Page 45 of The Paths We Cross
I turn around. “We’re good. Did you get the guy in the SUV?”
“We did. The guys already questioned him. It’s a good thing you were there,” he says as he moves forward and closes the door behind him. “He was there to snatch Everly.”
Everly gasps in my arms. “I figured as much,” I mutter. “Was it Laura?”
Grayson nods his head and looks at Everly. “I’m sorry, Everly. I’ll let you guys get dressed and then we’ll take you to your house to pack a bag for the club. I think it’s safer for everyone to be there right now.”
“A full lockdown?” I ask.
“Not full yet,” he sighs. “Hopefully it doesn’t come to that.”
He turns and leaves the room, and I tilt Everly’s face up to mine, kissing her softly. “We’re going to be okay, baby.”
“Okay,” she murmurs softly. “Let me help you get dressed.”
Everly helps me get dressed, which turns out to be quite the challenge with all my bandages. After I’m dressed, we walk out of the room with my discharge papers and meet up with Grayson and Axel. They lead us to Everly’s Telluride. I ride in the back with Everly as they head towards our house.
When we turn onto our street, Grayson curses and I sit up, wincing at the pain in my head from the quick movement. I sigh when I see three cop cars at our house.
“What fucking now?” I groan.
“Let me handle it,” Grayson says.
Axel pulls in front of the house, and we all climb from the vehicle. Seargent Rojas walks over to us with a grim expression.
“What’s going on?” Grayson asks.
“We had a report of a dead body,” Seargent Rojas says. “It’s Jennifer Carter.”
“Shit,” I mutter. “We weren’t even here, Rojas,” I start to explain.
He holds up a hand to stop me. “We already knew that you were taken to the emergency room, and it looks like she was killed somewhere else and brought here.”
“It was staged?” Everly asks. “Who would do that?”
“The Devil’s Knights,” Axel and I say at the same time.
“This shit is getting out of control, guys,” Seargent Rojas mutters. “I can only keep chief out of this for so long.”
“We know,” Grayson murmurs. “But if he doesn’t stay out of club business, things are going to get ugly.”
“What the hell happened between you two?” Rojas asks.
“You tell me,” Grayson laughs bitterly. “Chief used to want what’s best for this town, now he seems to want to control it. I have reason to believe he worked with the Devil’s Knights to break up our agreed upon fight the other day.”
“That’s a bold claim, Gray.”
“It’s one that I’m prepared to back up.”
Rojas sighs. “Okay,” before turning to me. “You guys won’t be able to stay here until the property is cleared with the crime scene investigators. It might be a day or two, they just have to prove that her murder didn’t happen here.”
“You’ll have to talk to Lenny,” I tell him. “He’ll want to make sure no illegal searches happen.”
Rojas chuckles. “Of course, he will.”
“We need to grab some things from inside.”
“Just make it quick.”
