Page 103 of Havoc's Fox

“Listen to his message.”

“I don’t want to!”

“Listen!” Emmalyn yelled.

“If I listen, will you just drive me to the freaking airport in peace?”

“Yes,” Emmalyn said brightly.

“Fine.” Analise picked up her phone and brought up her voice mail app. She keyed in her pass code and then pressed number one to have her voice mails play. She rested her head on her own shoulder, her eyes closed as she prepared for the effect Havoc’s voice always had on her.

“’Lise! ’Lise, it’s me. Harley is missing! I’m hoping she’s trying to get over to see you. Please, please check. I’m at Vince’s, but I’m on my way. Please look around. See if she might be anywhere nearby trying to find her way to you.”

Analise shot up straight in the seat. “Stop!”

“What?” Emmalyn asked, beginning to slow the vehicle.

“Stop! Now! Right now! Stop the car!”

Emmalyn slammed on the brakes as hard as she could, almost throwing them both through the windshield.

Analise didn’t say a word about it, instead she threw open the door and jumped out, running back up the road toward the house.

“The hell are you going?” Emmalyn demanded, maneuvering the car around with the passenger side door still open to follow Analise as she ran up the shoulder of the highway.

“Harley?! Harley are you out here?” Analise shouted. Analise ran for a few steps, then walked again. Shouting as loud as she could. “Harley?! Baby if you can hear me, yell for me!”

“Nooooo!” Emmalyn said.

Analise glanced quickly toward the vehicle driving along in the opposite lane. “Havoc said she’s missing and he’s hoping she was coming to try to see me.”

“Where do I go? Where do I go look?” Emmalyn asked. “And where the hell is everybody else?”

“The woods on Brandt’s side! Go see if she got turned around near her house. I’m going to look on our side.”

“Got it,” Emmalyn said, throwing the car into reverse and slamming her foot on the brake after she got a little speed built up. The momentum caused the still open passenger side door to slam closed. Emmalyn drove up beside Analise again. “I’m calling everybody. I’ll get everybody at home looking for her near our house.”

“Tempest! Go get Tempest!”

“Yes, and Brandt and Barron!”

“Tempest!” Analise yelled. “Tempest knows things!”

“On my way!” Emmalyn yelled, accelerating so quickly she left rubber from the cars’ tires on the road.

Analise continued alternately running and walking up the highway, calling Harley’s name non-stop toward the woods on both sides of the highway. She stopped every once in a while and listened for anything at all that didn’t sound right. “Harley!” she screamed when she didn’t hear anything at all out of the ordinary.

Looking to the right, which was Brandt’s side of the highway, and to her left which was the side Kaid’s property was on, she decided to go directly into the woods on the left. Havoc had made it clear a couple of days ago that she was familiar with anywhere on their side of the property, so if she was lost, it would stand to reason that it would be on Kaid’s side.

She went down into the ditch, and up the other side, kicking her shoes off and leaving them wherever they’d managed to get stuck in the muck. “Harley! Honey, I’m coming!”

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Tempest opened the door and grinned at Emmalyn. “Emmalyn! Come on in. You tired of bothering Barron yet?”

“Harley is missing!” Emmalyn rushed out, grabbing Tempest’s hand and pulling her out of her own front door.

“What? When?”

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