Shiftr: Swipe Left for Love (Lori) BBW Bear Shifter Romance (Hope Valley BBW Dating App Romance Book 5) by Ariana Hawkes

Author:Ariana Hawkes [Hawkes, Ariana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Luna Negra Press
Published: 2015-10-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Two hours earlier

Andrea’s voice was tense with restrained panic.

“Lori has gone! We’re calling everyone we know. She's nowhere to be found. She’s disappeared, leaving Nancy alone in the garden.”

“Hey, slow down,” Bruno said. “You’re saying that she’s gone somewhere without her baby? She wouldn’t do that.”

“I know!” Andrea wailed. “Something’s happened to her!”

“I’m coming right over,” Bruno said, already running through his house.

“What’s going on, dad?” Tad called.

“I’m not sure yet.” Bruno looked at his son. He didn’t want to expose him to any kind of situation, but he couldn’t leave him by himself, and there was no time to make other arrangements. “Come on, we’ve got to go to Andrea and Magnus’s place!” Tad ran after him without asking any questions, hearing the urgency in his father’s tone.

They drove fast to the cabin, jolted to a stop and rushed into the house. Andrea came to meet them.

“Lori and Nancy were in the garden together, and I was upstairs. When I came down, she wasn’t there any more. How could she have just disappeared?” Bruno ran outside again, pacing around, sniffing the air. Nancy’s little cradle was in a corner of the garden. He sniffed all the way around it, in a steadily increasing circle. He knew that smell! Sweaty, unwashed bodies, mingled with a much stronger smell of wolf. And not just any wolf. The wolves who’d owned the meth lab he’d just turned over to the cops. Shit! Some of them must’ve avoided being captured, and then they’d somehow figured out a connection between him and her. He didn’t have time to wonder how they’d done it.

“Tad! Come on,” he called, and began to run after the scent of the two bikers and Lori. Tad caught him up and they plunged into the woods. They followed it for a few minutes as far as a clearing. And then it stopped.

“Damn!” Bruno exclaimed. But there was also a strong smell of gasoline, and an odor that only came from motorbikes. They’d taken her off on a bike. She could be anywhere. He felt like punching something. Instead, he bunched his hands into fists and walked around in a tight circle.

“Dad, calm down. We’ve gotta think,” Tad said. Bruno glanced at his son’s earnest face.

“You’re right, Tad,” he said. “Let’s go back to the car and see what’s already being done to find her.” They hurtled back through the trees and found Andrea talking to three cops.

“She’s been taken by some bikers – the ones who were renting out her old store. They’ve abducted her on their bikes,” Bruno told them. The cops nodded. They knew him well, and didn’t need to ask him how he’d gained this information. They just took it as fact – something he was very grateful for. They took their radios off their belts, and began talking into them rapidly.

“We’ve got traffic checking the highway cameras in the local area. Hopefully they’ll have something for us soon,” they said.

They all stood waiting in silence, too tense to speak.

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