After Neil left the press conference where he had announced his decision to offer any amount to whoever found his wife, his phone had kept on ringing non-stop throughout his way back home.
Home. A place he'd once looked forward to going back to but was now dreading. It was useless looking in Mirage Mesa for Mia after his men had viewed all the surveillance cameras in the city and discovered that the cars that had taken her had left Mirage Mesa and disappeared into the night with no other means of tracing them.
He'd received calls from countless unknown people claiming to know where his wife was. They sounded convincing, and he'd have believed them but they claimed she was in Mirage Mesa and demanded the promised money upfront before disclosing her location. He knew something like this would happen once money got involved, but he was too desperate to wait for the military to search the other cities, which would take longer.
