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Is she sleeping?
I return to the living room, where the guys look up at me expectantly. “She didn’t come out.”
Tanner lets out an anguished sound. “But it’s been so long already. We need to get the stash out and it needs to be done now. It’s the only way we can be assured of her protection.”
Although I don’t agree with his methods, he’s right that this is the only way to protect her. She’ll continue to be a target as long as the stash remains hidden.
“Maybe I should try knocking,” Tanner suggests, getting up.
We look at him with raised brows, and he rolls his eyes. “I promise to be gentle. Besides, I’m the reason she’s in there right now, instead of sitting here with us as we discuss the possibility of our—”
He clears his throat, stopping himself from saying the word. “I’ll be back with her.”
Tanner returns a few moments later without her. His eyes are wide and panicked.
“Guys, I think she’s gone.”
“What?” Rueben jumps to his feet, taking on the exact look on Tanner’s face. “What do you mean she’s gone?”
“I mean she’s not in her room. When I knocked and she didn’t respond, I turned the knob, expecting it to be locked, but it wasn’t. She isn’t there.”
I stand up, and we all hurry to her room to find her. “Did you check the bathroom?”
“No, but I called out to her and she didn’t respond.”
I hurry to the bathroom. I push the door open frantically, ready to apologize and be relieved if I find her, but she isn’t there.
“Could she have left her room while we were in the living room?” I ask, but Rueben shakes his head.
“There’s no way she could have done that without us knowing about it.”
“Fucking hell. Where has she gone now?” Tanner screams, looking extremely worried. He pulls his phone out of his pocket.
I look at her test strip on the ground. She must have tossed it mindlessly when things didn’t go as expected.
“Now’s not the time to be looking at your phone, Tanner. We have to find her now, and unless you planted a microchip in her that you haven’t told us about, I doubt it’s going to be much help,since she doesn’t have a phone you can call,” I say when I see him glued to his phone.
Instead of responding, Tanner's eyes slowly widen in horror as he scrolls through his phone.
“Fucking hell. Shit. This can't be happening right now,” he shouts, tossing his phone on the bed.
“What is it, Tanner?” Rueben asks, while I grab the phone to go through it.
“Fuck. I’ve been so distracted by the argument we had that I haven’t checked my phone for the past hour,” Tanner groans.
“My mole has been sending me urgent messages. There were plans to raid us today. That must be why the car was following us, and I foolishly led them here, thinking that I had lost them.”
Tanner punches the wall, losing his composure. “There can be no other explanation for her absence. They took her and it’s all my fault. I should have been more considerate of her feelings instead of shutting her down.”
“As much as I would love to let you wallow in your grief and guilt, now is not the time for that, Tanner. We need to find out where they’ve taken her and find a way to get her back from them,” I say.
Much like him, I can't imagine the thought of her in the clutches of those Flames of Hell bastards. We had managed to stop them from torturing her once, and we can only be so lucky as to stop it a second time.
“We need to get to her, and we need to do it now. There is no time to spare,” Rueben says.
Tanner pulls himself together and runs out the door. It’s the first time I've ever seen him be so moved by anything, and it’s impressive that he’s managed to get himself under control.
“I’ll have my mole tell me what he knows about her disappearance, and we can start from there,” he says, his eyes pinned to his phone as he heads out the door.
