Page 125 of Ravage
His hand covers my eyes and gently hugs the sides of my head with his thumb and fingers. Then, just as quickly, it’s gone and I’m blinking up at him in confusion.
“Is something wrong?”
Dane and Aiden have joined the crowd around us.
“It’s already done.” Noah nods to Elias. “She’s clear.” Something else passes between them. I bite my lip with worry. He wouldn’t have pried and looked at anything else, would he?
He offers me a small smile, which is the first one I’ve seen on his face since he arrived. Is that a good thing or bad?
“Hear that?” Kellan aims at Dane and Aiden. “Clear. No GE secret agent.”
Dane scowls at me. “Just because she’s innocent of this incident doesn’t prove anything else.” He stalks back to his chair and plays the next camera footage.
Aiden’s studying me, but jury’s out on which side he’s on. “Let’s get back to work.”
As much as I’d rather avoid them, I join in the camera hunt. There are enough monitors that we can split them up to check and get through them faster. As soon as the car Portia’s in leaves the current camera’s frame, Dane spins up cameras in the area in thirty-second loops for us to check.
We call out the camera name at the bottom when we see her, and he plays it through until she disappears again. And so on.
“That’s it. We’re out of cameras.” Dane freezes the last frame of the car on his screen. “They’ve left the city, and I don’t know of any cameras in that area for at least a half mile after that.”
“Noah got the list of every building owned by Gifted Enterprise and their subsidiaries within fifty miles.” Elias hands Dane a USB drive. “Can you filter it to that area?”
Dane plugs it in, drops the list onto a map, and then circles the area. The list decreases to three spots. “We’ve got a house, a warehouse, and a butcher shop.”
My stomach drops at the last one. I fucking hope it’s not there.
“Mm, wait a minute,” Dane hums. “The warehouse is the address you just gave us.”
“Did you guys check it out?” I ask.
“Not yet. The scouts we had out were finishing up the last location before I called them in to rest.” Aiden puts his phone to his ear. “I’m sending you a new location. Secure the area around it and then hold it. We’ll be there as soon as we can to move in together.”
He then texts the address over.
I start checking my weapons to make sure I’m locked and loaded. No matter how much I wear, it never feels like it’s enough. What if I’m a bullet or a knife shy?
Then use your gift, I remind myself.
Elias hangs up the phone call he made as well and looks between Aiden and the others. “Do you have any weapons Noah and I can use? My teams will be meeting us there as well. We can come up with our plan while your team secures the perimeter.”
Jackson smiles and waves them after him down the hallway. “This way.”
Chapter thirty-one
Dane
The beat-up sedan we’re forced to take clunks again, and I wonder for the hundredth time if we’ll even make it to the warehouse. It’s old and rusted with half of the dashboard pulled apart or missing. The seats are cracked and torn. Everything is manual, from the transmission to the windows and seats. The only music option is an old AM/FM radio and cassette player.
Neither of them works.
Which means, Aiden and I are stuck in silence.
Which means, I’m bitching and moaning the entire drive to fill it.
“Kellan’s being a prick. I bet the car he’s driving at least has a working fucking radio.” I twist the knob for the stations and the dial moves back and forth across the numbers.
There’s the briefest buzzing noise, and I crank the volume up. “Come on,” I mutter and try to fine-tune the spot I’m on to get something back.
