Page 134 of Wilde Abandon

“The-they have her.It happened so fast.They took her, then ordered me into the van.”

“After she kicked your ass,” Dean pointed out.“We saw it on the video.”

“She attacked me.”

“After you held her so the guys you’re working with could take her,” Fox snarled.

Amy shook her head.“No, that’s not what happened.She was furious with me for going to your place.”

“You mean sneaking into my bed and sexually assaulting me?”Fox asked, letting Mason and his FBI brother know Amy had some serious charges coming her way in addition to kidnapping.

“That’s not what ha-happened.”

Fox had enough.“Looks like someone broke your nose after you got into that van.”

She gingerly touched her fingertip to the swollen flesh.“It hurts.I need to go to the hospital.”

“Tell us where Melody is and we’ll take you there,” Mason offered.

5:22 a.m.Three hours, four minutes without her.

“We don’t have time for this shit.Tell me where she is.”

“I-I’m not sure.”She turned pleading eyes on the two agents.

He wasn’t having it.“Cut the crap and this fake performance.You’re not scared.You’re out here for a reason.”

“Yes.To get back to town to tell you they want twenty million or they’ll kill her.”She pulled a slip of paper out of her pocket.“Look.Here.It’s the account and routing number.Send the money and they’ll give her back.That’s why they took me and let me go.”She held out the slip of paper.“So I could give you this.”

“Huh.”Fox snatched the slip of paper from her hands but didn’t even look at it, then dropped a bomb on her.“Tanya asked for forty million.”

Amy’s eyes went wide.

Fox sneered.“Guess she planned to screw you and the two goons you’re working with out of the majority of the money.”

“No.No.I don’t know anything about what’s going on.Tanya?”She acted like she didn’t know who set this all in motion.

Maybe she didn’t.Maybe it was one or both of the guys who took Melody and brought Amy into this.

Just as the pieces started to fall into place, Mason stepped closer to Amy.“They could have given you the ransom message at the apartment and left without you when they took Melody.Why take you all the way out here, just to make you walk back?Fox was right there, upstairs.”

Amy didn’t look so certain anymore.

Fox closed the distance and put a bunch of pretend sympathy into his eyes and expression.“Amy, I know it’s been a long night for you.”

Amy smiled up at him.“Yes.Yes, it has.I was terrified they’d hurt me.And look at my face.”She pressed her hand to her jaw.“It hurts, Fox.Please.I just want to go back to your place where I’ll be safe.”

“This is as close as you’ll ever be to me again.This fucking ruse you’ve got going is shit.Those dumb fucks realized calling me for the ransom would only allow me to find them faster.Right?”

Amy’s whole face fell into shock, then acceptance that she’d been caught.And just like that, the calculation came back into her eyes.“I want immunity.Then I’ll tell you who took her and where they are.”

Fox swore.“I know where she is and who has her.The only one who connects to Tanya and you is that dickhead drug dealer Brian, whose best friend is Josh, who you met outside my apartment building.Coincidentally.But you know what’s funny?Josh usedyouto get to Melody, a woman he’s been obsessed with for years.”He took a menacing step closer to her.“If he touches her, if he hurts her, that’s all on you, too.And I will make sure you never see the light of day again.”

Nick stepped forward and pulled Amy’s hands behind her back.

“What are you doing?”she screeched, trying to get away, but she was no match for Nick.

“You’re under arrest for kidnapping.”As Nick led Amy back to Mason’s car, he read her her rights, and put her in the back seat.

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