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I jogged out to the curb as Romeo pulled up and tugged the SUV door open. “Meyah isn’t answering her phone, they should have been back by now.”
Romeo nodded. “Get in. We’ll go to the place they had dinner and ask around.”
“I’m coming with you,” Dakota called as she ran out of the dorms, pulling on a coat.
“Don’t you have work?” I asked with a raised brow.
She stopped and looked at me like I’d lost my damn mind. “Work can shove their job up their asses. Meyah wouldn’t not come home. Something’s wrong.” I could hear the worry in her voice. Dakota and Meyah had gotten extremely close since Meyah moved here, and I was thankful she had someone at her side who wasn’t afraid to stand up and have a voice.
“Get in.”
Meyah had sent me a text to tell me where she and Huntsman were having dinner and that things had been going well. The place was closing as we pulled up outside.
I leaped out of the car. “Hey! Excuse me,” I called, the young guy pausing at the door before he pulled it shut completely. “I’m looking for a couple people who were here tonight. Pretty girl with purplish hair and a biker.”
The kid looked a little nervous, but he nodded. “Yeah, they left ages ago. Walked off down the street,” he explained as he pointed off to the right. “There’s a parking lot about a block down. It’s hidden out behind the buildings. Not many people know about it, but a lot of people use it because parking here can be hell on busy nights.”
“Thanks, man,” I praised as I turned on my heel and jogged back to the car. “Back that way. Few blocks down, there’s a parking lot,” I ordered, gripping the ‘oh-shit’ handle above my head when Romeo ripped a U-turn in the middle of the street.
“Yes, Meyah and I park there all the time. It’s sort of a locals best-kept secret, but it can be kind of creepy at night,” Dakota rambled. “There’s the entrance.”
My stomach was already twisting, I knew something was wrong. If they had made it to dinner and then walked out after, fine with no issues, something had happened since then.
The second we sped into the open parking lot, I spotted Huntsman’s truck not too far from the entrance. Romeo was driving straight toward it when I saw something sparkle on the ground.
Dakota must have seen it too because she started to scream. “Stop! Holy shit, stop!” she cried, and Romeo slammed on the breaks, the vehicle skidding to the side before it managed to pull to a stop. We all took a couple seconds to breathe and try and take in the scene in front of us.
“Oh, my fucking God. Huntsman.”
Dakota tugged at the door handle, her shaking hands having to pull a couple times before she actually managed to get it open. Not wasting a moment, she leaped out and ran toward the body that lay under the one light in the entire lot. Like it had been placed there on purpose.
“Crazy bitch,” Romeo cursed, switching off the engine and jumping out behind her. “She’s gonna get us killed.”
Romeo was right, and suddenly I was moving quickly to get to Dakota and trying to pull my gun from the holster at my back. We had no idea if this was a trap. We had no idea if this was even Huntsman with the way he was lying flat on his face. The only real deciding feature was the cut on his back.”
Romeo managed to grab Dakota, pulling her back before she touched him, holding his arms around her body. She struggled against him for a moment. “I need to check his pulse.”
“You need to let Ham check the situation first, and make sure we aren’t about to be blown to smithereens,” Romeo growled, pulling her back as she kicked and fought against him like she wasn’t some kind of five-foot little girl struggling with a six-foot mountain.
I looked around, my eyes searching the surroundings for any sign of danger. The problem being, we were in the open, surrounded by buildings, shadows, alleyways, and hiding places. Basically, this was the worst position to be in, and we were in it.
“Damn it,” I cursed under my breath, inhaling deeply as I dropped to my knees next to the body. The tattoos on his hand instantly told me that this wasn’t a dummy. It was Huntsman. My gut sank even further as I stared at him for a few seconds, waiting to see some kind of movement. A breath. A twitch in his hand. And as much as I wished it to happen. There was nothing.
“Damn it, you can’t do this,” I barked. “Breathe goddammit!”
Huntsman was a hard man, but he was my Old Lady’s father, he was an MC President, and he was an asshole who was loyal to a fucking fault if you were family.
I respected the hell out of him and what he’d accomplished, even more so now he’d chosen to listen to what I had to say and not give up on Meyah. It took a real man to admit when he’d made a mistake and to try and make it right.
I tugged on his shoulder, rolling him onto his back, his body floppy. I couldn’t hide the shock in my reaction, and Dakota gasped. There was blood everywhere. His face almost completely covered, swollen and bruised, almost unrecognizable.
Romeo let go of Dakota, and she rushed over, falling to her knees on the other side of his body, her hand shaking as she reached out to touch his face.
My temper was rising, my heart hammering against my chest as I tried to figure out what the hell our next step was. Romeo was just standing over us, a dark look in his eyes that told me he was considering the same thing.
Who had Meyah? And how the fuck were we going to get her back?
“I’ll kill them,” I hissed, balling my hands into fists and falling back onto my ass.
