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“Hey. Have you spoken to Jessie today?” I ask as I try to keep my voice as calm as possible.
“No. I called her before but she didn’t answer, so I assumed you two were busy.” He chuckles softly and when I don’t laugh too, he stops. “Something wrong?”
“Have the twins spoken to her?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Are they there, Con?”
“Yeah.” I hear an edge creeping into his voice. “I’ll put you on speaker.”
“What’s up?” Mikey asks and the hope and happiness in his voice almost crushes me as I realize I am about to bring their world crashing down around them all.
“When did you speak to Jessie?”
“About three hours ago.”
“How was she?”
Mikey starts to laugh and Liam answers instead. “She was good, bro.”
“She was more than good by the time we were done with her,” Mikey adds.
I swallow the ball of emotion that is lodged in my throat. “Did she say anything about what she had planned for the rest of the day?”
“She said she was going to have a shower then hang about the room waiting for you to come back. She was pumped about her plan to convince you to let her drive the Sian,” Liam says but the tone of his voice has changed now.
“Why, Shane?” Conor interrupts. “What’s going on? Why aren’t you asking Jessie this?”
I close my eyes, screwing them tightly shut as I try to find the words. But there is only one way to tell them and to break their hearts. “I came back to the room and she’s not here.”
“Maybe she just went out for something?” Mikey says but I hear the panic in his voice.
“Her cell is here. Her purse is here,” I say as I notice it on the floor. Not that Jessie ever takes her purse anywhere. “Everything is here. Her coat. Her things.” I swallow.
“Fuck!” Mikey hisses.
“You know she didn’t walk out on us though, right?” Conor asks.
“Yeah.”
“The Wolf?” Liam says and I hear the panic in his voice.
“Maybe,” I finally admit my greatest fear out loud.
“Fuck, Shane!” Conor snaps and I feel the guilt weighing heavily on me. He was right. She would have been safer with them. He doesn’t push it any further though.
“We’ll be on the next flight,” Mikey says.
“Yeah,” Liam adds.
I let out a long breath. They have all sworn they would never set foot in Ireland again, but I can’t do this without them. I am more grateful for them now than I have ever been.
“We’ll see you in the morning, bro,” Conor says. “But keep us updated, yeah?”
“I will. I’m meeting with the head of security in a few minutes. We’ll go through the security feeds. See if there’s anything.”
“You got anyone else there who can help you out?” Conor asks.
