Page 87 of Freeing Souls

He grunts in response while Grayson and Cade both give me a kiss before going to make coffee.

“Something is happening at the diner,” Stone says as he walks through the kitchen, not stopping to let any of us respond.

Furrowing my brows, I glance at Axe, who is already hopping up and handing Jayce to Presley, before following him to make the rest of us follow as well.

Stone heads straight outside to his bike. “Let’s go.”

“Brother, what is it? Did Raven say something?” Axe asks him, even as we all quickly grab what we need and get ready to leave with him.

“No. I was watching her. There are suspicious people outside the diner. I’m calling her now,” he snarls as he starts up his bike and doesn’t hesitate to leave us behind.

Cade, Ryker, Grayson, and I all get in Noah’s truck and follow behind the bikes as we race over to the diner to see what the fuck is happening.

“Wait—did he say he was watching her?” I ask the guys.

Ryker snorts. “Yep. He’s a stalker. It’s his thing, and we all have come to terms with it, even Raven. It’s not like normal security cameras either. No one else has access to them, whichis mostly because Raven knows he is always watching her when she is working so she’ll do inappropriate things.”

“We only know that because Nerds wanted the camera system hooked up with everything else, and he saw Raven’s breasts. Stone freaked out,” Grayson adds.

“Wow. It’s so hard to understand how those two are together sometimes,” I comment with a chuckle. Stone is so quiet and broody, and Raven is everything but those things. I can only imagine how often they drive each other crazy.

As we pull up to the diner, we don’t see anything or anyone around. The diner’s open sign is turned off, and Stone is storming inside with his gun in hand before we can even get out of the truck.

When we get inside with Colton, Axe, and Noah, we can hear yelling coming from somewhere in the back. As we get to the hallway, we find a trail of blood leading towards the office. The second I can clearly see into the office, I freeze as the last two people I thought I would see sit on the floor are tied up with–is that an apron tie?

Raven

“Trouble! You’re phone has been going off non-fucking stop back here!” Hazel yells at me from the kitchen.

Rolling my eyes, I wave goodbye to the last of our early morning breakfast goers and head to the back, snagging myphone. “You could have just checked it,” I say without glancing up.

She scoffs. “Right, because I want to see the sexting you and Stone do,again.”

“You liked it,” I grumble as I call back my man before he bursts a blood vessel from me not answering the phone fast enough.

“There’s two people outside lurking around. One of them is holding a chain of some kind. Get your gun, and you and Hazel get into the bathroom now. I’m coming.”

“Yes, sir,” I tell him, even as I secretly roll my eyes when he hangs right up.

“What is it?” Hazel questions, coming up next to me.

I grin. “Want to have some fun? We apparently have unwanted visitors outside.”

“Oh, let’s see who it is, shall we?” She smirks at me.

We walk over to the back door of the diner leading out to an alleyway we mostly use for parking. Hazel swings the door open, and we find a man and a woman standing with their backs to us. “You two lost? Looking for some breakfast?” Hazel shouts, startling them.

When they spin around, my stomach drops at the sight of the fucking Wilsons. Tammy and Richard. I may have never met them, but I have seen their pictures, and I know who these fuckers are.

Hazel must sense the change in my mood, because she tenses up slightly. Resting my hand on her shoulder, I smile at them. “Want to come in and get something to eat?”

“Oh, sure. Thank you dear,” Tammy says sweetly.

Richard, the dumbass, keeps one hand behind his back as they walk towards us.

“Seat them, will you?” I ask Hazel, who nods while I walk slowly back inside and then dart down the hallway to grab my gun.

Hazel is walking by the hallway entrance with them when I am walking back out. Tammy glances my way like she is checking the place out, and when she spots me, her eyes grow wide while I grin.

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