Total pages in book: 56
Estimated words: 52639 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 263(@200wpm)___ 211(@250wpm)___ 175(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 52639 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 263(@200wpm)___ 211(@250wpm)___ 175(@300wpm)
Talon “Tripp” Crews is the Haywood’s Landing Hellions president and overall, all Hellions charter pres. He took the gavel from his father-in-law Blaine “Roundman” Reklinger, Hellion original. He’s a strong leader and the club always comes first. If he’s out of pocket, there is a good reason for it.
It isn’t a second later, Karma’s phone rings. Tripp’s number pops up on the screen.
“Karma, it’s Tank,” he explains as soon as Karma answers and puts it on speaker.
Fuck, this isn’t good. The caller ID was Tripp’s phone, why is Tank on his phone? Did something happen to our president? This day is the worst ever and it’s just beginning.
“She’s got my kid,” Karma states through gritted teeth barely keeping it together. “Busted and I are headed down. Couldn’t get a flight fast enough local, headed to Wilmington to jump on one. We’ll be to Florida in three hours. Won’t make church. Tried to reach Tripp. Didn’t get an answer.”
“Yo,” Tank says not directly into the phone, “Tripp,” he pauses, “Karma and Busted are out of pocket. Anna took Hollis.” I can hear something being thrown and hitting a wall or table. There is shuffling of the phone.
“Get your son, get in touch. Dia and Maritza are missing,” Tripp says, and my blood runs cold. If Maritza is missing could this be tied to Anna taking Hollis?
“What do you mean, Dia and Maritza are missing?” Karma requests clarification. His face is white as a ghost and set in stone.
“Don’t fuckin’ know much. Maritza crashed at Dia’s last night. BW got a text from Dia around two this morning asking him to get Skye from her place and take her home with him until she came back. No information on where she was going, when she would be back. He got there; shit isn’t in place. Dia is very particular, and BW says nothing is tossed around, but it’s not neat and tidy as she normally is. It seems like she left in a rush. Maritza was gone too. Neither of them is answering calls from anyone. Location is turned off.”
“Did you force track their phones?” Karma wonders the same thing I was about to ask myself.
“Shut off. The watch BW gave his sister that also has a tracking device is on her dresser. She knows better than to leave without it on.”
What in the actual fuck! To our knowledge Dia hasn’t figured out the watch tracks her, but it’s engraved, and she typically doesn’t go anywhere without it. BW and Dia have a super close relationship and she treasures everything from her big brother.
Karma lets out a frustrated sigh, “Busted can drop me at the airport in Wilmington. I can get Hollis on my own, he’ll be back to help find the girls.”
“Hell no,” I tell him because I don’t want him facing his psycho ex alone. Regardless of the need to find Dia and Maritza, Hollis matters too.
“No,” Tripp orders. “Busted stays on you. I’ll get some boys in another charter rounded up to take your back. You know how Anna is. You can’t do this shit alone. She’s liable to say or do anything. Shit goes down and she doesn’t make it easy to get Hollis, you will have Hellions at your back, Karma. That is non-negotiable.”
“God dammit,” Karma yells letting out his frustration. “Ruby been looped in? Maritza doesn’t just take off. She’s too level-headed and responsible.”
Dia can be a wild child. Like the time she was working with Karsci, BW’s woman, behind his back to stage her own death. BW walked in on Karsci holding a knife to his little sister’s throat. He lost his shit and Dia was pissed he came rushing in.
Maritza doesn’t take risks like that. She truly is calm tempered and thinks everything through. She’s always been like the big sister not only to her own siblings but to me and Colt too. Growing up, she was the one watching the time to make sure we didn’t stay out playing too late. Maritza never wanted to get in trouble.
“I’m here,” Ruby states. “Go get your boy so when I find my daughter, I don’t have bad news to give her. She loves Hollis like her own.”
He isn’t wrong. Maritza has always watched Hollis for Karma. If it is his visitation, Hollis is with Maritza while he works. More than that, she makes his lunch, helps him with his homework, and even takes him to the dentist. Hollis prefers Maritza to take him to the doctors or dentists because he says she distracts him. There isn’t a single thing for school, or a game Maritza has missed for that kid. Maritza’s love and bond with Hollis is genuine.
I don’t know much about Anna other than she’s an epic bitch. Every which way she can play games with Karma using Hollis, she has done it. She isn’t motherly. I don’t understand it. Karma gives her a schedule of every baseball game, school function, and the broad is hit or miss. If she thinks she can get something from Karma she shows up, otherwise she’s ghost.