I wasn’t sure that was the case.
As much as Eric and I had our differences in the past, I was beginning to see that all of this secretive shit he was pulling was his attempt to help. He obviously had a plan of his own, and I wanted to believe that it was to protect Drew. I just wasn’t sure if Eric understood that Drew had already set a plan in motion before he tore off and did shit like this without consulting anyone else first.
“What do we do? Do we go after him?” I asked, looking between Slater and Drew.
“We?” Drew asked calmly. “Wherever Eric is right now is not a place for any ‘we’, Ayda.”
“It was aroyal we,” I corrected him quietly, grabbing for my phone that was suddenly vibrating against my ass. Glancing down at the screen, I saw Sutton’s name printed across it.What now?suddenly became the loudest thought in my mind as I glanced back up at Drew and Slater. “It’s Sutton.”
Swiping the green circle on the screen, Sutton’s voice filtered out from the cell long before I could get the thing to my ear. It was unusual for Howard to be anything other than composed, but I could hear the worry in his voice long before I could make out what he was saying.
“… and Drew okay—” he said hurriedly.
“Howard?” I interrupted before he could continue with his panicked diatribe.
“Drew! Is he with you, Ayda?” I glanced up to meet Drew’s eyes.
“I’m looking right at him. Why? What’s going on?”
A long-suffering sigh filtered down the line. “We have a Nav being booked in at almost the same minute that the insufferable Winnie woman and her boys here start talking about a warrant.”
“A warrant for who?” My heart was in my throat, making me feel like I was choking as Slater stepped closer to us and Drew tipped his head in question. I put the phone on speaker and held it out between us all. “Howard, you’re on speaker. Who was the warrant for?”
“It’s for Walsh. They had a search warrant and an arrest warrant. One of her guys said the judge just signed off on it.”
I looked at Drew again, my rush of fear and worry beating its way through my veins for an entirely different reason now. Drew seemed to come to the same conclusion as our eyes met.
Rubin.
