“Ugh, what the hell happened?” Mike groans from the doorway as he pulls himself up using the door frame.
“The stress of your missing fiancée caused you to pass out, Mr. Ashman, and you fell right on your face. It’s ok, we will let you go, and process everything.” Bill says with a smirk. “We will be in touch. I’ll be sending a detective over to question you in a bit, in hopes to find the girls. Thank you for your time.”
Bill turns and walks down the rickety stairs, and his three angry shadows follow down to our cars. He looks back at the door Mike was standing in and makes sure the door is closed.
“Alright, boys,” his voice is low. “Well, that was awful. Do you guys want to head to the station and meet with a detective to have another set of legal eyes on this?”
“I guess more bodies couldn’t hurt.” I respond as I shake out my fist.
“Let’s head down and I’ll get my best detective on the case.” Murmurs of agreement come out from all of us, and we climb in the truck.
CHAPTER 46
GRAHAM
It’s been a week, a fucking week, and we have had zero leads. I have hunted down every single family member that might know anything about this asshole. No one knows a damn thing. It’s always the same thing.
“We haven’t talked to Nick since Nyx left.”
“He hasn’t been around in probably 3 years.”
We break fingers, rip out teeth, and torture this asshole’s “friends” to the brink of death on more than one occasion. We never get the information we need. The good thing is Demitri has taken some aggression out on a couple of the dick’s friends, but still fucking nothing. He hasn’t been spotted around Detroit or the surrounding areas. And I can’t find a cabin or anything in his name. His family has a lake house up in the Tawas area, but it’s right on the main road and no one has been there since the weekend after Labor Day.
I can’t even find Julia and that bastard kid she had for him. I’m not sure if he sent them off to another country or what. But her family is looking for them, and they also haven’t seen Nick. Captain Montgomery and the missing persons team cannot even find any leads. I’m going absolutely stir-crazy. I need my LittleWitch back in my arms. I am putting a damn tracker in that woman the minute she is back in my hands.
We have already replaced the punching bags in the gym more than once. Our guys are no longer willing to spar with us because they usually don’t walk away without injuries. David has a broken nose. He’s not mad at me, but still I don’t need to injure my men.
I hear the security unlock in my door before it flies open and crashes into the wall. Dee walks in, fury written all over his face. Well, it’s better than the shutdown and emotionless sack of a human he’s been the last couple of days.
We all have been pretty emotionless since visiting Mike. His attitude toward the woman he supposedly loves just shocked the hell out of us. We knew he was an abusive ass but damn, to see it in real life broke our hearts. Kyra is a sister to us now, and no one deserves to be talked about like that.
“Hey asshole, find anything?” If he could kill me with the look, he’s giving me, I’d be dead. I know he’s blaming me for not finding her yet.
“Nothing yet, nothing has seen him in the area. No traffic cams, no friends, or family.” To know she is in the hands of that psychopath is breaking my soul.
“How does he just ghost out? Someone has got to be helping him, but who?”
He flops onto my bed, fingers racking through the floppy hair on the top of his head. He needed a haircut before she was taken, and in the week it’s only gotten longer. He scoops Midnight into his arms to snuggle the one piece of Nyx we have left. I’ll admit I’ve snuggled that cat wishing it was my Little Witch more than once since she’s been gone.
“That is what I am trying to figure out. I am going to see if I can hack into the MDOT cameras. I lost the car once they got on the highway, but MDOT should have something. It is the onlylead I have left. I’m also going to try, and see if I can find some obscure family. They are the only options I have left.”
“Make it quick, Hutch. I am losing my mind. I don’t know how long I can survive without her. I lost Stasi, I can’t live with myself if I lost Nyx.” His voice is shaking, I’m almost positive he is crying, but I am not going to bring attention to it.
I pick my coffee cup up and realize it’s empty.Fuck.I set up my system to start the process of hacking into MDOT before I start my next cup of coffee. Sleep is for when she is back in my arms, or I’m dead. Either at this point would be acceptable.
I glance over at Dee, lying in my bed. His breathing has evened out, and a soft snore is coming from his throat. He is not okay right now. I know he’s probably blown through most of our ammo, he’s always in the gym. I couldn’t tell you the last time he’s gotten more than a twenty-minute power nap.
The system dings with an alert, letting me know I am in. I take a quick second to drape a blanket over Dee and then silence all of our phones before I hook my headphones up to my computer. He needs to sleep, and I don’t want to disturb him.
It takes three hours to follow the car north. The dumbass stays on 75 for as long as he can before he gets off near Standish. Classic, he’s got to have someone with a cabin up in these woods. At least we have a lead.
“Ugh, how long have I been out?” Dee sits up off my bed, rubbing at his eyes. His hair all mussed. If Nyx was here, she would totally appreciate his sleepy hotness. I sneak a quick photo to show her when we have her back.
“Roughly about three hours-.”
“What! You let me sleep for three fucking hours, Hutch. What the actual fuck?!”
“Dee chill, nothing has happened. I legit just found him getting off seventy-five in Standish. Like just a second before you woke up. You needed sleep. I don’t know the last time you slept more than maybe twenty minutes at a time.”
