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“Oh, they’re not all from here. I had to go further afield to retrieve some of them. I was even in your neck of the woods. That was a quick trip.”
Something clicked in Cash’s brain and he gaped at Ortega, some of the coldness inside him disappearing at the revelation. “Our neck of the woods? In Billings?”
“Yes. In a weird coincidence, I acquired one of these assholes close to a bar where you guys were. I saw your truck. What happened with the girl that climbed into the back?”
Holy. Fuck.
“It was you?” Cash whispered. “You were the guy with a body over his shoulder? That you stuffed into the trunk of your car?”
“Ahh, so she did tell someone. I wasn’t sure she would.”
“You saw her there?” Ralen asked. “And you didn’t try to grab her?”
“I knew she wouldn’t have seen my face. And I’d made sure that none of the cameras in the area worked. She seemed harmless. You know I don’t hurt women. There was nothing to tie me to that place. So I left her. Did you discover her?”
“Ahh, yeah, you could say that,” Cash said, running his hand over his face.
“That was fucking reckless, man,” Ralen told Ortega. “Someone could have recognized you.”
“But they didn’t,” Ortega shot back. “And I was in a time crunch.”
Ralen shot Cash a look. Ortega was behaving recklessly which wasn’t like him. And he could have taken a minute to let Dante know where he was.
But at least it solved one mystery.
“Will you let Dante know you’re safe?” Ralen asked. “Because you know we have to.”
Ortega grunted and nodded. “Fine. But I do need your help getting hold of someone else. He’s being slippery.”
Great.
This was just getting better and better.
46
Addie was feeling at a loss.
She shouldn’t let the fact that Cash had left get to her like this. After all, their ‘relationship’ had to end at some stage.
They lived in different cities.
They weren’t destined for any sort of relationship. That had been made abundantly clear.
She’d gone into this with her eyes wide open. So she had no right to feel . . . to feel abandoned.
He hadn’t said goodbye.
No, but from what Butch had said, he and Ralen had to leave in a hurry due to some sort of emergency.
So it was no surprise that Cash hadn’t taken the time to wake her and tell her goodbye. And he’d messaged her to apologize for leaving in a hurry.
But she wished she’d gotten to say goodbye.
That was the part that really upset her. She might never see him again. They hadn’t had a lot of time together and yet it felt like they’d known each other forever.
It was crazy, but it had felt so right.
However, what had felt right for her obviously hadn’t been right for Cash.
