Page 83 of Their Stormy Reunion

And Fallon, my fierce, stubborn, brilliant Fallon, had made the only choice she could.

A choice that was going to destroy him.

Because I was coming for him.

And this time, I wasn’t going to hesitate to kill him.

As I drove like a madman, I started making calls. I knew Simon was in Nashville, so he was out. I wasn’t sure where Roan was, so I called him, but didn’t get an answer.

I had Zarek on the line in a second.

“What’s up?”

“Get over to my parents’ house now. Call an ambulance. Sid kidnapped my mom. She was with Dad. I don’t know what happened to Dad. Get over there now.”

“On it.” He hung up.

My next call was to Bruno. In five swift sentences, I explained the situation. “I’ve got two former SEALs who’ll be coming locked and loaded with me. I’m going to call Bernie Faulkes to see where that psycho might have taken your mom and Fallon.”

Made sense. Bernie knew every nook and cranny of Jasper Creek. If anybody would know a hiding place, it would be him. And if Sid said it would be cold, that meant he was heading to the Smoky Mountains.

“Where are we going to meet?” I asked Bruno.

“Parking lot of the Whispering Pines. That’ll put us at the base of the Smoky Mountains proper.”

“But that assumes he’s walking,” I protested. “Sid is taking them in a vehicle. He has to be using some equipment to live stream. He’s going to need to drive. I think we should drive up to the old cabin that Simon and you lived in. That will get us into the Smoky Mountains. A lot of the older folks have abandoned their cabins because of the harsher winters. I think he’s going to take them to one of those.”

I could almost hear Bruno thinking over the phone. Roan was buzzing in. “Bruno, got to take another call. I’ll meet you and your buddies at the old cabin.”

“Agreed.”

“Roan,” I growled out his name.

“I found the hacker kid working with Sid.”

“Found him, as in you have your hands on him?”

“Yep.”

“Ask him if Sid knows how to live stream.”

“Why?”

“Don’t fucking ask questions. Just do it!”

I heard Roan talking and somebody mumbling. “The kid said yes, but he fumbles with it. Sid is always calling him for help.”

“Perfect. Stash the kid somewhere safe. Sid has my mom and Fallon. He intends to kill them while live streaming it for me. He’s going to be doing it somewhere in the Smoky Mountains. We’ve got the beginnings of a search party to look for him. In the meantime, if he calls the kid, maybe we can track his signal, or the kid can get him to tell him his location. Or fuck, find out if the kid knows where he might be going.”

“On it. Where are you all meeting for the search party?”

“Simon’s old cabin.”

Zarek was calling in. I hung up on Roan.

“Tell me.”

“He’s alive. They’re airlifting him to Nashville. He’s lost a lot of blood, but no major organs were hit.”