Page 95 of Clap Back (Carter Brothers)
Three, they wanted to show their support of Auden’s new girlfriend.
“What are y’all’s plans for the rest of the day?” Hollis asked. “With Quincy home today and tomorrow, he’s hanging with Dalia, so it gives me plenty of time to go get a pedicure.”
“I haven’t had one of those in months,” Ellodie said, looking tired all of a sudden. “Yesterday we all went to visit Costas. And you know how the drive to see my brother can be.”
“How was he?” Garnett asked. “I meant to ask yesterday but…”
But shit had gone down, and she hadn’t had time.
Freakin’ Brock Austin.
It still sounded so weird to call him that.
For what felt like my entire life, he was my father.
Speaking of…
“I have to go the FBI offices in Dallas today,” I said. “They’re questioning Brock, and I want to be there to hear what he has to say.”
An ambulance rushed past the bakery hell bent for leather, and I followed it with my eyes, a weird feeling overcoming me.
“That sounds…”
I heard Ellodie talking, but her words didn’t compute in my brain.
A niggling feeling that something was wrong started to overtake me, and I reached into my apron pocket for my phone.
No messages.
I opened it, then hit dial on Auden’s number.
It rang twice before someone picked up.
And that someone wasn’t anyone I expected to answer.
“Hello, sister.”
Terror unlike anything I’d ever felt started to rush through me.
“Scott,” I said. “What are you doing with Auden’s phone?”
I had the attention of the entire room when I said those last few words.
Garnett’s phone was placed to her ear a moment later, and she was talking to someone quietly.
Ellodie, Hollis, and Shayne did much the same.
Pepper stared with wide, terrified eyes.
“I’m just visiting with him, you know,” he sing-songed.
“Scott,” I said carefully, trying not to let my emotions get the better of me. “Whatever you’ve done, it’s not too late to leave.”
“I’m not going anywhere,” Scott said. “I’m having a discussion, that’s all.”
I looked at Garnett to see her leaving the building.
I wanted to follow her so badly, but again, I wasn’t dumb. I knew my limits.