Page 48 of Invincible
“Slow down.How do you know she’s missing?”Dex asked, sounding fully awake now.Knox heard a mumble on the other end before Dex repeated what he had just been told.
“Those guys were here tonight, but they left half an hour ago.Greer went outside on break and I was following her when I got called to the back to break up a fight.When I finally made it outside, she was gone.I looked inside but no one has seen her.Fuck, Dex.”Knox found himself in the middle of the parking lot looking around.
“Did she take her purse and phone?”
“I don’t know but I can go check.”
“You do that.We’re on our way out the door.We’ll meet you out front in fifteen.”Dex hung up as Knox jogged back into the club.He walked with purpose toward the back as people quickly parted in front of him, fearing what he would do if they didn’t.If she had done something stupid like left with those men, he was going to skin her alive.
Reaching the break room where the staff lockers were, he found her purse and phone sitting inside the cage where she had left them earlier.With a curse, he spun around, heading back out to the front.
Skirting the customers trying to push past him inside, he stepped back out into the humid air.“Dude, where are you going?”
Before he could think about what he was doing, he had the other bouncer by the front of his shirt shoved back against the wall.The other man was close to Knox’s size, but Knox was just mad enough that the man’s eyes grew huge with worry.
“Please, call me dude just one more fucking time,” Knox snarled as he glared at the man.He wasn’t positive if he would punch him in the face if he did, he just knew he had to do something.Running around hunting for Greer was going nowhere, and this idiot was the one that should have had an eye on her.
“Knox,” a worried female voice said from behind him.Looking over his shoulder, he saw the one person who could kick both of their asses and not even break a sweat.“Put him down,” Tyler said, resting a hand on his back.
Stalking away, he left her to see what information she could get out of the kid.He walked over to Dex, joining him at the corner of the building where he should have found Greer taking her break.
“I think we start at the hotel where they’re staying first.If we don’t find her there, we’ll head to the port to see if we see anything happening on the ship.We’ll find her,” Dex said.
“Hell yes, we’ll find her,” Tyler added, walking up behind them.“That idiot didn’t know anything,” she said, pointing her thumb over her shoulder.“What’s that?”Knox followed Tyler’s finger, pointing near the side fence.Seeing something laying on the ground, he jogged over with Dex and Tyler following.
“Fuck, it’s one of the shoes Greer was wearing,” Knox said, picking it up.“They got her.”Worry was now turning into panic as he held up the shoe.He should have insisted that she wait for him, he should have dragged her to the back with him.Hell, he should have never let those men live long enough to come back.
“Let’s go,” Dex said, turning Knox’s attention away from all of the things Greer could be going through.He led them across the parking lot where his car was parked.Climbing inside, they headed toward the hotel.
Turning on Dex’s laptop, Tyler homed in on where the last signal from the tracker came from.
“This says the truck is still there.Greer has to be there, if anything happens to her…” Tyler said, drifting off, unable to finish what they were all thinking.Dex sped the car up, easily sliding through the late-night Houston traffic until he was outside the hotel.“There’s the truck.”
“I’ll go tear the fucking door down,” Knox growled, reaching for the door handle.
“Wait, let’s do this the smart way.We don’t want to burn this lead if she’s not in there.”Dex parked the car, turning off the ignition as he contemplated their best bet.“Tyler, they already think you’re staying here.Go knock on the door with the same escaped dog story and see what you find out.Don’t go inside whatever happens.We’ll watch with the idea of still breaking down the door if we need to.”
With a nod, Tyler slipped out of the car.Messing up her hair as she approached the door, she looked like she had just gotten up to let her dog out.
Dex and Knox sat watching her from the car.“I don’t like this.There are no lights on in the room,” Knox said.
“That’s why I didn’t want to blow this if she’s not in there.”They sat in silence as they observed Tyler knock on the door several times before it was opened by a woman.After a brief conversation, the door closed and Tyler headed back to the car.
“So, the woman was one of their girlfriends.She said they left last night, and she hasn’t seen them since.The truck is actually hers,” she told them, getting into the back seat.
“Fuck,” Dex said, getting out to retrieve the tracker from the truck.Tossing it on the back seat, he put the car in drive, pulling out of the parking lot.“We’ll go see if there is any activity around the ship.If that turns out to be quiet, I’m not sure where we go from here.”
As they Merged into traffic, all Knox could think about was how badly he had failed Greer.
