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Both were vets and now shared their time there.

Though Holly was more so out in the field doing house calls. Which was ironic because it was a house call that had her kidnapped and almost killed.

Boone would normally be the one to make all the supply runs if it was shit out like it was today, but he was out of town with his wife and their child. Boone’s wife, Nettie, was a professional soccer player. She had just finished their season, and the three had decided to stay in Seattle for a few days getting some Christmas shopping done before they came home.

This time of year always snuck up on me.

One minute we’d just be getting rid of the snow for good, then it was back with a vengeance and it was Christmas time to boot.

My least favorite part of the year, because my daughter’s birthday was Christmas Eve.

This time of year always reminded me of what I’d lost. What my ex-wife had stolen from me.

Eleven years of my daughter’s childhood that I would never be able to get back.

“The PI get back to you?”

I shrugged. “Always the same answer. Once a month he calls me to let me know that there’s been no news.”

“You ask Apollo yet?”

Apollo was a member of another motorcycle club.

He was an ex-US Senator and a computer genius.

He could hack into the Pentagon and not get caught—unless he wanted to be.

The man was sneaky, humble, and utterly over-the-top intelligent.

He was also responsible for bringing some of the Dixie Wardens Montana club brothers here.

Six escaped convicts—well, seven if you counted Romeo who wanted nothing to do with a club—who’d wrongfully been imprisoned had made Sawtooth, Montana their new home. Apollo had been the one to break them out—literally—and create them a new life here.

In fact, one of those men, Odin, was now my best friend.

I hadn’t realized how much I held back with the club until Odin had called me out on my shit.

And then become a man I could count on for everything.

“I’m fucking terrified to,” I admitted. “If a private investigator and a sheriff with access to almost every database there ever was couldn’t find her…”

I was terrified that she was dead.

That was probably why I’d never taken this last step.

I didn’t want to find out that she was gone from this earth, and I hadn’t been there when she needed me the most.

“I’ll do it if you won’t,” he said.

Denver hadn’t been the president when my ex had stolen my child, but he’d been in the club.

He had a crazy ex-wife of his own, so it was understandable that he would know where I’m coming from. Though, he’d never lost his child like I had.

That was a different kind of feeling. One that I hoped that he never experienced.

“Incoming.”

I looked behind me to see Jessamy’s brother headed our way.