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“Nope, just unconscious. I’ve got a few questions I’d like to ask himbefore he meets his maker,” I replied, thinking of all the ways I was going to extract information from the cunt.
“Come on then, let’s get him out of here. There’s a club full of deadstags, and we need to be out of Hollows Bay before they’re discovered.”
“Or we could just stay here until Thorne shows his ugly face?” Isuggested as Miles grabbed Alex’s arms and rolled his eyes at me. As much as I’d have loved to stay for the Chief of Police to come and inspect the shootout scene, it wasn’t an option.
But his time would come.
“Are you going to tell me what you’re even doing here?” Miles asked,as between us, we heaved Alex’s dead weight up the stairs.
“I broke into the club to look for information on Rigby, it was pure luckAlex and his crew arrived for a drop-off,” I replied.
“Fuck sake, Kai. You can’t just go walking around East Bay. Someonecould have seen you,” Miles huffed. “Just because you’ve grown your hair and now have a beard doesn’t make you incognito.”
“I wore a cap as well.” He met my eye, glaring, and in response, Igave him a smug smirk, only to be met with another eye roll.
Reaching the door, I followed Miles into the heart of the club, theplace where I first saw my girl dance. I would have given anything to see her up on the stage right now, twirling around her pole, showing off her gorgeous body.
For my eyes only, of course.
The thudding of Miles and I dropping Alex’s body captured theattention of Ash and Tank who were checking the pockets of The Stags they had killed.
“Kai, what the fuck are you doing here?” Ash said, glowering at mefrom across the club. Blood spattered his arms and his black clothing, but he didn’t appear hurt.
“I wanted to surprise my wife,” I replied nonchalantly.
Ash and the Apollo team knew I’d survived so it wasn’t a completesurprise that I was strolling through Club Sin. It was thanks to them andtheir expert medical team that I’d made a recovery as quickly as I had. I owed them a lot, especially as they’d been helping Miles to keep my Star safe all this time. I was sure when Riley found out they knew, they would receive the same treatment Miles and I were going to get- the dreaded silent treatment.
Poor bastards.
“Speaking of which, have you seen my girl?”
“She came through here a couple of minutes ago. Wait, did she seeyou?” Ash asked, his brows pulled together in a frown.
“Oh, she saw him alright, needless to say, she wasn’t a happy bunny,”Miles chuckled, earning a scathing look from me.
“Shit,” Ash replied, heading towards the door that led to the back ofthe club. I followed, dread forming in my gut.
“What?”
“I asked her if she was okay, and she muttered something aboutgetting some fresh air. I thought she needed a minute to compose herself after seeing all the dead bodies. I told her to go out the back so no one would see her.”
“Fucking hell, it wasn’t the dead bodies she needed air from, it wasthe damn ghost that appeared,” Miles said as the three of us broke into a run along the corridor toward the door that stood wide open.
We burst into the back alley, sunlight scorching my retinas fromwhere I had been hidden in the dark cellar for hours.
“Fuck,” Ash barked as it became apparent that Riley was not there.He pulled his phone out and started jabbing at the screen. I barged past him and started heading down the side of the club, intent on finding her.
“Kai, where are you going?” Miles shouted, running up to my side.“You can’t let anyone see you.”
“I don’t give a fuck who sees me,” I growled as I stepped out into thefront of the club.
The abandoned Apollo truck was parked at the front of the club, andas my eyes tracked up and down the street, people went about their daily business.
But as for my wife, she was nowhere to be seen.
Chapter 8
Riley
