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“Where’d you come from?” Val asked in surprise.
Felix, who I’d heard arrive though none of the others had, tossed his daughter over his shoulder and said, “I’m the ride to the airport.”
He was.
But only because I wanted to ask him a few questions about things related to supplies.
I could’ve asked Val, but she would’ve gotten suspicious.
Felix might be suspicious after I ask him for more supplies for the team, but he wasn’t going to press.
I tried not to put the husbands of my sisters in positions where they had to lie to their spouses, so it was just easier to keep them as much in the dark as possible, too.
“I want to go with you, Daddy!” Linny cried.
“Nope,” Felix placed her on the ground. “I have to go to work. I only volunteered to take Uncle Keene because it’s on my way.”
That was true.
I’d been talking about needing a ride—because I refused to spend two hundred bucks on airport parking—and he’d volunteered. Though, I was killing two birds with one stone with taking him up on the offer and not someone else.
“Bummer,” Linny grumbled.
She looked so much like Val in that moment that I had to smother a laugh.
“Ready?” I asked Felix.
Felix walked over to his wife, pulled her by the ponytail until her mouth was pointed where he needed it, and kissed her.
I looked away, because even though they were all adults now, they were still my baby sisters. And that was gross.
“Ready.” Felix winked at his wife. “Goodbye, ladies.”
After a chorus of goodbyes, Felix walked with me out of the apartment and to his fancy new truck.
It had more bells and whistles than any vehicle I’d ever seen in my life.
I opened the door and got in, tossing my stuff over the seat into the back.
Felix waited until we were on our way before saying, “What do you need?”
“We’re running low on everything. We’ll need more IV bags, all accessories to start an IV, antibiotics. Anything and everything that one would need for emergency situations,” I answered.
“Got it.” He nodded, his eyes considering. “I can have that delivered up there to you, or I can get it brought to your apartment here.”
I was already shaking my head. “I don’t plan on being there much longer than a few days. Just go ahead and have it delivered to the apartment.”
Felix nodded, and the rest of the trip was spent in relative silence until we arrived at the drop off point.
“You need to tell them what’s going on,” he said. “If they find out that you’re out there putting your life in danger, they’ll be mad.”
I was already shaking my head. “I can’t.”
“Why not?” he asked, sounding worried.
I looked through the windshield at the quickly darkening sky. “I have a lot of sins to atone for. Once I do… I’ll quit.”
Felix snorted. “You have no sins to atone for. The sins of your father are not your own. And you won’t be quitting unless someone forces you to.”
