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Her father rolled his eyes and tilted his gaze to the ceiling as if seeking guidance from the heavens above about what to do with his horrible, misguided daughter, who refused to play by his last-century rules of the way life should be lived, and the duty he felt she continually owed.
“Jocelyn, please,” her mother said with a whimper. “Do as your father wants. Just go to New York and try to find Jenna.”
Her father snapped his fingers in her mother’s face. “Don’t beg her, Joanna. If she can’t be bothered to do this small task for us, why then she’s no longer welcome here.”
Jocelyn slammed her eyes shut to keep from letting them see her roll her eyes this time. Getting under control, she opened them slowly.
Meanwhile, her mother’s response was to wring her hands harder and faster as she hung her head and sobbed softly to herself.
With her father’s standard threat, and her mother’s standard reaction to go with it, the time had come to either bow down and promise to keep looking or finally stand up for herself and tell them to let her be.
The melodrama was a mainstay in the home she’d grown up in. As annoying as she found it, Jocelyn wasn’t prepared to test her father. At least not today.
“Fine. I’ll keep looking. But I’m not going to New York. I’ll go back to Montana.” The only joy in that statement was the thrill that she’d get to see Logan and Kendall. And the true reason she was willing to keep up the search for Jenna.
Her father adjusted his glasses and frowned. “I believe you spent quite enough time in Montana wasting your efforts. This New York lead is much more promising.”
Jocelyn didn’t comment. Hating to mislead her parents, she simply said, “I’ll leave in the morning.”
Her father almost cracked a smile, but likely only because he thought he’d swayed her to his demand. He was wrong. But it would be a waste of time and breath to tell them.
Her father’s final decree made her blood boil. “One more thing. Do not turn your phone off again. It was very rude for you not to get our calls and messages for an entire day when you were wasting your time in Montana.”
Jocelyn had to physically clamp her teeth onto her tongue to keep from telling her father to kiss her ass. She’d answer her phone or ignore it whenever she wanted.
She slept for a few hours, then packed a few things including her work computer, and headed out before dawn the next morning to arrive in Enclave, Montana, by early evening. If the hours at the Old West Town park hadn’t changed, then Logan and Kendall would be closing the park and they’d possibly be off for the next few days.
As a nod to finding Jenna, she would try to get back inside the compound walls of their private home, and attempt to access their computer for that file listing of Dean’s name. This time she’d get it onto a flash drive. It probably wouldn’t provide any useful information, but her true reason for coming back had more to do with the two men who’d turned her libido on its ass than the desire to discover any information about her sister’s boyfriend anyway.
Likely Jenna wouldn’t be found until she and Dean ran completely out of money and came home on their own. Thus making this or any trip to find her completely useless.
Jocelyn had done some research last week and found a surface road leading from just past the city limits of Enclave to the walled compound she’d visited via the underground tunnel previously.
She took the road marked every few yards with privacy signs, ignored them, and drove all the way to the private compound gate. Rolling down her window, she pushed the intercom button that would hopefully put her in touch with either Logan or Kendall. A streak of desire ran down her spine at the audaciousness of just showing up. She hoped they’d be happy she returned to finish what they’d started.
“Yes,” an unfamiliar voice came over the intercom.
“I’m looking for either Kendall or Logan.”
“And you are?”
“Jocelyn Demarco.”
“Hold on.”
She hoped the surly-sounding guard would put her through to them. Likely she should have called ahead, but had wanted her visit to be a big surprise.
A giddy rush of pleasure raced through her veins at the possibility of finally discovering what Kendall’s version of round two would entail.
