The next morning she listened to Tyrone set up his trade, it was for early Saturday morning, down some alley by a warehouse. Somehow she had to let someone know. She got out of her bed after he left, he left her to sleep after kissing her. She walked to her jewelry box and pulled out her earrings, then put them in. "Good morning," she said to the air. Tyrone is supposed to be selling the chip early tomorrow morning around 5:00, let's hope they activate the chip," she whispered. "I don't think he is going too far to make this trade. I sure hope you are hearing this Tyler, I would be so grateful if you guys came to find me."
Tyler heard her and grinned, they would get their girl back soon, he was sure of it.
Cole was sitting next to him, grinning ear to ear. Hope blossomed in him. He would get the love of his life back, he was positive. Miranda then spoke again.
"He's selling the chip on Corpus Christi Avenue tonight, not sure where that is, so maybe you'll have to narrow it down, love you guys," she said. Then they heard water running.
Cole grinned, she was in the shower, and had left her earrings in. Minutes later they heard her talking to the maid, and then they heard her ask a guard if she could go outside. The men nodded at her, and she headed out. There was an autumn feel in the air, and Miranda wished she was back home where she knew the colors would be changing. She walked around, whispering details of the house to Tyler, hoping he could hear her. "Big, and oriental, I think it was Tomori's house," she whispered. She then saw an address on the house. "257, that is the address. I doubt that will help you, but if you get a lock on Corpus Christie, that might help narrow it down," she whispered.
Her guards approached her then. "Miranda we need to get you into the house, it is going to rain."
She nodded and followed them inside, then headed to her room. She closed the door behind her and sat looking out the window watching the pouring rain. She then got a brilliant idea.
"Tyler, it is pouring rain right now. Go and find out where there are rainstorms around the country at the moment and narrow the streets down from there," she whispered.
"She is absolutely brilliant," Tyler grinned at Cole, and turning his computer, he typed in a few things and brought up the National Weather Service.
"There is rain in Long Beach right now," Tyler said.
"Cole, see if you can find a Corpus Christi there," he told him.
"Already on it," Cole informed him. A moment later he grinned.
"There is one."
"Good, let's inform the cops there, and as soon as the deal goes down they can follow Tyrone back there. If we are going to help, we need to get moving too."
Cole nodded and dialed the police department, informing them what was going on. They assured him they would get right on it. Cole stood then. "We will need a flight out so we can get there sooner."
"You're right," Tyler said and called the airlines, booking flights for as soon as possible.
Miranda spent the night by herself, which she didn't mind. She wanted to be alone. She left her clothes on, hoping against all hopes that Tyrone would be caught, but she was sorely disappointed when about 7:00 Saturday morning Tyrone burst into her room. He was very angry. She sat up wearily. "Tyrone, what is going on?" she asked him, taking in his wet and blood-soaked clothes.
"I was doing a business transaction, but it went bad, the cops showed up."
"Are you all right?" she asked him.
"The cops shot me in the leg," he snarled, then he looked at her.
"Why are you dressed?"
"I went to bed too tired to change," she said.
He walked over to her, then sat by her.
"Tyrone, will you be all right? Maybe we should call the ambulance."
"No, no ambulance, I can patch myself up."
"I am sorry that you got hurt," she told him.
"I bet you are," he snarled.
"I am," she told him.
"Someone tipped off the cops," he told her, watching her closely.
"Who did?"
"That's what I want to know."
"If you think I did it, Tyrone, you have to be kidding me, why would I do that?" she asked him. "I have no means to do so, you know that."
He frowned. "I don't know." He looked at his guards in the doorway. "Has she tried to use the phone at all?"
"No sir," one of them said. "We have watched her closely this whole time. There is no way she had access to any phone or any way to contact anyone."
"I don't know," Tyrone growled looking at Miranda.
He looked her up and down. "Pull out the earrings."
"Why?"
"Do it," he growled.
She sighed and pulling them out he handed them to him. "You can have these back when I make sure they aren't bugged."
"If they were, wouldn't the cops be here already? What are you afraid of Tyrone? I have no idea where we even are."
He growled and left the room with the earrings.
"Well, there goes our communication with her," Tyler said in frustration, as the men sat in a hotel room in Long Beach. They had all been in on the exchange, but Tyrone had slipped away again. They had caught the other guy though and he wasn't talking.
"We need to find her before she is killed," Cole ground out, "but where do we start?"
"Tomori's house has got to be big like Tyrone's was," Tyler said, "let's start looking in the affluent neighborhoods."
Tyler looked at all the men gathered in the hotel room. "Get looking men."
They nodded and hurried out the door.