SAFE (Men of the ESRB Book 1) by Shiloh Hollis

Author:Shiloh, Hollis [Shiloh, Hollis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spare Words Press
Published: 2015-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

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When Sky went missing I felt like I was going to lose my mind.

There was no way. I'd been careful. I'd kept a close eye on him at all times, not just because I was crazy about the guy — and I was — but because I worried about his ex kidnapping him again, and even more importantly, I knew he did.

So I hadn't done anything stupid like make him go somewhere on his own. No, I was his taxi service, and I owned it. I didn't mind. Why would I? With me there, he was safe. I was more than happy to take care of Sky and be his unofficial bodyguard.

But that day, he'd gone to the bathroom, and when fifteen minutes had slipped by without him returning to the room, I went to see if he was okay.

The captain didn't ask me to, but the interrogation on the other side of the glass was getting held up as we waited for Sky to return. And personally, I got worried easily about Sky. He was one vulnerable dude. If he was feeling sick, or if somebody had started harassing him — well, I needed to know.

Maybe even fifteen minutes was too long. I tormented myself about that. Maybe if I'd gone to check on him sooner, I could've found him, kept him from being snatched. But I hadn't. And when he wasn't there, and wasn't in the precinct (I tore around wildly, asking everyone), we got busy right away, realizing his life was probably at risk, that Gruver had likely kidnapped him again.

Officers scoured the security footage, but there was nothing that showed him leaving the building.

He had, though. He wasn't there.

And while I didn't know how Gruver could've gotten past security, my panic levels rose with each passing hour.

None of the security cameras were broken. There were no unexpected loops in the tape. The tech guys were sure — even a little indignant about our insistence that there must be something wrong with the security footage.

There was nothing. We could find nothing. And yet he wasn't here.

All officers were on alert. Every lead we'd been tracing about his abusive ex, Gruver, was dragged out and gone over and over. We sucked down coffee, put in extra hours without pay, put everybody we could spare on it.

He was missing. Gone.

Quill called the ESRB so they'd send someone. We needed help, and he wasn't too proud to ask. He was probably almost as scared as I was.

I put in a lot of time on the street, in my patrol car. I couldn't go home and rest. I had to look, had to find him. I kept my phone close, hoping all the while he'd escape and get to call me again.

But last time? That had been a lucky fluke. Gruver wouldn't make the same mistake again.

Most likely, he'd taken Sky somewhere quiet to kill him. Maybe Sky was already dead. It could easily be true; I had no great psychic connection to him to tell me.

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