“I sure would. I’d just hide it better.”
I let out a snort of laughter. “You always did have more tact than I did.”
“Damn straight.”
My phone buzzed on the table, and Hadley’s name flashed across the screen. I hit accept. “Hey, Hads. What’s up?”
“I might have a problem.”
I straightened on my stool. “What’s going on?”
“I’m pretty sure someone’s following me.”
“Following you where?”
Calder was on his feet in a flash, pulling some bills out of his wallet and tossing them on the table. He motioned for me to follow him towards the door.
Hadley muttered a curse across the line. “I thought he was just riding my ass at first, but he’s following every turn I make.”
I pushed open the door. “Where are you?”
“On my way home.”
“Turn back towards town.”
Hadley had taken her inheritance from our grandparents and bought a gorgeous piece of property fifteen minutes outside Wolf Gap. But the price for that beauty was isolation. None of us had been crazy about her living by herself, but she’d been determined.
“I’d turn around if there was a place to do it, but I don’t want to get boxed in.”
I beeped the locks on my department loner vehicle and climbed behind the wheel, Calder jumping into the passenger seat. “Calder and I are on our way. You’re going to be okay.”
I glanced at Calder as I hit the lights. “Hold this and put Hads on speaker.”
He did as I instructed as I radioed for backup. “We’ll be there in a few minutes. Just hold on,” he assured her.
“Shit,” she cried out.
“What the hell was that?” Calder barked.
“He rammed my bumper.”
I pushed down on the accelerator. “Can you make out anything about the vehicle or the person in it?”
“Not really. A truck or SUV. Big grill.” Another crash sounded across the line.
Calder gripped the phone tighter. “Hadley!”
“I’m okay,” she said through gritted teeth. “You want to play, asshole? Hold on.”
“What are you doing, Hads?” God, I hoped it wasn’t something completely insane.
Tires squealed in the background, and then a loud thump sounded. I held my breath, waiting. The sound of what could only be gravel and rock spitting out from under tires came through the phone speaker. “Got it.”
I gripped the wheel harder. “What exactly did you get?”
“I turned off my headlights and pulled a U-turn around that old pine a mile from the turnoff to my place.”
Calder let out a whoosh of air. “You could’ve gotten yourself killed.”