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This wasn’t sitting right with me. “I need to talk to Crow. We might need to send some guys back for her, some of ours.”

“Sounds good. You want me to send him out?”

I was outside, and it was nearing five in the morning. The night had been about interrogating Estrada’s men, who told us nothing. It wasn’t that I didn’t believe them. I did. We let Machete loose on them. He’d been feeling a certain way since they took his woman. But it was that they didn’t know anything. They were told to grab two Red Demon women. Kali had been specifically mentioned, but when she went missing, they had to improvise. It happened exactly as Kali guessed it had.

“And the two guys?”

The guy was crying and bleeding, but he wasn’t holding back. It only took two hits before he broke. His friends had been the same. “I don’t know. We were told two women. The other van might’ve been told to get people friendly to the Red Demons. They were easy pickings. Right there and talking. We saw the one at your table in the bar so we knew he was an ally of your club. That’s all I can say. Honest. You don’t get it. We have to go back with someone or it’s our head and our family’s hanging. You can’t mess up with our boss.”

“Yeah. He’s a great guy. We’re aware.”

I nodded to Boise now, and added, “Send Stripes too.”

He went inside. After we were done with the interrogations, we were getting ready to go to New Mexico and meet with Heckler. Or at least that was our plan. I’d not given Crow the exact details, instead announcing to everyone to get ready to ride.

He was coming now, and Stripes showed up a second later. He paused, seeing Crow with me. “You want me to come back?”

I motioned for him to come over.

He did, and I asked Crow, “I left my woman at your headquarters. Now I can’t get a hold of her. What guys do you have back there?”

“Some prospects. We cleared out the hangarounds until this was all cleaned up with Estrada, but I left a few of my most trusted guys there. Shelly’s there too. I asked her to watch over your woman, and the last she told me they were eating at the diner with my guys. She sent me a text saying they were buckling down until she heard more from us. That was it. You want me to call her?”

“I do.” I glanced at Stripes, who was taking in the exchange with narrowed eyes.

An unspoken question formed from him to me, and I gave him one slow nod.

He nodded back, already starting to pull his keys out, but we waited while Crow was putting a call through to Shelly.

He ended the call, frowning at the phone. “Called three times. Keeps going to voice message.” He hit another number, putting the phone to his ear, and telling us, “I’ll call my guy. Have them find Shelly or your woman.”

His guy answered.

“Yeah. Hey. Shelly around?”

We waited as his guy went to go and find her.

A second later, his voice came over the phone, “She’s not here, Boss. Neither’s her car.”

“What about Ghost’s old lady?”

I gave Stripes a nod, telling him, “Keep your phone close.”

He took off, lifting a hand to let me know he heard me. He went to his bike and a second later, he was tearing off.

The same time, the guy said, “Yeah. She ain’t here either. She was in the back room, but she’s gone and her bag’s gone too. You want us to keep looking for her?”

Goddammit. Heads would roll.

I growled, grabbing the phone from Crow. “You tear that fucking place apart. If you can’t find her, get your bikes and haul ass to where they might’ve gone. That’s my woman.”

“Yes, sir!”

I wanted to shove Crow’s phone down his throat, but he didn’t fuck up. I had. Kali was my woman. I should’ve designated one of my guys to watch over only her. Goddammit! What had I been thinking?

“What do you want to do?”

I wanted to find Kali, but my woman or my brothers? I had to pick right now.