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“We’re on it, Mason. I swear to you we’re going to find her.”

“Where’s Keith?”

“He’s downstairs asleep in the waiting room. He hasn’t been getting much sleep, and I told his sister to leave him alone.”

“He has to be pissed at me. I let his sister get taken.”

“No, you didn’t. You got the shit beat out of you. That’s not letting her get taken.”

Mason disagreed. He should have seen this coming. The guy’s texts had escalated…

“The texts. Did they dump her phone?”

“Yes, the police did. Why?

“The texts. We were in the bathroom, and I dropped her phone.” He stopped, trying to remember. “She had a ton of missed messages from an unknown caller. They went from happy birthday to some really nasty ones. They escalated.”

Viktor nodded. “Mrs. Maxwell told me. The police aren’t really telling us much, but Jo’s parents are keeping us in the loop.”

“Why aren’t they telling you anything?”

“I’m guessing Detective Harper has something to do with that. He’s not happy about your lack of cooperation in his investigation.”

“He tried to accuse me and Jo of stealing that money.”

“Calm down.” Kade pointed to the monitor. “That number gets any higher, and an alarm will go off. The nurse will come in, shoo us out, and maybe give you another sedative. If we want to find Jo, you need to be calm and let us work.”

“Would you be calm if it were Angel?”

Kade’s nostrils flared, and Mason felt awful. Angel had been in danger more times than any woman should. He didn’t need to remind Kade of that.

“I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. I’m just scared shitless.”

“I know you are.” Kade took several deep breaths. “We need to try to figure this out.”

“Did you locate Ray?”

“Not yet. I have Dylan running his background check. There seem to be some juvenile records that are sealed. They’re proving difficult to unseal.”

“What?” Ray fucking had a record?

“I shouldn’t have told him to let it drop before.” Viktor looked down, shame stamped on his face. “I thought it was over when she dumped him. If I’d gotten the information then, we might have been able to take precautions.”

“You think it’s him?”

Kade frowned. “Right now, that’s how it looks, given we can’t find him.”

“Are the police looking for him?”

“Yes. Keith made sure of that. He even did an interview with the local station calling Ray out as a main suspect, forcing the police to pay attention.”

“Your idea?”

He shook his head. “Dimitri’s. He’s taken to social media and has his millions of followers looking for him. Sara has been keeping up with her Twitter and Facebook, splashing Jo’s and Ray’s pictures all over feeds as well. The police aren’t happy, but they weren’t taking us seriously about Ray.”

That was good. The more people looking for her, the better. Why did all the women in his family get hurt?

“We’re cursed.”

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