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“Yeah, that’s what we’re thinking,” I said, leaning forward. “I listened in on their meeting yesterday. Daley had two bodyguards and there was a suspicious phone call. We’re gonna have eyes on him twenty-four-seven from now on.”

“Good, good. I think we need it. We’ve found out he’s got some contacts that are known cartel members.”

“Yeah?” Luke asked. “Which ones?”

Charlie pushed five folders into the middle of the table, pointing at them and saying. “There’s one for each of you, all the information we could find on Daley and his contacts.”

Reaching forward, I pulled one towards me and opened it up. It was full of his contacts and had information on each of them. My lips lifted in a small smile, this was it. This was how we would catch him. If one of them was in on it, then we could get to him through them.

“Another missing girl was reported missing last night.” Charlie said into the silence.

“Didn’t you say Daley was talking about a package being delivered, boss?” Kitty said, lifting her head and placing the folder on the table.

“He did?” Charlie looked from her then back to me.

“Yeah,” I said, nodding my head. “Now it makes sense, he must have been talking about the girl.” I pulled my hat off, running my hand through my hair.

This wasn’t good. Why hadn’t I put it together? Now that I thought about it, it was obvious. How he got so angry over not having the ‘package’ when he wanted it. That package must have been the girl.

“One of the top girls in her class.” Charlie shook his head, looking at me, fire blazing in his eyes. “Only five miles from here.”

“They’re getting closer,” Evan said, turning his laptop around to face us with a map on the screen. “The bigger the dots, the more recent they’ve been.”

The map had loads of dots on and they were all getting closer and closer to the compound. There was no mistaking it.

“How did you get that?” Charlie asked, leaning forward in his seat to see it better.

“I’ve got contacts.” Evan shrugged and smirked at Charlie.

Shaking my head at him, I squinted at the screen. He was right, they were getting closer.

“What is their end game?” I mumbled. What were they trying to achieve?

“I don’t know,” Charlie said, standing up. “But we need to find out, and fast.”

We did need to find out fast; not knowing where those girls were, not being any closer to finding out, was frustrating the hell out of me. I needed to run. I needed to think.

Charlie stood up and looked at his phone. “I’ll be in touch,” he said, making his way to the door.

“Later.” I nodded.

We all stayed silent for a while, each of us looking through all of the information we’d just been given.

“Luke, keep track of Kay. I need to run.”

“On it,” he answered, not lifting his head from the folder.

Huffing, I walked out of the warehouse and straight to the house to get changed into my gym clothes. A good run and some exercise on the equipment in the clearing is what I needed.

Watching somebody’s house on my own, was the most boring thing I had ever done. I’d been sat here for over five hours now and not one person had come in or out.

Taking Eli to preschool on my own was scary but once I had done it, I was so happy. Not only that, but I was proud that I had done it all by myself and I couldn’t keep the smile off my face. There was a time not long ago when I thought I’d never be able to take him on my own again but I’d done it and I finally felt like the last piece of the jigsaw had slipped into place.

I’d managed to find Daley’s place pretty easily and I was ready and pumped for some action.

Then… nothing happened. Ty had told me that Charlie was coming to the compound today, he’d text me earlier to say that he left my folder in the kitchen at home.

Home.