Canary by Tijan
Ash
No fireworks happened after I came out of the restroom.
Cavers, Gus, and Jake were in our truck.
Abram and Raize’s sister were in theirs.
Raize was waiting for me, studying both trucks. His attention moved to me as I came to his side and he touched under my chin. “You want to explain Jake’s attitude toward me?”
I sucked in my breath. “I thought you’d wait.”
His eyes barely flickered. “What's up?”
“I don’t know. You said ‘we’ when you were referencing that you got your sister out and Jake asked me who was with you.”
“Did you tell him?”
I shook my head. “He knows I know who was with you, but nothing else.”
“You told him about Abram?”
“No, just that I thought I knew who the person was that was with you. That’s it, literally. I didn’t know, you know, but Abram made sense.”
He started to step back, but I caught his shirt, holding him in place.
My chest tightened. I didn’t like what I was about to do, but… Raize had to know.
“He hasn’t cut off his woman.”
Raize tensed. “What?”
“He called her, told her the lie about his mother, but he’s been talking about her.”
God.
What was I doing?
Had I just signed her death warrant? Because Raize would not let it stand, especially now with his sister in the mix.
“And he’s pissed, thinking I’ve been lying to him?”
“Well. Yeah.”
Raize cursed under his breath, then sighed. “We’ll deal with this later. Go with them.”
“Where are we going?”
“There’s a safehouse I know in Colorado.”
“Why Colorado? That’s like, a twelve-hour drive.”
He scanned over me, his mouth growing tight, but then he sighed. “Because I want to be as far away from this border as I can be, and somewhere that’s nowhere close to the East Coast or Texas.”
“Well. Then. That makes sense.”
He grinned, his eyes softening before he patted me on the ass. “Get going. Sleep if you can, alright?”
I gave a small grin back. “You too.”
He ran a hand over his jaw. “If my sister doesn’t freak out that her arm might touch mine, I’ll try to get a nap in.”
He leaned down, giving me another soft kiss, before we parted.
SOME GUY
That girl…
A man stared at her. She was pretty. She looked like she knew the guy she was with, and he leaned down to give her a kiss. She smiled at him.
But then she turned and he saw her whole face.
He rocked back, stunned, but yeah.
He stared at the missing girl’s poster pinned to the board in front of him. It was her.
Well, golly gee, his aunt’s bee in a bonnet.
He pulled out his phone and dialed the number, hoping there was some sort of reward.
