Tight Ends & Tiaras by Lex Martin

Author:Lex Martin [Martin, Lex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lex Martin

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BEN

When I reach the end of the room, I turn around and head the other way. Back and forth until I’ve practically worn a path through the old carpet of the cabin. I snap the rubber bands on my wrist so hard, they welt the skin beneath. The only other thing that seems to help is pacing. It’s better than sitting here, feeling helpless.

Johnny is right. Janelle might be jerking me around right now. She could be sitting somewhere with her ex or some friend, laughing her ass off. But what if she’s in trouble? What if she needs someone to care enough to pick up the damn phone and call for help?

“Are you still on hold?” Olly asks from the couch where my friends are camped out.

I nod as the tinny voice on the other end of the phone line returns.

“We can send a cruiser over this afternoon,” the dispatcher says, sending a hot flood of relief through me. “I’ll connect you to an officer. One moment, please.”

I hold my hand over the phone and talk to Olly, Johnny, and Sienna. Amelia took off after Lily threw up on her and never returned. “She said I don’t need to wait twenty-four hours to report a missing person.”

Thank God Sienna told me not to postpone calling the cops. All those TV shows that say someone needs to be missing twenty-four hours before you contact the authorities are wrong, apparently.

After repeating the pertinent information to the officer, I hang up with a ragged sigh. My stomach lurches, and I take a deep breath to calm the hell down. This shit reminds me too much of when my mom died and officers came to our house. The last thing I want to do right now is talk to the cops, but I don’t want to take a chance. Janelle and I might not be on the best of terms, but that doesn’t mean I want anything bad to happen to her.

Sienna comes up to me, and without any words or discussion, we wrap our arms around each other.

She fits perfectly against me, standing between my parted legs. I close my eyes and breathe in her sweet, calming scent.

“We’ll find her,” she whispers as she squeezes me tight. “You’re doing the right thing. It’s better to call the police now while there might be clues where she went.”

A knock on the front door has us all jumping at the sound, but it’s only the landlord, a sweet older lady named Fern.

“Kids, I hate to kick you out, but I’ve got another group of students who are supposed to stay here tonight.”

Fuck.

Sienna wanders over to her and ushers her outside where they talk quietly for a while. A few minutes later, she returns with some good news. “She said the cabin is ours.”

“Jesus, you’re the best. How’d you talk her into that?”

She smiles awkwardly. “I might’ve rented the cabin for a few more days. I needed to offset her loss, you know?”

“I’ll pay you back.

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