Page 89 of Betrayal of a Billionaire
“We?” Kyle asked.
Grant shifted to glance out the door, his brow furrowing at the crowd of people in the police station. Were they all here to look for Sierra?
Next to him, Julia smiled before she left his side and crossed to the man, wrapping her arms around him. “Thank you, Chief.”
“Of course, Juju. You know we’d do anything to help.”
“Thanks, Dad,” Ethan said. “You listening to the scanner again?”
“Nope. That’d be the Hoppers. They called me, and we called a few friends. Send us where you need us.”
“We’re here to help,” a short man in glasses said as he stepped inside and grinned at Julia.
A taller man who resembled him entered, too. “Because Julia needs us.”
“Thank you,” she said as she pulled them both into a hug, still grinning at them when she released them.
“Even though she married an outsider,” the shorter one said.
“From the city,” the taller one said.
They really hated people not from around here.
“With a temper.”
Grant’s shoulders slumped slightly.
“He does not have a temper,” she said with a chuckle before she returned to his side and looped her arm through his. “Bob, Bill, this is Grant, my husband.”
He offered him a smile and a nod as they stared at him, unimpressed.
“Okay, great. This helps a lot,” Ethan said.
“We still should go in pairs. This weather is bad enough that no one should be alone.”
“Right,” Ethan agreed.
Grant leaned closer to Julia and whispered, “Are they all here to look for Sierra?”
“Uh-huh,” Julia said with a nod. “When something happens to someone in Harbor Cove–”
“It happens to all of us,” they all answered.
“That was super weird,” Kyle said.
“Welcome to small-town life,” Julia said as she wrapped an arm around his shoulder.
“I don’t know what to say,” Grant murmured.No wonder Julia wants to stay here.
“Just say thank you,” she said. “I can take Kyle with us.”
“Sorry, doc, you’re with me,” Alicia said. “We’ll take the south side of the ridge.”
“Julia, you take the north side.”
“Got it,” she said with a nod.
Ethan distributed other locations to the waiting volunteers as they made their way toward the station’s front door. Before theyreached it, it popped open, sending a gust of damp air inside as a rain-soaked Luke stepped in.
