Page 102 of Silver Secrets

“That’s what the IP address suggests,” she heard him say under his breath.

“I can call her…”

As if summoned by the conversation they were having, Sloane felt her phone buzzing in her hand, only to look down and see Court’s name flashing across the screen.

“Speaking of Courtney and Elias.” She held up the ringing phone for Gage to read the caller ID before she answered. “Hey, Court.”

“Sloane?”Courtney’s voice was shaking.

Sloane’s face snapped to look at Gage. “Hey, where are you? What’s wrong?”

“I’m at the shelter. Ellie’s gone and I took Darius out for a walk, but… I’m so sorry, Sloane. I’m sorry.”

Her heart sank. “What happened?”

“He’s not doing well. I ran to get something from the office and the latch on his room must have not clicked into place. I think he ate something off the counter and I can’t get him to move or lift him to get him to my car.”

Sloane pointed to the door, making her way to slip on her shoes. “It’s okay, Court. I’m coming. Give me ten minutes. Just stay with him.”

“Make sure you bring Gage. I would have called Elias but he doesn’t get back from his work trip until tomorrow and I don’t know anyone else strong enough to lift him. I don’t think you and I can do it on our own.”

“I will. He’s right here beside me and we’re coming. Just try to keep him comfortable, okay.”

“I’m so sorry. Please hurry.”

“Court, stop. Accidents happen. We’re on our way.”

Gage’s hand landed on top of hers as she reached to grab the keys to his truck.

“What’s going on?”

“Darius got into something. Court said she’s the only one there.”

His brows furrowed as he took the keys from her. “We can’t go, Red. She needs to call someone else. We don’t know what’s going on with security and Elias?—”

“I don’t care about Elias right now, Gage! We need to get Darius to the vets. I can’t lose him…”

“Fuck. Hawk?”

“Yeah. Hold on. I sent a group S.O.S.—”

Pounding on the apartment door had Sloane nearly jumping out of her skin. And seeing the guys stalk into the room one after the other with their eyes locked onto Gage did nothing to settle her nerves.

“Explain.” Gunner ordered, Lily tucked into his side. Mae was standing next to Stone, who was holding on to Sage.

“Someone tripped the wire I had programmed into our cybersecurity system. They were looking for passcodes.”

“Passcodes to where?” Nash asked.

“This building. But that’s not the part we need to address right now.”

“So what is?” Gunner grumbled.

“We need to find Elias. He was the person trying to hack into the system.”

“How the fuck do you know that?”

“Gage, please. We don’t have time. Darius—” Sloane reached out for his hand.

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