Chapter 19: Roxy

Velvet Row looked different with the lights up.

It was noon, and the front doors were propped open on an empty dance floor.

The air smelled of bleach and last night's liquor.

Three black SUVs sat in the club's lot with their engines off.

I had my laptop open on the dashboard of Tiernan's truck, and I was already inside them.

"Their telematics are a joke," I said. "All three are on one fleet account."

"Can you stop them?" Dane said from the back seat.

"I can lock them in a ditch."

I hit enter.

Three sets of taillights flashed once, and the locks slammed down, and the dashboards went dark.

"Now they're furniture," I said.

Dane grinned.

Tiernan looked at me across the cab.

He had not slept in two days, and he did not look away from me.

"Plan," I said.

"I walk in the front," he said. "Alpha, alone, asking for my aunt. They'll all come to the door."

"I go in through the kitchen," I said.

"I'll be right behind you," Dane said. "Probably holding something heavy."

Tiernan caught my hand before I got out.

"Roxy is not your fault," he said.

"I know."

"Say it like you mean it."

"Tiernan, my friend is asleep in there, and the wolf in me wants to bite someone."

"Let go of my hand."

He kissed my knuckles and let go.

The kitchen door had a keypad.

It took my flip phone and a cable a few seconds.

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