“Okay, sweetheart, I got you,” he whispered, holding me tighter.
I couldn’t stop sobbing, every emotion I’d ever felt about my sister’s death swamping me. I thought I’d dealt with all of this, but apparently not. At least not with Stoney’s arms around me. I felt safe. It had been a long time since I’d felt safe and I had no idea what to do with that.
I gripped his jacket and burrowed against his chest, sobbing until I had nothing left. No tears, no breath, nothing.
“I need to find him. I can’t live without him,” I rasped as soon as I could form sentences.
“We’re gonna find him, Sabrina. Swear to Christ, we will.”
“How can you find him when we don’t even know who took him, or why?” I asked, leaning back to meet his eyes.
He smiled, but this time it didn’t scare me. “I got reach.”
“I hope so.”
“Any ideas from your end?” he asked.
“Before she got clean, she ran with a lot of shady people for a lot of years. At one point, she owed a lot of money around town and I don’t know if all those debts were paid in full. My mom mentioned my sister’s car went missing shortly after she died. If my sister owed someone money, maybe they took Felix in order to ransom him.”
“Does your family have money?” he asked.
“I’m sure if we all pooled our resources, we could come up with twenty or thirty thousand, but who knows how much she owed.”
“I can’t imagine anyone going through the trouble of takin’ a kid for twenty grand, so let’s hope she wasn’t in any deeper.”
“Oh my god,” I rasped.
He stroked my cheek. “I got you.”
I blushed, pulling away from him with a nod.
“I’m gonna leave a man on your place,” he said.
“What? Why?”
He raised an eyebrow. “Because I can.”
“My brother already—”
“Yeah, don’t actually give a shit.”
“Where is he?” I asked. “Your man?”
“Close,” he said evasively.
I shook my head. “Fine. He and my brother’s man can duke it out.”
His mouth twitched. “Duke it out?”
“I have no time for alpha male bullshitwhen my nephew is missing!” I growled.
“We’re gonna find Felix, Breezy. Promise.”
I waved my hands to the door. “Go ahead. Get to finding. Because I can’t sit here and do nothing.”
“Staying put in case he comes back isn’t doing nothing, sweetheart. Waiting is always the hardest part, but it’s important.”
I shrugged.
