His midnight eyes blazed with understanding. Like maybe he was already feeling it, too.
The only solace I had was knowing the women were safe. There was no chance anyone could get to them inside the cabin.
It was fortified.
Armored.
Not to mention the six brutal killers standing guard outside.
We were on the other side of town, approaching the T at Vista View that would wind us around the lake and onto the road that led to the resort, when my phone went off in my pocket. An incessant vibration that pulsed through my body like an alarm.
A rock gathered in my throat, and I jerked my head to the right, indicating for everyone to pull off.
The engines growled and rolled as we edged to the side, and I ripped my phone from my pocket to see it was Trevan, one of the men guarding the house.
I killed my bike so I could hear as I answered, the words stones that toppled from my mouth. “What is it?”
“Hey, man, listen, I know we aren’t supposed to let a soul inside that house, and I take that command seriously, but Daisy came out here demanding that we let her in. But it didn’t sit right. Thought I needed to let you know.”
Apprehension fluttered through my consciousness. “What the fuck are you talking about?”
“A car came up the drive. We surrounded it, but Daisy came running out and said she knew her and to let her through.”
“Who?”
“Her sister.”
My entire being blew back.
Her sister?
Daisy’s sister was dead.
Because I killed her.
Killed her in that rage.
The shame glomming onto me so devastating that it was the one thing I hadn’t yet had the courage to confess to Daisy. I was going to. I had to. I couldn’t go on without her knowing.
Was I losing it because of this? Was I in some kind of sick dream?
“What does she look like?” I forced out around the ball of barbed wire that rolled my throat.
Trevan huffed out an uncertain sound. “Like your wife, I guess, but a little older and worn around the edges. She seemed freaked out that we were here. Daisy was just hugging the hell out of her, asking her what she was doing here, before she dragged her inside.”
Hadley was alive.
Was alive and I was a fool who didn’t pick up on it.
Didn’t know.
It felt like a boulder rolled off the mountain and crushed me. Every faculty gone for a blink as I tried to wrap my head around it before a slick of awareness pitched me to the side.
“Get inside that house and make sure they’re good.”
Had she been in hiding? I thought she was dead, so I’d never gone back and looked for a trail.
Then there was Ethan…
