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that because she had seen some rescues be a quick in and out type of rescue while some of the others had taken a week. In the case of Micah’s last rescue mission, he had been missing for three months. “I don’t have three months.”
     
    She was not so naive that she didn’t know what this Senior Valdez would do to her once he got hold of her. She knew exactly why they were holding on to her and she didn’t want any part of it, or any part of him.
     
    “Please find me, Micah. I need you to find me.” She wrapped her tiny fingers into the loops of the fence and hung her head low. This could not be the fate she was meant to have. She would rather die than become some man’s sex slave. She would rather die than become a prisoner to some Colombian drug lord who pawed at her whenever he pleased. She would not go without a fight. And if Micah and the team couldn’t find her before that day came, then she hoped that fight would end it for her; that she wouldn’t have to endure another man’s heaven that would become her hell.
     
    “When he comes you will come,” the gold toothed cad strode past her, stopping only to issue another torment to her. He was ugly and smelly and downright rude. She didn’t like him, not just because he was all three of those things, but because he was the one who pulled the trigger; he was the man who sent that bullet straight into Kelly’s heart. And if she ever got the chance she was going to give him the same treatment. If ever, she thought as she stood outside waiting for some magnificent escape plan to formulate in her mind. Unfortunately, nothing came to her.
     

     
    “Have you heard from Natalia, Alex?”
     
    “Missing her already?” His eyes held a glint of recognition. Micah hadn’t exactly come out and admitted that he had previously experienced a brief hint of sexual awareness while looking at Natalia, but he was starting to wonder if his casual questions about how she was doing, or what she was doing, in Australia were starting to tip his hand.
     
    “You have been talking about her every day and I haven’t heard anything these past couple days so…” He shrugged it off; he would not let this kid make him confess to something that wasn’t real. That moment, that brief moment had just been the reaction any man would have. It was nothing.
     
    “Actually she went out on a tour in the outback. She should be back at Kelly’s home tomorrow…or would that be today their time?” Alex shrugged. “I’ll hear from her soon. And then she’ll be home in four days. I’m going to pick her up from the airport since you insisted she leave her car in her garage.”
     
    “I’ll pick her up,” Micah nearly growled. Alex had a girlfriend already, but was he trying to make a move on Natalia? Something in that thought made his blood boil with anger. He couldn’t have her. Why the hell he was thinking on those terms was beyond him, but he knew Alex had better keep his paws off of Natalia.
     
    “Nah, I’ve got her. I already told her I would.”
     
    “I dropped her off; I’ll pick her up.” He would swear he felt steam coming out of his ears like one of those crazy cartoons he watched with his cousin, Sabrina, when they were younger.
     
    “I already told her I would meet her outside baggage claims.”
     
    “So when you email her back tell her I’ll be meeting her there instead.”
     
    “Look…” the phone ringing shut Alex up quickly. “Yeah, this is Alex,” he answered without breaking eye contact with Micah.
     
    “Yes, I’m the emergency contact for Natalia Bright. Did she hurt herself?”
     
    Micah felt the hairs on the back of his neck go on edge. If that call was coming from Australia then something serious had happened, something that required the emergency contact be notified. She was with her friend; if it weren’t serious then Kelly would have handled it. Had there been an accident? Were they both in the hospital?
     
    “What! When the hell