The months pass by them quickly. They become as close as a truly married couple. Soon it becomes obvious that something is wrong with Cadie. She schedules an appointment with the doctor, and is looking forward to the appointment.
Grand Slam gets up the next morning and goes to work as usual after another round of hot, steamy, wild, uninhibited monkey sex. When he calls her at lunch as usual, she doesn't answer the phone. It doesn't really bother him because there were a myriad of reasons. He keeps trying her cell phone, but it's turned off. All he wanted to know is why she was suddenly sick, and what was making her that way.
When he gets home that afternoon, the house is silent, and Cadie isn't there to greet him on the porch, like normal, so James tries the front door. It opens silently under his touch. He looks everywhere for his woman, but Cadie is nowhere to be found. He finds her car in the garage, so he figures that she has gone out somewhere with a friend. It dawns on him that her cell phone is still on the counter where she had charged it the night before. He becomes concerned, but decides to hold off in case she called to tell him that it was an emergency that had called her away, tot ake a friend to the hospital or something.
He gets worried when she doesn't return that night. She usually would leave a note, if she wasn't going to be home when he got there and if not, she'd have called him. He calls Hawk to find out if he called her back in, and when he finds out that he didn't, talks to him about what he's going to do.
After two days, James files a missing persons report. He works with the police department to find Cadie. They get a few leads in the next couple of months, but they usually pan out to nothing.
He stays in Indianapolis and keeps working on his end of the mission as he tries to find his wife.
Six weeks later, after the investigation grows cold, he gets a note in the mail.
"If you think that she is good enough for you, then come find her on her home turf. We suggest that you just forget about this worthless piece of gutter trash and go on with your life. She will not live for much longer."
There is no signature, but he has an idea who took her and why, given the confession that she made to him earlier. He calls Hawk and lets him know what had just happened and what he was going to do. He asks to speak to Mainframe to get some information and requests the assistance of a few friends.
Hawk lets him know that he would speak to the gang and find any who were willing to take vacation time and help him.
James tries to go back to the bed and sleep, but the tangled sheets are only reminders of what he and Cadie had shared that he was now in danger of losing forever. He tosses and turns, and finally gets up and paces back and forth across the bedroom the rest of the night.
The next morning the doorbell rings, and James opens the door to find, not the one or two that he had expected, but darn near the whole team. They told him that they had left a skeleton crew at the base and that they were here to help him find Spitfyre, because they all considered her an innocent little sister that they needed to protect.
Gung Ho takes charge as they head for her hometown, because he knew the attitudes, customs and area, also being from South Louisiana. The first thing they do is take over a hotel for a temporary command center in Slidell, about forty miles from the town where Spitfyre grew up, Bogalusa.
Hawk and Grand Slam go to her grandparents' home, where she was raised. Everyone else spread out around town to see if they could come up with something.
As Hawk and James questioned her grandparents, her mother showed up, demanding to know what they saw in Spitfyre, and bragging about how easy it was to get her to let her in and to capture her.
James knew that this was the person that had taken his woman. He suddenly knew where Spitfyre was being hidden.
When he jumped up to go to her, her mother also jumped up and tried to threaten them with a gun. The guys weren't fazed by it. She fired once, hitting Grand Slam in the leg, grazing him, but knocking him to his knees. Hawk grabbed his own weapon and drew down on her. Law, who had been hanging behind a bit with Lifeline, arrested Spitfyre's mother for kidnapping, attempted murder, and assault.
Grand Slam vaulted up in obvious pain with Hawk right behind him, and rushed to the place where Spitfyre was being held, a small basement storage room under her parents' bedroom. "I can't believe that she was so stupid as to let her mother, her worst enemy in the world, into the house and then be captured," James told Hawk, struggling to pry open the door, not realizing that Spitfyre could hear every word of it.
When the door burst inward, Spitfyre cringed in the corner. When she saw that it was James and Hawk, she stood. Lifeline wasn't very far behind them and he watched as she noted their identities and fainted from relief. James managed to catch her before she hit the ground. They call for an ambulance while he and Lifeline treat her as much as they can.