Chapter 51
Fallen hard…
Dallas
“Get in there and find her. Now!” I demanded fervently before ending the call. Trevor had been outside her office assigned to monitor absolutely every person who entered and exited her office building.
After what happened last night, I couldn’t risk her getting hurt over something that didn’t even involve her.
I paced my office back and forth, wearing a damn hole in the floor with my anxious march as I thought of my next plan of action.
Teddy must have lost his mind if he thought I’d just lay down and let him continue to hurt the people I love.
I’d rip him to pieces if he even laid one finger on Delaney. Maybe they were right, maybe I should have taken care of him in the beginning but I had a heart for the miserable bastard. I mean if everyone had given up on me when I was a mess, who knows where I would be today?
I was torn from my thoughts when a text came through on my cell from Trevor. It was a picture of scattered photos of me and Lindsey the night she showed up at my condo. The way the photos were taken it seemed like the motive for her visit was to make it look like I was messing around on Delaney.
I knew her little act was a scam, a ploy for something bigger. Now, Delaney’s missing and she’s obviously seen these photos. She must have gotten upset and snuck out. I knew exactly where she would be.
I typed out a text as I walked out of my office. Jacob, who was sitting at the bar chatting with a few of the dancers, stood when he saw me coming.
“We are going to Delaney’s house. Now.” I snapped, walking past him through the front door of my club.
“Dallas, what’s going on?” Jacob questioned catching up to me as I approached the SUV that was parked in its usual spot.
“Just get me to Delaney.”
I needed to get to her so that I could explain everything. My stomach was a ball of nerves as the thought that she might not believe me crossed my mind. If she actually thought I was seeing Lindsey and refused to believe otherwise, I didn’t know what I would do or say.
As I sat there planning out how I was going to approach this situation, the realization hit me hard: why do I care so much?
If she were anybody else, any of the other Subs I had taken on, walking away and starting over would be simple, easy even – but with Delaney, I felt the need to fix things, to make sure she knew it was only her that I desired.
I smiled, finally hearing for myself what my heart had been telling me all along…
I had fallen for Delaney. Fallen hard.
* * *
We pulled up outside Delaney and Lacy’s house. I jumped out before the car even stopped, eager to get to her, to hold her, not even fazed that I wasn’t wearing my mask and for the first time she would see me for me.
Racing up the stairs taking two at a time, I didn’t stop at the door.
I turned the knob and barged in, meeting a loud gasp from Lacy who stood in the kitchen with a cosmetic face mask on while eating from a tub of ice cream.
Her eyes were wide and full of shock. I was confused for a moment until I remembered I wasn’t wearing my mask.
Lacy had never seen me without it, either.
“Lacy, it’s me Dallas, where is Delaney?” Her startled face changed instantly.
“What do you mean?” She snarled. “She was supposed to be with you.” She reached for her cell that was sitting on the counter in front of her.
She dialed Delaney and put it on speaker.
When the phone went to voicemail, my frustration turned to concern.
Delaney wasn’t a girl of many friends, she had one person she talked to, one person that she confided in and that was Lacy.
“What did you do to her, Dallas?” She stood there with her hip cocked and her head tilted.
“She wouldn’t have run off if you didn’t seriously fuck up.” She spit out her words like daggers.
I opened my mouth to respond to her very valid accusations when my phone dinged with another message. This time from an unknown number.
My heart sank as I read the words that crossed my screen.
‘Sometimes the choices we make affect others more than we even realize. And those choices deserve to be acknowledged.’
The exact words that were used to heed a warning with Twyla. Without saying another word, I turned and rushed to the SUV that Jacob was waiting in.
“What’s up b…” before he could finish I was already barking orders.
“Get to the club. Now!”
I dialed Enzo.
“Sir, I hacked into the CCTV after we spoke, just to see if I could find who delivered the envelope to Delaney, but I found way more than a delivery guy. There was a blacked out sedan parked in the alleyway with no plate for most of the afternoon. Around 4:15pm two men walked in through the back entrance. They had Delaney when they came back out. They had on ski masks so I wasn’t able to run any identity scans.
Whoever they are, they are good, all the footage for the surrounding CCTV systems was wiped clear of the general time frame so I was unable to follow them on surveillance.
I’m hacking into the building across the street to retrieve their footage now but with how thorough they seemed to have been, I don’t expect to find anything there either. ”
“FUCK!” I yelled, throwing my phone to the floor, thankful it didn’t shatter.
* * *
We pulled into the club’s car park, the tires screeching to a stop.
I buried my face in my hands out of anger and frustration.
“I know this is a lot, but you have some of the best security money can buy. Enzo is a highly qualified surveillance tech and one of the best underground hackers in the whole country. If anyone can find her, it’s him.”
Jacob was right. I do have one of the best chosen families in the game. And if there was anybody qualified to find my girl, it would most definitely be Enzo.
I took a deep breath and nodded. I needed to find Enzo and have him show me the footage from Delaney’s building.