My eyes lift to meet her blue ones. “You knew Whitney?” I ask.
She shakes her head. “No, but I’d heard about her,” she answers vaguely.
“What did you hear?” I wonder.
Nibbling on her red-painted lip, she takes a second to debate if she should tell me. “Someone was telling me and my friend Sarah about the vow ceremony. Said Whitney cheated on her boyfriend with Tyson when she became his chosen.”
I frown at that. My sister never had a boyfriend. Not back then.
“But then I had asked Ryat about her, and he told me not to believe everything I hear. That she didn’t cheat on anyone with Tyson. That she had a stalker.”
“Who was it?” I ask, stepping toward her. This is news to me. Pregnant, boyfriend, stalker? Dear Lord, did I even know my sister?
“He never told me.” She gives me a sympathetic look. “I’m sorry.”
“Did you know her?” I ask Ellington.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t,” she softly answers.
My head hangs, and I watch Blake’s black heels walk toward me. “How are you doing? Are you okay?”
I look up once again and realize she doesn’t mean right here, right now in the middle of this bathroom. She means life in general. I nod and lie. “Yeah.” Unable to tell her that I’ve become Tyson’s whore. Her husband was the one who helped my husband. I can’t afford for her to tell Ryat anything and it get back to Tyson.
“Do you have your cell on you?” Ellington asks.
I open up my clutch and pull it out. Blakely takes it from me and after a few seconds, she hands it over to Ellington. “Let us know if you need anything,” Blakely says, giving me a kind smile. “We may be married to Lords, but us Ladies have to stick together.”
I pray that Tyson will let me see them again. I’m suffocating at Blackout. I’m not sure if that’s Tyson’s plan or what, but if so, it’s working.
TYSON
A server sets another drink down for me when Ryat asks, “How are things going at Blackout?”
I look over toward the hallway that leads to the bathroom, wondering what’s taking my wife so long before I answer. “You guys see the girl all over the news who’s gone missing?”
He and Sin both nod, already knowing who I’m talking about. You can’t miss her. Her picture is everywhere.
“Had two detectives show up a couple of weeks ago looking for her. Said she was last seen at Blackout before she went missing.”
Sin raises both of his hands. “Wasn’t me.”
Ryat snorts at the fact that Sin had brought detectives to my club a while back for killing a man who was last seen at Blackout. And although I wasn’t happy with him about it at the time, it did end up working out for him in the long run.
“One was a Lord,” I inform them.
Sin frowns, his eyes glancing around before they land on mine. “The Lords gave you Blackout. Why would they send an officer that is also a Lord to investigate you? Plus, they know Blackout doesn’t cooperate with the cops.”
“Right? That doesn’t make sense,” Ryat adds.
I nod and growl. “The Lord used to date my wife.” I guessdatereally isn’t the correct word, but it’s more than what I’d like. Lords aren’t good at competition. We’re taught to win. Always be the best. And no matter why I ended up marrying Laikyn, she is my wife, and I will be her first for most, if not everything her body experiences.
“Oh.” Sin nods. “That makes a lot of sense.” He picks up his drink and takes a sip.
“Well, that also raises some new questions. You think he’s in on the missing girl?” Ryat wonders. “Trying to bring heat to Blackout?”
I shake my head. “I’m not sure he’d have the balls for that. Plus, he didn’t seem to know she was my wife until he was already there.” I didn’t like the way Collin looked at Lake, so I made sure to mention she was mine. The atmosphere immediately changed after that.
“Think her father sent him to give you a hard time?” Ryat goes on.
