Page 65 of Montana Falls
“You, bunny. You have problems and I presume there is foxes chasing you, or hunters trying to trap your tiny fluffy body in their evil nets.” She pulled herself up from her cuddle to smirkat me. “But don’t worry. I will murder them all for you and make fox scarves as trophies, and put the hunter’s heads on my walls.”
I grabbed her hair, using the shorter strands to pull her head back just enough that she would feel it as I trailed my fingers over her cheekbones, whispering in Spanish as best as I could, trying to be sweet.
I thought Ihadbeen sweet until she burst out laughing.
“I love you too, but you really didn’t compliment me there.”
I burst out laughing. “What? I was trying to say you were beautiful.”
She giggled harder. “You saidvello, but you meantbello, which is still wrong because I am not a boy. Next time, saybella, though I do appreciate the sentiment, bunny. You are beautiful, too.”
My bedroom door opened, Kody strutting back into the lounge, ripe for our girl’s ridiculous thoughts and questions and to save me from the embarrassment of my mildly funny mess up.
“Papi, do you know how to make jello? I wish for some.” She asked.
“Of course I do.” He pulled her off me as he peppered kisses on her cheeks. “I can make some soon. We have to go out.”
“Why?” I grumbled at the idea of doing anything productive when I felt so rough.
“Darius thinks he found Widow and Delilah.” Kody replied, popping my bubble of sex peace in an instant.
All thoughts of snacks, naps and hangovers instantly vanished as I watched Sapphire’s brain switch on, solely focused on finding our missing friends.
“How?” she asked.
“No idea. His phone call wasn’t that long. Just to tell us to meet them all somewhere. He called Beau too.”
“Where?” I asked as I woke my brother and Logan, and we all hurried to get dressed.
Kody listed off an address I vaguely recognized, not too far from where we were.
“It’s on the list of O’Malley places Shannon gave us.” He explained, as he yanked a pair of socks onto Sapphire’s feet whilst she put her hair up in a messy bun.
“Then let’s go.” She ordered, and in less than a minute, we were on our way.
We headed into the car, guns ready, vests on. It was better safe than sorry, even if a vest couldn’t do anything for a headshot. And barely two seconds later our cars sped down the gravel road, kicking up clouds of dust behind them as we tore through the city towards the GPS location we’d been given.
My heart pounded in my chest, every beat syncing with the vibration of the tires on the uneven ground. I couldn’t shake the feeling of dread that gripped me. Delilah and Widow were out here somewhere, dead or dying or worse. Darius had managed to track them to this godforsaken plot of land that John O’Malley once owned, but now we had to find them before it was too late, which was a real possibility.
Cassie had taken them to fuck with Sapphire, and she was an expert at that.
And expert at lying and acting and bullshit.
There was a real possibility we were hunting corpses.
And sure, when we eventually pulled up to the plot of land, tires screeching to a halt, I did have a bit more hope because Delilah had been stitched up.
If she was meant to die, shouldn’t she have died already?
Beau’s car was right behind us with Aiden and Ruby inside, followed by some of the Red Diamonds gangsters who had come to help, and though I was nervous, I shook it all away and concentrated on nothing but the mission as everyone spilled out of the cars, guns drawn, tension crackling in the air.
The land was overgrown, thick with weeds and wild grasses, the trees pressing in from all sides. In the distance, I could see the faint outlines of a dilapidated barn and a few rusted-out cars that looked like they hadn’t moved in decades. It felt like the kind of place where terrible things happened, where people went missing and were never found. The same went for the small hunting cabin, with busted windows and a vibe that screamed horror movie, that stared at us all from a few dozen feet into the treeline.
“Everyone stick in their groups and be careful.” Sapphire ordered. “I have a bad feeling.”
“Agreed.” I murmured. “Kody; let’s go in the cabin first. Check it out for… for whatever.” I gave him a look he instantly understood.
“Cica,stand guard here? Let me play hero for a minute.” He teased Sapphire, and though she frowned and glanced between us, clearly a little confused, she didn’t stop us.
