Forbidden (Blood Ties #7)

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A fucking hour.

I pushed up from my chair and glanced at the map one last time before I turned and walked out.

A fucking hour.

An hour before, the Daughters were here, and Harmon’s men with them. Men I couldn’t trust. My strides lengthened as I headed for the fucking place in this hell I needed to be, theonlyplace I needed to be. Hallways blurred. Rage writhed under my skin like a serpent desperate to shed its skin. Maybe I was aching to reveal my true nature and murder every last one of them.

I slammed my card against the scanner, then pushed through the doors.How many times have I been here?Scouring through every fucking scrap of paper and file he’d left behind. I was so desperate to find anything that might lead me to the black site he’d kept hidden.

A black site he was now at…

And the one where he kept our sister hostage.

How many children had he forced her to breed?

How many familiar faces would one day stare back at me.

My steps faltered at the thought. I pressed my card against the scanner on his door, then pushed through. On the outside, the room looked perfect and neat. That’s what you were supposed to see. What you weren’t was the remnant of the fingerprint dust as I’d scoured every inch of this room.

Still, I’d come up with nothing.

No address.

Nothing I could use to track back to the one fucking person who could put an end to this.

Haelstrom Hale.

I strode around the desk, glancing at my watch as I logged in. There had to have been information sent to his email, a location where this shipment of women was headed…anything. I scanned Hale’s inbox, finding a few irrelevant emails about various houses he’d shown an interest in buying, but nothing else. Still, I jotted down the addresses, typing them out in a text message I sent to The Hunter.

If nothing else, it kept him moving, like a shark circling its prey.

We’d find him.

One way or another…then we’d find her.

I logged off and rose, wincing as my cell vibrated again. Kane’s name flashed across the screen. I hit the button to send it to voicemail as I pulled the door closed behind me. By the time I strode to the back dock and opened the door, greeting my head of security with a careful nod, thirty minutes had passed.

“Make sure they are secured as fast as possible,” I muttered. “I want no incidents.”

“Yes, sir,” he answered.

I pulled out my cell and texted the doctor on call. He responded instantly, telling me he was already on the way.19 assets.That’s what we had arriving. Assets that would no doubt require medical care by the time we locked them in their cells.

Beep.

I glanced at the message from the doctor advising he and his medical team were on standby. Fuck, I hated this shit. “Get ready with the trackers,” I muttered as the call cracked over the two-way.

They’re pulling through the gate now.

My pulse raced as all thoughts turned back to the woman locked in the cell. The woman who had no place being somewhere like this, or with me, for that matter.

As the crunch of tires and the low rumble of the truck’s engine sounded, my cell vibrated once more. I didn’t even look at it this time, just stared straight ahead, sinking into that cold, empty pit inside me. The truck pulled in, then swung around, back-up lights washing over me.

Two black Explorers pulled up alongside the truck and parked before the engines died. Men with guns climbed out. I focused on the passenger-side door of the first car, on the one who didn’t seem to carry a weapon. No, he looked like hewasthe weapon.

He looked at the building as he adjusted his jacket, then turned and spoke to his men. I didn’t care about what he said. It was his eyes I focused on and the way he moved. Thick shoulders bunched under a tailored jacket as he turned and nodded.

His men moved instantly, like a SWAT team swarming around the truck as it reversed again and braked to a stop. I expected him to head toward me, to at least give me a goddamn name. But the bastard never even looked my way. His men stepped up to the loading dock, pushing past my men with snarls and savage stares.


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