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“Shit,” she whispered and quickly texted back:I’m at the school. She never came out.
She glanced in the rearview mirror to see Wren’s nose already tucked in a comic book. “Did you see Sunny at all today? In the hallways? At lunch?”
He didn’t even bother to look up. “Last time I saw her was when Stone dropped us off.”
Her heart began thumping in her throat and her stomach churned.
Sunny always came out on time, even if Taryn was picking her up, because she hated school. She didn’t want to spend more time there than she had to.
Ghost-like fingers walked down her spine.
She didn’t like this. Something was off.
Would someone from the Kings pick her up without telling her father?
Before she rushed into the school and looked like a paranoid fool, she called Stone.
The first thing in her ear was, “You find her?”
“No. I’m still waiting out in front of the school. Wren said he hasn’t seen her since you dropped them off this morning.”
“Fuck,” he grumbled. “No idea what got up her ass to pull this shit.”
“Can you try calling her? She might answer for you. Maybe today was a hate Taryn day.”
“Already tried. Only got her voicemail. Left her a message to call me ASAP. Told her if she don’t, her phone’s gonna be confiscated again. That usually gets her to respond fast.”
“Did Sheena get out?”
“Not that I’m aware of.”
“Think she’d run away?”
“She only knows how to run her mouth. She ain’t runnin’ anywhere. Her bitchin’ is all for show since she knows she got it good with me. With us.”
With us.
Like Taryn was a permanent fixturein their life.
“What do you want me to do? I can go into the school and ask around.”
“Yeah, do that. Lemme know if you find out anythin’. Gonna head home to check for her there. Wouldn’t put it past my damn nut nugget to thumb it home.”
The thought of a ten-year-old girl hitchhiking scared the crap out of Taryn. As it should. “Okay, you do the same if you find her or hear from her.”
Chapter Thirty
Taryn ranup the steps looking for Stone. His Harley was parked by the house, but he wasn’t downstairs.
Unfortunately, no one at the school had any damn clue where Sunny went. That discovery made the blood in her veins turn to ice.
Before she left the school, Taryn tried calling Stone to report in but he didn’t answer. So she sent him a quick text telling him she was headed home with Wren and asked if he could send a prospect to sit at the school in case she showed up.
Taryn had a weird feeling that Sheena got out of prison early and took her daughter back. The same scenario as what she feared would happen with Vic and Wren. It was why they never let the kids take the bus to or from school.
She had told Wren to finish reading his comic book in the living room while she searched for Stone.
When she reached the upstairs landing, she called out Stone’s name.
