Page 56 of Her Shifter Pack

I couldn’t stand it and had barely slept last night. I missed my big, gorgeous, tough man.

My cell phone rang, and I scrambled to answer it. “Hello?”

“Hey, Lexie, it’s Megan.”

Megan worked at the diner. “Hey, hon... we’re kinda busy at the moment. I’m sorry, can I call you back later?”

“Oh, yeah. Of course. I just wanted you to tell your friend that the boss won’t be in tonight. So if he was planning on coming back, there’s no point.”

I put Megan on speaker, my stomach twisting hard. “Sorry, Megan, what do you mean? Which friend?”

“Didn’t he tell you?” Megan asked. “A hot guy came in yesterday afternoon looking for Geoff. He said he wanted to sort out something to do with you.”

I swallowed hard, my gaze catching Ollie’s as he glanced over while he drove. “What did this guy look like?”

“Well over six feet. Dark hair, dark eyes. Pretty intimidating.”

I put a hand over my mouth to stifle the sob. “When was this, Megan? That was Markus, and we’re looking for him, actually.”

“Around two, I’d say. I was working the eight till two shift, but Tilly was late, so I was still there.”

I inhaled sharply, trying not to cry. “Thanks for letting us know.”

“Yeah, of course. No problem. Catch ya later.”

She hung up, and tears burned my eyes. “He went to my old job. He was trying to get my money, wasn’t he?”

Ollie reached over and squeezed my hand. “Probably. Markus would rather pay his staff than himself, any day. He hates employers who screw over their people.”

I nodded, gulping and wiping the tears away. “That’s so good of him. I can’t believe...”

Did that mean he’d gone to see Nancy after he’d tried to sort out my wages? Why would he do that?

I wasn’t going to ask Ollie, because no matter what he said, he was only guessing. I’d wait until we found Markus, then I’d get my answers.

After I begged him to forgive me, of course, because if I wasn’t feeling bad enough that I hadn’t believed him about Nancy, now I knew he’d been trying to be my knight in shining armor.

I hadn’t thought I could feel worse, but it turned out I definitely could.

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