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“Where are we?”
“It’s a picnic area.I want Colt to look at your feet before they leave.Do you have a hotel room?I assume the bag you grabbed has your things?”
Selena shook her head then blinked several times as the interior light came on, blinding her for a moment.
“Hang on.Who’s Colt?And why do you want him to look at my feet?”
The door beside her opened, making her jump.She leaned toward Sackett as she tried to see who was standing so close in the dark.
“Colt is one of my brothers.He’s an EMT and was a corpsman.He’s got the most medical training and will get you taken care of or tell us if you need to go to the emergency room.”Sackett put the foot he’d had in his lap down onto the floor, hit the button to release her seat belt then patted the seat beside himself.“Slide over here and let him see how bad you’re hurt.”
She turned and frowned at Sackett before sliding in his direction and lifting her legs up onto the seat so the guy who’d startled her could see the bottoms of her feet.She wished for a moment she’d had time to get a pedicure before leaving for this trip.She shook her head at how stupid that thought was.She didn’t know him, why did she care what he thought of her feet?
Selena couldn’t help feeling a little off kilter.Nothing since walking out of the courthouse had felt right.When was that?Today?Yesterday?Longer?Had they drugged her and more time than she thought had passed?
“What is today?”She winced as Colt brushed something from her feet, she didn’t want to ask what.She had to fight not to flinch when he used some spray on them, it was cold and stung after a moment, but she’d been through worse.She would probably have been going through worse very soon if they hadn’t rescued her.
“It’s just after midnight on Tuesday.When were you captured?”Sackett’s voice behind her distracted her from the gentle but firm hands on her feet.
Selena had to blink several times.First her brain doing the math, then registering his words, that he’d asked a question and how to answer it.
“Monday morning.From the garage at the courthouse.”She frowned, there was something she was missing.“How did you get here so fast?”She looked around.The car could have been rented, but the bikes had to be theirs.There had barely been enough time to drive up here, much less get in and rescue her.
“Only Maverick and I came from Tucson.We flew.”
“Maverick?”She frowned but didn’t twist around to look at Sackett because that would move her feet, and she didn’t want to make Colt’s job of looking at them harder by making them a moving target.
A man she only vaguely recognized ducked his head in the open driver’s door.
“That’s me, ma’am.I’m Maverick.”
She stared at him a moment, trying to remember if she’d seen him before tonight, but came up blank.“Do I know you?”
“We’ve never met.But I think you know Dana?She’s the one who gave Donna your name.”
“Dana Locke?From the cupcake shop?”
“Yep, that’s my girl,” he said with a grin, making it clear he was proud of her.
Selena blinked again and tried to remember if Donna had said where she’d gotten her name.She only remembered the small, innocent seeming woman saying she’d gotten her name from a friend.
She tilted her head backwards, trying to see Sackett behind her without moving too much.
“If only the two of you came up from Tucson, who are the rest of them?”She lowered her head to watch the man using tweezers and a flashlight to clean bits of debris from her feet.“Where are you from?”
He glanced up at her then past her to Sackett, but didn’t say anything.
“Colt and the others came down from Gillette.How much of her story did Donna tell you?”Sackett moved behind her.
She felt the heat of his body and knew he’d gotten closer.She wanted to lean back to let him support her through this but had to stay strong.
“She said she’d been in Wyoming before coming to Arizona, but I didn’t realize she’d been up there with Savage.”She realized now she should have gotten more information.But did she really need to?She still thought she knew all she’d needed to about Donna.Her client had told her she’d come from a cult-like commune.And that they’d gone as far as northern Wyoming looking for her, trying to force her to go back to them.It had been Selena who failed to consider that they might go after her in an effort to get Donna back.
“How did they know I was here for Donna’s case?How did they know she’d care about me?”she asked the question as it came to her.
“We’re not a hundred percent sure yet.We suspect someone in the judge’s office tipped them off who you were and what you were there to discuss with him.You had to give that information to get the appointment, didn’t you?”
She thought back, trying to remember what information she’d given when she’d scheduled the appointment.Of course she’d spoken with the judge’s secretary, not the judge himself about that.She was almost certain she hadn’t given Donna’s name.What had she said?Then she remembered.
