Page 109 of Ryder
He cursed, shaking his head slowly.
“She’s not there, man.”
My blood ran cold in my veins.
“What the fuck do you mean, kid?”
He frowned, pointing at the door.
“She said she was going outside for fresh air, and something about women’s troubles. I thought it best to stay back and let her go, but it bothered me, so I was just coming to tell ya.”
Fuck! I grabbed the front of his cut.
“Get outside and find her. NOW!”
I ran for my room, checking around, just in case she’d made it back without him seeing her.
“Tori!”
Fucking hell. She really was gone, and so was my backpack, so likely some of her shit was gone too. I glanced around for anything that might tell me where she’d gone, even a fucking note.There was nothing.
I ran back down the stairs, crashing back into Reacher’s office without bothering to knock. I was in too much of a rush to care about that.
“Fuck’s sake!” He moved fast, Alicia almost falling from his lap, while he adjusted himself in his jeans.
“She’s gone!” I yelled at him, not waiting for a chewing out for interrupting him and his future old lady.
“What?”
“Tori! She ran. She left. She fucking left me,” my voice cracked a little on those words.
Alicia looked worried. “What did you do to her?”
I couldn’t get my head around that question, because how the fuck could she ask me that? I’d never do anything to hurt her. Did I? Did I fuck up and just not realise?
“What did I… what? Are you out of your fucking mind? Nothing. I was here, and she… Jesus, Pres. I need to find her.”
He nodded, dialling a number on his phone as he followed me.
“Prospect! If Tori tries to get out, don’t let her leave,” he barked down the phone. “Fuck’s sake! How long ago?”
I was already running into the yard, and Tommy turned to look at me, already walking back my way.
“She’s nowhere around.”
I reached the gate, grabbing the first prospect I saw by his throat.
“Where the fuck is she?”
He cursed, using both hands to pull at my arm.
“I fucking knew it!”
“Knew what, asswipe?”
“She said she was running an errand for…for you, Pres.” Reacher had joined me at last, and he took his fucking sweet time.
“And you didn’t think to check?”
