Page 18 of Jacqueline's Quest

Sure enough, it was the kid. If the photo of him was any indication, he’d been out of it. He hung limply from some man’s arms. Murray took his focus off of Scotty for a second to study the rest of the people in the photo. There were at least four men and... Holy fuck. His sister. He scratched his beard as he stood there staring at the back of Hannah. He couldn’t believe it. Jaqueline was right. Nevertheless, what the fuck was she doing with those men and why had she been with Scotty too?

“Fuck, this changes everything. I have to call Asher.”

“I’ll get these sent to him while you talk to him,” Jaqueline said.

“Thanks.” He stepped out of the office and went outside. He couldn’t wrap his mind around seeing Hannah helping those men. He tried to rationalize why she’d been there, but everything came back to her helping them.

He frowned.

Stop torturing yourself. You need to relay the info to Asher, quick, he chided himself as he pulled Asher’s number up. Once he hit send, it rang twice before Asher answered. “It’s me. We have a problem.

“Tell me about it,” Asher grunted. “We’re missing a team member, and no one knows where the hell he could be.”

“I might have an idea,” Murray said. “Jaqueline is sending the photos now. He was being carried into the club.”

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Asher blew out a roughened breath. "Thomas and AJ have been looking for Scotty. It's been a cluster fuck of epic proportions, to say the least."

“I wish I was,” Murray answered. “He didn’t look good either.”

“Damn it. What about your sister?” Asher hedged.

“Hannah is here too,” Murray replied. “She was with the people who brought Scotty in.”

“Fuck,” Asher spat. “This is getting complicated.”

“Tell me about it.” Murray glanced down at the ground. Bebito sat beside him. His tongue lulled out of his mouth as he stared up at Murray.

“I’ll brief the team. You should know they’ll be out there sooner rather than later,” Asher stated. “How is everything else going?”

He snorted. "Not good. I've done this shit before, but with her, it's different."

“Do I need to send an alternate team?”

“No.” Murray shook his head. “We’ll get it figured out. We just need a minute. It’s kind of hard telling someone to be a seductress when all they can think about is their brother.”

Asher grunted. “Sure enough. I do have some contacts in Mexico, say the word and they’ll be at your disposal.”

“I appreciate it,” he replied. “We also have some close-up images from inside the club we’ll be sending along once we get a second to review them.”

“Good. Keep me abreast. I’ll let you know when the team is inbound. I would expect them to be leaving tonight.”

“Don’t doubt it for a second. I’ll call in when we’re done here,” Murray said.

“Roger that.”

Murray ended the call and headed back into the security room where he’d left Jaqueline. She sat at the small desk going through all of the pictures, her bottom lip tucked between her teeth as she studied the pictures on the screen, looking for what, he didn’t know. She blew up a section of it near Scotty’s head then zoomed out and went to where Hannah had been. Blown up as Jaqueline did, he could see someone pushed her wheelchair back into the building. Who it was, Murray had no clue.

“Looks like Thomas and AJ will be here by morning. Seems they’ve been searching for Scotty,” Murray said.

“Holy shit,” Jaqueline said, facing him. “How come they didn’t tell us?”

Murray shrugged. “Maybe they didn’t think it was connected. I’m sure we’ll figure it out when they get here.”

She nodded. “What do we do now?”

“We finish up with our recon work and then we send it off to Asher. From there, we get ready for our company. After that, we should try again with our new dynamic. I think we could both use a little time to stop thinking, especially after what we saw today.” Murray sat in the chair he claimed as his.

After their little experiment went awry, he'd taken a shower. His reaction to having Jaqueline spank him shocked the hell out of him. He came so hard, he thought for sure she would have figured it out. Instead, she thought she hurt him. The worst part, while in the shower, he'd climaxed again with minimal effort. She had so much potential, he wanted to make sure she harnessed it in the right direction, but her jump first, ask questions later attitude would be the death of both of them if she didn't get it under control.

“I agree,” she said. “With the mission parameters changing, it’s even more imperative we’re a cohesive team once we get into the club.”

"Exactly," Murray replied. "Now, let's get this done and sent off. I'm sure Thomas and AJ when they land, will want to dig in, and we need to be ready for it."

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