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I’m going with Luke. See you later.

I smiled, pushing my phone back in my pocket and ignoring the buzz of an incoming message. I turned the car radio up, singing along to the song that played on the radio.

He wouldn’t cut me out of this, I was as much a part of this company as anyone else was. Which meant that I’d be doing the same work that they did. I loved that Ty wanted to protect me but he couldn’t protect me from everything.

We pulled up at Daley’s mansion and I furrowed my brows turning to Luke. “I thought we were checking Serena out, not Daley?”

“We are,” he replied. “She went inside an hour ago and hasn’t come out since.”

“So we’re going to follow her when she comes out?”

“Yep.”

After twenty minutes, I pulled my pad out and started to draw some doodles. This was the worst thing about watching and waiting, it was boring. After a few car games, ten pages of doodles and sixty minutes, the gates finally opened.

She drove through the gates in her bright red sports car with the top down. I nearly snorted with how obnoxious she looked, people like her didn’t deserve to drive cars like that. They should be driven in the way they were meant to be, not used to show everyone that you thought you were better than them.

“Let’s see where she’s stayin’.” Luke rubbed his hands together, started the car and went in the direction that she had gone.

We followed her all through town, watching as she would check herself out in the mirror at every opportunity she could get and completely unaware of her surroundings.

“Thought so,” he said as we came to a stop opposite the most expensive hotel in a fifty-mile radius.

“What?” I frowned, writing the name of the hotel down. I really needed to start carrying my camera around with me. If these things were going to come up without any prior planning, I had to be prepared. I didn’t even have my belt or vest on.

“She wouldn’t stay in anything other than luxury, she always was a money grabbing bitch.”

My brows flew to my hairline at the venom in his voice. “Whoa!” I held my hands up. “What’s with all the hating?”

Not that I wasn’t thinking the same thing but I didn’t expect that to come out of Luke’s mouth.

“After what she did to Ty? You telling me you don’t feel the same?” He raised a brow at me and pulled back out onto the road.

“What did she do to Ty?” I knew that she’d done something but what it was, I had no idea.

“I’m not surprised that he hasn’t told you everything,” he said, stopping at a red light. “What she did nearly broke him.”

I gulped, not wanting to comment. I wanted nothing more than to beg Luke to tell me what else had happened but I wanted to hear it from Ty, not anyone else.

“Do we not need to follow her? What if she goes back out?” I asked, deciding to change the subject so that I wasn’t tempted to ask him what had happened.

“Nah.”

“Why?”

“Now we know where she’s staying, Evan can infiltrate the hotel system and we can put a tracker on her car.”

“Ah, I see.”

I stayed silent the rest of the drive back to the compound. Thoughts going around and around in my head. The one positive thing was, I wasn’t thinking of Max. At least not until I thought that.

I jumped out of Luke’s SUV when we arrived back at the compound and walked swiftly into the warehouse. They were all waiting for us, sat at the meeting table. So I walked around to my chair next to Ty and sat down.

“Anything?” Ty asked, not looking at me.

“Yeah, she’s staying at LACEY’S.”

Kitty snorted. “Typical.”