Page 52 of The Prey (The Hillers of Barratt County #6)

Nothing. No one could get through to her phone.

No one could find her in the building. Even Guthrie, who had all of his sisters’ numbers in some tracking app, couldn’t locate her.

Someone thought the thick Bedford limestone of the exterior was blocking the phone signal.

The walls were at least three feet thick.

Wi-fi and cell signal was always spotty in the damned building.

But that didn’t explain why they couldn’t find her in the building somewhere.

“I’m going to start at the top, and work my way down the back corridors,” George said.

“I have a copy of the original blueprint of this place on my office wall. My brother-in-law Lamar is already at my office to get a picture and text it to me as quickly as he can. We’re going to find her.

We’ll search every inch of this place if we have to—even the ones the public don’t know about. We’re going to find my sister.”

And Clarke. Because it was damned suspicious that Giavonna was missing and there was no sign of Jason Clarke anywhere.

“Tell me something, Hanan, why are you so certain something has happened to that girl?” Walters asked. “Is it possible she just up and left?”

Was Walters that naive? Hudson fought snarling.

“I drove her here,” Gene said, anger obvious in his tone.

“My sister wouldn’t have just left. Not without telling one of us, or taking her phone.

And she would have waited for Hudson, or told him where she was going, in any case.

They’re surgically attached to each other now, in case you’ve missed it. ”

“So I’ve heard,” Walters said. “Do you seriously think something has happened to her? Here?”

Well, hell yes, they did. Why else would they be searching? Hudson just shot him a look. And kept texting her again. He looked at George. “You take the west side of the upper floor. I’ll take the east.”

“Check the back hallways,” was all her brother said.

Hudson turned to the other Hiller brothers.

There would be restricted areas her brothers couldn’t get into.

Especially on the third and fourth floors.

“Stick to the first and second floors. You’ll not be allowed entry above that.

Walters—take the third, with Ed. Anyone finds either of them, text me. ”

The bailiff nodded. Walters just had a confused look on his face, like he couldn’t believe this was real.

Hudson headed for the back stairs, Mac right beside him, while Mac’s uncle took the two clerks who had been in the lobby and realized something was happening to the third floor, where the auxiliary offices were located. And storage—there were so many storage closets on the third floor.

No corner in this building would go unsearched.

Hudson was going to find her, and when he did, he was never letting her go again.