Chapter Thirteen

Rebekah paced around in the living room. One hand on her cell phone and biting the nails on the other, the female went from wall to wall. The living room windows were UV protected so the sun casted a shadow as she moved around. Stopping in the middle of the room, she brought her phone up to make sure she hasn't missed any calls since the last time she checked it which was two minutes ago.

This wasn't like Edynn.

When Rebekah's clock went off to tell her the sun was up, she went to her cuz's room to see if she was in and found it empty. The female went downstairs thinking Edynn was down there doing something only to find the first floor empty as well. Rebekah even checked her training area even though she knew Edynn wasn't in there. Thoroughly checking the apartment from top to bottom, Rebekah got this uneasy feeling in her stomach.

Unable to hold stand around and do nothing, the female decided to call Edynn's phone. She nearly dropped it when it went straight to voicemail. One rule the two came up with was to always have their phones on in case of emergencies.

Rebekah hit the redial button and groaned when the call went to voicemail. She tried a third and fourth time only to receive the same results so she called up someone else. The phone this time rung for a while and was picked up after the fifth ring. Before the person could say a greeting, Rebekah told the person that Edynn wasn't picking up. Her voice sounded a little hysterical so the person asked where she told Rebekah was at last and promised to call when they got there.

Hanging up and returning back to her pacing, Rebekah hoped as hell her cuz forgot to call.

Hearing Rebekah's worry kicked Sam into gear. He and the female had been getting close that he had given her his number if she ever needed anything. Getting a call only after daybreak wasn't a good sign. After she told him Edynn wasn't home or picking up, Sam remembered the coffee shop she had him drive to and told her to wait for his call.

Sam slammed the truck door behind him as he got out and made his way over to the shop. The human had waited across the street for a couple of hours since the shop was still closed. Pushing the door open and stepping inside, the only people were the employees getting ready for the day. A lady at the cashier welcomed Sam as he approached the counter. Instead of ordering coffee, Sam pulled out his phone and flipped to a picture of Edynn.

"Have you seen this young lady?"

The smile on the cashier faded and took a look at the picture. She then called someone over to see if he recognized Edynn and nodded. He told Sam that she and another man were regulars on the night shift and that he saw them a few times. Both of the employees asked why Sam was asking questions and he told them he was a friend of the family. When he asked about last night, the man told Sam that she and Adam left right before closing but she came back to get her phone. The employee said the two usually walked across the street to leave except that Edynn walked down the street to the right after collecting her phone.

Thanking the two for their help, Sam left the shop and headed in the same direction the employee pointed. It was only a few steps when he noticed the alley. Scanning the area with sharp eyes and determining he was the only one around, Sam stepped into the shadows of the alley. In the distance he saw another alley connecting to the one he was in thought it was nicely hidden from view. The human cocked his head up just to get a look when he noticed a camera pointed towards the alley.

Sam took a step back to get a better view on where it was pointed.

Something crunched under his shoes.

Bringing his head down to see what he stepped on, Sam went into soldier mode when he saw a crushed cell phone under him.

Sam wiped out his phone and hit speed dial.

"What. The. Hell?" bit out V.

"Don't fucking Sam me," Sam snapped. His tone got the male to shut up. "I need you to hack into a camera. Now." The human gave Vishous the address of the coffee shop and partial numbers he could get from the side of the camera. He told V to make it fast and call him immediately before hanging up.

Going down to his knees to check out the damage, the only thing Sam could salvage was the memory card. This probably wasn't something Rebekah wanted to hear. The female would just have to wait until V called back with his find. Sam prayed like hell this wasn't what it looked like.

Vishous hung up after writing down what Sam told him. Behind him was Jane since the human had woken the two up from his random call. The male was ready to tell Sam to call later when he spoke back. The human's voice sounded like orders a general would give soldiers to follow. It was his voice which woke V up.

Soon Butch and Marissa joined the two at the computers. The cop stepped behind V and told him he could hear Sam in their room. V quickly told him he had called the male as he got the rest of the numbers for the security camera. Hacking into the system, everyone was watching the live feed which meant they saw Sam.

V called up the human and put the phone on speaker when the human took the call.

"What are we looking for?"

"Rewind the feed two to three hours ago."

Doing as he was told, V went back through the feed to the time Sam gave him. At first he thought the human was losing it when both he and the others drew in close when they saw Edynn heading into the alley. Everyone had sworn not to mention they knew about the two. Only Ahnger got to act suspicious since he told the others it would seem out of character if he wasn't hounding Adam about the call. This must've been the place where the two met after Adam's patrol.

V and Butch watched carefully as Edynn went into the alley. They noticed she went in too far as if hoping to avoid any eyes when she dematerialized. The female was so far in the alley that she had been unaware of the other alley connected to the one she was in. Right when she turned around and closed her eyes, Vishous knocked his seat over when he stood up while Jane and Marissa muffled their cries.

Coming out of the alley were lessers.

Being at the wrong place at the wrong time, Edynn was struck from behind by a lesser using a pipe. The female went down and didn't get up. Then five more lessers came out from their hiding spot and dragged Edynn to where they came from. Only seconds later did a van drive out of the alley towards the camera and disappeared from view.

"Shit," Butch hissed.

"Tell me," spoke up Sam from his end. "I'm staring at her phone smashed to pieces. Was she taken?"

V took the phone off of speaker when Butch started calling the other Brothers on their phones to wake them up.

"Call Ahnger and get over to Adam's right now. He needs to know lessers took his female."