Page 43 of Every Which Way

“Go.” Ramon slammed the door shut.

Despite his order, she found a parking space and shut the engine off. Gave herself a second. If only she could call Jax, but he was at work and busy, and she probably didn’t have it in her to reiterate all of it.

She called Stairns’ number. They had gone to investigate another case that was supposed to have been perpetrated by the same kidnapper—killer—who had taken her sister and the man she’d been with.

Her sister.

Kenna couldn’t believe her father had not only seen Amara after her “death” and not told Kenna about it, but he’d also had a child with her.

A child who was now grown up and in danger.

Had she been raised in that world, trained to fight the resistance in the way Kenna had been trained her whole life to be an investigator?

“Hey.”

Kenna pushed the thoughts of her sister aside. “Yeah, it’s me. What’s going on?”

“Found another motel, same kind of incident, but the manager was looking out the window and saw the whole thing. Two people carried out the couple and put them in the back of the vehicle. A small SUV. They just laid them in the trunk. When he ran out the door after them, not thinking but determined to stop them, one of the assailants swung around and stabbed him in the shoulder. They left him for dead in the parking lot.”

“He told you all this?” That meant they hadn’t been successful.

“Yep. It was a year ago, and the couple was never found.”

Kenna said, “The victims or the perpetrators?”

“Exactly. But he saw her face.”

“Her?”

“Yep, says one of the two was a woman.”

Kenna frowned. “A couple kidnapping couples? That’s a new one.”

“Got ourselves a murdering Bonnie and Clyde,” Bruce said in the background of the call.

“Regardless…” Stairns actually sounded a little nervous. “We should figure out how to find them because no one else is looking.”

“Except my mother.”

“Huh?”

“I’ll explain later. But the resistance wants us to take care of Roxanne and let them find the missing couple.”

“And we’re going along with that?”

“Of course not.” Maybe he was just checking they were on the same page.

“Good.”

In the background, Bruce said, “Good!”

“We need to ignore all this international company business and focus on what we know how to do. Solving missing persons cases.”

“Agreed.”

“We need to know who the guy was and find out what was going on between him and the woman.” Her sister. “Figure out how they were targeted.”

Stairns said, “You think this Roxanne person knows more than she’s letting on?”

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