Total pages in book: 70
Estimated words: 69785 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 69785 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 349(@200wpm)___ 279(@250wpm)___ 233(@300wpm)
My lips formed into a smile. “I am.”
“I’ve wanted to go there, too.” She flushed. “I hear they have some really nice ‘other things’ as well.”
By ‘other things’ we meant sex toys. They were discreet, tasteful, and awesome.
Or so I’d heard.
“So Crockett’s for a burger, okay?” Six suggested as she pulled in front of Crockett’s place. “Because I’m craving the hell out of a burger. And Crockett makes the best in town.”
• • •
After my agreement they helped me get out of the car.
By the time that I was inside, I was winded but properly awed by the changes.
I looked around as I took in all the new redecorating that Crockett had done to the store.
“Wow,” I breathed. “This is very nice.”
Crockett sighed. “I had a water leak. The water leak trashed the front of the store. I had to hire an emergency contractor to come in and fix the water leak, but I’ve had other help making it nice.”
“Well, I hate to say that it’s great, but the results are stunning,” I said. “How’s your grandpa?”
“He has a new front porch that’s even shadier than the last and also comes with a new rocking chair due to a few mishaps with a board. He’s in hog heaven right now,” she explained as she walked toward her grill and went to work on our orders.
I turned to look at the two women.
“I really am glad that y’all came to break me out,” I told them. “I don’t really have any female friends down here. The one that I first tried to make hated me on sight.”
“I hope that she rots in prison,” Six sang. “Though, after her ‘giving’ those girls to those men instead of helping them, I’m kind of thinking that she needs to rot in hell. After I take out her ankles.”
I snickered.
“I’m not sure what to think of it,” I admitted soberly. “I mean, I knew that she was a bad person. It was plain to see. But I didn’t realize how bad of a person until all this mess came up.”
“It’s like a hydra, too,” Beckham added. “You cut off the head of one monster, and two more are revealed in its place. It’s like a never-ending cycle of shitty people that hurt women and children.”
I agreed wholeheartedly.
I could see why Trick immediately agreed to help.
Just the idea of that happening to me or someone I knew was terrifying. Not that it wasn’t terrifying that someone else might see the same fate, but it hadn’t affected me before. Now that my man was in this line of work, though, it was becoming more and more real just how prevalent it was.
The sizzling of the burgers going on the grill had me looking up just as the phone in my pocket rang.
I quickly pulled it out, fully expecting it to be Trick, but was pleasantly surprised when I saw it was Auggie.
In the last month, she’d gotten really serious with her ‘boyfriend’ to the point that Trick was now worried he needed to have ‘the talk’ with her.
A talk that I’d explained I’d already had with her when he was out of the room, which had lent him instant relief.
“Let me get this,” I said as I showed them the picture on the screen. “It’s Auggie, Trick’s sister.”
They both nodded, loving the photo of Trick and her on the screen, Auggie practically hanging over Trick’s head as she tried to get her phone away from him.
It’d been taken in my bedroom with me on the bed laughing my ass off.
At the time, Auggie had gotten a message from her boyfriend, and Trick had wanted to read it and scan the contents to make sure that they were being good.
They had been.
It’d actually been a really sweet puppy video.
But in the meantime, I’d gotten the cutest photo of the two of them.
“Hey, Auggie.” I smiled at the girl’s face filling my phone. “How are you today?”
“Not Auggie, bitch,” Ignacia snarled. “Get here now, or I’ll blow her head off.”
I froze solid.
“Where are you?” I asked.
Beckham and Six, reading the tone of my voice, went silent as well.
“I’m at Auggie’s place,” she said. “And if you don’t hurry, the boyfriend dies as well.”
I licked my lips. “It’ll take me twenty minutes to get there, at least,” I said in a placating tone. “I’m still not even able to drive yet. I… I’ll have to have someone bring me.”
I looked at the two someones.
“As long as they stay in the car, I don’t care,” she agreed.
Then she hung up, leaving me with two very curious women.
“Let’s go,” they said as soon as I explained.
CHAPTER 25
There is nothing like an ice cold beer… after an ice cold beer.
-Trick to Swayze
TRICK
“I’m sorry, but what?” I asked, pinching the bridge of my nose.
“There’s some, err, loud sounds coming from your sister’s apartment,” the manager of the Cascades where Auggie lived explained. “And we can’t find her boyfriend, either. Which leads us to believe that they’re in there together.”