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“Not at all,” Cole said.
“We’re here to help,” Dylan said. “Put us to work with whatever you need.”
Thanking them with a nod, Ash swept his gaze over Xavier, Gideon, and Eve. “Let’s get to the scene and see what we can see.” He then turned to Serena, “I need you to?—”
“Find Jazz,” she finished for him.
“Yes.”
“That might be a problem.”
“Why?”
“I can’t track her anymore.”
Ash blew out an explosive curse. “She removed her tracker?”
Her expression one of worry, she nodded. “So it would seem.”
Xavier pushed aside the questions of why she would do something so out of character and said, “What about her phone? Can you track it?”
“The last ping shows it was in a motel here in Seattle.”
So she had checked out of the hotel and gone to another place in the city? None of this was making sense.
“You know the motel’s location?” Xavier asked.
“I’ll text it to you. But that’s where things begin to get weird.”
Hell, they were already off-the-charts weird. “Why?”
“Her phone hasn’t moved in days.”
Yeah, that was odd. Jazz wouldn’t leave without her phone, and she wasn’t one to sit still. Of course, since he had no idea why she had stayed in the city, maybe it wasn’t that weird.
“Also, she disabled the GPS on her phone.”
“Since she removed her personal tracker, that’s not that big of a surprise.” He frowned in confusion. “So how are you tracking her phone?”
“When everyone started taking out their personal tracking chips, I wrote a program specifically for our phones. I added a fail-safe so I can track you guys even if the GPS has been disabled or the phone’s turned off.”
Xavier remembered when Serena had asked to see his phone a few months back because she’d needed to update something. “You didn’t tell us that.”
“No.” She grimaced an apology to the group. “Sorry, I figured I would only have to use it under dire circumstances.”
Xavier nodded, not one bit resentful. “This could well be one of those times.”
He sent Ash a look, already knowing what the man was thinking before his boss said, “You and Gideon head to the motel. Find out what the hell Jazz is up to.”
He headed to the door, aware that Gideon was giving Eve a brief kiss before following. They were going to get a straight-up explanation. If not, then he and Jazz were going to have a no-holds-barred argument.
Either way, he was going to get some answers.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Chicago
Rubbing his chin contemplatively, Kevin reviewed the list of things he still needed to do. Getting the girl to talk wasn’t even on the list, but he needed it to happen. And soon.