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I roll my eyes as I get up and say, “I’ll go and let Mom know that we’re heading out."
I leave the guys to get their shit together as I head downstairs, finding Mom and Kat sitting in front of the TV in the front room.
“We’re heading out for a bit,” I announce.
She glances over her shoulder, her eyes narrowing slightly, but she still replies, “Alright, be safe, don’t do anything that I wouldn’t do.”
Kat laughs, “That leaves him an awful lot of stuff that he can do.”
“Hush, he doesn’t need to know that.” Mom giggles.
“No, I don’t,” I reply with a smile.
Cash comes down the stairs quickly, followed by the others, and heads straight for his mom, kissing her on the cheek as he says, “See you later, Mom, don’t worry, I won’t be out late.”
“Good, it’s a school night,” she replies.
I barely manage to contain my eye roll at that, but the more in the dark I can keep our parents about the shit that we get up to, the better. It’s not exactly safe or legal.
Grabbing my keys, I follow the guys out of the door, and we all load up into my truck.
“Which one should we check first?” Luc asks.
Jensen leans forward in his seat, “Well, it’s not exactly discreet what I need to do, and knowing Atlas and his Uncle, they probably would’ve gone out the back way and through the woods anyway, so why don’t we check there first.”
I smirk, “Sounds good to me.”
Fortunately, this town is too small for it to take very long to get anywhere, so it won't take us too long to get to the camera. As we get into the truck, Rafe gets our attention and begins to sign.
“Don’t you think it would be a good idea to make sure that we’re the only people out here before we start sticking wires in security cameras?” he asks.
“Good point, we’ve already got good old Marty breathing down our necks after our last mark got a little bit too chatty.” Cash replies, his eyes flashing dangerously.
It always makes me laugh that he’s viewed as one of the nicer ones out of all of us. The truth is that he is just really good at hiding his crazy. He has just as much as the rest of us, and it pretty much stems from the same place: her; when we lost her, it broke something in all of us, and now we help others in the only way we know how, violently.
It’s earning us a pretty good wedge of money too.
We were using some of the money that we had been earning to help us find Ever, and Atlas was helping us, but he’s not going to be anymore since he’s disappeared, too.
He better be fucking okay.
Him just up and disappearing is stirring up a lot of shit for us, especially since it’s pretty much the same thing that Ever did, although we know that she had no control over it since she was only eight at the time. Atlas isn’t a dick though, well, not like that, which means he never would’ve left like he did if he had a choice. Whether that’s because he had to leave urgently or something more sinister, we don’t know, and that’s what we’re worried about.
We’ve put enough hints together over the time that he’s been with us that we know he has a dark past that he’s not entirely free from; I just hope that it hasn’t caught up with him.
“So, if it turns out he left unwillingly, we’re going after him, right?” Jensen asks, violence flashing in his eyes. The violence never really leaves his eyes though.
I nod sharply once, “Yeah, we are. I don’t know how we’ll manage to swing that past the parents though? Especially at the moment, they’re all still on edge after the Pit.”
Luc shrugs; his parents aren’t a concern like some of the others are, but they more than make up for it in other ways. Worse ways. “The same way that we always do, school trip.”
I grimace, “They’re going to catch on to that at some point.”
“And we’ll deal with that when it happens,” Riot replies.
He’s right; we will because we always do, and it’s a necessity.
Chapter Two
