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“Ellie maybe you’re just seeing things that aren’t there because you’re worried about Dawn,” he suggests gently. “It is possible he has two first names.”
“Hold up, if this is the guy you had Scorpion run the check on, Fury, then he doesn’t. He just has that god-awful name Reginald. Remember?” Rebel asks.
“Still, that doesn’t mean Ellie should be freaking out,” Liam says. “Maybe he was cruising for a woman when he met Ellie and didn’t want to give his real name,” he adds, but I can hear the doubt in his voice now. The fact that he’s starting to sound worried makes my panic slowly eek back in.
“Something is wrong, Liam, I know it. Here, look at this picture. He’s bad, I’m sure of it. You can see it on his face.”
I sound crazy, I know. But, I’ve always been really good at judging people. I trust my gut when it comes to trusting or not trusting someone and it’s never led me wrong.
Except maybe when it comes to my mother lying to me about Liam.
I take my phone and find the photo that Dawn texted to me earlier. My hands are shaking and it takes me longer than it should. I hand the phone to Liam and he grabs it, relaxing backwards on his feet as he looks.
“Fuck,” Liam hisses.
“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Rebel says, crouching down to look at the phone.
I blink as the boys toss about the f word, it’s not really new, but there’s something about their voices this time that makes me even more scared. Devil must hear it, too, because he hadn’t been paying attention before. But he looks down over Liam’s shoulder and his entire body goes solid. I can literally see all movement from him stop. It’s almost as if he turns to stone.
I gasp as he reaches down and snatches the phone out of Liam’s hand.
“Motherfucker,” he roars, gripping my phone so tight that I half expect it to turn to dust.
“What? What?” I cry, terrified. I reach out and grab Liam’s arms needing some type of contact with him.
“Ellie,” Liam says. His tone doing nothing to make my fear go away. If anything it chills me to the bone.
“Liam, what’s going on?” I ask, afraid of the answer, but needing to know.
“That’s Wolf, the guy I’ve been hunting, in that picture.”
I have to fight to keep from passing out, my nails biting into Liam’s arm.
“Oh, God.”
I’d never seen a picture of Wolf. I’m sure Liam probably had one when talking to people at the church, but I didn’t truly want involved. Now, I’m kicking my own ass. It feels as if I’m caught in a horrible time loop. My words feel as if they’re torn from my soul. They bleed out and each syllable is painful.
“Let’s load up and get to them. I want this motherfucker in my hands before the sun goes down,” Devil growls, already walking to the door.
“But,” I respond, and I don’t know if I’m talking loud at all. My heart is pounding in my ears and it’s drowning out all other sound. “I don’t know where they’re at. Dawn wouldn’t tell me. They could be anywhere, Devil. They might not even be in the city and this photo was almost an hour ago. Dawn could be…”
“Ice—”
I cut back to look at Liam, seeing the worry on his face and I whisper the one thing I’m thinking. “Dawn could already be dead.”
I collapse then, letting the tears fall as if a dam has broken. Sobs rack my body and Liam takes me in his arms.Fury“I can’t believe this motherfucker is going to get away again,” Devil shouts, kicking one of Ellie’s dining table chairs and causing it to fall backwards. I would slap him and tell him to get control of his shit because he’s scaring Ellie, but I figure of all of us, he has more right to lose it when it comes to Wolf.
I’m on the phone to Scorpion, waiting as they try to ping Dawn’s phone. I’m still on the couch, holding Ellie, and doing my best to keep her from completely losing it. She’s still crying, but nothing like she did when we first discovered that it was Wolf the girls were with. I promised her I’d find Dawn and get her back safely, but the truth is I could be lying out of my ass. Wolf has a reason for targeting Ellie and then Dawn. My brother warned me of it, and I ignored him more or less. I’m not ignoring him now. Wolf found a way to exploit my biggest weakness. I’m going to make sure this motherfucker dies. Devil may have to fight me for the right to end him.
“Sorry, Fury. The phone is a no go. I get a general vicinity from the tower it last pinged off, but that’s it,” Scorpion says.
