Page 77 of Look at Her and Die

Audric and Apollo included.

“She’s a good girl,” Audric mused. “She reminds me of someone, though.”

“Knight’s wife, Elaine.” Webber snapped his fingers.

That made sense.

One of our club brothers, Knight, had married his life-long sweetheart, Elaine, just six months ago. They’d been together for what felt like forever. At least as long as I’d known them.

If anyone deserved to have their happily ever after, it was them.

“How have they been?” I asked.

Knight was in the military and had been stationed in Kuwait. The two of them had been gone for close to a year.

“Good,” Apollo said. “Just got an email from Knight this morning. He said that they should be getting home soon.”

About damn time.

They’d been gone for fucking ever.

“Your girl looks bad.”

I snapped my head around to see Searcy with one hand to her ear, holding her phone, while the other was on her head, grabbing her hair.

My feet were moving before I could tell them not to.

I was standing at her side, my hand on her hip, as I tried and failed to listen to the other part of her conversation.

“What? When? Where is she?”

The terror in Searcy’s voice had my insides quivering.

The music shut off, and the entire clubhouse was quiet as we listened to Searcy’s ragged breathing as she listened to what was going on on the other end of the line.

When she wilted, I reached for her phone and placed it to my ear.

“This is Searcy’s man,” I said into the phone. “Can you tell me what’s going on?”

“This is Detective Carter with DPD,” he said.

Dallas Police Department.

Fuck.

“Okay,” I said.

“We found Ms. Hodge’s sister’s car on the side of 75. It was burned to a crisp and there’s nothing identifiable left in the vehicle besides the remains of four people. We’re assuming that Calliope Hodges is one of those people,” Detective Carter explained.

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

My arm went around Searcy’s body, which was shaking with silent sobs.

“Okay,” I sighed. “What do you need us to do from here?”

“Nothing,” he said. “The car will be impounded to the police impound lot where it’ll be thoroughly examined. Foul play isn’t expected at this time, however, we’re not ruling it out until a full investigation has been done.”

“Okay.” I rested my chin on top of Searcy’s head.

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