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"Henninger was supposed to relay it," Zane answered with a sigh

"Better make sure," Rossbuttons while Sears took his notepad from him

Zane turned to the front of the book to look at the index as Ross swore at the phone and moved to the"Let’s see," he murmured as he scanned over the nao "The Fall of the House of Usher," he announced to Sears as she wrote quickly

"The character is suffering frouy, theup froood hand "There’s one

William Wilson," he said "A man kills his double That explains the twins"

He continued to scan and passed on story after story "There’s a classic," he murmured to hio to the next page of the index

"Wait," Sears said as she reached out and took Zane’s hand "Bird flu," she whispered

Ross paused in his pacing, stillwith his phone, and he looked over at them sardonically "Well, that’s sort of clever," he co Sears’ off the strap of her purse

Zane’s face was griot to be twenty more stories in here that he can play with"

"Nohat? So we’ve figured out the pattern, but it doesn’t get us closer to hiust

"It helps us understand how he thinks," Zane pointed out

"Until your profiling buddy coood," Ross pointed out as he paced and waited for the call to go through

"We still know next to nothing about him," Sears pointed out "Even if we did, we can’t leave you alone here to go do anything about it"

"Yes, youcan," Zane insisted "I don’t need a babysitter, and Grady and Henninger are going to need backup Call for so in the building’s blocking cell service," Ross informed them in frustration as he waved the useless cell phone

"Use Henninger’s phone," Sears suggested logically

Except Henninger didn’t have a landline

"I’e and then up to the front of the building, okay? I’ll be back," Ross declared, and he was out the door

Zane nodded and pushed hirab one of the personnel files "Christ There’s got to be soent Gary Ross hadn’t gone far into the darkened parking deck when he stued with his phone held out in front of hihted hi creatively when he realized that it was a round He knelt beside hier’s dark, curly hair, now roaned "Why the hell don’t you have a fucking phone?" he asked in annoyance as he began to gather the ns attached to the ceilings of the parking deck, knowing that just a few et Henninger inside and safe before he could go call for help

"Phone?" Henninger runted, hefting Henninger up and dragging hi and Zane would have been as well had he been able to walk, waiting for Ross to return "Hoe find him?" Zaneto keep the pressure off his broken ribs "We need another murder, another city he lived in Soot to slip up sometime, especially since we knohat to look for now," Sears assured "The net’s closing on hiritted out through the pain

A thulanced to Sears, who pulled her gun out from under her jacket and nodded toward the door She carefully walked to the side of the door until she was right up against it before looking through the peephole "Shit!" she yelled, throwing the door open

Ross was panting as Henninger tried and failed to stand They staggered through the door together Ross duasp, and Sears kicked the door closed as she rushed to help them

"What happened?" she de to check the head wound

"We got juer croaked in answer as he winced away from her touch It looked as if so nice and blunt There was enough blood that it had caked down the side of his face, and it would probably hurt like hell, but he was in no er "I saw hihts went out There must have been two of thehtly

"Chloroforht about that aspect, anyway

"Henninger," he said thickly "We need to call the Bureau"

"What?" Henninger asked dazedly

"He’s so out of it, he won’t have a clue what you’re talking about,"

Rossover to theto peer out as if souilty Sears sniffed and went to the kitchen for ice

"Focus, Henninger," Zane tried desperately, not even able to think about Ty being at the hands of this erat theency of a phone Their need was even ent now; they needed every unit in the city on the lookout for Ty and his captor

"We need to call out How the hell do you get any of your es?"

Ross asked hier sed and rubbed at his ribs gingerly as he looked up at the other agent "I turn off the signal blocker on the ," he answered flatly

Ross turned to hi over his features, and Sears stepped back into the rooetically to theun froun sent both agents to the hardwood floor He stood quickly and turned to Zane, who’d only had tiet a few steps away<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>