I click on the app and then bark out the directions to Hally. She pulls off the side of the road, then does a U-turn.
“Do they know who the girl is?” Hally asks.
“No, but we will soon.”
I call Audrina. “Hello, Haze, how is everything? You just missed Will?—”
“Sorry to be blunt, but who was Willow talkin’ to when you guys left?”
“I-I don’t know, Haze. I went back into the daycare to get Aubrey-May… Why? What’s wrong? Is Willow okay?”
“I’m sure she’s fine,” I say, not wanting to stress her out with the baby in tow. “I just don’t know who this chick is, and now Willow won’t answer her phone. I just need to check on her.”
“Oh, Payden will know, they see her all the time. I think she would know her name.”
“Thanks, Audrina.”
I dial Payden, but it goes to voicemail. I dial her office, leaving a message with her assistant to call me urgently. I bang my fist against the dash. “Fuck!” Next, I dial Sawyer and he picks up on the first ring. “Yo.”
“I need the most recent surveillance footage for Bella’s studio. They had a hot yoga class this mornin’ and some woman got into Willow’s car and the prospects lost her. I don’t like this one little bit, call it a hunch.”
“Holy shit,” he says. “I’ll get right on it.”
“Call me the second you have her. Rip is goin’ into the studio now to find out who this chick is. Call Cash and let him know, and tell my brothers to meet us at the location I’m about to send them.”
“Okay, dialing Cash now.”
I hang up. “Fuck.” The tracker shows her location nearing the Lower Ninth Ward, right across town. “Step on it.”
“Jesus, this is nuts. Oh, my god, I knew this asshole wasn’t acting alone!” Hally exclaims.
My phone rings two seconds later. “Haze? What’s goin’ on?” Brew barks.
I fill him in quickly, adding that Willow’s phone is also now switched off. “I’ll grab Logan. Max is here, too.”
“Good, bring him up to speed. If this chick is workin’ for someone, this shit could be really fuckin’ bad. We’re gonna need backup.”
“What if it’s just some chick from yoga?” Brew presses. “You’re actin’ as if she’s been kidnapped.”
“Then you can all laugh about it later, but Willow never turns her phone off. Until she calls me back and tells me I’m a big jerk for sendin’ out a search party, you better get your asses movin’.”
I end the call, then run both hands through my hair.
“Do you think it’s just some random girl?” Hally asks. “I mean, it could be nothing.”
It could also be everything.
“If that’s the case, why would Willow run a red light and purposely lose the prospects? She’s petty, and pissed at me, but notthatpetty.” I know in my gut this is all bad. But I’ve also got no idea who this fucking chick is.
My phone rings and my heart leaps into my chest.Payden.
“Hello, Haze, what’s wrong? I had an urgent message to call you?—”
“Listen up. That chick that goes to yoga with you, blonde ponytail, cute and unassumin’? Wears a baseball cap.”
“There’s lots of people that go to class… oh, wait, do you mean Clare?”
“I don’t fuckin’ know. Willow left the studio with some blonde chick, lost the prospects, ran a red light, and now I’m trackin’ her whereabouts because she won’t pick up her phone.”
