SEAL Hard by J. M. Madden

Author:J. M. Madden [Madden, J. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Fuck, this was bad. Jack looked at the body of the bus driver stretched out on the street. There was a bullet between her eyes and a pool of blood beneath her. The kids had all been moved out through the back of the bus and there were officers waiting with them, shielding them and trying to calm them. Some had no idea what had gone on, only that two men had come onto the bus and taken three of the kids.

Flashing his Homeland Security badge, Jack stepped around the body and climbed the steps onto the bus. He walked down the aisle, heading toward the back. When he’d been a kid, the older you were, generally the further back on the bus you rode. Had Dylan left his stuff here?

He glanced through the windows to Mike’s blue truck. Andrea sat inside, a haunted expression on her pretty face. He hated to see it there. It reminded him of the funeral. As soon as she’d seen the body her face had paled. “They’re gone,” she whispered.

“Yeah,” he agreed, “but I’m going to check.”

When the detectives got here they were probably going to rip him a new asshole, but as of this second no one on the scene outranked him. One of the perks of working for Uncle Sam.

He looked at the bags and lunchboxes the kids had left on the seats. Nothing actually stood out until be spotted a Navy SEAL trident sketch on a loose notebook. Had this been Dylan’s stuff? He leafed through a few papers, spotting the name. He grabbed up the notebooks and world history book. No lunchbox in the seat. Maybe he ate at school. But one thing was missing. Leaning against the seats and looked along the floor for any dropped items. Nothing. He ran his fingers through the crevice of the seat. Nothing. There was a chance Dylan still had his phone.

Surely the kidnappers would check for that?

He climbed up into the truck but Andrea wouldn’t even look at him.

“Hey,” he said softly.

She blinked, her eyes focusing on the covered body on the street, then down to the white-knuckled hands in her lap. They were twisted around her cell phone. Maybe this hadn’t been the best place to stop, he thought, regret rolling through him. He hadn’t even considered it. This was the third dead body she’d had to deal with in two days.

“Andrea, look at me,” he said firmly, reaching out to cover both of her hands with his. She finally glanced up, the blue of her eyes brilliant in the light of full day. “Dylan is going to be okay. There was no blood on the bus and more importantly, no cell phone. They want these kids alive.”

He waited for that information to sink in. Her eyes flickered. “He might still have his phone?”

Jack nodded, pulling Si up on his own phone and dialing. “Get the mother to sign off on a trace of Dylan’s cell phone,” Jack said before his boss could even say anything.

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