An Untouchable Christmas (Untouchables) by Cindy Skaggs

Author:Cindy Skaggs [Skaggs, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mob, Mystery, on the rocks, Untouchables, Mobsters wife, scars, Ignite, Entangled, Cindy Skaggs, Suspense, Law Enforcement, Romance, forbidden love, Untouchable, FBI
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-11-13T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Sandy burst into the room. “They aren’t there now, but they’ve been in the garage. I found this.”

The empty box from the dino dig. “Thank God,” Sofia said, followed immediately by No, he didn’t. He had willfully left the house to open the dino dig after she’d told him to wait. “Eli,” Sofia yelled. She ran through the house with Logan at her heels, both of them calling for Eli. The garage door stood open. Sofia took the stairs to the garage apartment at a run. Her hands shook when she opened the door. The place was nice and tidy. And empty. No kids.

Disappointment weakened her knees, but Sofia refused to fall. She tried to wrangle her scattered thoughts. This wasn’t the first time Eli had gone missing. Last time, Eli had been in the hands of mobsters for seventy-two hours, but this time he’d only been gone a short while. She could do this. When was the last time she’d seen him? “I told him he couldn’t dig the dino bones.” Was he old enough to defy her? God, if he put her through this… Her hands shook.

“Settle down,” Logan said. “This is an indicator that they came out here on their own, which suggests they weren’t abducted.”

The word sent her heart into near convulsions, because they didn’t know that. Not really. It just meant that Eli had willfully left the house in defiance of what he’d been told, endangering himself, Anna, and Emma. What happened after was anyone’s guess. “Okay,” Sofia said, backtracking down the stairs and out the still-open door. “Makes sense, but where would they go from here?” They went to the backyard and climbed through the playhouse and behind every shrub and bush. No kids. The house didn’t have a basement.

Blake and Mick checked in. The neighborhood was a ghost town at this time on Christmas Day. Michelle called to say they’d driven every street in the neighborhood. The screaming panic in her voice on the phone fed the rising tsunami in Sofia’s chest. Tears bit the back of her eyes. She didn’t stop them but let them slide unchecked down her cheeks.

Logan pulled her into his solid chest. The last time Eli had disappeared, she would have given her soul for the protective weight of Logan’s arms around her. The last time… Hadn’t she suffered enough? This time she allowed herself the luxury of Logan’s touch, of his strong shoulders and all encompassing hold. He ran a soothing hand up her spine. “It’s just a couple of kids who wandered off. Nothing more,” he said, his deep voice sure.

“But what if someone finds them wandering alone?”

“No what ifs. Deal with what is. The kids aren’t at the park, or the house, or in the garage apartment. This is his neighborhood, but Eli doesn’t go out by himself. Where else would he even know?”

Of course, the kids could simply walk aimlessly through the neighborhood and at some point they’d cross one of the people looking for them.

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