Page 116 of Filthy Liar

“I just had a call from Kate, Blake’s little sister,” Ander said as he held up his phone. “Blake never made it home.”

“Voice mail,” Riley muttered, hanging up and sending a text instead. “She might have just detoured, right?”

“For a week and a half without telling Kate? No,” Ander snorted, some of the panic slipping out. “Has she contacted you at all?”

“No, but we aren’t exactly texting buddies unless she’s in town. She wasn’t supposed to let me know when she got home or anything,” Riley sighed, fishing her keys from her pocket. “She was definitely going straight home?”

“You’re the one that she probably spoke to last. I haven’t talked to her since the track when I told her to leave.”

“What did Kate say?” I asked, wondering if Blake really had just detoured. The current circumstances told me something else had definitely happened, but Blake was also a bit of a free spirit and had spontaneous adventures at times.

He blew out a breath, texting on his phone as he replied. “Kate thought she was staying with me, obviously. Usually, that’s exactly where Blake is. She just figured she was staying longer and forgot to tell the people Kate is staying with. If she doesn’t get back home soon, they’ll start asking questions about where Blake is, and if they start digging and can’t reach her, Kate could go back into foster care.”

“Let’s all chill out for a second. Message Cruz to see if he can find her. We can panic after that. I’ll go find Rory and see if she wants to take the kids home,” I offered, and Riley nodded.

“She was talking to Stone and Knox by the parking lot about security stuff. We’ll see if Cruz can find Blake while you’re handling that.”

“Let’s go find Rory,” I said brightly to the kids, grateful when they skipped along beside me without complaint. Sia reached for Rory the second she saw her, and Rory took her without question, her eyes on mine.

“What’s wrong?”

“I think something happened to a player on the board that wasn’t even playing,” I muttered, not wanting to freak the kids out by bluntly saying I was pretty sure Blake had been taken and murdered by a psychopath. “Can you take the kids while we figure it out?”

“Call me,” she said sharply as Stone checked something on his phone, his eyes lifting to mine.

“We’re on it. Cruz is already looking.”

“Who’s missing?” Rory scowled, hating being kept in the dark. I glanced over my shoulder, finding Ander not waiting for me as Riley jogged after him towards where they parked their cars, Rory’s eyes following them too. “Logan. Who is it?”

“Kate called Ander. Blake never made it home.”

“I want updates,” Rory practically snapped at both Stone and I, but she tickled Sia’s tummy, making the little girl giggle. “I’d better get you kiddos home. Let’s go. Thanks for watching them, Logan.”

“Any time,” I nodded, letting her leave and turning to Stone. “What are the chances she’s just on a typical Blake adventure?”

He scoffed, turning his phone to face me as he spoke. “Considering Cruz just sent footage of her being shoved in a trunk at a gas station an hour out of town the night she left? It’s pretty slim, Donahue.”

CHAPTERTWENTY-ONE

ANDER

“How can the trail just go cold?” I snapped as Cruz showed me footage of Blake’s kidnapper in one angle, but vanished in another. We’d been searching for twenty-four hours now, and I was getting antsy.

He sighed, eyeing me. “Their tech guy has better tech than me, Lavaro.”

“Can’t you make your tech techier then?”

“I’ve been doing upgrades for weeks, dude. I don’t know how they’re doing it, but they keep hacking into my shit and frying things,” he scowled, typing on the keyboard rapidly as codes and footage popped up all over his monitors. “They obviously wanted us to know about taking her, or they would’ve wiped this footage too. Hopefully, that means they want us to find her, right?”

“Or her body,” I grunted, flicking my gaze to Raven, who was sitting at a computer with Penn and Riley. The girls seemed to be searching street cameras manually, which was pointless if Cruz’s targeting system couldn’t find her.

Raven shouldn’t have even been near the damn computer, but she’d insisted on helping. I felt better having her here, this place was as secure as things got, but it also meant she wouldn’t freak out that I was running off to save my ex-girlfriend.

If Blake got hurt because of me, I’d never forgive myself. I had to find her so she could return home to her sister, she was all she had.

My eyes narrowed on Will as he approached the girls. He’d been awfully chatty to Raven today, and Cruz chuckled when he noticed me glaring at him.

“If you’re worried of losing her to Will, you’re not fucking her right.”

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