Page 54 of Iron

“You were there when the building was under fire.” I paused remembering that night. I wasn’t sure why I’d said it. Maybe I needed her to make the connection so she’d trust me more. “One of my men pulled you out, right?”

Her eyes went soft and I could see her retreat a little.

“Yeah. I never did get to thank him. What was his name?”

“Cable. And I’ll pass the word along.” I gave an appreciative nod of my head.

“Well, I’m sure you didn’t come down here to remember such fun times.”

“Yeah, right,” I said giving my head a little shake. “I’m lookin’ for Petra. She’s not upstairs.”

Rowan’s eyes turned worried.

“There was an issue with one of the girls. She didn’t show up when she was supposed to. Petra said she’d take care of it… but I haven’t heard back from her.”

It was like we both realized something at the same time.

“I’m sorry,” she sputtered frantically as she turned and rounded the desk again. “I got caught up in trying to reschedule Midori’s clients that I didn’t even realize how long it’s been.”

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and called Petra.

It was clear by the fourth ring that she wasn’t going to pick up.

Rowan reached for the cell phone sitting on top of the desk right as I ended the call and pulled up another number to call.

“I need a location on Petra,” we both said at the same time, though we were clearly talking to two different people. There was a look that passed between us but we didn’t bother to say anything about it.

“You got it, Prez. Give me a minute,” Cable said into my ear and I could hear his fingers clicking over the keyboard in the background. “It looks like her phone pinged off of a few different towers the last hour but is somewhere near her building now.”

“Hmm,” I hummed out as my brain tried to come up with an answer as to why she wasn’t here.

“Are you at that location?” he asked snapping me out of my thoughts.

“Yeah,” I quickly replied.

“And she’s not there?”

“No,” I said with a shake of my head though he couldn’t see it.

“Hurry.” I heard Rowan say in the background before she ended the call.

“She’s somewhere around there then. That’s about as good as I can do right now, Prez,” Cable told me. “Maybe she’s headed back there. The best I can tell you is that she’s somewhere within two blocks.”

“Alright. Keep watching it and call me back if you get any kind of movement.”

“You got it,” he said and then hung up.

I was worried but I wasn’t panicking yet. I knew Petra could take care of herself. That said, I didn’t like not knowing what was going on.

“Garen is pulling up her GPS stuff right now,” Rowan said when my gaze swung to hers. “He should have it in a minute.”

The far door opened and in walked one of Petra’s bodyguards. I recognized him but didn’t know his name. I could only assume this was the Garen that Rowan was referring to.

“It says she’s parked down the street. In the alley next to the dump building,” he said looking directly at Rowan as he spoke.

It was obvious he was loyal to Petra and that included respecting who Petra left to take her place when she wasn’t here.

“Dump building?” I asked with a raised brow.