Page 40 of Heartbreak Hero

“Are you okay?” Mandy asked, catching up with her.

“Yeah,” she said roughly and headed out the mall doors to the nearby public parking.

“What did you and Rebecca talk about?”

“She’s Levi’s girlfriend.”

“Who’s Levi?” Mandy looked confused and then gasped. “Is he…the guy?”

“Yes,” Sara whispered, getting inside the passenger side.

“Talk,” Mandy demanded after she got behind the wheel.

And on the drive back to the house, Sara told Mandy everything—from the balcony visits to the beach to the farmers market.

“She’s pregnant,” Sara whispered, her voice tight with tears.

When Levi’s name flashed up on her phone screen, she silenced it and tucked it back inside her purse.

“What a bitch,” Mandy said, slapping her palm on the steering wheel as she peeled out of the parking lot.

“No, she just doesn’t want me interfering with her happiness,” Sara said softly.

“You, my friend, are too nice.”

That very well may be, but Sara was the third wheel in an established relationship.

And that was so not her style and never would be.

Late Monday night, Levi decided that Sara was dodging his calls.

She hadn’t shown up at the lounge for her shift on Monday, and she hadn’t been at her friend’s house where he had found her.

The next order of business was to corner Sara’s friend and get to the bottom of Sara’s disappearance.

“You guys get settled in?” King asked, and they all gave a round of nods.

Right then, they were kicking back in the living room of a house King had rented in the San Francisco Bay area suburb of Palo Alto. Their leader said it was cheaper than renting a hotel room for however long they’d be there.

“Anything?” Levi roughly asked Rowan, who was back on the laptop searching for Sara’s attackers.

The techie had run the perps’ faces through the local PD system’s facial recognition and got hits on both of Sara’s attackers. The pair of henchmen were already wanted for aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon.

Now, Rowan was trying to pinpoint the bastards’ exact location.

Levi cracked his knuckles, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on the men who had hurt Sara.

“Not yet, but it shouldn’t be long. Right now, I’m running their faces through the city-wide surveillance to find their specific coordinates,” Rowan murmured.

“So why is Sara not taking your calls?” West asked, drawing Levi’s attention from Rowan.

Levi glanced blankly at West and suddenly found all of them staring at him, waiting for answers. Except for Nash, who was in the kitchen making himself lunch.

“I…maybe it’s because I left so early Sunday morning?” Levi said.

“Left what?” All ears, West scooted forward on the sofa and Rowan pushed the laptop away just a bit.

“Her…bed.” Levi rubbed at the back of his neck.

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