Chapter 202

Chapter 58 – Gabriel POV Chelsea! I tried again, disappointed as hell when she didn’t respond, had I really lost her? I had. “Don’t even go there!” Marx said with conviction, “this isn’t your fault, with what we know, I’m not sure that only wolves are behind this. I mean they made a car vanish,” he and I were pondering this but I still felt out of my depths here. “Sh- she could be anywhere right now and we cannot find her, Kai – can find anyone. With Chelsea nothing comes up,” I said what I feared the most. “I cannot, say what whoever has her is willing to do but… after your performance and hacking abilities, I personally wouldn’t move her, I believe she’s in California-” “What would be the point?” I interrupt him, “Move her now? Move her later?” “Look, maybe they didn’t know that they needed to be more careful. I believe they need her alive. If this was about killing her, the syringe would contain poison or a lethal dose of something to kill her. It wasn’t. that works in our favor. While you were gone we actually had Jamies blood tested, so maybe we need to go at this from another direction. There has to be a trail Gabriel,” I thought over his words and it really made me think about this from all angles. But instead of elimination a suspect I added one. Added a new theory as well. Gabriel you could be right… Max agreed and after what Chelsea told me, showed me, it made sense. “Francesca,” I spoke and something flashed in Jamies’ eyes. He knew that she could do this. Everyone was waiting. “She wouldn’t do this,” Giovanni said while Jamie said, “She could do this,” Giovanni whipped his head to face Jamie. “Will someone please explain what is happening?” James said when Jamie and I hadn’t broken eye contact. “Francesca has the ability to make the weak minded do and believe what she says,” Jamie answered and my respect for him increased. “How-” “That is what Chelsea believed,” he answered. “She could make Madeline believe that this Robert Delaney guy is her mate and convince Scarlet to help as well,” he continued but I tuned them out and opened my laptop and manually asked Kai to search for Leo, Robert and Francesca. Even if they aren’t entering the same place together. One could be entering from the back, the other the front, but if they’re at the same place at the same time, it could very well be what I believed in the first place, each working separately with different end games but they happened to cross paths. Francesca would be the perfect person to help get Chelsea, promise her she’d have me in the end and she’d be glad to help probably. Or depending on how scorned she felt now, she knows that the only way to hurt me, is to hurt Chelsea… Max was furious, growling, in my head, frustrated as well that he couldn’t reach Aria and Avena. I myself, I felt helpless… empty even because I didn’t know what to do next… all my plans now were radical and against what we would normally do. One… put out a missing persons on Chelsea; get the FBI involved like a regular human…like they could find her when I couldn’t… I shook my head to myself.  My second option would be to start teleporting myself into the homes of different shifters, neither of those are options Gabriel, Max thought pointing out the obvious. Regardless of the years I’ve been able to teleport or make my hands light up, I’ve never abused either. I had done more teleporting today than I had compared to any six month period. It was difficult to have my gifts but not be able to really use them, as they weaken me. However that wasn’t the problem, until I developed Kai, I hadn’t been able to freely experiment or even search for Katie. Kai when opened on my computer could manufacture my heartbeat in a room when I teleported out, but also with censors, and a shock added to my watch in which alerted me to return to my body when using the astral projection ability. I had kept everything quiet, only telling Nonno, waiting until my father stepped down. Power in the hand of the wrong person only led to chaos and destruction, and my father was the wrong person. So I had good reason to keep silent, until now. Max and I both knew and understood, that I had many things to be wary of now… but maybe Marx was right… unknowingly I might have put fear in Chelsea’s kidnappers. I wouldn’t be strong enough to pop into many different homes quickly, we need to narrow down locations, we have to find our mate, Max thought pained. . . . “Gabriel!” “Papa!” Ava shouted pulling me back to everyone, climbing onto my lap, Jack spoke and I wanted to leap across this table and strangle him. “There is one thing,” he said almost hesitant, like having some kind of internal debate, looking around the room, at Giovanni, James, Saul and Rico. “Chelsea has a tracker…” he said clearly and it was a good thing Ava was in my lap. I saw red, rumbling deep in my chest, but when Ava placed a small hand on my face that was all it took to clear the fog of hate and red. I see Casey lean closer to me, ready to protect his little mate, if I cannot calm myself and quickly at that. I take a deep breath, then another until finally, I gaze – no, glare at Jack. Why would he wait to alert the rest of us with something like that? “Look listen… its not a regular tracker… it’s based off her body temperature. Jason had it placed when she was 11 years old. If they search her for one, they won’t be able to find it and we can’t use it to reverse track her. It works based on her body temp, after she shifted we had the numbers changed. If her body temp drops to 95.8 degrees it will turn on. If it spikes to anything higher than 104 it will send off signals to my phone and give a one or two mile radius to her location,” he says placing his cell on the table. “What’s the point of that? It doesn’t tell us shit?” I try to remain calm but I yell the words. “How is that helpful? To her?” “She’s not being harmed and is unable to even use her gifts Gabriel. If they were taking her blood or anything like that…” he paused shooting a glance at Marx, making me remember, “Chelsea would have spiked a temp-” I nodded. “Her body would be generating more blood to replace what’s being taken,” I finish for him and receive a message from Kai on the screen.