Page 58 of Reign of Psychos

As I took a left down a rutted track, Torrance called.

“I see you listened to me for once.”

I peered through the gloom but couldn’t see a damn thing, which meant he’d fixed a camera somewhere.

“Let me speak to my friend.” I heard a faint cry.

“There are rats! Fucking rats, Thea!”

Some of the tension in my chest eased. If Eden had the energy to complain about rats, she was not too badly hurt.

“Rats won’t harm you,” I reassured her in a soft, soothing voice, trying not to lose my shit as the ramshackle barn came into view. “Rats are our friends.”

“Rats are not my fucking friends!” She shrieked loudly before the call abruptly ended and a few minutes later, the track petered out in front of my favorite place: the barn where Torrance had beaten the shit out of me.

“Get out of the car and put your hands in the air,” Torrance ordered, his gun pointing at my chest.

I took a deep breath while picturing my guys. Whatever happened next, the chips would fall where they may.

27

Milo

“Where is she?” Kyril’s panicked yell woke me with a start. Shit. I must have fallen asleep on my keyboard again. Trying to find a way into the clinic’s servers had proved more difficult than I expected. Which only cemented what I’d suspected from the beginning, that the Clinical Director, Dr. Lassitor, was hiding something.

I pushed away from my desk and staggered out into the living room, bleary-eyed from a lack of quality sleep; it felt like an age since I curled up next to Thea in her bed.

Kyril paced around the luxurious living area, stabbing at his phone.

“You’re going to wake up the entire hotel,” I pointed out with a yawn. “It’s 3 AM.”

“Thea’s not here! Where the fuck is she?”

“She’s with the guys. Of course she’s here.”

“No, she’s not!”

I’d checked on her an hour after they all disappeared. The room had been dark, and I’d assumed everyone was asleep.

“Maybe she’s gone for a walk? She sometimes does that when she can’t sleep.”

“She’s not answering her phone.”

Dario appeared, closely followed by Cass and Lan. None of them looked happy to be woken up this early.

“Why are you making such a racket?” Lan grumbled. “You’ll wake our girl up.”

“She’s gone,” Kyril hissed. “And none of you idiots realized!”

Thea had promised us all she wouldn’t fly solo again. Kyril was overreacting like usual. I bet if I checked her location via her phone, she’d be somewhere in the hotel.

While the others flung insults at each other, I disappeared back into the room I’d claimed as a workspace and grabbed my phone. I clicked on the tracking app and waited for it to connect to her phone.

Hmm. That was odd. I frowned in confusion. According to the app, she was well over 100 miles away and heading north. What the fuck?

A deep sense of foreboding rippled through me. Thea wouldn’t have left us for no reason. Something must have happened since I watched them leave for the opera. She’d seemed happy and relaxed then. Excited about an evening out.

“Did something happen while you were at the opera?” I asked the guys when I returned to the living area.

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