Page 47 of Consequences (Wicked Empire 3)

Fourteen

Davit

“Amethyst? Where are you?”

I couldn’t believe it was her, but I felt so much relief I thought I might faint from it.

“I don’t know. Let me…”

“Amethyst! Amethyst!” I said when her voice went quiet, and I assumed she moved away from the phone.

“Sorry,” she said, “I had to look at this phone. I have coordinates.”

“Give them to me,” I said.

I jotted the coordinates down, then asked the question that I had been avoiding.

“Crystal?”

“I have her,” Amethyst said, her voice almost cracking over the words.

I felt my eyes began to tear, but I quickly pushed back the emotion.

They weren’t out of danger yet.

“Are you alone?”

“Yes. Davit, please hurry,” she said.

At the plea in her voice, I ignored the litany of questions that I had, deciding to save them until I knew she was safe.

“I’ll be there soon,” I said.

Elias was standing next to me, and when I hung up the phone, he was ready to go.

“We have teams waiting,” he said.

I didn’t respond and headed toward the door. Stopped when he followed.

“You need to stay here,” I said.

“Why?”

“I don’t know what I’m walking into.”

“You think they’re bait?” he asked.

“It would be a smart angle. I don’t want to put both of us at risk,” I said.

He nodded his understanding. “Call me immediately with updates,” he said.

I didn’t linger and went to the car, everything inside of me screaming to find them.

To bring my family back where they belonged.

The coordinates were near the border, a little more than three hours away from the safe house.

I’d wanted to take a helicopter but knew that would draw more attention than we could afford. But each rotation of the tires, each second that ticked by, felt like an eternity.

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