“Hand it here,” Nick said.Nick took the phone, and held it to his.
“I’m going to look for her,” Ares said.
“We’ll come as back up,” Erik said.
“Wait.We don’t have enough information.Why did Josie run out, Ares?”Xander asked.
“That’s not your business.”
Xander raised a cool eyebrow.The tension in the room suddenly so thick the atmosphere felt heavy.
“She might have seen something she shouldn’t have, okay?It might have freaked her out.”
“Would you run an op with scarce details?Tell me what’s going on!”Xander said.
“It’s none of your fucking business, okay?”Ares yelled.
“Oh, I think it is,” Xander stood right in front of him.
He had never hit his brother.But today he pushed him out of his way.“You asked me to manage a team that you didn't want to know anything about.I’ve done that.I made a mistake.Josie might have heard the woman who has been our guest for these last several months.I don’t know why but I think the feed was up.There was a security glitch.She might have seen something or had something said to her.”
“What the fuck, Ares?”Xander asked.
“I’m not perfect, okay?”
“And you waited this long to do anything about it?Is your team compromised?”
“I’m handling it.”
“By walking around in a daze?”Xander asked.
“I want to make sure she did walk out of the house because she was scared not any other reason.If we find out she is hanging with a friend, that’s fine.I’m going to go get her.”
“No.”Xander said.He crossed his arms over his chest, flicking his long hair over his shoulder.
Ares met his stare cooly.“Why?Why wouldn’t you want to find Josie?”
“It’s not our job to find Josie.We haven’t been hired to find Josie and doing so might expose us and we can’t risk that right now.And you don’t know why she is missing.”
“Fuck you, Xander.If it was Harper you wouldn’t hesitate.”
“I also didn’t need your permission to date Harper or your prodding.”
“That’s not how I remember it,” Logan said from the doorway.The big man took up all of the space in the room, even with his arm in a cast.
“You are going to stop me?”Ares asked.
“I didn’t say that.You want to go and check out if Josie is okay that’s fine.Leave my name out of it.”
“That’s so rich coming from you!”Ares screamed.“Nick, got anything on that address?”
“Yeah, it’s owned by Jared Hanson.”
“That guy is friends with Carter who owns the restaurant she has her business out of,” Ares said.
“Sounds so dangerous.She’s visiting friends for Christmas.”Xander said.
“Let’s go!”Logan clapped his hands together.“Quinn, do you mind driving?’
