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“Speaking of things no one can afford,” he drawls, tugging his girlfriend around in front of him and groping her obscenely. “Looks like you went low rent on your replacement, Maddoc. Sutton offered me a twofer, but a washed up stripper?”
He spits on the ground again, and Maddoc makes a brutal sound, thrusting me behind him as he cocks his gun again. Dante and Logan draw theirs too, and although no one moves, it feels like shooting might break out at any moment.
And there’s nothing between my Reapers and West Point’s guns.
The hot rage that blinded me to good sense when Austin insulted my sister drains out of me, replaced by a flood of cold fear. I don’t know what it is exactly that’s happening between me and these men, but I can’t lose them.
My hand is shaking as I raise it slowly, resting my fingers lightly on Maddoc’s back. His tense muscles shudder under the light touch, and then, with a strained breath, he straightens and lowers his gun.
“Stand down,” he grits out.
The tension remains so high it feels like the air is quivering, but the other Reapers instantly obey him—both Maddoc’s seconds and the men who trailed West Point here.
Austin smirks again, then directs his men toward the abandoned building. “Search it.”
Maddoc and Dante both stiffen, but Logan leans in to murmur quietly to Maddoc. “I stripped it.”
They let the West Point men pass.
“They won’t find anything?” I ask, worried about those assholes getting any closer to my sister than they already have.
Logan looks at me with his pale eyes. “I took care of it.”
I relax, at least as much as I can. But I trust him. If Chloe left any clues, Logan found them and made sure West Point wouldn’t.
After a while, they storm back out, glaring at us and muttering threats as they stomp back toward the two SUVs they arrived in. All except for Austin and Sienna.
Austin isn’t smirking anymore. “You might wanna watch your back from here on out.”
He pins Maddoc with a dangerous look, then turns his back on the Reapers and stalks toward one of the vehicles.
Sienna lags behind for a moment. “Or not.”
The cold smile she directs at Maddoc turns into a hot glare as her eyes slide toward me. Then she sneers.
I don’t give a shit. She has no right to be jealous after cheating on Maddoc.
She betrayed him, and I fucking hate her for that alone. The fact that she chose to be on the side of the sadistic asshole who’s targeting my sister just puts the nails in the coffin. But finally, they leave.
Maddoc instantly turns to Logan. “Report.”
“I found signs that Chloe had been there, and West Point must have got that from Sutton. She wasn’t here last night, though, so she probably cleared out after that call she placed.”
“Why?”
“It looks like she wasn’t the only squatter. My guess is she felt unsafe, and did the smart thing and got the fuck out.”
My stomach sinks. “How far could she have gone?”
None of them have an answer.
“Let’s search the area to see if we can figure out where she headed.”
Maddoc tells the Reapers who came to back them up to keep an eye out in case West Point comes back with the same idea, or whoever the other gang whose territory we’re actually in shows up, and I spread out with the three of them to search around the building.
We don’t find anything, and that numb despair that I was drowning in after Frank wraps icy fingers around my heart again as Maddoc gives his troops more commands, telling them to spread out and cast a wider net.
“Play nice with the Breakers if you run into them,” he says.
