Page 12 of The Perfect Escape
I wasn’t sure if I heard Kenzi correctly. She had the tendency to be overly dramatic. “Calm down, Kenzi. Tell me again, who called you?”
I could hear her taking deep breaths, trying to calm herself as I suggested. “Reyna called me about five minutes ago. I don’t know how, but she did. She said some man named Rui Salko had taken her to Toronto, Ontario. She didn’t know where, but it was to a large mansion somewhere in the country.”
I swore my heart stopped. Finally, after all this time, we got a break. “What’s the number she called you from?”
“I don’t know, Davian. The number came up restricted. I tried calling her back, but she never answered. There was no way to leave a message.”
“I’ll get in touch with Patton. He’ll be able to retrieve the number.”
“Davian…”
“Yeah…”
“She sounded really scared.”
~8~
Davian
I was out the door before Kenzi hung up. Reyna was alive and in Toronto, Ontario. As the elevator descended to the parking garage, my first call was to Patton to tell him everything I could about the call with Kenzi.
Patience was a killer as I waited for him to pick up. “Patton, we got a break. Reyna called Kenzi. She is somewhere in Toronto, Ontario.” Toronto was a large city, but not so large that we wouldn’t find Reyna.
“Hold on.” I heard Patton pounding his fingers against the keyboard before I hit the parking garage. Patton would never stop looking for answers, no matter how tired he was. His voice was scratchy when he finally spoke. “Nothing comes up in the public records in Toronto under Rui Salko. There are no hits on the companies he’s affiliated with either, at least not on the ones we are already aware of. There are a few more places I can look. If the information we need is out there, I’ll find it.”
“I have faith in you. If anyone can locate her, you can. Meet me at the airport. We can revisit our search on the plane.”
“You got it, boss. I’ll let the others know so we are fully prepared once we land in Toronto.”
Patton was resourceful, highly trained, and more than an asset toThe Society.But even with the two of us, we would need more manpower to take down Salko once and for all. “Good. Have Sean stay with Kenzi in the event Reyna calls again.”
“We’ll find her, Davian.” Hell yeah. We would find Reyna. Of that I was sure. Once she was safe, away from Salko, unharmed, I would have my revenge. By the time I finished with Rui Salko, he was going to wish he was dead.
Thirty minutes later, I pulled up to the hanger. Patton and Axe were loading the supplies we needed for our trip inside the aircraft’s belly. I wasn’t sure what would be waiting for us once we found Salko’s country home or how many of Salko’s men would be on the property. The last thing I wanted was to be unprepared.
Jeannie greeted me as I stepped on the plane. “Hello, Mr. Cross. Everything is ready for your flight to Canada. Calvin and Marcus are waiting in the conference room.”
“Thank you, Jeannie. Do you know when we are scheduled to take off? The sooner we are in the air, the better.” Time was something I didn’t have a lot of, especially where Reyna was concerned.
“Captain Matthews is getting the final okay from the tower. We should be taking off shortly. Can I get you anything before we take off?”
“Coffee. And lots of it.”
Nodding her head, Jeannie headed to the small kitchen while I went to the conference room. Marcus and Calvin were seated at the table, already pounding their fingers against the keyboards of their laptops. Shortly after I took a seat at the table, Patton and Axe walked into the room.
Before Patton took a seat, he had his laptop open. “Let’s see if I can find where you’re hiding, Mr. Salko.”
All eyes were on Patton as he pulled out a chair, placed his laptop on the table, and took a seat. As quickly as their eyes were on Patton, Marcus and Calvin were back typing on their computers, searching for any information regarding Salko’s whereabouts.
Something about the way Patton looked at his computer screen had me concerned. I had worked with Patton a long time, enough to know that whenever he rubbed his fingers along his jawline, his brain was working overtime picking apart the information before him.
“I know that look, Patton. What do you have?”
“I don’t know how we could have missed this, but Louise Braxton, aka Louise Murphy, is really Anya Salko. Look at this.” Patton flipped his laptop around, allowing me to see what he had found.
I wasn’t sure how we missed this either. Before me was a PDF document just like the birth certificate we found that proved Louise Braxton was Louise Murphy. “How is this possible? The birth certificate of Louise Murphy was recorded in the public records.”
“I think someone with a lot of connections wanted to do whatever they had to, to keep her identity secret. The only person who knows her true identity for sure is Louise Braxton. Her identity is a concern, but look at the bottom of the document.”
