“Our daughter’s out there,” she said confidently, “so you’re going to do this my way, or I’m going out there looking for her. Understood?”
“You have a what?” Diego asked.
Stone held up his hand. “Enough.”
The room fell quiet as I turned my attention toward him. “How long has it been since you’ve heard from West?”
His hand slowly lowered. “Thirty minutes.”
“Shit,” Lexi hissed.
Texas stepped to the forefront. “Finding these two women is top priority now, Frost. West should’ve already been back by now.”
I drew in a deep breath. “We told them to go back to their apartment and pick up any last remaining things. They could still be there.”
Lexi released my hand. “You know as well as I do that your gut isn’t telling you that, so stop it and let’s figure out what the hell we’re doing.”
Stone pointed at her. “I like her. Keep her.”
Lexi snickered. “He doesn’t have a choice any longer, do you,Frost?”
I grinned down at her. “You don’t have to call me that if you don’t want to.”
Lexi shrugged. “I don’t know, it kind of suits you. You know, with that cold, dead stare you get going sometimes.”
Stone chuckled. “So, you know that stare?”
Lexi rolled her eyes. “I’ve known that stare for years and years and years.”
“I hate to break things up,” Archer said as he cleared his throat, “but, don’t we have a couple of girls to find?”
Stone furrowed his brow. “I know West was on his bike, but what about the girls? Were they driving a car?”
Lexi nodded. “Yeah, they were.”
Texas crooked an eyebrow. “That car got GPS?”
I shook my head. “No, the car they’re in is pretty run--.”
“Find My Friends!” Lexi exclaimed.
She ripped her hand away from me before pulling her phone out of her bra and the guys chuckled. She furiously unlocked her phone as her eyes scanned the screen, and I quickly worked my way behind her so that I could peek over her shoulder. I watched as the application roared to life. It took a second to buffer, but once it did, I saw a little dot on the screen that had the name “Natty” above it.
“There,” Lexi said, “that’s where her phone last pinged. I always fucking forget I’ve got her app connected to mine.”
“Let me see that,” I said as I plucked the phone from her hand.
Then, I walked it over to Stone. “That isn’t far from here. It looks like they were already on their way back.”
Stone’s eyes scanned the screen. “That’s about half a mile down the highway before the exit to our place. We need to go see who’s out there.”
I tossed the phone back to Lexi. “Stone, Texas, and I are going to go see what’s out there.”
Lexi caught her phone without a second look. “I’m coming with you.”
I shook my head. “Oh, no you don’t. It’s too dangerous out there. We’ve already got our daughter and Chloe missing. We don’t need something else happening.”
But I should’ve known she wouldn’t have done well with that argument. “I hate to break it to you, but I did just fine without you all of these years. I raised your daughter while holding down a slew of full-time jobs and not once have I dug myself into debt because of it. I can hold my own, and I’m going.”
