Apprehended (Amber Alert Series Book 3) by Sara Schoen Read Free Book Online Page A

from eyewitness statements at the college. 
    "We won't look at a suspect list until we come up with a complete and accurate profile. We believe we are correct, but a profile is a judgment based on behavior and in case the behavior changes we need to prevent a bias profile. We want to be as accurate as possible and any sort of prior belief will prevent us from doing that," Callum stated as he waved for the commander to leave. Suddenly Callum seemed angry and annoyed, I wasn't sure why, but I didn't like it.
    "I thought we had a complete profile," I said, confused by his statement to the officer. They had just finished giving a profile, how come we didn't have a complete yet? There was no point presenting it if it wasn’t complete. Maybe that's why Callum’s team didn't want to give it right away. This could do more harm than good if it backfired on whatever plans Callum was thinking of.
    "We won't have a complete profile until we see how he reacts to getting the wrong girl," Callum started. He clearly saw where I was going to go when he said that and immediately finished his thought. "And how he tries to take her again. If this was a mistake then his behavior could change and that would change the. I'm sure he'll try again soon since he wants Audrey for whatever his main goal is, and they we will have our answer. Hopefully before she’s taken," Callum added softly to himself as he turned to walk away from me. 
    I wasn't sure if I was supposed to hear—he had said it quietly—but loud enough for me to hear. Either way I didn't like what I heard, and I was scared for Audrey. There was a man after her and we didn't really know anything about him, and wouldn't until he went after her again. I had to do something, but I didn't know what or if there was anything I could do. I glanced to Callum’s team to see them heading back into the conference room the commander had put us into. The only thing I could do to help Audrey for sure was to work with Callum’s team—it was time for me to be a team player. No more looking out for just myself, it was time to put the past fully behind me and focus on what I had to do right now before it was too late.
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 9
     
     
    I threw myself into working with Callum’s team, even though Callum was very rarely a part of it while I was in there. He let us do most of the work, observed us, and kept us on track when we became too friendly with each other. He wanted us to focus, and look at the information we had to plan for when Audrey would go back to school. She would have to go back to finish her classes since she was almost done with school and refused to put her life on hold again for another round of Steve Bennett's games.
    For now we had to plan. She would need someone to protect her, even with Damien around, to make sure nothing happened to her. We would take turns protecting her, normally with a partner, while she was on school grounds and then have a car sitting outside whenever she went home. It was a lot of work, but we were prepared for it. If Audrey was who he was after he would do anything to get her, we just had no idea how or when.
    Audrey didn't like it, but she accepted it because she knew it was probably the only opportunity we had to catch him. We had no idea where he was from, where he was keeping the girls or anything that would give us another opportunity to find him if we failed to keep her safe. We had to catch him now while he was focused on her. This was our only shot and we weren't going to mess it up.
    "Jessi, I need to speak with you," Callum said as he came into the team room. He had been discussing courses of action with the school and the police officers all day. We hadn't seen him except for a few minutes when he had a moment to sit and hear our reports, but I could tell it wasn't enough. He had dark circles under his eyes from a lack of sleep and he was easily angered, but that was mostly directed at me. Why did he hate