Page 65 of Wolf Bound

“She might be going home to see her parents.”

“Aww.”

Tanner and Brock were smiling, shaking their heads, and then walked toward the convenience store.

Everett and Fisher took Royce with them to the men’s room.

“You could at least remove the handcuffs. It’s embarrassing to wear them into the convenience store,” Royce complained, while patrons coming out of the restaurant caught sight of the cuffs and the men escorting him into the store.

“You’re a prisoner because you’ve done some awful crimes, so get used to it,” Everett said.

“Yeah, you’ve earned the right to wear the cuffs.” Fisher got the door for them. He glanced around at the pizza shop and the mini market but didn’t see Kira or Demetria. They might be in line, waiting on a stall in the women’s restroom.

Then he and Everett took Royce into the men’s room. Royce wanted to use one of the stalls.

When everyone was finished with their business, Royce gave them issues, spending forever in the stall before Everett threatened him with dragging him out bodily. They finally left the restroom and Fisher said, “I never thought I would be working with you and Demetria in the USF.”

“I know. Vaughn tried so hard to get his brother to join, and then here you are. Though I suspect he would have had a hard time convincing you until you met the right agent in the USF,” Everett said.

Fisher laughed. “You have that right. Though if I had gone on a mission with him, I might have felt differently and wanted to join right there and then.”

“Well, we’ll miss having Kira around, but we’ll get together with you guys on missions.”

“As long as they allow us to go on missions together in the future.” Fisher remembered the business of her being new and he was too.

“If the two of you pull this off together, Martin will be assured that you can work together.” Everett grabbed a couple of sodas. “What do you want, Royce?”

“A pizza.”

“You can have a premade sandwich.”

“But the pizza place is right here.”

Everett gave him a steely-eyed glower. “You are a prisoner. You can have a premade sandwich.”

Royce glowered back at him. “Fine.” He walked over to the case that had sandwiches and pointed to a ham and cheese sandwich. “I want that one. And two bags of potato chips. And a Coke. And a large bag of chocolates. Those.”

“Okay, one sandwich, one bag of chips, and a drink.” Everett grabbed the items while Fisher kept Royce in line.

Then Fisher saw Demetria and his brothers and cousin. Everyone had sacks of food. But he didn’t see Kira.

“Hey, I’ll take care of him,” Tanner said, handing his bag of snacks to Shawn.

Brock did the same and the two of them walked Royce back out to Everett and Demetria’s car. But Shawn went out too.

“Where’s Kira?” Fisher asked Demetria as Everett went to the cashier to buy his snacks.

“I don’t know. We went into the ladies’ room together, but I figured she was either still in there or had already left the restroom.” Demetria glanced around the mini mart. “Maybe she went out to her car.”

Everett was checking out at the register so he didn’t hear their conversation.

“Hold on. I’ll check the restroom and make sure she isn’t sick or something.” Demetria handed Fisher her bag of snacks and then she headed to the women’s restroom.

Fisher pulled out his cell phone and called Kira, but it finally went to voicemail. Now he was getting really worried.

Demetria quickly left the restroom, shaking her head. “She’s not in there.”

“I gave her a call, but she’s not answering.”

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