Connecting dots

“What the heck happened back there?” Hayden asked as he pressed the pedals of the truck, making the engine of the car speed off into the night. Elise's hands were clutched to her chest. “Do you know how dangerous that was? You could have called us!”

“I am not a weak woman, Hayden,” she snapped. “The males were being disgusting, but yes, I had to start a fight to distract them,” she said to them.

“That was reckless,” Rygan scolded too, and Elise was tired of hearing their nagging and answered with an eye roll.

“I know, I know what I did was dangerous, but I needed to do it,” she said to both males who peered at each other before they turned to look at her.

“To do what?” they asked Elise as she reached into her pockets.

“This,” she said, raising her hands to show a paper she held with pride. “I overheard them; they were talking about meeting a client by the port and taking a boy as leverage with them, and I’m sure they were talking about Ethan, so we need to head to an east