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She frowned, looking around her. “She didn’t bring it to me though, Rebecca did.”
I froze when I heard the bitch’s name. “Rebecca,” I managed to spit out.
“She came over to the house to apologize with her mother. My mom, of course, accepted. Eventually I agreed she could come to the wedding with her parents as long as she apologized to
you and Thalia, and promised not to cause any more trouble.”
That was so not good. I paced back and forth a couple of times, trying not to panic, but failing miserably. “I need to find Thalia,” I looked directly at Ryder.
“You said she went to the house so let’s start there,” Ryder said. “Mia, you go and tell Liam what’s going on. Check with Callie to see if she’s seen her, and then get Donovan and Reece to check around the barn.” Finished issuing orders, he turned and started heading towards the house.
“Ryder wait. When Rebecca brought me the garter,” she blushed, “I asked her where Thalia was and she said she’d gone off to meet Jack.” Mia had tears in her eyes.
“Okay, what’s with the church meeting?” Reece asked. We all turned to see him standing not too far away with Donovan and Callie, and between the two of them stood a nervous looking Rebecca.
I lost it. “Where the fuck is Thalia?” I was practically nose-to-nose with her as I yelled the question. I felt like strangling the bitch, and if anything had happened to her there’d be hell to pay.
“I told her you wanted to see her, and that you were waiting by the…river for her.”
“You fucking bitch,” I roared.
Rebecca burst into tears. “I’m sorry.”
I turned away before I did something I’d never done before; hit a woman.
“Which part, Rebecca?” Ryder asked.
“The bridge.”
God no. I turned and started running towards the bridge. The bridge that I’d been meaning to replace, but hadn’t gotten around to. I could vaguely hear Ryder yelling something about paramedics, but I wasn’t stopping for anyone. I needed to get to my girl, and just prayed she was still on land.
I ran so damn fast I had a hell of a stitch in my side, but as I broke through the trees, I came to a stop on the bank and shouted for her. I couldn’t hear a damn thing though with the racket the rapids made.
Walking closer to the bridge there was still no sign of Thalia, until I stood on the edge and looked down.
My heart dropped. “Thalia,” I shouted.
She turned her head and looked up at me, her eyes frantic, and then she started to cry.
“I’m going to get you up here baby. I promise.”
She had obviously slipped over the edge of the bank and was in the water, but had managed to grab on to the roots of a tree that had grown out through the earth about a foot above the water.
“Where is she?” Ryder shouted, running towards me.
“Down there. She’s slipped over. I need to get to her.”
He stopped and looked down. “You can’t go down there yet. We need some rope; otherwise you’ll end up stuck down there with her.”
He was right, but I just needed to get to her. She looked terrified.
“Get over here.”
I looked towards the trees to see whom he’d been shouting to. Reece, Donovan and Callie were running towards us, and Reece had a rope in his arms.
“You’re good to go in a minute.”
Ryder grabbed the rope from Reece, tied one end around my waist then ran to one of the trees, took the rope around before getting Donovan and Reece in on it. He nodded to me.
