“Good. Let’s spend tomorrow getting you packed.”
“I don’t have much.”
“Then it won’t take us any time at all.”
They looked up at the ceiling as a couple started fighting in the apartment above them. The pounding and screaming were already getting to Hannah.
“This happens every night. Below me, there’s a baby that always cries, so I get it from both directions.”
Hannah didn’t know how Kiera had put up with it for four months. She wouldn’t be able to handle it for four days.
“Maybe we should head home right away once we pack your things,” Hannah said.
Kiera nodded. “I like that idea.”
The two women sat on the sofa and talked until early the next morning. They fell asleep next to each other as the sun was just starting to rise.
The pounding on the door was what woke them up. They both jerked away and gasped.
Hannah tensed. “What should we do?” she whispered.
Kiera shook her head. “I don’t know. No one’s ever knocked on my door.”
Hannah got up, crept over to the door, and put her ear against it. Her brows pinched together when she heard what she thought were her brother’s and Cullen’s voices.
How in the heck did they find her?
She cringed when Cullen’s voice came through the door.
“Baby, if you don’t open this door in the next second, your ass will be tender for a week.”
Hannah looked at Kiera. “It’s my brother and—”
“Hannah!” Cullen yelled.
She inhaled, moved the table, unlocked the door, and opened it. She wouldn’t admit it to anyone but herself, but she was glad they had come. The fear she felt grew the more she heard noises outside their door and the window the night before.
Chapter Fifteen
Rhys called Cullen as he was driving to the bus station.
“Hey, I had an idea and called someone in the security business down the street. They traced my sister’s office number to Kiera Shipley in Mason City.”
“You have the exact address?” Cullen asked.
“Yes. If we leave now, we will be there by morning.”
“Good.”
“Come pick me up. I want to go, too.”
“I’ll be right there,” Cullen said.
They did very little talking on the way there. Both were lost in their thoughts.
When they pulled up outside of the apartment complex, he just about lost it.
“Jesus. Fuck, this is crazy that she would come here. I see a drug deal happening right now down the street,” Rhys said.