.

Kira was surprised Reggie would back down so quickly and give up control of the situation as if he was unsure of himself.

“We meet here and exchange Kira for Royce,” Fisher said.

“Nah, you wouldn’t let us take him. You would stop us. We wouldn’t have any leverage then to guarantee our safety.”

Reggie was right. The kidnapper was smarter than Kira thought he might be.

Then she heard Fisher snap his fingers and she hoped that meant he had a plan.

Fisher was so riled and worried, he was having a difficult time keeping his cool. Then Reggie ended the call.

Fisher said to Demetria, her mate, and his brothers and cousin, “Kira and I were tracking each other’s phones in case we ran into trouble. I forgot about it because I’ve never done that with anyone before.” He checked to see where her phone was located. It was about ten miles from where they were. “If Reggie thinks of it and checks her phone, he can tell where I am. I want to go there now, but?—”

“We’ll go,” Tanner said.

Shawn agreed.

“I’ll go with you also,” Everett said. “In case they separate and one of them comes here, trying to grab Royce, we need to be sure we have enough people watching him.”

Then Leyton and the other CSF agents arrived.

Great! Fisher quickly told them what had happened. He was so ready to turn wolf and take these men down permanently. They better not have hurt Kira.

Jack, one of the CSF agents, got on his phone to tell Dan the news.

Fisher wanted to go with the guys who were going after Kira, but Reggie might have seen where Fisher was through her phone apps. Then the kidnappers would end the tracking and Fisher would lose their location.

Tanner, Shawn, Everett, Leyton, Chet, and Jack took off in two different vehicles so they could split up and surround them.

With a new plan initiated, Fisher called Kira’s phone and Reggie answered it. “Okay, we’ll meet at the mini market where there are lots of customers around who would keep us both honest.”

“Who are you exactly?” Reggie asked.

“Her boyfriend. We were on a hike when the two of you came into our lives and tried to kill us.”

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