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“Have you talked to her since she left here?”
When nothing but silence filled the garage, Ritz frowned and stared at his phone. “You still there?”
“I’m here.” She sighed, and I could hear the hesitation in her tone when she finally spoke again. “I talked to her right after she left, and she seemed upset. I tried to convince her to go back to the clubhouse, but she wouldn’t.”
I frowned. “Why did you want her to come back here?”
“Look, it’s not my place to say anything, but it felt like you two had some unfinished business. I thought it might make her feel better to resolve that. She said she’d think about it, but I haven’t heard from her since. I was hoping that meant she was with you.”
“That why you stopped by her place?”
“Yeah,” she admitted. “It’s not really like Jane to go completely silent.”
Grabbing the rag from my pocket, I quickly wiped my hands before pulling the phone from my pocket. I found her name and hit call, lifted it to my ear, but it just rang.
“Anything?” Bear asked.
Shaking my head, I ended the call and shoved my phone back into my pocket.
“I’m driving to her parents' now. If you hear from her, could you please tell her to call me?”
“Yeah. I’ll keep trying to call her.”
“Thank you.”
Ritz took her off speaker and walked back into the parking lot, but he stayed on the phone. Hopefully, he would stay on the phone until she got to Jane’s parents' house so he could tell me if she was there.
“Don’t like this, brother,” Bear said.
“Me either,” I agreed.
“She the type of girl to just disappear?”
I almost said I didn’t know her well enough to know that, but that wasn’t true. “No. If she was gonna do that, she would’ve left her sister’s wedding and never called anyone. But she called Rachel. If anything, she would at least be answering Rachel’s calls.”
“She was upset, brother. I could hear that in her voice all the way over here.”
Anger tore through me when memories of our conversation raced through my mind. I knew she was upset when she left, but I was too wrapped up in my own shit to think about what could happen if she drove. “I shouldn’t have left it like that.” I slammed my hand against the wall. “Why the hell did I let her drive?”
Bear leaned against the wall. “Doubt you could’ve talked her out of leaving.”
“I could’ve followed her.” I thought aloud. “I could’ve done something, but instead, I just fucking stood here while she drove off.”
“Can’t change anything now. But we can do whatever it takes to find her.” Nodding, I listened when he continued talking. “She ever talk about a place she likes to go? Something she likes to do, especially if she needs time alone?”
I thought back to our conversations and snapped my fingers. “She likes to go to the movies.”
“She might silence her phone if she’s there,” Bear pointed out.
I pointed at the clubhouse. “I’m gonna get cleaned up and go to Riverton, see if I can track her down.”
Bear jerked up his chin and pointed at the open garage doors. “Ritz.”
I turned to face Ritz while he walked toward us, but he didn’t have to say anything. His face told me what my gut was screaming at me. “Not there.”
“I’m going to look,” I announced.
I didn’t wait for an answer. Instead, I walked out of the garage and straight to my room. Within ten minutes, I’d taken a shower and was on my bike, heading toward Riverton. With any luck at all, she’d be at her house where I could tell her how pissed I was at her for scaring the hell out of me.
