Page 30 of Guarding the Rock Star
We had Lois and the rest of the team on a video call while the bears and I set up a war room in the dining room.
“Wanda, I need you to focus right now. Can you hack into traffic cams in the area?” Lois asked.
“We’re in the middle of nowhere,” I said. “There’s no traffic cams.”
Then I stopped as a thought occurred to me. “But there’s likely store security cams and Ring doorbells.”
I started tapping on my laptop furiously, looking for local access to cameras.
“I have plate number,” Boris called from the corner of the table where he was huddled over his laptop. He scribbled it on a piece of paper and slid it in my direction.
“Mark and Monica live in Monroe, it’s a suburb on the west side,” Lois announced. “There are no other properties under their names anywhere in the state of Washington. Let’s assume they went there.”
We heard the sound of a chopper. I looked up with a frown.
“What the hell? Are we under attack now?” I asked.
“No. We order helicopter,” Boris told me. “Is faster to travel. Let’s go. There is landing pad six blocks from Mark’s house.”
“We’ll meet you there,” Lois called. “Don’t go in without backup.”
“Roger.”
I disconnected the video call and followed the bears out to the grassy patch next to Tasha’s house where a helicopter was waiting. We made the trip faster than I expected, and the minute the chopper touched the ground I was out and running towards the house where we thought they’d taken Tasha, the bears right behind me.
“We’re not waiting for backup?” Yuri asked as we ran.
“They’ll catch up.”
“This way,” Yuri called, running north up the street. “We go get them.”
“I only hope they’re there,” I said quietly. “Otherwise, I have no idea where they went.”
“Tasha is here,” Boris told me as we skidded to a stop next to a large hedge that separated Monica and Mark’s house from their neighbor. “Her scent is fresh.”
Sometimes it was nice to have a shifter around, I thought. My senses were much stronger than a human’s, but nothing like a shifter.
I didn’t need to be a shifter to hear a male voice yell out, “You little bitch! You broke my nose!”
“I’m going in,” I told the bears.
“We’ve got your six,” Boris assured me.
As we ran up to the house I could see Mark through the window, Tasha standing in front of him. Suddenly Mark dropped to his knees with a grunt of pain.
Boris muscled past me, throwing his shoulder into the front door. It opened with a crash. We burst through the door in just enough time to see Tasha take Mark the rest of the way down with a roundhouse kick to the temple. The big man went down like a ton of bricks.
My mouth dropped open.
“What was that?”
Tasha turned and gave us all a big smile. “Hey guys, I’m glad you finally made it. Did I ever mention I’m a black belt in tae kwon do?”
I shook my head. “Holy shit, that was the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. Are you okay, Princess?”
“Oh my God! What did you do to my brother?”
I turned as Monica came rushing into the room, heading straight for Tasha.
