“No,” Jersey said. “It hasn’t.”
New Jersey pushed him back against the tree before he stood upright again and looked at me.
“Anything to add?” He asked.
I shook my head. “Think that pretty much covers it.”
Jersey kicked him in the head hard enough that he just slumped right over.
“I don’t even think I needed to be present for this little outing,” I mumbled while we made our way back out of the trees. “You just bored? Needed the chance to knock somebody out?”
“I don’t think anybody would take too kindly to me knocking you or your Judge out. Had to get it out somehow.”
I rolled my eyes, and they landed on the truck door that now sat open where I distinctly remembered closing the coworker before I tossed his phone and his keys.
“That’s not good,” I said out loud, but really just to myself, while I scanned the area around us. My phone vibrated in my pocket while I walked in the direction that I’d tossed the other phone. If he’d found the keys, the truck would’ve been gone.
“Uh, Indy,” I said to answer the call. “We might have an issue.”
“I think I found the house, Utah,” Indy said, ignoring my concern entirely.
Hell, my own concern vanished right into thin air with his words.
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE
memphis
Ihadn’t moved a muscle since planting myself directly outside of Indy’s bedroom with my computer in my lap. He stopped responding to my pounding on the door and didn’t bother to answer any of the questions that I screamed through it. So, I’d decided this section of the hallway was mine until that door opened, or until Jersey and Utah returned.
I was watching every move that both of their phones made with a laser focus, which nearly gave me an instant headache. There weren’t any cameras I could use nearby that would give me even a slight view of them. Neither man wore a camera. And against my better judgement, I hadn’t hidden a camera on Persephone at any point in the last few months like I’d considered on several occasions.
I sat there sweating profusely, imagining the million ways this little side quest could go horribly wrong, until both of their phones were moving quickly back in the direction of this house. Indy opened the door a few minutes after that, and I glared straight up at him.
“Don’t look at me like that, sweets,” he said quickly. “They needed one of us to be on the information side of it. It could’ve been a disaster if they’d been completely on their own, and you know they still would’ve done it anyway.”
“I could have just fucking blocked the number,” I said very impatiently. “I could have just fuckingdeletedthe number from existence.Youcould’ve done that, Indy. It didn’t have to happen this way at all. Why was nobody using their brain? You’d think with three of you involved, someone would’ve had a whole thought.”
“We’re talking about Jersey and Utah. That was never going to catch it for either of them.”
I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my own spinal cord.
I made my way back down the stairs just to nearly burn a hole through the flooring with the pacing that I did while we waited for the boys to get back.
“You can probably calm down, Memphis,” Trista said quietly from the kitchen island on one of my trips past it. “If they’re on the way back, whatever they did is already done and over.”
“That doesn’t at all mean it’s over,” I meant to just think, but ended up very much saying out loud.
“One of them would’ve said something by now if it hadn’t gone well,” she tried again.
“Just because their actions didn’t have immediate repercussions doesn’t mean they won’t bring about eventual problems.”
“She’s just going to be mad. Won’t do you any good to try to convince her not to be,” Indy chimed in. “There’s not much changing her mind once she’s made it up.”
“I swear to everything unholy,” I mumbled. “It’s like you all just choose to forget that there’s an entire criminal organization of highly skilled bounty hunters being guided by even more skilled hackers all across this country. And they’re all looking for us.”
The sound of Persephone’s exhaust from the driveway effectively ended that conversation. I went straight for the door to wait for whichever man dared to be the one to open it.
“Oh, fuck that,” Utah laughed the second he had the door cracked open just enough to see me. He stepped back instantly and motioned for Jersey to go first. Jersey scoffed at him and walked right in.
