Page 15 of Ride the Wind (Devil's Knights 2nd Generation 8)

She stepped into my room and closed the door behind her. “Uh, well, yes, that is what we agreed, but that was before Kerry went missing, and you and your friend were the last ones to see her alive.”

*

Chapter Seven

Reese

I didn’t want to be here.

I didn’t want to ever step foot in the Sons of Sin clubhouse again.

But here I was.

Desperate for help to figure out where the hell Kerry was.

Kerry had been scheduled to work at seven o’clock this morning, and she had never walked through the front door. With each hour that passed, the more and more worried I got.

I had lost count of how many times I had called her, but I knew when I had called her around one thirty, it went straight to voicemail.

Blain and I had gone to the police station the second the bakery closed, but we were met with no help at all. I had told them what had happened two days before at the party, and as soon as I had mentioned the Sons of Sin, it was like the police washed their hands of anything else I had to say.

They told us we didn’t have any proof that something had happened to her because, from the sounds of it, she had just decided to run off with Brain, and there wasn’t anything the police could do about that.

So here I was.

I needed to talk to Brain and Zig.

I knew Zig wasn’t the last last person to see Kerry, but I figured he could help me.

“What do you mean Brain and I were the last ones to see Kerry alive?” Zig demanded. “She’s your friend, darlin’.”

Yes, Kerry was my friend, but I couldn’t find a trace of her anywhere since the clubhouse party. “I know, Zig. That is why I’m trying to find out where she is. Her car isn’t where we parked it, but it’s not at her house either.”

“When was the last time you saw her?” he asked.

I rolled my eyes. “I just told you; you were the last one to see her. The last I saw of her was when she was in Brain’s lap, and he was manhandling her.” I shuddered at the image of Brain’s hand on her ass and arm around her waist.

“I wasn’t the last one to see her, darlin’. I don’t know what to tell you other than you’re talking to the wrong guy.”

“Then get me to the right guy, Zig. Where is Brain?” I would have asked for Brain when I walked into the clubhouse, but I wasn’t sure he would even talk to me. If he had done something to Kerry, he wasn’t going to just spit it out.

I was pretty sure that Zig hadn’t done anything to her, but he might know who or what had happened to her.

Zig tipped his head to the side. “I don’t know.”

“You don’t know?” I asked. “You guys all live in the same building. It’s like a fraternity for thirty and forty-year-olds,” I snapped. I motioned around his room. “Hell, I think that might be an insult to fraternities.”

“You just come here to accuse me of some bullshit with your friend and insult me?” he growled.

“No.” I stepped toward him. “I came here because you are the only person, I think, who can help me. I went to the police station, and the second I mentioned the Sons of Sin, they pretty much kicked me out the door.”

“That was your first mistake, darlin’.” Zig shook his head and ran his fingers through his hair. “You never mention an MC to the cops. Most will just look the other way or act like there isn’t anything for them to help you with.”

“Yeah,” I sighed. “I figured that out once I was walking back to my car with absolutely no help at all from them.” Zig was my last idea. I wasn’t sure that he really could help me, but it was worth a shot. “Just point me in the direction of Brain,” I pleaded. “I will do all of the talking. I just want to find Kerry.”

“Your friend who left you high and dry the other night?” he asked. “From where I am standing, it seems like she should just get a little tit for tat.”

I rolled my eyes. “Yeah, you would be right if I was worried about some guy just walking down the street, but this is Kerry. Not only does she work for me, but she is one of my best friends. I can’t just not do anything when she doesn’t show up for work two days in a row. Her phone is either dead or off, and there is no sign of her at her house.”

---