“Violet would like the team to look into it.”
Reese glanced at Brantley, waited for him to lay out a plan.Only he didn’t.
“Where’re you right now?”Brantley asked.
“Back at HQ with Archer.”
“We’re headin’ that way.We have to make one stop first,” Brantley told Atticus.“We’ll talk more about it when we get there.”
“Sure thing, boss.”
The call ended.
“You don’t seem surprised that Violet’s dad is missing,” Reese told Brantley.
“The man’s a flight risk.Always has been.”
“Meaning?”
“Meanin’ one minute he’d be back in Daphne’s life, pretendin’ to be a doting father to their girls.The next, off on a new adventure with a dozen excuses as to why he couldn’t stick around.”
“They’re divorced, right?Daphne and Harold.”
“Oh, yeah.But she has a soft spot for him.”
“I guess we should check in with Darius, see who’s available to help.”
Brantley nodded.“Let’s get there first.As much as I wanna help Violet, I need as much focus on this case as I can get.”
Reese understood.With the possibility of Kylie being out there, they couldn’t put it on the back burner.Then again, that was why they had a team of people.They could easily assign a couple of them to focus on finding Harold.
Nearly forty minutes later, after stopping at PetSmart to pick up what Tesha needed for a road trip, they were parking the truck in front of the house.
“What’s Luca doin’ here?”Brantley asked as they were getting out of the truck.
That was a good question.Luca worked whenever they needed him to, but rarely did he come to HQ on the weekend.He preferred to work remotely unless it was during regular business hours.
Granted, they didn’t really have regular business hours, did they?
Reese took a detour through the house to drop Tesha’s stuff off so he could pack it in a bit.Once that was done, he followed Brantley out the back door, across the yard, and right into the barn.
The second they stepped inside, Luca shot to his feet.“I need to talk to y’all.”
Reese glanced at Brantley, surprised.Luca was the laid-back sort.Rarely did the man show any emotion whatsoever.Even when things were chaotic, Luca was cool under pressure.Today it looked as though someone was holding their finger on his panic button.
“What’s up?”Brantley prompted.
“Honor’s dad is missing.”
Reese recalled the conversation he’d had with Brantley not too long ago regarding the Anderson sisters.Brantley’s family had been groomed to protect their cousins—Whitney, Amanda, Violet, and Honor—mainly from their father, since Harold Anderson was prone to breaking their hearts.The four girls had been raised within a protective bubble, treated as though they were fragile and in need of a knight in shining armor.Reese didn’t know the sisters all that well, but from what he’d seen of Violet and Honor, they certainly weren’t damsels in distress.
He also remembered how defensive Brantley had been, determined to confront Luca.
Evidently, Brantley had forgotten that he was supposed to be the protective voice of reason because he said, “Do you need our help?”
Luca glanced between them.“I know the team’s focused on Simon’s case, but…”
“You wanna find Honor’s dad,” Reese filled in when he let the sentence hang.
