Page 62 of Life To My Flight

Mona placed both of her hands on either side of Audrey’s face. “Take as long as you need, baby. But I still want you to call me. Let me know you’re all right and tell me when you’ll be up for visitors, okay?”

She nodded. “Thanks Mona.”

Mona smiled sadly and turned to me. “I’ll take that now.”

I handed the paperwork over to Mona. “Please make two copies. One for the PD, and one for our records.”

Mona nodded. “Detective Rector is outside waiting to take the evidence.”

I closed my eyes and opened them again. “Okay.”

We left Mona’s office, hand in hand still.

We’d just reached the hallway that led to the outside parking lot when the parking lot started to catch my eye. “What are all those bikes...?”

“I’m sure that has to do with my brother,” she whispered beside me.

I looked over at her and then back to the parking lot again. “What do you mean?”

There had to be fifty or so bikes out there.

They were everywhere.

“My brother is a member of The Dixie Wardens,” she said softly. “He knows something’s wrong. I haven’t spoken to him in nearly a year... but I just needed him. I need him bad.”

I looked over at her just as the first tear slipped out of her eye.

“Oh, Audrey. I know, honey, I know. Do you want me to talk to him first?” I asked. “Tell him what happened?”

She nodded emphatically, crying uncontrollably now. “Please? Would you? Please?”

“Okay, which one is your brother?” I asked.

She pointed to the man who was the only one out there with an actual truck. “That one. He’s my brother.”

“What’s his name?” I asked.

She looked at me and smiled her first genuine smile all night. “Tunnel Morrison. He’s one of the best men in the world.”

He was also a cop.

Holy shit.

This was going to be bad.

Especially since Cleo was standing next to him, and on the other side was Detective Rector.

Beside Detective Rector, was my other babysitter, Silas.

“Okay, honey. Let’s go,” I said as I scrounged up some manifested courage.

As soon as we made it to the emergency room doors Audrey’s brother was sprinting towards us.

Audrey froze, and then launched herself at her brother, who caught her with ease.

“Audrey, what happened?” He asked.

I looked over the brother’s shoulder to Detective Rector and nodded him over.

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