Oh fuck.

The cabin.

34

DANNY

“The place is he? The place the hell is he?”

Toby burst into the room in a flurry of coats along with his tie hanging loosely from his neck. His face, drawn and pinched, instantly paled when he caught sight of Lucas within the wheelchair subsequent to me and he darted ahead with a mushy cry.

“Lucas! What occurred, what occurred?!”

“Toby.” I moved ahead and caught his arm earlier than he may lay his hand on Lucas’ injured shoulder. Toby turned to me, his eyes huge and his lips parted when he lastly noticed the Detective standing in entrance of me.

“Mr. Ashbluff? I’m Detective Banner. I’m investigating Scarlett’s disappearance. She’s your sister, appropriate?”

“Kidnapping,” I corrected instantly. Detective Banner sighed barely, and he nodded.

“Sure, kidnapping.”

“Kidnapping?” Toby spun again to Lucas. “And also you’re harm—Sebastian, how is he?”

“Sir, if you happen to’d like to sit down?”

I surged ahead, catching Toby because the gravity of the scenario hit him and almost toppled him over. As I guided Toby down into one of many plastic chairs, Lucas caught the Detective’s consideration.

“May we have now a minute?” Lucas requested.

Detective Banner appeared unwilling to go away however after a number of moments of Toby panting along with his head hung between his shoulders, he agreed with a nod.

“5 minutes.”

The second the door closed, Lucas surged up from the wheelchair the hospital had compelled him into and examined the power of the sling round his arm. “That is bullshit,” he spat. “We must be on the market searching for her, not wrapped up right here.”

“What occurred?” Toby lifted his head and glanced between us. “What occurred?”

“Shane.” My voice was bitter. “I don’t know all the things, however he turned up on the home and I suppose Scarlett heard the door as a result of she answered it. The following factor I do know, I’m waking as much as a scream and Sebastian is yelling after which there was a gunshot.”

“Shane, he introduced a gun,” Lucas added. “Fuck is aware of the place he received it from, however he shot Sebastian on the steps, and he fell. He’s secure, principally. The bullet nicked a lung, and he broke a number of ribs within the fall, hit his head fairly exhausting too however he’ll be okay. He was so— I reached the steps and Sebastian was on the backside. Scarlett was there and Shane was waving the gun round. She tried to warn me however…”

Lucas trailed off and grimaced.

“The bullet hit me within the shoulder, and I went down. I got here working out and by the point he received me up and we headed down the steps, Shane had taken Scarlett and the final we noticed was his truck. Then we known as the ambulance, known as you and now we’re right here.” A everlasting frown had settled on Lucas’ shoulders and after some pacing whereas he talked, he lastly sat again down.

“Why,” Toby whispered. “Was there one thing she didn’t inform us? Why did he do that? Why?!”

I bit again the surge of irritation on the questions. How have been we imagined to know the reply to those?

“No,” Lucas muttered. “We knew he was loopy. He tried one thing within the metropolis, however we stopped him. I believed we’d scared him away.”

“She’s talked about him earlier than,” I agreed. “We bonded over our loopy exes, however she spoke as if he was one thing of the previous. As an alternative, he’s right here.”

“He was drunk. I may odor that a lot.” Lucas’ face twisted in disgust. “Ranting about how she owed him, and he was going to make her pay.”

“Cash?” Toby glanced between the 2 of us. “Is she in debt?”

“I don’t suppose so. It’s not that form of debt,” I stated, pondering again to our earlier conversations. “He’s possessive and psychotic. I believe he looks like he owns her, or on the very least he has some loopy possession over her that he thinks he’s owed compensation for since they broke up.”

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