Chapter 5 - THE NIGHT THE SAFE HOUSE BURNEDThe first bullet shattered the kitchen window.
Alessandro pulled me down.
“Stay behind me.”
Guards appeared from the hallway.
The house erupted into chaos.
Someone threw a flash grenade through the doorway.
Logan screamed.
I grabbed him.
“Captain Bear!”
He clutched it.
Smoke filled the room.
Alessandro fired toward the entrance.
We ran through the back door.
Three vehicles waited.
We piled into the nearest one.
Bullets struck the rear windshield.
The driver accelerated.
I held Logan against my chest.
“Where are we going?”
“Somewhere they don't know.”
“Where?”
Alessandro looked at me.
“Your husband's old warehouse.”
The warehouse was abandoned.
Or so everyone believed.
Inside was a hidden command center.
Computers.
Maps.
Documents.
And evidence.
Alessandro showed me security footage from the night David disappeared.
David's car was followed.
Another vehicle forced him off the road.
But the driver wasn't Nathaniel.
It was someone else.
A woman.
I recognized her.
My supervisor.
I felt sick.
“She helped them.”
“She was the one who planted the fake accident report.”
Then Alessandro found something else.
A message sent two hours before David disappeared.
IF DAVID DOESN'T COOPERATE, KILL THE CHILD.
My hands went cold.
“They threatened Logan.”
Alessandro nodded.
“And David disappeared to save him.”
Then the warehouse lights suddenly went out.
A voice came from the darkness.
“Catherine?”
I knew that voice.
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My heart stopped.
“David?”
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