“Are you sure?”
“The dead body and the blood trail out the door would certainly suggest it. Besides, I found where they switched cars. I need satellite feed, but there was nothing in that direction.”
“Shit. Alright, give me some time. I’ll see what I can find out. It may take me a few days to get away. You should see the chaos around here.”
A few days. That wasn’t good enough. “You’ll get your ass out here now or I’ll come for you. This is my wife we’re talking about,” I shouted into the phone.
“I know that, but everyone’s being watched. Do you want me to lead them right to you? I’ll get there as fast as I can, but you need to lay low.”
I gritted my teeth in frustration. I needed all the resources I could get right now, but if Jim ended up leading the FBI back here, it wasn’t just me I had to worry about. It would blow my cover and put everyone that helped me in a horrible spot.
“Just hurry up.”
“Knight, you gotta see this,” Cap said, jerking his thumb for the lobby. I followed him out there where a guy no older than twenty stood. “Tell us why you’re here.”
“Uh, I was just asked to deliver this letter. Made a hundred bucks,” he grinned.
“Who was it from?” I asked.
He shrugged. “No idea, man. The guy just handed it off and asked if I could get this to his friend.”
“His friend?”
“Yeah, some guy named Garrick Knight.”
My blood ran cold as I stared at the envelope in front of me. Without another thought, I snatched it out of his hands while I heard Cap and Hunter trying to figure out what the guy looked like. I stared at it, my hands shaking slightly as I turned it over and opened it. Pulling out the photograph, I saw Kate being shoved into the back of a blacked out SUV. It was taken outside her clinic. This didn’t mean jack shit anymore. It gave me no information, since I knew they had switched vehicles.
“We could trace the SUV they were in,” Hunter suggested. “Maybe we’ll find somebody that matches the profile.”
I shook my head slightly. “It’ll be a junker or stolen. It’s not going to tell us anything. Besides, when they switched vehicles, they would have wiped it down.”
“You’re going off the assumption that these are professionals.”
I flipped the envelope over and showed it to him. “It’s addressed to Garrick Knight. A person with enough power to know who I am isn’t going to be sloppy. The only thing this tells us is that Kate was actually kidnapped.”
“What do you want to do?”
“We wait. They’re showing this to us in the hopes that we’ll back off. They’ll call to negotiate.”
“What are you going to do?” Cap asked.
It wasn’t in me to sit back and wait for something to happen, but I didn’t have much of a choice right now. I had no leads and nothing to do. I was drifting.
“We wait.”
