Chapter 41
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
Cole
“Want to hit the range?” Ty asks me as we walk out of the stadium to his truck.
“Why, because if you go home there is going to be a gaggle of women?” I ask him.
“Exactly. Maybe King and Dean would come too.” he suggests.
“I’ll text them.” I tell him
Cole: Want to hit the range with Ty and I?
King: Bro date? What, are your women busy so you have time for us single people now?
Dean: I’m in.
Cole: Sure a bro date.
Dean: What time?
Cole: As soon as you can get there. We are heading there now.
King: I see how you glossed over that last part of my text. I’ll see you guys there
Dean: Heading that way now.
“They will meet us there. You cool if I invite Dane and Sean?” I ask Ty.
“Whatever. Dane’s cool. Just keep Sean away from me. I can’t be held liable if he pisses me off.” He responds.
I shoot a text off to Dane and Sean. Sean doesn’t reply but Dane says he’s in and will head over.
We get to the driving range and grab a bay. I text everyone where to go when they get here. Ty and I set up and he goes first.
“So no family dinner for you and A yesterday?” he asks coyly.
“Yeah, we spent the day in bed and didn’t want to leave the house.” I tell him honestly.
“I’m sure. So have you realized it yet?” he inquires.
“Yeah big brother. I did.” I answer.
“And what exactly is that?” He shoots back.
“You know but I’m not saying it until I say it to her.” I respond.
“You didn't tell her yet?”
“No, I don’t want to scare her off.” I tell him.
“You won’t. She loves you too.” He says without a doubt in his voice.
“I think you’re right.” I say.
“Say that again!” he shouts.
“You’re right. But I do want to make it special when I say it for the first time. Not just in bed after an orgasm.” I let him know.
“Glad you’re back to getting some brother.” he jests.
“Whatever, asshole. Play with your balls.” I tell him.
Dean, King and Dane all show up at once. We shoot the shit and talk about the season, the gala and just bullshit.
I’m up hitting golf balls when I hear my phone ring. I’m almost out of balls so I wait to answer it. Before I could even go to swing at another ball my phone rings again.
“Dane, go ahead. I have to check that.” I tell him.
I have two missed calls from Heather.
I dial her back and she answers right away.
“Cole, are you with A?” she asks.
“No, a group of us are at the driving range. She isn’t with you?” I ask.
“No, I had to go to the doctor and she was going to bring the Grover costume to the stadium and meet me back at the house for girls night. Dani and Laine are here but she isn’t.” She explains.
“She went to the stadium on her own?” I question.
“Yes, my doctor had a cancellation and called and asked if I could come in. I’m sorry Cole. I thought you guys might still be there and the security staff is there, so I thought it would be okay.” she tells me and I can tell she’s freaking out.
I take a breath so I don’t flip out.
“That makes sense sis. She isn’t answering her phone?” I ask.
“No, it’s going straight to voicemail.” she informs me.
“Okay, we will head over there and see if she’s there.” I let her know.
“Keep me updated please. Dani is freaking out just as bad as I’m right now.”
“I will. Bye sis. Love you.”
“Love you too brother.” she says before hanging up.
Don’t freak out yet. Maybe Toby was being honest the other night and it’s just something else.
“ Cole!” Ty shouts to get my attention.
“Cole, what’s going on?” King asks.
“That was Heather. Adriana is missing.”
“What do you mean missing?” Dean asks.
“Heather had to go to the doctor so A took the Grover costume to the stadium but hasn’t come back to the house.” I tell them.
“Okay, let’s go to the stadium.” Dane says.
“Ty and I can go.” I tell them.
“No, we all go. We can cover more ground that way.” King says.
“We all know you’re in love with her dude. That makes her family.” Dean tells me.
All I can do is shake my head in agreement. We get our stuff, King returns it and we head to our vehicles to drive to the stadium.
It feels like it took forever instead of the twenty minutes to pull into the parking lot.
“Her car is still here.” Ty says as we park next to her car.
“Hopefully she’s still here.” I tell him.
The other guys pull in as we are getting out so we wait for them.
“It doesn’t look like anyone else is here.” Dane says.
“That’s what worries me.” I tell the guys.
“Let’s make a plan. King, you and I, let’s take the first and second floors around the stadium. Dean, Dane and Cole you guys take the third and fourth. If anyone finds anything send a text.” Ty explains to us.
“Okay.” I agree.
With that we all walk towards the stadium. Ty swipes his fob all the players are given to use the facility gym and we all go to our assigned floors
Dean, Dane and I start on the fourth floor so we can work our way down. We check every bathroom, open closet and door that we can. We shout Adriana’s name and wait to see if there is a response. We even check all the seats in the sections of the fourth floor.
“I know how many seats there are in the stadium but damn it’s different when you have to check them.” Dean says.
“You’re not wrong.” Dane agrees.
I just grunt. I know they’re just trying to keep me from going nuts and I appreciate them for it but every second that goes by and we don’t find her or hear from King and Ty I just get more upset and the thoughts of her being hurt just continue to encroach on my mind.
“Do you guys share your location with each other?” Dane asks.
I stop. I know that I told Adriana she could but I don’t remember if she did. I pull out my phone and go to the find my iphone app. Dammit! She didn’t share it.
“Fuck, we don’t. I swear to God if small dick Toby did something to her I’m going make sure he can never touch her again.” I grit out.
We finish on the fourth floor and start to make our way down to the third.
“Wait, why do you think it’s Toby? Isn’t he in Colorado?” Dane asks.
While we walk I tell them about the flowers and note on A’s car and the conversation she had with him at the gala.
“A and I talked about it after the gala and we don’t know if we believe him though.” I tell them.
I feel my phone vibrate and it seems that Dean and Dane do too.
King: Found her. Be quiet and come towards the maintenance closet where we keep spare equipment.
We all look at each other and nod. We take off racing towards the first floor.
Hold on Sugar, I’m coming to get you.