Dawn by Romig Aleatha

Author:Romig, Aleatha
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Romig Works LLC
Published: 2021-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

Reid

As the elevator doors closed and the women disappeared, my fist hit the silver wall. Curses and accusations spewed from my mouth and more rang in my head. The impact echoed within the small chamber as nerve endings connected, reminding me of the wound still healing further up my arm.

I didn’t give a fuck about my hand or the wound. If I’d been watching the hospital security footage instead of searching the financials of Nancy Pierce, I would have seen what happened. I could have stopped it.

This was my fault.

I would take the blame.

Other questions came to mind.

Where were the Sparrows Mason had scattered about?

What had they seen?

Closing my eyes, instead of thinking about them or Ruby, I recalled the look on my wife’s face a few minutes ago. Her expression cut into me deeper than any damn bullet. With Araneae’s question, I knew Lorna was remembering something from her kidnapping, and instead of being there for her, I was back on 2. The doors opened and I placed my palm in front of the scanner near the steel door.

Fuck if I wasn’t coming up short at every damn turn.

My shoes clipped across the cement floor as I made my way to the bay of computers. This wouldn’t be a job for one workstation; I began logging in across multiple computers and servers. First, I needed to scan every damn second of the hospital security feed.

Where did Ruby go?

Why would she leave the room or the floor?

I had one program following the signals Ruby’s trackers were sending. According to the GPS, she was currently headed south on Interstate 90. Weekday traffic—I tapped into traffic cams. It was then that I recalled the text Lorna sent as I left the apartment. She could be on to something—more accurately, she said it was Laurel’s idea. Credit wasn’t the issue. The idea of an ambulance made perfect sense.

Instead of texting, I hit the call button to Mason.

“Do you have something?” he asked as the call connected.

“A theory. First, what are you hearing from Sparrows on-site?”

“Fucking nothing. No one saw her leave the unit.”

It was as if she literally disappeared, evaporated into thin air.

Taking a deep breath, I exhaled. “I’m still looking at the security surveillance, and I can’t fucking see her anywhere. But Laurel had an idea.” I didn’t wait for him to respond. “The hospital is on the university campus. Traffic is usually busy, especially this time of day. It’s not easy to get to the interstate unless...An ambulance would be able to make it through the city faster than any car.”

“Fuck,” Mason responded. “We’re not far behind where the GPS is saying she should be. There’s not a fucking ambulance in sight.”

There was a second voice coming from the background.

“We passed one,” Mason said, “about three miles back. Fuck, Romero saw it parked to the side of the interstate.”

I looked at the screen before me. “But her trackers are still moving.”

“Did they slow?”

“I would need to go back to see that.” I began hitting keys on the keyboard before me.

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