I shrug. “Wouldn’t tell us. Just said that he needed to meet with us. He landed twenty minutes ago.” I sit in my chair and pull my wife onto my lap.
I don’t miss the way Colton’s eyes go from Eve to Haidyn, wondering why she arrived with him but is sitting on my lap. No one here other than Haidyn, Saint, and Sin knows she’s my wife. Sin doesn’t even know she’s Haidyn’s sister.
Tyson walks out from the back with Hooke next to him. Hooke pulls out a barstool, and Tyson chooses to remain standing.
“The Mason brothers were able to get me a number. I’ve managed totrack it down, and he’s here.” This is what he must have been doing in Vegas while we were at his place in New York.
“What’s the plan?” Sin asks.
“Well, I don’t really have one. We need to lure him in, that way we can trap him and find out where she is.”
“I’ll do it,” Eve states.
“No.” Haidyn shakes his head.
She huffs and pushes off my lap. “Give me her phone number,” she orders Hooke.
He looks at me, and I nod. I’m interested to see where her mind is going. If I think it’s not safe, I’ll squash it.
She pulls out her cell, and he rattles off Hailey’s number. Eve types away for a second and then places her phone on the table in front of me.
“Eve,” Haidyn growls.
“It’ll be fine,” she assures him. “Like Hooke said, we have to lure him in. Blackout is the best place. All of you will be here.”
“What did you send her?” Ryat asks.
“I pretended to be an old friend. Told her that she was right and I dumped my piece-of-shit boyfriend and got a new number. I asked if she could meet up, told her I’d love to tell her all about it at Blackout tonight. Drinks on me.”
“Won’t work,” Hooke tells my wife. “Her phone is off. It’s been out of use since she went missing.”
Eve’s cell beeps. I look at it sitting on the table and read her incoming text out loud. “Can’t wait to hear all the tea.”
Saint frowns. “How did he answer that if Hailey’s phone is off?”
“They’ve forwarded all of her incoming messages and calls,” I answer.
Ryat nods, confirming. “I’ve done it before.” He smiles proudly. “It’s actually pretty easy to do. You install an app on your phone and theirs, and it sends you everything their number receives…texts, emails, calls…and you make it appear that you’re responding from the number they reached out to if need be. You also have access to their search history or any app that they use. It’s literally like you’re looking at their phone on your own.”
“I don’t care. I don’t like it.” Haidyn voices his opinion.
“It’ll be fine.” Eve rolls her eyes. “Seriously, all of you will be here. I’ll be at the bar when he shows. I’ll make it obvious I’m waiting for someone. He’ll sit down, strike up a conversation, and dig to see if I’m here alone and who I’m waiting for. After a little while, when she doesn’t show, he’ll want to leave. I’ll have him follow me outside, you guys grab him and stick him in the car and take him to Carnage. Simple.”
“It’s never that simple,” Haidyn argues.
“Why not keep him at Blackout?” Alex questions. “Tyson has a basement, and you don’t have to take him far. We have the bartender slip him something and we just drag him down the steps.”
Hooke shakes his head. “I don’t want him here. The best place for him is Carnage. I want to see how he reacts when he finds out Isabella is there.” He looks at me, and I stand, handing Eve back her cell. “See if they have a connection like I suspect.”
“Your safety comes first. If I think he’s getting shady, it’s over,” I tell my wife.
“With all of us watching, what could happen?” Alex asks, arms out wide, and Haidyn snorts.
EVERETT
Checking the time on my phone, I see it’s almost midnight. I’ve been sitting here since ten o’clock. I never mentioned a time in my text, but the party doesn’t start until after eleven. Everyone knows that.
The guys are all over Blackout tonight. Ryat and Sin have been sitting in a round booth right off the dance floor for as long as I’ve been perched at the bar.
