Page 48 of The Chase
“What do you want? Let me go!”
“Don’t even remember me at all, do you, bitch?”
She fought the instinctive urge to flinch at the cursing. “No…”
“Little Greer Hiller. All grown up and…alive. I know about your bastard baby, too. Tell me—it’s Chase’s, isn’t it? How is that forironic?Kev’s own brother fucking a Hiller whore.”
Kev.
“Who are you?”
“Let me introduce myself: Dwayne Yunderhall. Remember menow?”
Greer aimed right at his eyes. As she fought to get away.
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Little whore had growninto a real fighter. But hell, she was probably almost as tall as Dwayne was now. Beautiful, with nice tits and an ass worth grabbing. It had been a long time since he’d been with a woman even half as hot as this one.
He wrapped his hand in long, silky dark hair. He dragged her toward his truck.
Damned thing was good for one thing, at least. Back seat was big enough for what he had in mind.
The girl kicked at him. She caught him in the knee that hadn’t been right since the wreck that had killed Kevin. Dwayne reached out and slapped her across that beautiful face. “Don’t even think about doing that again.”
He spread his hand over her stomach. Right over where that bastard Kurtland Chase’s baby grew. “I know. You’re going to do exactly what I say, or your baby will go the same way Kev did. Got me? We’ll just finish what we started fifteen years ago. Remember, bitch. What goes around comes around. We’ve both been chasing the same death, now haven’t we?”
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Gene was driving.Kurt was in the passenger seat, his phone in his hand. “She’s not answering.”
“Maybe she’s driving,” the doctor brother said from behind him. “Greer is extra cautious when she’s driving. She won’t text or answer her cell.”
It didn’t help. Kurt just sensed it.
The other brother, the preacher, was calling his parents. Telling them what was going on. He disconnected. “Dad said Greer left twenty minutes ago. She was headed straight home. She should have been home by now. He is going to bring mom to the ranch. They are going to check for Greer from this direction. Maybe…she stopped somewhere? Headed to Kurt’s?”
“Not likely. She knew I was coming out to the ranch tonight.”
“I have signal—” Guthrie said. “I can see her on the map. She’s not far. And she’s not moving. Two miles up the road. Go faster. Something’s wrong. I can feel it.”
“You’re tracking her?”
“A new app from Barratt-Handley. Operates off of satellite instead of cell. One of the better tracking apps on the market now. Ayla and Greer put all of their numbers into my phone afew weeks ago,” her brother’s voice was tight. Kurt understood. “It started off as a joke—all the girls had decided to track each other all the time. So Greer and Ayla put their numbers in mine, too. After…Chantal was abducted. Then…it is how I found Aubrey in the basement. It even goes underground. I never took the girls’ numbers out.”
“Do me a favor.Nevertake them out,” Gene said. “I’m not ever letting any of the girls, or the kids, or hell—even you guys—leave the ranch again. I’m not sure I can take it anymore. If something happens to one of you again…I…”
Gunn touched his brother’s shoulder. As the other man justdrove.
Kurt couldn’t focus on their words now.
Something was wrong. He could just feel it.
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He had a box cutter.And he had a pipe. And he’d pushed her into his truck. Greer knew if he got her into his truck, there was little hope she’d escape. She knew…how it worked.
She bit his arm, trying not to gag. He was absolutely filthy.
