Page 50 of More Bite than Bark

“I don’t know where she is, I don’t have a couple minutes.”

“Working on it, boss.”

“Work faster.”

Hex made it to the truck, walked all the way around it and saw nothing.He looked in the window and saw the ultrasound picture she’d been coming for was still sitting on the folded seat between passenger and driver.She’d never even made it to the truck.

“Got her.”Cypher’s voice seemed to come from a long way away.“Give me just a couple more…” he spoke slowly.

While he looked, Hex shook his head and forced his mind back to the present.He didn’t have time to zone out or panic, he had to find Elle and get her back, before whoever took her could hurt her.

“Son of a bitch,” Cypher’s voice came across the line.

“What?”Hex’s stomach churned and his fingertips tingled as he clutched the phone, waiting for what the hacker could tell him.

“It was Anderson.”The sound of Cypher’s hands flying over the keyboard came across the line.“He hit her from behind and knocked her out, then he carried her off screen.I’ve found other cameras that show he put her in a car and left.I haven’t been able to identify the car yet, but I’m working on it.”The line fell silent except for the clicking of the keyboard.“I’m pulling up her cell info now.Because you had me find her before, it makes it easier and faster this time.”The keyboard clicked several times, then Cypher spoke again.“Got her.She’s on the 65, headed for the 10.”

Hex froze for a moment, staring at Mother, who stood at the top of the steps, watching him with concern.

“Is everything okay?”

“No.I’ve got to go, Mother.Someone took Elle and I’ve got to get her.”

“Go.Let me know when you’ve got her and you’re both safe.”

Hex didn’t say anything, just nodded as he hustled back around the truck and got in,.wishing for a moment that he was on his bike instead of the truck.He could weave in and out of traffic and reach her faster if he was, but not knowing if she would be awake by then, the truck would be better when he got to her.

“I just let Wrath know we’ve got a problem.He took Cyclone, Shadow and several others and they’re pulling out now,” Cypher said, his voice coming through the speakers in the truck now.

“They’re too far away,” Hex said pulling his truck out on to the street, glad there wasn’t much traffic, at least here.His chest ached and he looked around, trying to spot anything that might slow him down or stop him.He couldn’t do either, not if he was to get to Elle before Anderson did something stupid.

“Something else stupid.Taking her was stupid to begin with.”Cypher’s voice over the speakers let him know he hadn’t just been thinking that, but he’d said it.“Wrath and the others will get to you as soon as they can, I’ve got Mud in here with me, he’s looking for more info on Anderson and he’s in touch with Wrath, so we can relay instructions or locations to him.”

Hex didn’t say anything.He was focused on to the 65, and getting on headed the right direction, while not running over any of the idiots that couldn’t figure out that he was twice their size and running over them would just be a bump in his day.

He didn’t need that bump, or the delay it would cause, right now.Knowing that it would only leave Elle in that fuckwit’s hands longer was one of the few things that kept him in control.

“Have Mud tell Wrath that whatever we do we have to get Elle out of there, and we have to be careful with her.She’s pregnant.”

“Hot damn, Boss!You work fast,” Cypher said, then the line went silent again, before Hex could rip him a new one.

Besides, he didn’t want to split his attention enough to do that, not now.He could always beat the shit out of the hacker later for being disrespectful to Hex’s woman.Hex dodged traffic as he pushed the truck as fast as he dared.

“Where are they?”he asked, knowing that even if Cypher had him muted, he could hear him.

“Almost to the 10.I’ll let you know which way they go or any time anything changes,” Cypher’s voice was back, along with the clicking of his keyboard.

Hex glanced at the signs over the highway, they were two to three miles ahead of him.

“Any clue what he’s driving?”

“He’s got a three-year-old Lexus ES 350 registered in his name.Original color was silver.That could have been the car I saw in the video, but the camera quality there wasn’t great.I can’t identify the car from it.Hang on.”The line went silent again.

Hex drummed on the steering wheel as he continued to weave through traffic, hoping Cypher would get back to him soon, the interchange was only a couple of miles away and he needed to know which way to go.

“East.She’s headed east on the ten.”Cypher’s voice came back.“I had Mud hack into the Lexus.He’s trying to get the GPS on Anderson’s car to see if that’s the car he’s in.

“Thanks.”Hex steered the truck into the left lanes and clenched his fists around the wheel when he had to slow down and take the ramp at the same speed as everyone around him.as soon as the ramp merged with the 10, he hit the gas again.