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Lily,I laughed ruefully. Lily Reynolds didn’t exist. Roe had done as I asked and pulled everything on her, which turned out to be nothing. Her name, social security number, everything about her seemed to materialize the second she stepped foot in Little Falls. The real question was, why would she lie?
Every possible reason for her deception had been turned over and over my mind. I’d immediately ruled out any type of criminal theory. Maybe I was an idiot with a crush, but Lily just didn’t seem the type. The most likely scenario to me was that she was in hiding and for whatever reason had chosen Little Falls as her haven.
But what was she hiding from? Roe hadn’t found who had helped her create her new identity, at least not yet. She could be a witness to a crime or have an abusive ex. The panicked way she’d run from me proved how scared she was of being found.
I didn’t like her being scared. In fact, I wanted her to feel safe enough with me that she could tell me anything and know that I would use all my power to protect her.
“Fuck!” I racked the weight and scrubbed my hands down my sweaty face. I was in deep with this girl and she wouldn’t even talk to me. Maybe I should walk away. Lily had her reasons for concealing her identity. Reasons she obviously didn’t want to tell me. Plus, I had Daisy to think about.
My little girl had already become attached to Lily. Daisy hadn’t stopped asking when she would be coming back over, which reminded me it wasn’t just my heart that I had to worry about being broken. This was the reason I’d never chosen to get involved with a woman before now. I didn’t want to risk Daisy getting hurt if things ended badly.
Kane stomped into the gym, staring at his phone with an angry scowl. Excited at the prospect of someone’s problems other than my own, I slid off the bench. “What’s with the face? I thought you were Mr. Happy-Go-Lucky now that you’re married and have a kid on the way.”
His narrowed eyes lifted from his phone to me, “Winnie’s having a girls’ day. I just checked her tracker and she’s at some place called ‘Rock Hard Spa.’”
“And?” I questioned as I rubbed a towel over the back of my sweaty neck. I didn’t question that he tracked her.
Winnie being attacked a few months ago had scared the shit out of all of us. She’d just found out she was pregnant and that had made Kane even more terrified. To be honest, I was shocked Winnie was able to even go somewhere without him hovering.
“This is Rock Hard Spa.” He turned his phone screen toward me.
A group of shirtless men stood in front of a sign with the spa’s name. In the picture below that, one of those shirtless men was massaging a woman who was presumably naked on a table with a look of blissful happiness on her face. Image after image featured mostly naked guys providing so called services.
“What the fuck is that?” It didn’t look like any of the spas I’d heard about.
“Exactly. It says here that they specialize in massages and facials,” he read, making me grimace. I avoided the obvious facial joke, he’d probably punch me.
“The tagline is, ‘the spa that will make you say ahh.’ This has to be Jo’s idea,” he grumbled out the last part as he continued to scroll.
It did seem like something she would do. Growing up, anytime one of them got into trouble, the other wasn’t far behind. “She was pretty pissed at you for ruining her bachelorette party plans before the wedding.”
His scowl deepened at my comment before he went back to his phone, typing furiously. I grabbed my phone and keys, more than ready to head upstairs and grab a hot shower.
“You know, Winnie did mention that she wasn’t going on this spa day alone.” I lifted my eyebrow, waiting for what he had to say. A smug grin stretched his face. “She had planned to pick up Lily on the way there.”
“I’ll drive,” I barked as I stalked by him, making him chuckle. Asshole.
This was just me helping out my friend, it had nothing to do with Lily and the jealousy I felt at the thought of another man’s hands on her body.
* * *
My back tirebounced off the curb as I took the turn into the parking lot for the so called ‘spa,’ making Kane laugh again. I don’t know what the fucker was so happy about, his pregnant wife was in there.
My truck was barely in park when I flung my door open.
“Wait a minute, what’s the plan here?” Kane’s question stopped me from jumping out.
“What do you mean? We go in, we get the girls and we leave. Simple.”
Kane shook his head, “We can’t just go in there like Neanderthals, throw them over our shoulders and stomp out of there.”
“Why not?” It sounded like a great plan to me. The thought of Lily’s curvy body hanging over my shoulder, her ass right next to my face where I could spank it was almost enough to lift my mood.
“If you’d ever had a real relationship, you’d know why not. I guarantee you that Winnie doesn’t want to be in there, she’ll probably even be happy when she sees I’m there to take her home. But it has to be her choice, I can’t take that away from her.”
“Fine, why don’t you take the lead then,” I gritted through my teeth. Since when did he become the reasonable one out of the two of us?
We walked in the front door and it was worse than what had been on the website. Every inch of the lobby was covered with jacked, half-naked men. Women were drooling over them as they drank mimosas and lounged on deep couches and chairs. With the music that pulsed through the speakers, it felt like we were in a club rather than a day spa. Kane led the way to the reception desk where the only fully-clothed man stood.
