Fallen Crest Home (Fallen Crest High #6)(50)

“Hmm…” Heather grunted. “Technically I’m Fallen Crest.”

“But your boyfriend is not.” I winked at her.

Her smile turned smug. “And he’s just as amazing as the rest of us.”

I added for Taylor’s benefit, “I’m pretty sure the party we’re going to tonight is a Roussou crowd?”

Heather moved out from behind the counter, taking a bunch of menus to some incoming customers.

“Considering the Kades have dropped the ball on throwing kickass parties,” she said as she returned, “I’d say the Roussou crowd is the only type of party you want to attend nowadays.”

“It’s safe for us?” Taylor asked.

She nodded. “Completely.” She held up her house key. “Make yourselves comfortable. I’ll be there in twenty minutes.”

I snatched it up. “By comfortable, you mean start drinking?”

She pretended to be confused. “Is there any other meaning for that word?”

Taylor and I moved around another incoming wave of customers and headed down the side alley to Heather’s house.





MASON


Logan popped his head up in between the front two seats. “How far is this place?” He’d agreed to ride in the back because Nate had the GPS ready to go.

“We don’t have an exact address, just an idea where it will be.”

“That’s fucked up. We could be driving for hours.”

We hadn’t been. We were an hour north of home, but as Nate said something else to Logan, I turned onto the shore road. Sam had said the cabin was located on this highway, and this area matched Becky’s description—not many houses, so a lot of trees and rocky cliffs. Nate and Logan were still going back and forth when I stopped the vehicle at the end of a driveway. I could see the tops of a white mansion, and the name on the mailbox said Quinn.

“We’re here?” Logan asked.

“I’m taking a wild guess, but yeah.”

“Do we know how we’re getting in?” Nate asked once we were parked. The house was three stories, with a wraparound porch. Logan and I shared a look as we got out and stood in front of the place. It was a cabin. Yeah, it was big and sprawling, but it was still a cabin. The paint was a little worn. I could see a few spider webs on the porch. The place wasn’t kept up, and I’d bet there was no state-of-the-art security system in place either.

Logan hopped up on the porch and rattled the door. “It’s locked.” He glanced back at me.

I gestured around to the back. “Check all the doors. They might have one unlocked—or even a window.”

And we were in luck. The door to the attached garage had been left unlocked, but inside was another door that opened into the house, and that one was locked.

Logan started laughing.

“What?”

He stepped carefully on a rug. “Are you kidding me?” He knelt down and felt under it, pulling out a key. “Fuckers literally left it under the rug. That’s almost as bad as keeping it in one of those fake rocks.”

He unlocked the door, and we went inside. We filtered into the kitchen, and Logan clapped his hands. “Okay, my genius brother. Where do we start?”

Nate flicked on a light over the stove. “They have electricity.”

“So if they have a computer, we can turn it on.”

“Let’s hope they don’t use a password,” Logan added.

I clapped him on the shoulder. “Maybe we’ll get lucky again and they’ll have their password written down somewhere.”

“Fuck. They probably will. But for serious, though.” He looked at me. “What are we looking for?”

“Anything that looks illegal?” I wasn’t sure what we were looking for, or if it would even be at this place. I just wanted something in hand to exchange for the favor I needed to ask my dad. I’d need his help dealing with Caldron, and I didn’t want to owe him. “Just look through their files.”

“Got it.” Logan nodded. “We’re thinking of what we would do if we were doing something illegal, like keep incriminating files as a backup in case something happens? Something like that?”

“Would you keep that in your house or office?”

“Where the authorities would go first?” Logan shook his head. “No way, and thinking of that, we need to start using Dad’s old place again. There are lots of good hiding spots for our future illegal endeavors.”

Nate had been rifling through one of the cupboards, but he stopped to grin at us. “Are we future white-collar criminals?”

“Everyone needs to have aspirations.”

Ignoring the joking, I moved down a side hallway and opened a door. “I found the office.”

“Just remember, Mase,” Logan called from the kitchen. “Bigstick is a perfectly acceptable password. Just because you use it, doesn’t mean others won’t.”

“Fuck you,” I called back, but was smiling as I turned on the computer and sat down. When the password screen came up, I rolled my eyes, and typed it in. “Apparently, Steven Quinn doesn’t have a big stick. It’s not the password.”

“Rocket man?” Logan suggested.

Nate added, “Pornstar?”