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“I’ve got a couple of college bros that would fucking argue with that shit.” Toth goes to retrieve his wallet but abruptly stops to face Bunny. “That’s why you look so familiar!”
Her eyebrows dart down in tandem with ours. “Excuse me?”
“The chick that’s been on my mind today is an old fraternity brother’s missing girlfriend,” Toth rushes to explain. “He’s been blowing up soc’ with photos of them together. All. Fucking. Day. Telling everybody to keep an eye out. If you’ve seen her or even think you might’ve seen her to let him know…” His gaze suddenly bores a little too hard. A little too long. “I fucking swear you could be her twin.” There’s a small pause that precedes him pointing an uninjured finger in her direction. “You’re not her, are you?”
“Can’t be,” Nolan replies, the faintest displeasure in his voice. “She’s not missing.”
“Yeah, Toth. She’s sitting right there,” I echo while doing my best to ignore the lump of dread building in my throat.
“Not to mention, she doesn’t date frat fucks,” my best friend definitely declares. “Never has.”
Nodding in agreement is attached to a forced laugh. “Just gearheads, like us.”
“Here! Let me show you!” He carelessly tosses his wallet on the counter and dives into his jeans to grab his cell. It takes less than a minute for him to pull up whatever account he’s determined for us to see. “Hm.” His confused hum is accompanied by his eyebrows pulling together and Bunny sliding off the counter. Stepping closer to Nolan. Brushing her body gently against his. “Fuck, they’re not there anymore.” Toth’s continuous scrolling receives deeper and deeper grumbles of consternation. “Where the fuck are those photos?” The stab at his device isn’t gentle. “Where the fuck did they all go?!”
Cutting a brief glance in Nolan’s direction has me spotting him inching a wrench into his clutches, an action that successfully stomps down the knot stuck in my vocal cords.
Good.
I’m glad we’re in the same two-seater here.
Glad we’re both ready to Thelma and Louise our asses off a cliff if necessary.
Not much for chick flicks but it was one of my mom’s favorites.
Might’ve been because of a young Brad Pitt.
I mean the dudes got chops.
“Did he just…” Toth makes strange faces at his phone, “delete them?”
My gaze shifts over to Bunny whose stare is frantically oscillating between me and the exit.
Cutting a path.
Wordlessly telling me exactly where she’s headed if she hears one more wrong word.
“Why the fuck would he delete them? When did he delete them? They were there this morning. They were there at lunch.”
I move my attention back to Nolan and casually tip my head to our girl, which leads to him winding one arm protectively around her waist.
Tugging her closer.
Tightening his hold on her and the tool now in his clutches.
“Fucking weird. Pretty sure they were there when I took a piss on that cactus. And now they’re just…” Toth idiotically tosses the hurt hand into the air causing himself to hiss in discomfort, “gone, dude.”
“How about you pay The Kid and then you get gone?” my best friend humorlessly insists.
Toth shrugs off the non-joking comment as if it is one, tosses his phone on the counter, and resumes the checkout process.
Rather than say another word to him, I meet Bunny’s teary-eyed gaze and mouth the two words I know she needs to hear, that I can’t wait for her to know are true, that I know Nolan and I will do anything to make sure stay true. “You’re. Safe.”
Chapter 13
Bunny
There actually are benefits to being held hostage in your own home.
