26
Jace
“What do you mean, she’s been taken? Who the hell took her?” Sweat dribbles from my forehead, and I wipe it away with my handkerchief.
“We’re not sure of that yet, Boss. There weren’t any witnesses,” Matteo says.
My stomach roils. “No witnesses. Did they hit the compound? How many of my men were injured in the attack?”
“She was nabbed while taking a walk this afternoon.”
Unacceptable!
“Why wasn’t one of my men with her?” Everywhere she went, she was supposed to have a guard accompany her.
“She was out taking a walk with Markus. He stupidly returned to the compound to retrieve his phone. By the time he returned, she was gone,” Matteo says. He’s calm, much more rational and in control than I feel with the news.
“It has to be Caruso and his men.” It’s the only play that makes sense, Luka coming after my child.
“That’s what we suspect as well. The cameras in front of the house caught a white van speeding by. There’s no surveillance captured of her actual abduction, but we’re confident that it’s Caruso. You two have bad blood, and if he tells her about that night—”
“He won’t,” I snap at Matteo. The discussion regarding the past is done. We all make mistakes. Mine were deadly. “I want a team put together to retrieve Olivia and my daughter unharmed. You’re in charge of the mission until I return. I’m heading straight to the airport.”
I hang up the call and glance at my phone. There’s been no contact from Luka Caruso.
What’s his end game? Why kidnap Olivia other than to hurt me? Is that his plan to make me suffer? Will he divulge my secrets?
He’s crueler and far more cunning to just capture her for sport.
Does he want my position of power and control over my men? It wouldn’t be hard for him to destroy me.
It’s why I never allow myself to get close to anyone. Except I broke my own rule with Olivia. And now she’s out there, in danger, and I’m to blame.