Right Behind You by Rachel Abbott

Author:Rachel Abbott [Abbott, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Dot Publishing Ltd
Published: 2020-01-15T16:00:00+00:00

50

Tom’s fear for Millie’s safety was growing. Ash’s escape may have royally buggered things up for the kidnappers. What would they do with Millie now? And why had they wanted Ash at all? Had he been taken solely as a blind to cover Millie’s abduction? If so, she must have been specifically chosen, and Tom didn’t like that thought at all.

Why Millie?

Was she to be trafficked for illegal adoption or sexual exploitation? Or even – as Jo had suggested – organ harvesting, rare though that was in the UK?

They had multiple lines of inquiry running simultaneously, and all the ideas and hypotheses were making him dizzy. Much as he didn’t want to take a break, he knew both he and the team had been pushed to their limit.

‘Okay, everyone, can I have a moment, please,’ he shouted. The room fell quiet. ‘Most of you have put in a lot of hours since this kicked off, and you need some rest. We have a team working through the night and we’re not going to stop until Millie is found. But you’ll all work better – and I include myself in that – with some sleep. So let’s have a run-through of where we are, and then those of you who are not working overnight should go home. Lynsey, how are you doing with Steve Allman?’

‘His mobile appears to be switched off, sir. I’ve contacted other people in his team, and I went to see them at the arena where they’re setting up for tonight. Allman hasn’t shown his face all day. Apparently he’s visiting some woman who lives out in the wilds to the east of Manchester. No one knew more than that. I told the most sensible-looking guy to call me as soon as Allman appears.’

‘Thanks, Lynsey. I’m not sure we’d get approval for tracking his phone, even if he switches it on. We’ve nothing on him other than the fact that he’s Millie’s biological father and he’s suddenly shown an interest in his daughter. We do need to find him and talk to him, though. Where are we with CCTV? Rob, you’ve been pulling together everything we’ve got.’

Rob leaped to his feet and cast his wide smile round the room. ‘Based on Rajavi’s description of the car he was in – a dark blue Audi saloon – and the fact that he thinks at one point he was in Patricroft, we’ve checked the CCTV we can access along Liverpool Road to pick up possible cars. But we have to consider that Rajavi might have been wrong about Patricroft. Given where he was found, they could have taken him along the East Lancs Road – the A580.’

‘Doesn’t look much like Patricroft along there,’ Tom said. ‘However, he was very stressed at the time, and the weather was foul, so we can’t rely entirely on his identification of the location. I’ll leave you to get the vehicles checked out. Anything on the searches of Cadishead Moss?’

‘Nothing as yet. And there’s no saying Millie will be there.

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