Page 84 of Bit's Bliss

“Fuck,” I said loud enough that the judge raised his head and watched as I ran toward the door, where I was stopped by the same man who held the phones.

Zin rushed over to the bench. “The phones you have belong to my father and Ms. Warwick,” he hurriedly explained. While the attention was focused on him, I raced around the bailiff and through the door.

“Eberly? Michael?”I shouted as I continued running.

“Sir, you can’t be in here,” I heard someone shout from behind me.

“Where’s the exit?” I yelled just as another man jumped in front of me, blocking my way.

“Let him go!” I heard Zin yell, racing in my direction. “This way,” he motioned as he ran past me.

He opened a door leading to an underground parking structure, and we both went in opposite directions.

“I’ll call Vader, you call your brother,” Zin shouted behind him when he went to the right and I went left.

As I frantically searched for any sign of them, I called Snapper. “Eberly and Michael are gone,” I shouted into the phone. “We’re at the courthouse.”

“Nothing?” Zin asked when we met on the opposite side.

I shook my head.

“What the fuck happened?” he yelled, spinning in a circle.

“Tiernan,” I said.

He turned to face me. “He’s got them.”

Decker Ashford setup a command center in Zin’s office and started barking orders at everyone but me.

“Give me something to do,” I practically begged, stepping in front of him.

“Start canvassing businesses in the surrounding area for CCTV footage.” He turned to Snapper. “You go with him.”

We reached the elevator at the same time Kick stepped off with Cru. “Addy’s in labor. Brix is with her at the hospital. Ridge, Press, and Bones are on their way. What can we do?”

“Talk to Decker,” Snapper told him, motioning to Zin’s office as I pushed past them and repeatedlyjabbed the elevator button once I was on it. He jumped on with me right before the door closed.

“How are you doin’, Bit?”

“How do you think?” I snarled.

“We’re gonna find her. Decker’s calling the cavalry in from all over.”

I didn’t know what that meant, and I didn’t care. I had no doubt Tiernan Burke—or whoever the fuck he was—was behind this, and God knew where he took her and Michael Oliver.

“I’ll kill him with my bare hands,” I seethed.

I waspartway down the second block from the courthouse when I received an urgent group text from Decker, telling everyone to return to Zin’s office.

I ran back, arriving at the building at the same time a car pulled up and Tryst jumped out. When he followed me in and onto the elevator, I faced the wall and put my head in my hands as I tried to catch my breath more from an impending panic attack than the run.

Tryst grabbed my arms and spun me around to face him. “You cannot fall apart now, Trevino. Eberly needs you to remain in control. She needs you to find her.”

My eyes darted between his.

His fingers dug into my flesh. “You can do this. Eberly needs you to do this.”

I nodded. “Yes. She’s mine.”