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I re-read the note and my heart stops because I saw him drinking shots so he’s not sober and he’s all alone with Xander. Fuck, I need to find Greg. I need to find him right now.
My heart hammered wildly in my chest as I stood up, shoving the letter into my jeans as dread pooled in my gut because Greg hadn’t left with Landon. We’d still been talking as Landon left. It was just him and Xander. Fear made my hands shake as I shoved the letter into my pocket and flew out of the bathroom as though the hounds of hell were after me.
Greg met me in the hallway, and he stared at me for a moment before opening his mouth to say something. I didn’t give him a chance before I slammed him into the wall, talking fast as he stared up at me in shock.
“You were supposed to protect him. Where is he?” I asked him, voice shaking as I tried to control my fury and fear at the same time.
“I’m not sure, but I have a tracker on his cell and one in his shoes and one in his jacket. I wasn’t taking any chances.” Greg answers through a wince and stares me down with panic evident his wide eyes.
“Well, it looks like you fucked up. We need to find him. We need to find him now. You were supposed to be with him, to keep him safe and now where is he? You don’t know…” Our words come out rushed and my heads swimming with the panic that’s threatening to overwhelm me.
“Don’t blame me for this. Maybe if you hadn’t tried to off yourself he never would have felt so guilty that he’d put himself at risk like this.” His voice is waspish and hits me right where it hurts. He drops his gaze to his phone, checking something as he speaks and groaning, tapping it with his finger repeatedly as I step back away from him.
My blood thrums in my ears as my eyes sting with tears because this was my fault. He was trying to make it right. Trying to fix what he couldn’t before.
“Shit I’m sorry, Hudson. I didn’t mean that. I’m trying to track him with the trackers, but the app keeps losing signal.”
I gave my head a shake because I didn’t wanna accept his apology, but opened my mouth to ask what the tracker was saying when Nate Nicols walked out and saw us standing together.
Nate was part of Xander’s friends and someone I hadn’t seen since before that day last year.
“H, how you doing mate?”
I smiled tightly, trying to appear friendly to him as he stepped between Greg and I.
“You coming back to Xander’s? He’s got some good blow and says he’s hooked us up with a stripper to fuck. It’s a guy one, and since you’re single and all…”
My face must have paled at the mention of a stripper because I just knew that it wasn’t a stripper at all, it was Landon.
“Uh sure, what’s the address of the party?” I asked in a shaky whisper as Nate glanced between Greg and I for a beat before answering with a wide grin. He’d always been too trusting, too kind and now I was about to use that to find Landon because something was telling me that this was exactly where Landon was.
“It’s his pad downtown. You know the one in the Hilton?”
I nod and he smiles, patting me on the shoulder as he moves into the bathroom leaving me alone with Greg.
“S Grand Avenue?” Greg asks in a panicked whisper. I can only nod once as Nate’s words replay over and over in my head before Greg grabs my arm and drags me out to the waiting car. We jump into it and I throw the address as Greg makes some calls. My leg bounces all the way through the twenty minute car journey and I bite my nails to the quick, desperately hoping we won’t be too late. I need to save him. I can’t let this happen to him because of me. This could ruin him.
I start praying as I chew on my thumb and just hope we make it in time to stop whatevers happening there. He’s only been gone ten minutes ahead of us, so I’m just holding on to the hope that Xander will want to take his time before his friends come back.
Reaching the hotel I fly out and bolt inside, glad that I know the code to the private suites on the top floor. My whole body is vibrating in terror as the elevator began to rise up and up and up.
The sound of the bell on the private floor is followed with a nod from Greg and I take a moment to take a deep breath as I wait for the doors to open. My heart is hammering wildly in my chest as Greg speaks to me in a whisper.
“I’ve pinged his location and he’s definitely here.”
I nod my head once to show I’ve heard him and reach out for the door but Greg tugs my hand down, holding me in place. I swing my gaze to his and glower at him, trying to tug my way out of his hold, but he speaks again in a low voice.
“No, we need to wait. The cops are a minute out and it need to be done right. We need to stop.”
My mouth drops open in horror at his words. His best friend is inside there and he’s what? Expecting me to stand here, right outside the door where the love of my life is with a predator and just wait? Allow him to be violated? Raped?
“No. No fucking way.”
I wrench my hand away as Greg shifts around me. His large body moves so it’s right in front of the door blocking me from going inside and I want to punch him right in his jaw. I need to get in there. I need in there right this second. I won’t let what happened to me, happen to Landon. No fucking way in hell is this happening.
“Move. Now.”
My voice is low, barely more than a hiss but he holds fast, refuses to move and I lift my hand, ready to swing for him when the doors open and the hallway is flooded with cops and the hotel manager who is a good friend of Xander’s. The sight of him makes my blood boil and I drop my hand, spinning around and facing him for a moment with disgust written all over my face.
