Chapter 39
Gene was driving. Kurt was in the passenger seat, his phone in his hand. “She’s not answering.”
“Maybe she’s driving,” the doctor brother said from behind him. “Greer is extra cautious when she’s driving. She won’t text or answer her cell.”
It didn’t help. Kurt just sensed it.
The other brother, the preacher, was calling his parents.
Telling them what was going on. He disconnected.
“Dad said Greer left twenty minutes ago. She was headed straight home. She should have been home by now. He is going to bring mom to the ranch. They are going to check for Greer from this direction. Maybe…she stopped somewhere? Headed to Kurt’s? ”
“Not likely. She knew I was coming out to the ranch tonight.”
“I have signal—” Guthrie said. “I can see her on the map. She’s not far. And she’s not moving. Two miles up the road. Go faster. Something’s wrong. I can feel it.”
“You’re tracking her?”
“A new app from Barratt-Handley. Operates off of satellite instead of cell. One of the better tracking apps on the market now. Ayla and Greer put all of their numbers into my phone a few weeks ago,” her brother’s voice was tight.
Kurt understood. “It started off as a joke—all the girls had decided to track each other all the time. So Greer and Ayla put their numbers in mine, too. After…Chantal was abducted. Then…it is how I found Aubrey in the basement. It even goes underground. I never took the girls’ numbers out. ”
“Do me a favor. Never take them out,” Gene said. “I’m not ever letting any of the girls, or the kids, or hell—even you guys—leave the ranch again. I’m not sure I can take it anymore. If something happens to one of you again…I…”
Gunn touched his brother’s shoulder. As the other man just drove.
Kurt couldn’t focus on their words now.
Something was wrong. He could just feel it.