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He glances distractedly at the stairway. “I drove at a normal pace.”
“Liar.” I sigh heavily. “Dude, you’ve got to get it together and learn how to be away from her.”
“I’ve been away from her for over a decade, so if I don’t want to be away from her anymore, I shouldn’t have to.” He looks back at me. “Sorry, but it’s true.”
“You don’t know that. You don’t know if she’s Willow.” Although, with each passing hour, it seems more like she is. She’s so similar to Willow that it’s crazy. I just wish I knew how it was possible, and if Raven knows. I doubt it, but I’m not positive. “And if you don’t chill out, you’ll probably scare her. And then maybe she’ll end up leaving on her own.” I’m not sure if it’s an empty threat, but it’s beside the point.
I’m just trying to get him to calm down.
Jax and his anxiety can get intense. Not that it’s his fault. He has a mental illness. We all have our own. But that doesn’t mean I’m not going to try to help him calm down.
“You think she would?” he asks, worriedly chewing on his lip.
“I don’t know.” I resist a sigh. “Let her have some time with Low. She’ll come down when she’s done, and then you can give her the phone and show her how to use it. But, right now, I need to see if you have an answer to a mystery that’s puzzling the hell out of me.”
His brows pull together as he comes and takes a seat in the chair across from me. “What’s up?”
I hurriedly tell him what happened with Zay, starting from catching him coming out of the basement to when I tracked him at Raven’s aunt and uncle’s house. By the time I’m finished, he looks about as perplexed as I feel.
“Why would he go there?” He leans forward and rests his arms on his knees. “Did you check the cameras at the house to see if any of them are picking up anything?”
“That’s a good idea.” I slant forward and open the cameras that show the view of Raven’s aunt and uncle’s house.
While I do, Jax comes over and sits down by me so he can get a view of the cameras.
I mark the box that will show all of the cameras' views at once. Once they’re up, we start looking through them. When we get to the kitchen view, I realize why Zay is being weird about it. Although, I still don’t know how he ended up there, or how he got there if Jax took the truck. It’s a pretty far walk, and his car isn’t made for snow. I guess he could’ve put chains on the tires.
“Who the heck is that?” Jax squints at the screen. “Wait … Is that your dad sitting at the table with Raven’s uncle?”
I slowly nod. “Yep.” Anger burns underneath my skin. It’s not that I know why he’s there, but if he’s there, it’s not for anything good. And I don’t like that some perverted fuck who gets off on hurting Raven is having what looks like some sort of secret meeting with my father. If he’s involved with anything that has to do with Raven’s uncle, that puts Raven that much closer to coming into contact with him.
And I don’t want her to have to meet that piece of shit.
Ever.
“Is the audio picking anything up?” Jax asks then reaches for the keys without waiting.
“It might, but there’s a chance they’re too far away from the cameras for us to hear everything they’re saying.”
“We need better ones.”
“I know that.”
He sighs but opens the audio up, anyway. Static is the only noise we hear, but that’s not because their voices are out of range of the camera’s microphone. No, that means my father has an audio recording block or a white noise generator, which means …
“He knows we set up cameras there.” I blow out a breath as I slump back into the sofa. “But I guess that’s not too weird since he paid us to look into the guy.”
“Yeah, but it’s weird he’s having a meeting with him in the kitchen,” Jax states as he assesses the cameras.
“Let’s just hope that Zay being there means he’s somehow spying on them.”
“And that he doesn’t get caught.”
“Oh, I know.” Worry pierces through me.
When Zay loses control, like he did this morning, he can do reckless shit that usually results in him either getting arrested or getting beat up. Although, the other person always gets their ass beat worse. Zay is a fucking badass fighter. But that doesn’t mean I don’t worry about him, especially when he’s spying on our fathers, who are powerful, dangerous, and evil.
I have the scars to prove all of that, both physical and mental ones.
