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17
Cole
The trackers had stopped sending.
There'd been intermittent sputtering signals for part of the night. Enough that it seemed like she'd been in Arizona and then, stupidly, as if she'd been in Vegas. That made no sense.
April worked tirelessly. Everyone did. Scott's team of security worked with us. We had the best of everything, surveillance and tech.
Nothing. She was gone, heading toward Vegas or through Vegas if that was correct, and after that there'd been nothing.
I scrubbed my hands over my face until it felt raw. There was no release. No relief. No girls to beat. There was no one living in the cells under the compound, the level that Annie called the labyrinth. There'd been several damaged women with various degrees of kinky personalities hiding out while they recovered from life's afflictions and abundances and then, suddenly, there was no one. Everyone had suddenly healed or changed or gone away for some reason and it didn't matter. I wouldn't have trusted myself with an implement or with my bare hands around anyone in a power game situation.
It wouldn't have made any difference anyway. I wanted relief in the form of Annie, somehow contacting me to tell me she was all right, just wait. She was still working.
It hadn't even been twenty-four hours. But what was she enduring?
Time passed nightmare slow, and I waited.
