Page 161 of Merciless Obsession
“What was the hunch?” I asked.
“I don’t know.” Inaya shook her head. “She changed the subject and we started talking about you surprising her this morning.”
“Emmet.” But he was already ahead of me, going to her desk.
“What do we know?” Nazai asked as he stepped into the room.
“She left with those cops from the hospital.”
Nazai’s face stayed lax. “The ones that we spoke with.” I bobbed my head stiffly.
My hand ran down my face and I looked at River. “How the fuck did your guys let this happen?”
He narrowed his eyes. “No one can predict an ambush, especially from cops.”
“She had shown me the ring you got her and?—”
“The ring!” I cut Inaya off. I whipped around. “The ring has a tracker in it.”
I patted around until I remembered my phone was in the car. “Fuck, my phone’s in the car.”
“I got it,” Lucas mentioned, turning around.
My body was still raging with heat while I paced in place.
“So the cops were the last people to see her?” Nazai asked.
“Ziora doesn’t even trust cops. I’m shocked she went with them,” Inaya mentioned.
I stopped pacing. “I told her to act normal.” My hands balled tightly at my sides. “I didn’t want The Veil to realize we were on to them being behind her attack so I told her to play along as if it was random.”
“Here.” Lucas reappeared with my phone.
Clearing the notifications, I unlocked my phone and pulled up the tracking app.
“The guys made sure to stay off main streets where they knew cameras would be,” Emmet mentioned. He now had his laptop out and his hand moved rapidly across it.
“Got it,” I said and started to hurry out of the office but Nazai grabbed me.
“Let me go!” I gritted.
“Ez, we got to play this shit smart. We can’t just go in there guns blaring without knowing what we’re stepping into.”
“Fuck that! My wife is in trouble and who knows what is happening to her!”
We stood in a stare off. Normally I respected Nazai’s word as my older brother and the new leader of The Bloodline, but this wasn’t one of those times.
“I get where you’re coming from but we need a plan! We’re not reckless, you know that! And if these guys are really cops, we really got to play it smart. Chill out.”
My jaw clenched harder. The ringing in my ears grew.
“He’s right, Ezra, you know it” River tried to reason.
Flaring my nostrils, I pushed a heavy brush of air out and exhaled deeply.
“Let me see the phone, Ez,” Nazai encouraged.
Unblinking, I kept my eyes locked on my brother before slowly handing my phone over. “We got you,” he assured me. “E,we need to look into this address.” Nazai gave my arm a squeeze then walked to Emmet.
