Page 133 of Wilde Abandon

Dean stood next to him with his arms folded over his chest as Mason led Tanya out the door.

Mason held up a plastic bag filled with Tanya’s medication.“She refused to leave without these.Said one of them is an experimental drug that’s put her in remission.”

Fox glared at Tanya.“No wonder you didn’t want me at your doctor visits.You didn’t want me to know you were getting better.”

“I wanted you to let me see the world.”

Fox shook his head.“And I agreed to your trip, but you still went through with this.Why?”

“Because I wanted more than justonetrip.I wanted a better life.”

“Now, you’ll have a good long life behind bars.Enjoy your stay.The accommodation and amenities are shit and the view sucks.And the food…good luck scarfing that down.”

She tried to rush him, but Mason held her back by the arm, her wrists shackled behind her.“Please.Don’t do this.I’ll tell you where she is if you make them let me go.”

“I already know where she is.Now I’m going to go get her.”

5:14 a.m.Two hours, fifty-six minutes without her.

Mason handed Tanya off to Officer Bowers.“Put her in a cell.”Once Tanya was secure in the back of the patrol car, Mason turned to him.“Let’s go get your girl.”

“Yes, let’s go get Melody,” an unfamiliar man said, walking up on them from the driveway.

“Uh, who are you?”Fox asked.

The new guy grinned at Mason.“Assistant Special Agent in Charge Nick Gunn.”

“Brothers,” Dean said.

“Brothers,” Mason acknowledged.“About time you got here.”

“It took a helicopter and a car.You can update me on the way.If I don’t help get Melody back to her family, safe and sound, Aria will have my ass.”

“We don’t want that,” Mason admitted.“Lyric is asking for updates every ten minutes.”

“Yeah, and I’m going to catch hell for keeping this from Aria.”

Fox was already sliding behind the wheel of his car.“I texted you the address,” he said to Mason.“Now let’s go.You’re wasting time.”

5:18 a.m.Three agonizing, terrified hours without her.

Fox drove away from Tanya’s place, vowing to leave it and her in his rearview forever.He might own the place, but he didn’t have to keep it.

“We’ll get her back,” Dean assured him from the passenger seat.“So slow the fuck down before we get in an accident.These roads are dark as fuck.”

Because they were out in the middle of nowhere.

“One deer and we’re toast.”

But it wasn’t a deer that appeared in Fox’s headlights but a woman, walking along the road, coming toward them, away from their final destination.And he’d recognize her anywhere.

He hit the brakes and swerved to the side of the road, stopping right behind her as Mason also skidded to a stop in front of her.

Mason’s car’s headlights spotlighted her and Fox as he leapt out of his car and ran to Amy.“Where is she?”

Amy held her arms wrapped around her middle, her head down, as she shook.“The-they dumped me on the shoulder and told me to follow the road back to town.”She glanced around her, eyes wide and filled with fear.“I don’t know where I am, or how far it is to a house or town.There’s nothing out here.”She shivered again as her eyes darted from him and Dean to the two men behind her wearing badges and guns, their hands hovering over their weapons.

“Where.Is.She?”

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