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cell phone and he had left about a dozen messages.  Donovan had been on his phone from the time they pulled out of the garage.  Every cop in Sin City was looking out for Lex.  They all knew her.  Most of them liked her.  Donovan hung up and looked at Jed.
                  “Nobody’s seen her, man.  You don’t think she would have left town, do ya?”  Donovan was rubbing the back of his neck again. 
                  “I don’t think so, but she did seem a little freaked out so…”  Jed trailed off as Donovan’s phone rang.
                  Donovan hit the talk button.  “Carter.”
                  Jed could hear the voice on the other end.  He whipped the car around even as Donovan was getting the location and the specifics. 
                  “We’re on our way.”  Donovan hung up and turned to Jed.  “You catch all that.”
                  Jed nodded.  “It has to be her.  Kid was dragging a redhead out of the bar and she knocked him around and started an all out braw l . ”    Jed smiled.  “ That’s definitely our Lex .”  He shifted gears and pressed the pe d al all the way to the floor. 

Chapter Four
                  Lex was sitting on the bar watching the action.  Making sure she didn’t need to help Dwayne.  Damn, the man was impressive for a human.  He had pulled a man off his back while knocking another guy out.  He looked like he had it all under control and was enjoying it more than he probably should be .  Sam had already called the cops and was standing behind the bar watching all the commotion along with Le x.  Anyone who got close enough got whacked with Sam’s bat.  Everyone knew it and kept the fighting contained to the dance floor.  It at least looked like a controlled riot.  The guy that had busted the beer bottle was unconscious on the floor and everyone else just seemed to be using fists. 
                  Sam tapped her shoulder with the bat.  Lex swung around with a questioning look as he pointed with the bat to the door.  Shit.  Shit.  Shit.  Jed was looking at her and elbowing Donovan.  She didn’t have much time, but at least they couldn’t rush through the throng of people.  She looked toward the back door, but she would have to jump over moving bodies to make it through there.  She looked back to Sam.  “Kitchen?”
                  Sam nodded and she swung around on her bottom dropping her feet on the other side of the bar and took off through the kitchen.  She slipped a little on the wet floor, but righted herself quickly.  She had the handle to the kitchen door in her hand and yanked.  Woo hoo .   She was so out of here.  Just as she got the door open a huge tanned hand slammed it closed.  Damn.
                  “Going somewhere, honey?”  Jed sounded pissed. 
                  Lex pressed her forehead to the cool metal door and counted to ten, hoping she could come up with a way out.  She didn’t know what was wrong with her.  She had two of the hottest men on the planet-two men that she wanted beyond belief-and she was running. 
                  A pale hand ran down her upper arm to her wrist , pulling her hand from the door .  “Who did this?”   Donovan’s voice was just above a whisper spoken between clenched teeth , but she could hear the barely suppressed rage in his voice. 
                  She looked at her wrist , not surprised to find the bruises that had come up in a band around it.  She shrugged.  “I fell.”   
                  Jed spun her around and trapped her against the door with one hand on either side of her head.  “Try again, sweetheart.  Who tried to drag you out of here?”  If she didn’t know both of them as well as she did, she would have been terrified. 
                  She looked from Jed to Donovan.