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“Thanks,” Greer said with a tired smile. She’d taken the ice pack off her eye, so he reached over and put it back.
“Anyway, I came back to Billings because I wanted to see Cash. And because I thought I should tell someone about the stalker—”
“Stalker?” Cash asked sharply.
“That’s been taken care of,” Sav told him. “If you’d answer my calls, you’d know. She had a stalker who was doing weird things, like paying for shit for her and following her around. But he committed suicide in his hotel room in Bozeman.”
“He did?” Cash said in a hoarse voice. “How do you know he was Greer’s stalker?”
Hack eyed the other man with interest. Why did he look so ill?
“Because the cops raided his house in Savannah and he had a wall of photos of women from this website where they met. Greer’s photo was on the wall.”
“Pretty weird behavior for a stalker to pay for things,” Cash’s friend added.
“Who are you?” Hack asked. “Should you even be in here?”
“I’m Ralen. Cash’s friend. Been watching his back for the last ten years and that’s what I’m doing now.”
“Ten years?” Aidan asked. “So you were around before he went missing?”
“Yep. I left with him. We took refuge with my family in Mexico.”
“Refuge?” Sav asked sharply. “Mexico?”
“We should get back to Greer’s story,” Cash said hastily.
“But then we’re going to hear your story,” Sav told him. “You’re going to tell us what the fuck happened all those years ago. And what you know about what just happened to Greer now.”
“I don’t know what happened to Greer. That had nothing to do with me.”
Greer tried to move, stealing Hack’s attention. He turned back to her hastily.
“Lie still, baby. You’re going to hurt yourself.”
“I want to sit up.”
“Okay, let me raise the bed.” He moved the back of the bed up slightly. “Better?”
“Yes, thank you.”
“Anything for you, Ladybug.” He kissed the top of her head. “Now, keep going. You came back here for three reasons. Cash, the stalker and . . .”
“To push past what Matthew did to me. I was so tired of hiding. Of living half a life. And I was frustrated with not knowing why he hurt me. I thought if I could go back to where it all happened . . . then maybe it would jog my memory.”
Sav started swearing in a low voice. “God damn it, Greer! That was a stupid fucking idea.”
“Do not speak to her like that,” Hack warned. “I won’t tell you again. If any of you speak to her in anger or swear at her, I will not hold back.”
“Damn, that’s sexy,” she said.
“Hush, you,” he told her in a soft voice. “Now, keep going. As hard as this is to hear, we need to know what happened.”
She licked her lips. “I went to the duplex first. I don’t know why. It was where he hurt me, but I remembered most of what happened there. I just needed to see if it was still standing. This bald, greasy guy was living there. He asked me if I wanted to come in.”
“That’s weird,” Duke said with a frown.
“I got in my car and drove off quickly.”
