Chapter Seventy–One
DOMONIC
After four solid hours of Mango trying to seshice me, I’m ready to hang myself. By the time she’s dressed for her shift at the club, I’m more than thrilled to take her there. Especially after checking the locator app on my phone and finding out that Draven is still here. I checked about thirty minutes ago, expecting to see her hallway to Mam by now. But according to the app when she and Paul left my house they went directly to the bar and that is where she stayed. The aching in my thest has trained to my fangs and each time I draw in a breath the pain gets worse. So all I can think when I see that little dot on the map pulsing over the Moonlight Lounge, is Thank God
I drop Margo off at the club and head straight to the bar to find tell and Koda sitting at the corner booth when I walk in. Other than the two of them, the place is completely empty and oddly enough… I can’t seent Dren
Texas Dom,” Bartlett hisses. “You look like shit.”
hasn’t even been a whole night yet and already I have dark circles under my eyes. I growl, “Where is she?”
I know I do. It ha
“What do you mean?” Bartlett chackles. She left for Miami. 1 book ber to the airport sell
I shake my head. “No, you didn’t.” Then I walk up to the table and flip my phone around so the pair of them can get a real good look at the map and the little blue – GPS dat themselves. “This says she’s here. You’re lying to me. She never left.”
|| “Yes she did.” Bartlett insists. Shaking his head, he hisses, “You’ve been spying on hef?”
course I have
Ind. “Of course
“Sicko,” Bartlett spes “You better update your software them, because I promise you, she’s gone.”
My eyes floot toward Kods and I notice the strain in his muscles as his angry gaze focuses on the wall behind me. He’s pissed about more than he’s letting on, that much I know. But right at this moment, I could give a rat fuck what it is
“Oh really?” I kiss, thinking that somehow Bartlett has managed to mask her sont from me. I dial Draven’s number and listen for it to ring. When it does, my body poes cold. I to the counter and leap behind the bar.
There, just below the cash argister is Draven’s phone and half of my plan to keep tabs on her dies a swift death.
She left
“Fuck!” I shout, pounding the top of the bar with a closed Est. 1 glare at Bartlett. “Were you behind this?” I snap. “You said you took her to the airport! Did you give her the money and the tickets?”
He noch. ‘Of course I did.” His face is a mixture of sadness and fatigue as he studies me. “She left her phone here?”
“She did.” I answered quietly. Then turning to Koda 1 say, “Call the airport and find out if she got on the plane.”
He nods. “I’ll have to drive down there to show them my badge. They won’t tell me anything over the phone.”
“Well then go,” I snapped
He pushes away from the booth angrily, shaking his head at me as he stalks my way have a feeling that if she left her phone here she
I dont give a fuck about what you’re feeling Roda. I give a fuck about her. Go to the airport now!”
He clenches his jaw, his eyes lighting with blue fire. This is your fault asshole. Not me,” he growls out stepping toward the exit.
“Fuck you!” I shout at his back as he leaves. I liked him better when he didn’t talk,” say, dropping myself into the booth in front of Bartlett and running my hands over my chest to ease the throbbing. “Fuck this hurts!‘
This is what you wanted” Bartlett inform me with a smick. “So enjoy your pain.”
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can turn the sign and start up the stereo system.
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(when the Ent patrons roll into the bar and he gets right to work. I’ll have to wait. I’ll
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commeter of Draren behind the ro
counter looking sexy as hell and collecting phone numbers. I can still remember the way locked when I asked her for them. Then ben rage when she realized I had stolen them from her room Fuck. I can still smell her. But I know I laughing it Ins
my head. She’s not here. Shes not So I twist the cap loose on the other bottle and down that one too.
of go to kart. I go to Miami and watch her until the aching in my chest go
i what Bartlett augomsted and tell her everything. Then maybe she’ll understand why I did what I did and she’ll let me hold her again before I leane. She can phone back and I can call her idenever I want to. Yeah, plat’s what I do. I smile at that thought until I hear one of the customers at the bar speaking to
lappened to that rode lerle Kartender you had? Haven’t seen her
arkettle and de right here in the booth.
Lowe Koda peta so the airport
At this point I am sufficiently drunk and preparing to hop on a plane to
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However, what he has to say smashes that plan and I shatter the neck of the bottle i
“Dom,” Roda’s voice is full of dread. She never got on the dam plone. She didn’t i
Eve really lost her
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