Luukas watched his brother run his hand through his blond hair in frustration as he watched the video footage from their security cameras around the building. They'd been sitting there in the office for hours, pouring over the tapes, phone records, and statements from the security team at their apartments, trying to figure out what the hell had happened to the other Hunters.
They'd come up with absolutely nothing. They'd disappeared into thin air.
"Three Hunters," Nik gritted out. "Just fucking gone. All within a few hours of each other, and all without a trace. They just vanished off the face of the earth. How is that possible?"
"Let's go over everything again," Luukas told him. He didn't know what good it would do, but he had to do something. Maybe they'd missed some small clue somewhere.
As Nik straightened out the notes he'd been taking that were strewn haphazardly across the desk, he glanced out the glass wall towards the living room, where he could see his Keira and her sister. She and Emma were "practicing", and their magic filled the air of the apartment as one of the lamps floated across the room. Clapping her hands with excitement, Keira urged her sister on as she managed to gently set it on the opposite table.
His heart swelled and his soul quieted as he watched his witch, even as his body tensed in fear.
After all he'd gone through, and all he'd suffered because of her sorcery, it still set him on edge. He couldn't help it. The only time he felt in control was when he had her flat on her back on the bed, or against the wall, or in the shower...
His body hardened immediately at the thought, and his gums burned as his fangs slid down a fraction, anticipating the taste of her.
"Luuk? Did you hear me?"
He tore his eyes reluctantly from the voluptuous curves of his raven-haired mate, giving his brother his full attention. "I'm sorry. What did you say?"
Nikulas repeated what he'd just said. "I just found something."
Joining his brother on the other side of the desk, Luukas stood next to him and leaned onto the desk to watch the computer monitor.
"That's Dante," he stated. "Is that our garage? Here?"
"Yes. I've been studying the footage from the hallways, the foyer, and the street entrance so much I almost missed this one. Now watch."
Luukas watched as a black van came to a screeching halt just as it passed the leather-clad Dante. Two men spilled out of the side door and approached him on either side. As Dante turned to confront the one, the other snuck up behind him and jabbed something into his neck. The massive Hunter went down like a toppling building.
Another human jumped out of the driver's side, and together, they managed to get the vampire into the back. They all got back in and the van took off out of the garage.
It had all gone down in less than two minutes.
Luukas straightened up.
"Where was the security guard?"
"I don't know, but I'm sure as hell going to find out," Nik seethed.
"Back up the tape again. Let's see if we can get a plate number," he ordered.
"You got it, bro."
Luukas wandered over to the window while his brother rewound the tape.
One Hunter found, two more to go.
And he had no doubt they would find Dante. That little clue was all he needed. Luukas would search every nook and cranny of this earth relentlessly until he found him.
He knew his Hunters were still alive. Dante, Shea, and Christian. He was their creator, he would know if anything had happened to them. He could feel their essence, and he would feel it if they left him.
"Got it," Nik exclaimed.
"Ok. Let's find our Hunter."
Nik paused his fingers on the keyboard. "What about the others, Luuk? We still haven't found a damn thing on them. We've only got the video of them leaving their apartments. Alone."
"Although," he added as an afterthought, "It did look like Shea was looking for the guys. But that only tells us that she was the last one to be taken, if that's what happened."
"They're still alive. Let's focus on finding Dante and then maybe we'll have an idea of what happened to Shea and Christian."
"Yeah, ok." Nik's fingers started flying over the keyboard again, searching for info on the plate number. "I'm not as good at this as Aiden," he told Luuk. "But I can find out who owns this van, and we'll go from there."
Luukas held his hands behind his back and gazed out at his city, his mind racing ahead. It wouldn't surprise him in the least if Leeha were the one behind the abductions.
He really should have burned her along with her father.