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“And you’ll have one. I have an extra guest suite in my house. It has its own private bathroom, so you never have to worry about anyone else going in there.”
“What about Ashlynn?”
“What about her?”
“Don’t you need to talk this out with her first?”
Kip shrugged. “With the hours she’s been keeping, it only makes sense to have someone who can be around at all hours. We’ll just set your pay at $800 a week plus room and board will take over for what I’ve been paying when we need you on nights and weekends.”
I had to look away when the girl started to get teary-eyed. Kip seemed to be bothered by it too because he quickly ushered her into a seat with his son, who had thankfully settled down.
“I’m going to get some Tylenol for him, make an appointment with the doctor, and go take care of something really quick. You stay here. If you need anything, or Knox gets worse, you yell for Tripp. He’s my dad, if he doesn’t come right away, someone else will go get him for you. I shouldn’t be gone long. Okay?”
“Okay,” she agreed quietly. The girl looked like she was fucking shell-shocked. Probably was. It was certainly a lot to take in, even for me.
“Need that address before I go,” he reminded her. She quietly offered it up and then bit into her plump bottom lip in what was most likely a nervous habit. She was worried that everything was about to fall apart, but that was only because she didn’t know who the hell the Savage Vipers were – not really.
“I’m going with you,” I told Kip.
“Wouldn’t expect any less,” he called back as we both headed out of the clubhouse to go find out just what exactly this Creepy Dave fucker had been up to. Kip was so slick; I didn’t think Nova realized that he took her keys along with him as we left.
Chapter 9
Breakneck
“This place looks like a creepy pervert lives here,” I mentioned as both Kip and I stood out front of the old Victorian house his sweet babysitter had been living in.
“We need to have someone run this asshole’s information.”
“I’ll get my guy on it as soon as we get back,” I promised Kip. He nodded and then we both set out to the front door of the house.
Kip knocked all polite and shit, but there didn’t seem to be anyone home. “Are we going in, or what?” Even though I asked the question, there was no doubt in my mind what the plan was. If Kip wasn’t willing, I was still going in to see for myself what this asshole had been up to.
“Fuck yeah, we’re going in. We need to get Nova’s shit out of here and I want to see the bathroom situation for myself.”
“Let’s do it then,” I suggested with a tilt of my head toward the keys he held in his hand.
Kip stuck the key in the slot and turned, then realized there was a deadbolt engaged as well. Once he unlocked that with the same key, we were both shaking our heads at the idiot who thought that was a good idea, especially since the slimy motherfucker clearly had shit to hide.
We walked into the house and immediately felt a chill in the air that had nothing to do with the temperature. It’s what pure fucking evil felt like when you walked by it. “Kip,” I mumbled his name.
“Yeah, man. I feel that shit, too. Something ain’t right here.”
“She said she’s upstairs, second door on the left, bathroom across the hall,” I told him.
“How the fuck do you know that?”
“I had one of the women ask her after we left.” He didn’t ask which woman, but there was no doubt in either of their minds that he knew just who I had put on the job. Sucked for her, too. Asking Nova questions for me put her in direct proximity to Kip’s kid. Scout would never hold the kid against him, even if the baby was the sole reason he and Scout couldn’t be together. That didn’t mean it wasn’t hard for her to be around him.
“Let’s do this,” He growled before taking two steps at a time on his way up to the second floor.
When we got up there, the first place we both went was to the bathroom, curious to see what was hidden there. At the last minute, I stopped him from entering and tapped my phone.
Breakneck:If cameras are running, we might spook him, and he’ll be in the wind.
Kip:Fuck! Hadn’t thought of that. I’m going to take a leak and have a quick glimpse. You go to Nova’s room and pack her shit up. We need to have someone sit on the house for a while and wait for this asshole to come back. When he does, we’re snatching him up and taking a closer look.
I nodded in response and turned to go in Nova’s room. The first thing I noticed, upon opening the door, were the drag marks on the worn wood floors in front of the door. It made me take a second look at the handle. There wasn’t a lock on the door at all. There wasn’t even a fucking flip latch on the inside to pretend she had any privacy. The tiny dresser next to the door fit the grooves in the floor perfectly. She had been using it to protect herself while she slept. Dave, the creepy fucking landlord, was going to get a mouthful of my boots whenever we were able to drag his ass back to the clubhouse for a little one-on-one chat.
