An Honest Buck by Margaret Madigan

Author:Margaret Madigan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: kidnap, rescue, shifters, paranormal, SEAL, international
Publisher: Margaret Madigan
Published: 2022-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Aggie’s cybervoodoo, as Coyote called it, led them across the border in El Paso, and through some desolate, empty landscape. She’d used satellite imagery to track the kidnappers’ vehicle to a ramshackle-but-still-working ranch in the middle of nowhere.

The location offered very little cover, so Buck and the guys had parked their vehicle a couple of miles back and hiked in. Not knowing what they faced, they’d taken advantage of their numbers and spread out in a perimeter to hide in gullies and behind ridge lines, then spent the waning hours of daylight watching.

There hadn’t been much to see, which had Buck worried. The setup consisted of a decent-sized barn, a small house, a garage, what he assumed was a bunkhouse, and several sheds, all in various states of tired. A couple of beat up pickups and a Toyota wagon were parked in the driveway. A mangy dog sniffed around the porch, licking at a dark stain.

As the sun dipped behind the horizon, Buck tapped his earpiece and said, “We’ve been sitting here for a couple of hours. The place is dead. Let’s go down and take a look.”

“Hang on,” Beast said from his position opposite Buck on the other side of the property. “Someone’s coming.”

Just then Buck caught sight of headlights bouncing in the early evening as a four-wheel-drive truck came into view, traveling the uneven terrain. It pulled around from behind the house and parked in the driveway in front of it.

Through his binoculars he watched as several men—it was hard to tell in the evening light, but they all appeared Hispanic, probably local Mexicans—piled out of the back, then opened the tailgate to reveal a large, furry animal in the back.

“Shit,” Bishop grumbled over the headset.

The men hauled the animal by its hind legs out of the truck, so it dropped onto the ground with a muted thud, then dragged it toward the barn. The animal was heavy enough it took four of them, and they had to lean into the work.

One man exited the cab and went to the porch—the one Buck pegged as being in charge—and raised his voice to be heard across the compound. “Careful. She’s worth a lot of money.”

His accent was Russian.

The men who dragged her—the animal looked like a bear—didn’t heed the warning. They seemed to care more about getting the job done than being nice about it, and by the set of their shoulders and grim profiles, they weren’t happy with their leader.

The rumble of an engine preceded another car pulling into the driveway from the dirt road beyond. Two men exited the driver’s and passenger’s seats and opened the back doors. They dragged three women out, all of them bound and gagged.

Buck focused his binoculars on the women, hoping one was Mindy and the only thing standing between him and rescuing her was killing a bunch of kidnappers.

But she wasn’t among them.

“Looks like we were right about these guys,” Tyrell said over the headset. “They’re trafficking in both animals and people.

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