SVU Surveillance by Julie Anne Lindsey

Author:Julie Anne Lindsey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-11-24T17:26:40+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Lucas ambled back down the hall to his office. His nose throbbed, and if it wasn’t broken, it’d be a miracle. A slow smile spread over his face at the thought. That would make two miracles, because his first was that Tommy Black officially assaulted an officer. Six officers, actually, while high, angry and extremely disorderly. He’d threatened to kill all the injured cops, blow up the station, murder his girlfriend and a slew of other vicious things while on camera. So, Anise would finally be safe, at least for a little while, because Tommy would definitely get some real jail time now. With or without her testimony.

He swung into his office with an apologetic grin. “Sorry that took so long.”

The rest of the words stalled on his tongue. His office was empty.

He went back into the hall. “Gwen?” he called, looking in both directions before heading toward the officers’ restrooms and vestibule with vending machines. He knocked on the bathroom door, then pressed it open an inch. “Gwen?”

“What are you doing?” Derek asked, dropping change into the vending machine.

“Looking for Gwen.” He fought against a swell of panic, urging himself to be sensible. She hadn’t been abducted inside a police station. “I thought you had work to do.”

“I do, and what do you mean, looking for Gwen?” Derek asked, retrieving an ice-cold soda and handing it to his brother. “For your face.”

Lucas held the can to his swollen nose. “She’s not in my office or the ladies’ room. Where was she when you left her?”

“In your office,” Derek said, concern changing his usually smug expression.

“Check around back. Find someone who saw her leave my office. I’m heading to the lobby. If there’s any chance she was taken outside during all that racket, it’ll be caught on camera.”

Derek broke left, heading toward the nearby desks and offices.

Lucas made a run for the lobby. He pushed through the automatically locking security door, then cut past the handful of people waiting to sign in. “Hey,” he called, sliding in beside the next guest and drawing the young female officer’s attention. “The woman I had in my office, Gwen Kind, have you seen her?”

Lanie frowned. She had an ice pack against her swollen cheek and a scowl on her face. “Your guy Black sure caused a hell of a lot of trouble out here. He kicked me in the face when I tried to keep Banister’s guy from running out the front door.”

Lucas straightened, raking frustrated hands through his hair. “Gwen’s missing, and she’s in danger,” he said. “I need to know she wasn’t taken during the chaos. Buzz me in to look at the security feed.”

Lanie buzzed him through the door separating her from the lobby. Her scowl melted into something more like shock. “The redhead? You think that’s possible?”

He froze, snapping his attention to her. “Why? Did you see her?” Heat crawled up his neck and over his face. If Lanie had seen Gwen in the lobby, she’d been only a few yards from the front door.

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