No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

Author:Julie Moffett [Moffett, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2020-03-22T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Two

Slash

He wanted to kill someone.

Twenty-one hours and no trace of Lexi. She’d simply vanished in thin air, leaving behind her laptop bag with the laptop inside and untouched. How had this happened on his watch?

His mood had progressively gone from bad to foul. He tried to compartmentalize his thinking to avoid dwelling on whether she might be injured. He refused to let his mind go further than that. Gwen had broken down in tears, Natelli had been beside herself with guilt, and Vicente, Gabriel and Salvador had grimly helped him scour the entire area.

Slash had personally interrogated all the guards, including Gabriel, as well as everyone on the team, while they were still at the village, but no one had seen or heard anything. As much as he wanted to haul one of them in as a suspect, he was good enough at interrogation to know they were telling the truth. No one knew what had happened to Lexi.

So, where the hell did that leave him?

She’d disappeared without a trace. There were no signs of a struggle, no blood, and no clues other than the laptop bag lying near a hut. He’d combed the entire area, exhausting every possibility. The last person who’d seen her was a little girl. After Vicente had gently interviewed her, the girl said Lexi had been in the hut with her. She’d shown Lexi her doll and then they’d left to go back to the others. The girl had skipped a little ahead, and when she turned around Lexi was gone. She hadn’t heard a scream or any noise whatsoever. The only thing that had been proof that Lexi had been there was the laptop bag lying on the ground.

There were no scratches, no marks on the bag and nothing entered into the computer other than the vaccine data. Slash had scoured every inch of the area. No blood or signs of a scuffle, no screaming or shouting which would have certainly been present if a wild animal had attacked her. No drag marks either. The only explanation was that someone had knocked her unconscious without allowing her to make a sound, and then carried her—a five-foot-eleven woman—through the rainforest noiselessly even as the area was being heavily patrolled.

Who the hell could do that?

His only break was that the satellite phone was missing along with her. He’d searched the entire area and hadn’t found it. He’d given it to her shortly before her disappearance because it had been low on battery. He prayed it was still around her neck and she would, at some point, turn it back on. But it had been twenty-one hours and nothing. No signal, no Lexi.

Where are you, cara?

He had to push aside emotion and think. Lexi was resourceful, smart and logical. If there was a way to get a message to him, she’d find it. He had to trust her to take care of herself, just as she trusted him to find her. That was the way it worked with them.

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