"I don’t know, just do.” I looked away quickly. “They were always complaining about how their dad treated her. They hated her."
Koi and I exchanged a look.We'd talked about it on and off throughout the years. We'd theorized about why she left. Was it because of her siblings?
"Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if they killed her. That or the mom. Would you want to raise a kid that wasn't yours?" Andrew snickered. "She's their half-sister, did you know that?"
I rolled my eyes. Everyone knew that.
"Who knows, maybe she's buried under one of the newer rides or something," Koi joked and glanced at me. He was just as nervous as I was with this topic.
"Oof, that's dark, man." Andrew laughed. I went to the table and tossed him a small, plastic baggie. He snatched it up and held it up to the light. "Do you mind if I..."
I waved off his concerns and sat across from him and kicked my feet up. "So, basically, this summer is going to suck ass unless they find her. I'm tempted to go out and look myself."
"I'm telling you." Andrew shook his head. "Little bitch is dead. Probably got kidnapped, held for ransom, and then tossed when the cheap-ass uncle wouldn't pay. He doesn't even like the other kids. Why would he help her?"
Andrew’s idea that someone being a bastard made them less than everyone else was starting to piss me off. He saw me glaring and shrugged innocently.
"It's been seven years. She was just a kid when she went missing. The police searched for weeks."
"What if she left willingly?" Koi blurted.
My head shot up and I gave him the look to shut the fuck up. He closed his mouth, but I knew what was resting on his tongue.
"I mean, maybe. I'd get it. Her siblings were assholes to her. The mom too. She got bullied at school and then had to come home and be bullied there too." Andrew took a rolled-up dollar bill and quickly snorted his line.
Koi took the straw, inhaling a line himself. "I remember Domino a bit from school. Her sister was a bigger bully to her than anyone else. She was real shitty about the leg thing."
"It wasn't even that bad," I argued. "Like, an inch or some shit. Marisol was just bitter because people liked her sister more than her." It was true. Domino had been the prettier of the Risky sisters and ten times nicer.
A knock on our cabin door pulled our attention.
"Yeah?" Koi called out.
The door opened, and Fabian entered.
"Hey! What's up? Andrew, I wanna talk to Swayze and Koi alone for a second. You wanna go find something to do?" His dark, mustache was styled with beeswax, and the curls almost touched his eyes as he faked a smile.
Silence filled the cabin as Andrew put his coke away and left the cabin. Only once the wooden door was shut did Fabian turn to us.
"So, you heard the news."
"I heard the rumors." I motioned for him to sit. "Is it true? You can't get your money until they find your sister?"
He nodded. "Yep, dear old dad, even from the dead letting us know where we all stood with him. We don't get shit unless she's here too."
I reached for my box. "That sucks. You need something to take the edge off?"
“You sure you’re supposed to be doing that shit?” He eyed the cocaine on the table. “One kidney and all?”
“Mind your own fucking business. You needed something?”
He plucked the rolled-up bill from my fingers and leaned forward, doing the line I'd prepared for myself. “Yes, I need to know what you and my sister talked about right before she hopped that fence and ran.”
It was like ice water thrown in my face. I blinked furiously, trying to comprehend the words he'd just said to me. The Risky kids were the only ones in this fucking place that dared speak to us on our level, and fuck if they didn't abuse the privilege.
"Yeah, I fucking know. So spill. What did she say to you two?”
My palms were suddenly clammy. "What are you talking about?" I tried to lie, but he'd rocked me to my core, and I couldn't hide that. "We—" I started, but I was speechless. Somany questions were speeding through my mind, and I wasn't even high.
