Total pages in book: 66
Estimated words: 61929 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 310(@200wpm)___ 248(@250wpm)___ 206(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 61929 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 310(@200wpm)___ 248(@250wpm)___ 206(@300wpm)
I didn’t realize just how bright today was until a dark hood suddenly covered my face.
I gasped as it was pulled tight around my head, my feet leaving the ground as I was dragged backward into the unknown.
Chapter 19
Kai
“Where is Aisling?”
My voice rang throughout the clubhouse as I walked out of Aisling’s dark, empty bedroom, flashing the triplets a confused look as they lounged on the couch.
“I thought she was having tea with her friend,” Claude replied as he sat up. “She’s supposed to call one of us to come get her when she’s done.”
“Has anyone heard from her then?” I asked as I looked over at Hayden and Lincoln as they abandoned their game of pool to approach me.
“Not me,” Hayden said before checking his watch and frowning. “She’s been gone for a minute. Then again, she could still be chitchatting with her friend.”
He had a point, but I didn’t like not hearing from her for this long. She was very pregnant, and we had a cruel rival gang to worry about. One who was so terrible that a pregnant woman felt so unsafe that she had to flee from them. I wanted Aisling in my sights now.
“Bradley!” I called out.
Ten seconds later, Bradley emerged from the office where he was doing some research on the hospital we planned to take Aisling to for delivery.
“What?” he asked as he looked between us, seeming suspicious of the fact that we were all huddled together.
“Have you heard from Aisling since Auden dropped her off at the café earlier?” I questioned him.
Bradley shook his head without pause.
“Nope. Why? Is everything good?” he replied, urgency starting to flood into his voice.
Something cold and dark had me by the back of my neck in a vice grip.
Dread. Something felt odd.
I grabbed my phone out of my black pants and selected Auden’s number from my contact, pressing the phone to my ear as it started ringing.
Auden picked up after a few rings.
“Hello?” he answered.
“Where are you? Are you still patrolling around the café that she’s at?” I asked him, my heart racing furiously as I waited for the answer I wanted. The one I needed.
I had to make sure that Aisling was okay.
“Yeah, I had to stop by the pharmacy to pick up some more vitamins for her, but I’m about to pass the café now,” Auden said, not sounding as on edge as all of us were. Maybe we were overreacting, and Aisling was having too good of a time to cut the day short just yet.
“Is she there?” I asked. Each second that passed felt even more terrible than the last one, and I was about to go down there myself to see her with my own eyes. That was the only way to put myself at ease for now.
“Shit, she’s not. I told her not to leave without telling one of us!” Auden said, the volume of his voice shooting up. His rapid breaths sounded next as he hurried down the sidewalk. “I don’t see her. Have you guys tried to call her?”
“Someone call her!” I barked out.
“I got it,” Lincoln said as he fumbled with his phone, pressing it to his ear and listening. He then frowned and shook his head. “Voicemail.”
“Fuck,” I bit out. “She wouldn’t go anywhere else but here. Something must’ve happened.”
“I’ll check around the area before I come back,” Auden told me before hanging up.
I tightened my grip around my phone, doing my best not to throw it and break it in case Aisling tried to call me.
“All I can think about is the worst,” I murmured in a low, tense voice as the others gravitated toward me.
“The Hornets found her and took her,” Chris gritted out with narrowed eyes, speaking my fears.
A ripple of tension seemed to go around the room as we all looked between each other. Fists tightened. Eyes narrowed. Jaws clenched. We were ready to go to war over her and our child.
“They must’ve been watching us, and we didn’t even know it,” Bradley gritted out. “We should’ve noticed!”
“We’ve been so focused on the fact that the baby is coming soon,” Claude sighed as he shook his head in a defeated, agitated manner. “Too busy watching her on the inside than patrolling the outside.”
“Well? What the hell are we waiting for? We need to go to the Hornets’ clubhouse and take them down once and for all!” Bradley said, his head whipping around.
Hayden nodded in agreement.
“She can’t stay with them long. Who knows what they’re going to do to her?” he pointed out.
“Stop,” I told him in a firm voice, not wanting to hear it. My thoughts were bad enough without him adding a bunch of twisted scenarios. I looked over at the front door as Auden stormed inside, shaking his head.
“I can’t find her. I think the Hornets took her,” Auden said before holding up one of Aisling’s beaded bracelets. “I found this on the ground. She wouldn’t have left it.”