“Sorrow?” I yell, looking around again. Nobody answers, but I notice someone on the path not too far ahead. I jog over to them and recognize Marty Jones, my old science teacher. He retired a couple of years ago after losing his wife.
“Hey, Mr. Jones, have you seen Sorrow?”
“How many times do I need to ask you to call me Marty, Jake?”
“Sorry, habit. So, have you seen Sorrow? I was supposed to meet her here.”
“I’ve been here about fifteen minutes, Jake, and I haven’t seen anyone else.”
“Shit.”
“Is something wrong?”
“I don’t know. I’ve gotta make some calls. Can you call me if she turns up?”
“Of course.”
“Thanks,” I call out, jogging back to the car. I pull out my cell and dial Blake.
“Hey, Banner. Everything okay?”
“No. Fuck, I don’t know. I went to pick up Sorrow from the cemetery, but she’s not here. She knew I was coming for her, Blake.”
“So maybe she was done sooner than she thought. She might have just headed off to find you first or grab coffee.”
“I found her cell phone. It’s cracked but still working. She wouldn’t have just left it behind.”
He’s quiet for a minute, but I can hear him moving around in the background. “She could have dropped it and not realized.”
I blow out a harsh breath because he’s right. Of course, he’s right. Why I leaned straight into something bad happening to her, I don’t know. But my instincts are going haywire, screaming at me that something’s wrong.
“Something isn’t right, Blake. Don’t ask me how I know, I just do.”
“Fuck. Alright, I’ll call in the guys, and I’ll meet you there.” He hangs up as I reach the car and yank open Katy’s door.
“She’s not there.”
“What do you mean she’s not there?”
“I mean, Sorrow isn’t at the cemetery. I can’t find her, but I did find her phone.”
Katy bites her lip, looking anxious.
I pull out my keys and hand them to her. “Drive back to the diner and grab Marcus. Tell him what’s going on. Drive around with him, see if you can find her. Blake’s on his way here now with some of the guys. I’m going to call Wade and see if he’s seen her.”
“Okay, I’m on it. Call me when you find her.”
I nod, the wordswhenrolling over in my head. It has to bewhen, notif.
I move out of the way as Katy gets in the driver’s seat and heads off, leaving me to call Wade.
When Wade tells me he hasn’t seen her, I want to throw my fucking phone in the road and stomp on it. I don’t think I realized how much I’d hoped she’d been arrested, for once. He hangs up after telling me he’ll talk to the other cops while I call Olivia.
“I haven’t seen her Banner. And I’m with you, she wouldn’t just leave if she knew you were coming. Yes, she could have losther phone, but she’d have texted you before she left to tell you she was heading your way.”
“Even if she’d forgotten and left, she’d have made it to the diner by now. Marcus is there. She’d have spotted him and asked him to call me so I didn’t worry.”
“Alright, let’s think about this logically. The town has not got it out for Sorrow, you know that, right? Nobody is going to hurt her because they’ve all seen the truth, and most people want to kick their own damn asses, not Sorrow’s. The only people who haven’t changed their tune are—” She hisses as I suck in a sharp breath.
