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Lenny nodded. “Said it was critical.”
The irritation and frustration set in. “Crap, okay. I will be down in a minute.”
The tall and lanky guard left without another word to return downstairs. This was going to be such a letdown after going through all the effort to dress herself up for this.
“Liam with the perfect fucking timing,” she muttered quietly to herself as she snatched the phone Joey had left her and tucked it into her pocket so she could text him in the car to cancel.
By 5:07 p.m., she was sitting in the back of the town car and Lenny was pulling away from the front of her house to bring her to midtown to meet up with Liam on whatever it was that he decided was so incredibly urgent to discuss. Retrieving the phone from her jacket pocket her fingers tapped away at the screen to give Joey the bad news.
5:11 p.m.
Layne
Got called to a meeting, on my way there now. Not looking good for tonight.
5:12 p.m.
Unknown Number
I’m never late.
Well, kudos to him for being punctual, but she was stuck in traffic heading towards midtown. Layne sighed and leaned back in her seat, staring out the window. She was going to be royally pissed off if this debriefing ended up being a waste of time.
Lenny cursed at the other cars also sitting in the traffic, occasionally laying on the horn to make his displeasure loud and clear.
Another text came in on the phone at 5:29 p.m.
Unknown Number
Better be ready.
Staring at the screen of the phone, she found herself questioning if she had been clear in the prior messages to him. He did realize she wasn’t even home, right?
“Oh, you son of a bitch! You could have gone through that light!” Lenny yelled from the driver’s seat, waving his hand around angrily during his fit of road rage. The offense? The car in front of them stopped at a yellow traffic light.
Layne’s eyes looked at the clock on the front dash which ticked over from 5:29 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. “Never late, my ass.”
Lenny looked up into the rearview mirror at her. “What was that?”
She shook her head. “Nothing.”
The purr of a sports bike drew closer, moving in and out of the stopped cars on the avenue. A bike rolled up right next to Layne’s passenger side door, the rider putting his feet on the ground to steady the ride between his legs.
When she noticed the biker stopped right there, she raised a brow questioningly at the odd decision to come to a stop on the marked dashes between the lanes. The man on the bike turned his head to look over at her while he sat there. That’s when she saw on the black helmet white decals designed out into a skull mouth on the front of it. There was a spare helmet right behind him on the back of the seat.
“What the hell is this asshole doing?” Lenny had noticed the bike situated there on the dashed lines dividing the lanes. Layne grinned like a giddy schoolgirl and seized the moment.
She swung open her passenger side door and hopped out. Not wasting any time, she pulled the helmet down over her head and mounted the back of the sports bike, scooting herself close to the man’s back as she wrapped her arms around his waist.
“Shit!” Lenny exclaimed as he scrambled to get out of the car and run around the front as Layne made her exit.
The bike’s engine revved several times before taking off, accelerating down between the cluster of vehicles. He maneuvered it through the intersection expertly to avoid getting taken out by oncoming traffic.
Lenny got left behind at the car, running his hands through his hair as he realized that he just somehow managed to lose the boss’s daughter. He kicked a front tire. “Damnit!” Even if he had gotten back in the car, there was no way he would have been able to get through the congestion and catch up with the stranger Layne took off with.
He got back into the car, immediately making the phone call to Scott to alert him of the situation.
“Hi, sir. I—” he cleared his throat to muster up the balls to admit what he had allowed to happen on his watch, “—I, have some news about Layne. She took off with some guy on a crotch rocket.”
