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the red light as she turned onto Meeting Street, skidding through the intersection, and barely missing a taxi cab, which swerved and took out a garbage can on the corner. She hoped no one got her tag number, but an appearance in traffic court was small potatoes compared to kidnapping.
    By the time she turned onto Broad Street, she dared to hope she was not being followed. She prayed Andy was alive, and that the man had drawn the gun only to get him to stop fighting. Her eyes clouded with tears as she thought of the gentle professor fighting for his life.
    She finally breathed a sigh of relief when she pulled into the parking lot of the Charleston Police Department Administrative Building. She knew someone there she could trust, and hopefully he could help her, Andy, and Thomas.

Chapter 3
     
     
    “Let me see if I’ve got this straight.” Captain Ray Gerard tapped his square chin with the envelope Andy had given to Kaylin. A friend of her father, Hartford Maxwell, during their Navy days, he had remained close to Kaylin after her father's passing. “Your boyfriend is overdue returning from the Amazon and you think he's in trouble.” Kaylin nodded. “But the only evidence you have is this.” He held up the manila envelope.
    “I know it sounds crazy, but putting that aside for the moment, Andy was definitely kidnapped. I watched it happen.” She winced at the fresh memory and thought of the gun the man had drawn. “He might even be dead.”
    “Yes, about that.” Gerard looked down at his desk, perhaps not wanting to meet her eye. “We can't file a missing persons report just yet. Andy hasn't been gone long enough. What I did do was put out an alert, giving the description of the vehicle and the passengers. Hopefully something will turn up."
    Kaylin knew the odds were slim. She had been so surprised by the entire incident that she had not gotten a good look at the car. The best she had been able to tell the police was that it was a silver sedan, as if there weren't thousands of those out on the road. She had been able to give a fair description of one of the men, the one whom Tariq had confronted, but not the driver.
    “I don't know what to do now. I don't feel safe going home, but I also wonder if I'm being foolish. This all really has nothing to do with me, except for the fact that I’m dating Thomas. But I don’t know anything about his expedition.”
    “Well, if this thing,” Gerard taped the envelope, “is of any significance, and I don't see how it could be, the people who've kidnapped your friend might come after you if they find out if you've got it.”
    “But I don't have it any more. That was the whole point of turning it over to you.”
    “Even if they find out you’ve given it to me, they’ll figure you at least looked at it. They might want to make you describe it to them, or to stop you from telling anyone else about it. Either way, you could be in danger. You have anywhere you can go? Any one you can stay with for a couple of days?”
    Kaylin sighed. “I'll get a hotel for tonight, and then maybe I can stay with friends. But what about Thomas? Isn’t there anything you can do?”
    “If your friend Andy is right, and Thomas didn’t follow his planned path, I don't see that there’s much anyone can do, short of going down to South America and asking around. But even that would probably be a waste of time, especially since we don't even know for certain where he started his expedition.”
    “But there’s got to be some way you can help!” Kaylin realized she was grasping at straws, but the thought of Thomas being in trouble and her doing nothing to help was more than she could bear.
    “Kaylin, I want to help you, I really do, but we're just a local police department. We don't have any international connections, and even if we did, what would I tell them? A professor is missing in the Amazon? That happens all the time. What if they were to ask me for his itinerary, and I tell them we