Rush - Blue Devils MC Book 2 (Book 1 Included FREE for a short time only!) by Ashley Rhodes

mind.
    Ignoring Lain for the moment - something she was all too happy to do - she plunged on. “It was absolutely the Chupacabras . They’re well known in that area - everyone is terrified of them. I saw their leather vests and the tattoos on their necks. You’d have to be stupid to go into that area in Mexico and not be aware of the Chupacabras. That’s why I got so nervous when I saw them pull up, even before they made Miguel slow down. The girls are little and naïve and didn’t know, but Maestra Martinez and I knew that they’d be trouble from the beginning.
    “Once they got onboard, the leader hit Miguel over the head with his gun and then he shot Martinez and then me. I still…I have no idea how I ended up at the Doctors Without Borders Clinic. I never even woke up until I’d been moved to the Trauma Center in Tucson.”
    “Well, ma’am, I can answer the Doctors Without Borders question,” Lopez said. “The Mexican police questioned the staff, and they said that a bus matching the description of the hijacked bus pulled up in front of the clinic, you came rolling out of the door, and the bus took off again.”
    “Hold on, where was Martinez found?” Rush asked.
    “On the side of the road on the way to the camp. It’s where we believe the hijacking took place.”
    “Then the bus driver was in on it!” Lain said.
    “That’s our suspicion,” Lopez confirmed.
    “Miguel?!” Hannah protested. “No way. He was a very nice man. He would come and chat with me about how much he missed his family - he’s an immigrant from Peru and he had to leave his family behind when he moved to Mexico. He’s been working hard on saving up money so he could bring his family to Mexico and then they could all cross together to the US. He loved the students, too. There’s no way he’d hurt any of us.”
    But as she was saying the words, she remembered the look in Miguel’s eyes as he’d made eye contact with her in the rear view mirror. At the time, she’d taken it as panic, because she was panicked. But now, as she thought about it, she realized it’d been worry, sure, but also regret. Regret that he’d agreed to do this.
    Oh God, Miguel, how could you?!
    She had both hands buried in Turbo’s fur then, clinging to him. He pushed his body against hers, practically sitting on top of her, his tail thumping against the back of the couch. Rush ran his hand over her hair comfortingly. She leaned into his hand, trying hard not to cry.
    I was such an idiot - I never saw it. I should’ve known.
    “We have to find the bus driver,” Rush said. “Maybe he knows something - where they’re going or what their plans were.”
    “Well, he chose the wrong kidnappings to participate in,” Davis said drily, speaking for the first time since they all sat down. “I doubt anyone realized what a huge international story this would become. He currently has every police officer in the southwest, the FBI, and the Mexican police all looking for him. And, no doubt, the Chupacabras . He’d better hope he found a great place to hide out.”
    “He’s at Lago Santa Teresa ,” Hannah said dully. “He called it lugar feliz - his happy place. It’s where he went during school breaks, because he couldn’t afford to travel back to Peru to see his family. He would tell me about spending his days in the sun, fishing. I don’t think he told many other people - he talked to me more than anyone else. I can’t believe he was a part of this…” She couldn’t finish the sentence. She wanted to curl up into a ball and hide from the world and this pain but she knew she had to stay focused. Just a little longer. For Isabel. Then she could cry. After these men left. But not before then.
    “Well…” Lopez said, drawing the word out suggestively, “ we have no jurisdiction down there, and I keep hearing rumors that the Mexican police have been bought off by the Chupacabras so I’d hate to trust them…” He stared hard at Lain.
    Lain