“Why do you say that?”
“Because I caught sight of the clock on the truck’s dash before the dipshit cut the engine.”
I rubbed the side of my head.“Is it normal for someone to be knocked out for so long?And how did they get me in here?”
Ryan stared at me for a moment.“They made me carry you inside.”
My head tilted.“With your hands zip-tied?”
He chuckled.“No.I told them I needed my hands free and they agreed.”
I bit my lip.“Sorry I wasn’t conscious.Maybe we could have—”
He shook his head.“No, they still had a gun trained on me.We have to bide our time.”
I started to nod, but stopped since it made my head throb.“Not to be self-centered here, but do you think I have a concussion after being out for forty-five minutes.”
He shrugged a shoulder.“You might have a mild one, but it’s not unusual for someone to be out for half-an-hour or so.”
“Do they teach that at bouncer school?”
He chuckled, then hissed.“Don’t make me laugh, and no.I learned that when my uncles taught me and Killian how to fight.”
“Oh.”
I couldn’t let myself dwell on the visual of him and his triplet learning how to fight.
The shaft of light under the door faded.I wrapped a hand around my neck, then shook my head.“Did you convince them to cut my zip-tie too?”
“No, they have my gun, and they remembered to take my phone at the last minute, but they didn’t take my pocket knife.I cut you loose after they locked us in this room.”
“They reversed the knobs?”I asked.
“Surprised you know they’d have to do that, but it seems so.”
“I’m in real estate.I’ve seen all kinds of trippy things people do to houses.”
I glanced around the room.It was bare bones, with a window that appeared to be boarded up, and a small doorless closet.The mattress had seen better days, and I had to wonder if the hardwood floor wasn’t more comfortable – though it was probably dirtier.Maybe.There wasn’t enough light for me to see how clean the mattress was.
“Chad’s gonna kill me,” I muttered.
“Is that your boyfriend?”
I laughed and let out an immediate short sigh.“Yeah, let’s agree not to make each other laugh.Chad is definitely my friend, but not my boyfriend.He likes men as much as I do, let’s put it that way.Actually, he’d say he loves them more.”
“Got it.Why is he going to kill you?”
“He told me not to go back to the bar without him, but I went anyway, and it seems he was right.It’s going to burn him up that he was right and he won’t be able to lord it over me because he’ll be worried sick when he finds out I’m missing.”
“We haven’t been gone that long.If we’re lucky, he won’t have to find out.”
My lips quirked to the side.“I’m thinking we have to make our own luck here.”
“That’s fair.”
“Anyway, he knew when I was supposed to get there, and I was going to call him when I was done.He’s going to be crazy with worry, if he isn’t already.”
I heard him take a deep breath.“You can’t do anything about that, so my advice, is to not think about it.Doesn’t do you any good.”
