Page 219 of Chaos has a Name
“We’ve arrived at the path to the site. According to your positions, if you go straight, and haul ass, you should reach the location ahead of us. Ivan is alone with Gene and Chris. He can’t search and leave the team. Run it like you mean it!”
Raphael glanced over at his husband and Michael.
“We’re on the right track.”
The information they had only made them move faster. Everyone was scared shitless that they wouldn’t be able to find Elizabeth. Even now, they were scanning the area in hopes she just got…lost.
Not far away, up ahead, they could hear people screaming in the distance.
They were screaming one thing.
Elizabeth’s name.
Raphael was still connected to Gryphen’s com link, so he gave him the heads-up.
“We can hear them. We’re on our way, Gryph. We’ll be there in seconds.”
Gryphen was to the point.
He kept his voice low.
At that moment, he was running the mile trail with the Chief of Police, Ethan, and Callen. While he was trying to get there quickly, he still had to make sure both men were safe.
They were ahead of him and hauling ass.
He’d never seen Callen or Ethan run that fast before while he worked for them. There was urgency, and the other men needed to know exactly why.
So, he shared.
“Ivan found her gun, badge, and phone. She’s somewhere we can’t track her. The beacon was on the back of her badge and her watch. Ivan said the watch is coming up damaged. Unfortunately, she also changed out of her cowboy boots earlier, and Ivan didn’t have a tracker in her military boots.”
Well, fuck.
That was scary.
They knew the bottom line.
Time mattered more than anything at this moment. Getting to Elizabeth was their only priority.
When they reached the clearing, all of the techs were trying to focus, but it wasn’t easy. They were being surrounded by Marines in tactical gear, bursting through the trees.
It was making them twitchy.
Tony, Chris, and Gene were being kept there by Ivan, and it wasn’t easy. The two men were trying to get past him as he was struggling to keep them in one place.
They knew why.
If they got taken too...
Elizabeth had a good chance of survival, but if the killer used one of the men as bait, she’d give herself up for their lives.
“Michael, Saint, and Raph, do your thing,” he said, as he wouldn’t let the two men head into the trees.
Oh, and they tried.
This was incredibly stressful, and Ivan was at the end of his rope.
How did they all know?
