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"It sounds like it might be something like Succinylcholine. They usually use it in surgery, but there are other uses."
"Is there a way to reverse it?"
I needed to know what Stefano knew.
"Let me make a phone call." Vinnie pulled out his cell phone and dialed someone. "Hey, King, I'm at Le Bernardin with Jake and Luca. We've had a little emergency here and we need Spencer. Nico's bodyguard was shot up with something. I suspect Succinylcholine. And Nico is missing."
He nodded a few times before stating, "Okay, we'll see you in a few."
Once he hung up, he said, "We need to get Stefano to King's place. His husband is a doctor and he can treat Stefano. In the meantime, we'll start a search for Nico."
"Wait." I dug into the inside pocket of my suit and pulled out the tablet Jake had given me. When I powered it on and waited, I wanted to scream. It was taking so damn long.
"I'm going to go inform Jake and get someone to take Stefano to King's place." Vinnie started for the door, but then paused and glanced back at me. "We can't make a big stink here. You know that, right? If the restaurant gets wind of someone being kidnapped from here, the police will be called and it will be all over the news. We'll need to take Stefano out through the back door."
I nodded, understanding where Vinnie was coming from. The last thing we wanted was for Nico's kidnapping to be all over the news. We needed to solve this on our own.
While Vinnie hurried out of the room, I turned my attention back to the tablet in my hand. I wanted to run out immediately and search for Nico, but I had to wait and that was killing me.
When the tablet finally loaded, I opened the app. A red dot was slowly moving through the city, moving away from my current location.
I checked the vitals readout on the tablet. The temperature was normal but the heart rate and blood pressure were elevated, and that had me worried.
If they hurt him, they were going to die screaming.
When the door opened, I reached for my gun until I saw Franco rushing into the room with Jake and Fred.
Two other guards hurried in behind them. They lifted Stefano up and carried him out of the room.
"Are they taking him to that doctor friend of Vinnie's?"
"Probably," Jake replied. "We need to find Nico. Do you have that tablet I gave you on you right now?"
I jumped up and hurried over to him, holding out the tablet. "Nico's vitals are crazy. Does that mean they are hurting him?"
Jake took the tablet and tapped a few buttons before shaking his head. "No, I suspect he is incapacitated like Stefano is. It doesn't look like they are hurting him."
That should have been a relief.
It wasn't.
"We need to find him."
The red dot was still moving across the screen.
"They are moving into Brooklyn," Jake said. "We need to call Díaz."
"Alejandro Díaz?" I'd heard that the guy had taken over Brooklyn recently. I'd personally never met him.
Jake nodded. "He's an old frat brother of mine."
Not sure why that was relevant.
Jake pulled out his cell phone after handing me the tablet back. "Alejandro, it's Jake, we have a situation and I need your help."
He must have put it on speaker because I heard a man speaking in with a Spanish accent a moment later.
"What's the issue?"
