The Billionaire From San Diego by Susan Westwood

Author:Susan Westwood [Westwood, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter9

David pulled himself up off the floor, shaking his head and watching in confusion as glass fell from his hair. He looked around the kitchen of the beach house, then all of a sudden, it all came flooding back. The blitz attack, Kelissa’s muffled screams as the darkness flooded around him. Somehow, Salvador’s men had gotten into his house and now they had Kelissa.

He rolled onto his side slowly, head spinning and a metallic taste in his mouth. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out his phone and dialed Aaron’s number. His friend answered on the first ring, sounding wide awake even though David knew that he went to sleep by nine every night.

“They have her,” David said.

“From where?”

“The beach house. They broke in and knocked me out.”

“Impossible,” Aaron muttered, but he wasn’t questioning David’s account.

He was angry.

“Where are you, David?”

“Beach house, on the floor. I think I need stitches.”

“I have a guy for that. We don’t have time. How long since they took her?”

“We got home a little after midnight.”

“It’s almost two now. They don’t have much of a head start.”

“Almost two hours. That’s long enough for something bad to happen.”

“I’m getting in the car right now. We’re going to find her, and we’re going to figure out how they got past the security system. I’ll be there in five minutes and I’ll have some of my guys meet us. Hang tight.”

“Alright,” David said, hanging up the phone and going to the freezer.

He put together an ice pack and held it to his head, then made his way through the house looking for Kelissa, even though he knew she wasn’t there. Still, he hoped she’d made her way to the panic room and managed to close the door before they got to her.

Calling out to every deity known to man, he carefully walked up the stairs, pushing the dizziness away as best as he could. The closer he got to the top of the stairs, the more he wondered about the smell that Kelissa had been talking about. Originally, he’d thought it was a beached animal down the way. It happened from time to time. But now that he was almost in the master bedroom, he had a sinking feeling that he knew exactly where the faint odor had come from.

He flipped the light switch, squinting against the bright light. He was surprised that they’d cut the power back on. But it made sense. They had to get out of the garage, and they probably took one of his cars in the process. It would be in a million pieces by now, he already knew, but he still held onto the hope that Aaron would be able to track the car before the GPS signal was lost.

Kelissa’s phone vibrated from its perch on the marble counter in the bathroom. It was one less way they had of tracking her, but it was better that way. Salvador didn’t know who Kelissa was, and if he didn’t have her cell phone, there was no way for him to get her personal information to use against her.

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