CHAPTER 93
JAX POV
We searched all day trying to find a lead as to who could have snuck into our house in the middle of the night and kidnapped Skylar. There’s nothing. We couldn’t find anything that would help us find her.
We were completely defeated when we got back home, but none of us were ready to give up.
Lucas got his laptop and brought it to the dining room.
We sat there watching the surveillance tape over and over again, trying to see who could have possibly done this.
We watched their movements, their size, everything. Lucas even had a program that would be able to determine his height and weight so we knew what we were dealing with.
But we couldn’t find anything about him that was any use to us.
“Look at the way he moves. He’s constantly looking over his shoulder while he’s sneaking towards her window.” Harry said.
“He’s unsure of himself. He’s not trained.” Lucas said.
“No. He’s not. And then look at him leaving the house while carrying Skylar. He looks like he’s almost dropping her.” I said.
“He’s not very strong. That’s why he needed to knock her out. Because if she screamed he knew he wouldn’t be able to take us.” Harry said.
“And he didn’t have anyone else with him.” Lucas said.
“Have we noticed anyone paying any sort of special attention to her lately?” I asked.
“We’re trained to notice that sort of crap. There hasn’t been anyone watching her.” Lucas said.
Well, whoever it was we knew that it was going to be hard to find her.
He broke into the house alone which means that he could be the only person who knows where she is. So unless we actually find the guy that took her, I don’t think we’re going to find anyone else that knows about it.
He parked far enough down the block so we couldn’t see what sort of car he drove.
He had basic skills to know how to pull something like this off. But that’s it. He doesn’t look very strong and he doesn’t look like a fighter.
He waited until the middle of the night so he was sure that we were all asleep.
Someone rang the doorbell so I got up and went to answer it, only to find Madison standing there.
“What the fuck do you want?” I snapped at her.
“I just want to make peace. I promise.” She said, putting her hands up in surrender.
“Why are you here?”
“Can we talk?”
So I walked out onto the patio with her and I closed the door behind me.
I stood in front of Madison and folded my arms across my chest and waited for her to start talking. I could see that she was nervous and she was fidgeting a lot with her bag.
“I don’t have time for this Madison. Start talking or I’m going back inside.” I said.
“I just wanted to let you know that I’ve got nothing to do with whatever Grace is up to. Ever since she started this little war against you guys, I knew that she wasn’t someone that I wanted to be friends with.” Madison said.
“You were worse than her when we first met you.”
“Grace was the one pulling the strings. No one ever goes against Grace.”
“But you’re going against her now.”
“I know. And I will probably pay for it. I don’t doubt that. But I know that it’s what I have to do. She’s going down a really dark path. And your three are at the center of it.” Madison explained.
“What are you talking about?”
“She’s up to something. I’m not sure what. She doesn’t really tell me anything. She talks all cryptic all the time. But I know that she’s planning something. She keeps hinting towards it. And I know that I don’t want to be any part of it. I understand if Skylar doesn’t want to talk to me, but when she does can you tell her that I want to apologize?” Madison asked.
“You locked her in the basement of the school chained to a fucking pole. Do you really think she’s going to accept your apology?” I asked.
“I guess not. I am really sorry about everything that happened.”
Grace. Grace is planning something. She won’t talk about it but she’s being all cryptic.
Grace is always trying to make Skylar jealous by flirting with us in front of her. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this sooner.
“I have to go.” I said, racing inside and I closed the door.
I went back to the dining room and I took over the laptop to try and see if I could find out Grace’s location right now. I needed to see where she was.
“What are you doing?” Harry asked.
“Who is the one person that we’ve met who really hates Skylar?” I asked.
I looked at Lucas and Harry while they thought about it for a moment, but that didn’t last long. They realized that I was trying to get a location on Grace and Lucas made a couple of phone calls as well.
“She’s at her house.” Harry said.
“Let’s go.” I said.
So we headed down to the basement and we grabbed a gun and a few knives each before we all went to the front of the house and we got in Harry’s car.
It took us 20 minutes to get to her house with Harry driving, his knuckles going white on the steering wheel while he was driving.
When we got to her street, we parked down the road so they wouldn’t hear us coming.
We got out of the car and we walked towards the property and checked out the surveillance that her house had.
“There’s few camera’s and no guards.” I said.
So Lucas grabbed his phone and he pulled up a program that he had and typed in a couple of codes.
“Camera’s are down.” He said.
So we walked onto the property and we headed straight for the front door with our guns out in front of us.
Lucas and I covered him while Harry kicked in the front door and we heard a woman screaming as soon as he did it.
We charged into the house and found that woman standing to the left of the staircase. She was just a maid, but then we heard people upstairs.
Lucas grabbed the maid and locked her in the cupboard under the stairs and then we made our way upstairs.
We checked every doorway to make sure there was no one in there and as soon as we had cleared every room we went towards the screaming.
Harry kicked in the door again and it was the master bedroom.
Grace and her mother were on the bed and her mother was the one screaming while Joseph was reaching for his gun on the desk.
Lucas grabbed Joseph around the neck and ran his head into the doorframe of the bathroom.
He fell to the ground with blood pouring down his face and he covered Joseph while Lucas and I turned to look at Grace.
“What the hell are you doing?” Grace asked.
“You said that you wanted to have a sit down with us. Here we are.” Lucas said.
“Not with a gun to my head.” Grace said.
“Cut the bullshit. Where’s Skylar?” I demanded.