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“I dropped Maddie off like usual and she just ran all the way to the shop. She said someone’s dead.”
“Goddammit,” Greer grumbles and then it sounds like he's repeating the information to his wife Celeste, who is no doubt sleeping beside him. “We’ll be there in a few minutes.”
“Okay, come by the shop and hopefully Maddie can tell you what’s happened before you walk in on it.”
I lower the phone from my ear just as Maddie looks up at me and shakes her head. “I can’t go back. Please...please don’t make me. I don’t want to go back.”
“Nobody is going to make you go back to the bar,” I assure her, even though I don’t think she’s referring to the bar.
God, I’ve never seen her like this before, so…frightened.
She doesn’t say another word, so I don’t push her as she sobs. I just stand there and hold her while she keeps glancing over her shoulder her as if she’s worried someone might sneak up on her. All I know to do is hold her tighter while RJ steps away to talk to his husband.
That’s how Greer and Celeste find us when they roll up in the parking lot on his Harley.
“What the fuck happened?” he snaps as they both hurry into the garage bay. Like usual, the dark-haired man is wearing nearly the same attire as me—jeans and his leather Savage Kings cut over a black tee while his wife Celeste is still in her pink pajama shorts and top, as if she just rolled out of bed, slipped onher sneakers, and pulled back her brunette hair in a messy bun like Maddie wears at night.
“She’s...I still can’t get much out of her except that there’s a dead man. I assume he’s in the bar since there were no cars, nothing outside when I dropped her off,” I explain to them. Smoothing my hand over the back of Maddie’s long brown hair, I tell her, “God, baby, I’m so sorry. I should’ve walked you in.”
Greer curses under his breath. “Well, I guess I better go see for myself.”
“No,” Celeste says as she grabs his arm. “You shouldn’t go alone. I’ll go with you.”
“Like hell you will,” he grumbles.
“Please don’t go alone.”
“I won’t,” he assures her. Then jerks his chin toward me. “Come on, kid.”
“I don’t think I can leave her yet.”
Greer just frowns at Maddie, but Celeste comes over and rubs her palm over Maddie's back. “Maddie, how about we go into the office and sit down?”
“Thane’s on his way,” RJ says when he ends his call and joins us.
“I’ll go with you when Thane’s here to stay with RJ and the women,” I tell Greer.
“When the fuck will that be?” he asks RJ.
“Minutes,” my boss tells him.
“Fine. I’ll call Remy while we wait. Better give our pres a heads up that shit might be going down.”
Greer hasn’t ended his call when I hear the rumble of another motorcycle in the distance. A few seconds later, Thane pulls right into the garage bay. He didn’t even bother with putting on a helmet, just hopped on his bike and sped over here.
“What the fuck is going on?” the tatted up former Devil Hounds member asks as he dismounts and immediately pulls RJ to him for a kiss. I shove down my ridiculous jealousy.
“Something happened at the bar,” Greer tells him.
“Maddie saw...something, maybe a dead man,” I explain.
“He’s definitely dead,” is all she says again before she shakes her head.
“Can you and RJ stay here with the women while Greer and I go check it out?” I ask Thane.
“Yeah, sure.”
Thane removes his gun from his shoulder holster under his leather Savage Kings cut and checks it as if he knows he might need it. “Don’t worry. We’ll keep them safe,” he says. I tip my chin up at him in thanks.
