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She would have screamed, but no one would have heard her over the roar of motorcycles pulling into all the parking spaces on the street. The Warriors had arrived.

CHAPTER 25

Law had been all over the city of Darling chasing ghosts. At least, that’s what it felt like. Best he could tell, Raleigh, Gabi, and Lovelyn were on some kind of scavenger hunt. He’d lost his patience after the third stop. Sawyer had tracked his Little girl's phone, along with Raleigh and Gabi’s phones, to Lowell’s Garage on the outskirts of town.

But just like ‘That’s Italian’, and theold Farmers Market, none of them were there. If this was his fairy cat’s idea of a joke, he’d be explaining her mistake with the palm of his hand on her ass. Pulling out his phone, he called Sawyer again.

“They aren’t here. Do you have a bead on where they’re headed this time?”

Sawyer signed. “Yeah, brother. But it makes no sense. I have all three signals, still strong, still together, at The Getaway Motel.”

“The Getaway?”

“Yeah.” Sawyer sounded half as angry and just as confused as Law felt.

What. The. Fuck.

Law was getting seriously pissed. Lovelyn hadonly thought she’d seen him in Viking mode up till now. She hadn’t, but she was about to meet one seriously pissed off Viking Daddy. And when he got through with her, she wouldn’t sit down for a month of Sundays.

They’d gone over her rules that morning before they left the house. He’d reminded her of how risky it was not to be aware of everything going on around her with the Warriors and the Society both wanting her silenced.

An eerie feeling crawled up his spine. One he hadn’t felt since his days in special ops. His superiors laughed at him when he told them he had a bad feeling. At first. By the time he got out, he was the superior officer, and no one questioned his instincts.

He wasn’t going to go off halfcocked. Yet.

But he’d lived too long and survived too much to completely ignore it.

“Have they passed through any streets in town where we can catch them on CCTV and make sure it’s actually them?”

He could hear Sawyer clicking away on his computer in the background. The things his brother could do to people with a few clicks on his computer were truly frightening. “I’ll try, man. But I don’t think they’ve gone anywhere close since they all rode to That’s Italian. And we saw them all leave there, and none of our people were with them.”

“All right. Well, let me know if you see anything. I guess I’m headed to The Getaway. But if she’s there, I’m spanking her ass on the spot. I’m tired of crisscrossing the county to places they’ve already left.” Everything pointed to it happening again.

He should have trusted his gut.

Twenty minutes later, he was headed to town after checking out another dead end. Lovelyn and her posse weren’t at The Getaway when Bones called him with the news that Raleigh had just been brought to the ER by ambulance. That was all he knew.

At the emergency room, Bones allowed him to go back to talkwith Raleigh. He was awake, but someone had beaten the shit out of him and left him in an alley out of sight. A homeless man collecting cans had found him and ran to the nearest police station to report it.

Bones had not lied. Someone had done a real number on Raleigh. His left eye was swollen shut, he had a possible concussion, and he had four bruised ribs. Whoever attacked him had dislocated his shoulder, and he had more scrapes and bruises than Law had seen in a long time.

Law pulled up a chair and sat down by Raleigh’s hospital bed. “Jesus, man. You got any idea who attacked you?”

Raleigh shook his head and winced. “Not specifically. I was on my phone in front of That’s Italian so I could watch the girls through the window. Someone jumped me from behind. I have no idea who, but I think whoever it was wore a Warriors MC cut.”

Fuck. Fuck!

Did Raleigh know the girls were missing? His friend tried to act like he wasn’t interested in anything romantic with Gabi, but Law wasn’t buying it. “Is there anything you need, man? Anyone I can call?”

“I’d appreciate it if you’d let Gabi know what happened. Only because I need her to cancel my appointments for the next few days.”

Right. “I’m on it. I’ll make sure she knows.”

Law left the ER a hell of a lot more worried than when he’d arrived.

He made the call to Reid. “You got me. What do you need?”

“A homeless man found Raleigh beaten and left for dead in an alley close to That’s Italian. He didn’t see who it was, but he was pretty sure they were wearing a Warrior’s cut.”

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