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“Any news on Victor?” Mav asks as we sit around the couch with our coffee.
“Nope.”
“Motherfucker,” he scoffs as his phone pings. “He can’t just become a ghost.”
“You’d think not,” JD mutters.
Mav unlocks his cell and holds it in front of him. But the second he sees whatever is on his screen, all the blood drains from his face.
Dread sinks to the pit of my stomach.
Whatever he’s been sent is really fucking bad.
“What? What is it?” I ask, sitting forward and abandoning my coffee on the table in front of us.
He swallows, his nostrils flaring before he passes his cell over.
But the dread wasn’t enough.
This is fucking worse.
“Motherfucker,” I bellow.
32
MAVERICK
The second I see Kurt’s name on my phone, I know things are about to go from bad to worse.
But I never could have predicted what I’d find waiting for me in my messages.
“What is it?” JD asks as Reid’s bark echoes through the silent penthouse.
“Fuck. Fuck. Fuck,” Reid chants, throwing my cell back at me and jumping to his feet to begin pacing the length of the room.
“We need to go back,” I say simply, the calmness of my tone defying the eruption of anger his message caused.
My hand trembles as I pass JD my cell, letting him see for himself.
“Oh fuck,” he breathes, staring at the image.
Bile swirls in my stomach as I picture what he’s looking at right now.
I should have known he’d go for them.
I should have protected them better. I should have?—
“She’s just a kid, man. This is fucking sick.”
“Kurt doesn’t give a shit about that. His own daughters are proof enough.”
“And Sheila. That’s a fucking low blow.”
Reaching out, I take my cell back and stare at the image.
Sheila and Daisy bound and gagged in a dark and dirty room staring right at the camera.
Sheila looks fierce. She’s been a Creek girl all her life. I might not know a lot of her story, but something tells me that she never cowers to this prick. She’d have fought all the way. Especially with Daisy being involved.
