Rock Star Billionaire

"Yes, ma'am, I will," I replied as my mind started racing. I hung up and looked at Leslie as I said, "Liz is missing. I have to find her."

"Get changed and go," Leslie said as she shooed me out of the station.

"But I'm not off shift for another hour," I said. "I can't leave or Mrs. Rikka will have a fit!"

"I'll cover for you," Leslie said. "Go! Go find Liz!"

I made a run for the locker room where I quickly stripped out of my borrowed scrubs and tossed them in the laundry. I had just pulled my pants on when Violet, Jessica and Lydia rounded the corner of the lockers and saw me.

"Oh, hello, Alex," Violet said in a voice dripping with distain. "I thought you'd be up in the ER until nine."

"I...I'm...Leslie told me to go," I stammered as I tried to avoid talking about what I was doing down in the locker room. "I'm going home."

"I see," Violet said raising an eyebrow. "It wouldn't be because your druggie friend is missing, now would it be?"

"Huh? What are you talking about, Violet?" I said genuinely surprised that she'd have any knowledge of Liz or what was going on with her.

"Oh, I know all about Baker and her nasty little habit," Violet said wrinkling her nose. "She's such trash. This just proves that you can take the girl out of the gutter, but you can't take the gutter out of the girl. Right girls?"

Jessica and Lydia giggled nervously as they nodded and flipped their perfectly coiffed ponytails. I wanted to punch them all, but I knew better than to invite that mess into my world.

"I guess it takes one to know one, eh Violet?" I said with a wide-eyed innocence that I certainly did not feel. Violet did a double take before narrowing her eyes and getting ready to pounce.

"I wouldn't know, Pierce," she said. "I've never had to deal with street trash before."

"No, of course you haven't," I said feeling a little more angry by the minute. How dare she say such horrible things about Liz! "You've had someone to pick up after you and wipe your ass your whole life, haven't you?"

"You're so tacky, Pierce," Violet sniffed, but I could tell I'd gotten to her.

"Of course, I'm the tacky one," I said as I pulled on my top and grabbed my coat. "There you go, projecting your insecurities onto the closest target. I'm sure that when I'm not around, she uses one of you as her target, right?"

Violet's two shadows looked at me and then at each other before the stared at Violet and waited for her to tell them what to think.

"You look like you're doing the walk of shame, Pierce," Violet said, as she looked me up and down. "Where were you last night? Earning your tuition and rent money before you clocked in?"

"I'm not going to dignify that with a response," I said shaking my head, as I looked the three girls up and down. "God, you all are such mindless robots. Good luck, ladies! I've got someplace I need to be!"

I grabbed my bag and ran for the door. I didn't give a rat's ass what Violet and her posse thought of me; I had one thing on my mind and that was to find Liz and make sure she was safe.

I pulled out my phone and texted Cam asking him to call me before putting it back in my bag and heading out the door, wondering how I was going to find Liz.

The question was where would Liz be hanging out, and even more than that, would I find her time to save her from herself?

Billionaire On Fire Volume 4

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Cam

When my shift was over the next morning, I called loaded Tesla in the truck and headed out to help Alex find Liz. Leo was blowing up my phone trying to get me to commit to the press conference with Metzler.

"Not sure how we're going to juggle all of this, girl," I said to my canine companion as we drove toward Alex's apartment. I hadn't said anything about the rent payment I'd made to her landlord, nor was I going to. I knew that on Monday morning when the student accounts office opened up, I'd drive over and pay off her tuition, but I wasn't going to say anything about that, either. It was risky going behind Alex's back, but I figured that alleviating the financial stress was the least I could do to help her out, and that when push came to shove, Alex wo

uld understand that I'd had only the best of intentions.

I dialed Alex's number and waited for her to pick up, but her phone went straight to voicemail.

"Alex, it's Cam, call me," I said wondering where she was and why she wasn't picking up. I looked down at Tesla and said, "No one's answering, so I think we need to go check things out."