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at me with sadness and concern in her eyes. “What’s going on with you, Ryder? This isn’t you. This isn’t the sweet Ryder I know.”
    “Nothing’s going on with me, Brooke. Can you please just take me home?”
    Brooke calls over Officer Brinks to open my cell. I get up and start walking for the door, but Brooke steps inside and tells Brinks to lock the cell behind her.
    “Brooke what are you doing?”
    “We’re not leaving this cell until you tell me what’s going on with you?” She walks over to the small wooden bench and takes a seat.
    “We could be in here for a while because I’m not talking about this with you.”
    “Ella is with Lucy and Brian is working, so I have all the time in the world.” She pats the bench next to her.
    I slump down on the seat next to her and fold my arms in front of me. If she thinks she’s gonna get me to crack, she’s got another think coming.
    “She’s gone, Ryder.”
    What the fuck?
    “She’s gone and she’s never coming back.”
    “God damn it, Brooke. Why are you saying this shit?” I squirm around on the bench, fighting back the tears I can feel welling up in my eyes.
    “Lucky is gone.” Her soft voice like nails to my heart.
    Fuck, Brian was right. She does know how to get under your skin and find exactly what it takes to make you fucking crack. And crack I do.
    “That night at the club, I told Lucky I loved her and she fucking bolted. I poured my heart out to her and she just left.” I begin to sob uncontrollably as every of emotion I had built a wall around comes tumbling free. All I wanted to do was to keep Lucky from running off with that douchebag Jackson. We got into a fight then the next thing I know she’s kissing me and pushing me against the wall tearing me from my clothes. After we had sex, I told her I loved her and she panicked and ran.
    “I miss her so damn much. I feel so empty without her, and I don’t know how to make this feeling go away. I’m fucking losing it, Brooke.” Brooke pulls me into her arms and just lets me cry it out. Let’s me get everything that I’d built up for so long come flooding out. Every painful memory of that night pouring free. The last thing I saw was her walking out the door, turning to me and mouthing ‘I’m sorry.’ Lucky has been etched into my soul since the day we met. Without her, I’m an empty shell of a man. She has my heart and I need to get her back.
    I slump over into Brooke’s lap and she gently strokes my hair. “Okay, here’s what we’re going to do. You’re going to come stay with us for a while.”
    “Brooke, I can’t do that.”
    “I’m sorry, but you don’t have a choice in the matter. Right now, what you need is to be with family and we are your family.”
    So damn bossy. But maybe her form of tough love is what I need right now. I mean she was able to get Brian out of the dark hole he was in, so why not me too. She’s right, I’m not doing well on my own. I need to be around people who care about me.
    “Okay,” I relent.
    “Good. Now it’s time we go find your girl.”
    I sit back up on the bench my sadness turning to curiosity by her statement. “Brooke, I’ve used every last resource I have to try and find Lucky and nothing has come up. She’s completely disappeared.”
    “That’s because you didn’t have the FBI helping you out before. My dad can find anybody, and I know he can track Lucky down. If you really want her back, we will find her,” she says confidently. I hope she’s right because I would give my left arm to find Lucky and bring her home.
    “I’m sorry for being so cold to you Ryder. You’ve been going through hell, and I was being such a bitch to you. Can you ever forgive me?” She slides her hand over mine and gives me a warm smile.
    “As long as you can forgive me for being a jackass, and for putting you in my spank bank after seeing you naked earlier this week.”
    “Oh, for fuck’s sake, Ryder.” Brooke rears her fist back and nails