Page 330 of Nobody's Girl

“I am sure she would never deliberately give up any information. Unfortunately, drugs could be used to get the truth out of her,” Jakes says.

“Jesus,” Kyle says as he begins to pace back and forth.

I look at Eden, then turn to take Kyle back into the house. “Come on, Kyle,” I tell him. “Let’s go back inside. Your cookies are probably done.”

He follows me in. “This is bad, Ally. I just want her back here. What if they drug her? I can’t take that. This is my fault because I’m a mess up.”

“Kyle, stop that. This is no one person’s fault. Blame is not what needs to be done. We need to focus and take care of business. I’m positive we have lawyers who will get her out quickly. Have faith.”

Kyle looks at me, then hugs me tightly. “I love her, Ally. I know it now for sure because this is killing me.”

“I know you do. We’ll get her out,” I tell him.

Eden comes in the front door. “A lawyer is coming to see what he can get done. This is a bad situation, with the damn police department as well as the judge being against us. We’ll get her out, though, so don’t worry about that,” he tells us.

“Kyle, turn off the oven and take out the cookies, then let’s go get her car,” I say.

“Alyssa, I don’t think …” Eden says.

“I want to see this man,” I say.

Kyle looks at me. “Ally, there’s no way we can let you do that. You could end up in there as well. These are not people to think you can control.”

“We need to get her car back. That’s all I’m talking about. Let’s go get it,” I say.

“Don’t get out of the car, Alyssa,” Eden tells me as we pull up at the sheriff’s house.

I look over at Kyle, who’s sitting right next to me in his tall new truck. “You walk up there with him and don’t get back into this truck until he’s out the driveway,” I order him.

“Yes, ma’am,” Kyle says.

Then I turn to Eden, who’s sitting on the other side of me. “Picture the dogs in your head, They’ll immediately calm down.”

The minute both Kyle and Eden are out of the truck, the front door opens. An older woman is standing at the door and a large German Shepard stands in front of her.

“What do you want?” the lady shouts.

“We’re here to pick up this car. It’s my wife’s,” Kyle tells her.

“That girl ain’t your wife. My husband, the sheriff, told me that. So why’d you lie to him?” she asks.

“She is my wife. I don’t know why he would tell you anything different. I just need to pick up the car. I don’t want to upset you or anything,” Kyle says.

“You ain’t upsetting me, boy. You go on ahead and take that car. It ain’t mine. I’ll tell you one thing, though. You’re starting things out all wrong here,” she says.

“I don’t mean to be doing that, ma’am,” Kyle says, then motions for Eden to take the car.

Eden starts to walk towards the car and the dog standing in front of the lady begins to bark. “He don’t like you,” the lady tells Eden.

I focus on the dog and he stops barking. Eden continues towards the car, getting in and starting it. He drives past me as he leaves the driveway.

“Thank you, ma’am,” Kyle says to the lady, then walks back to the truck.

I see the lady lean down and say something to the dog, then it takes off running towards Kyle. She must have given it an attack command. I open the door and jump out, running towards the dog as Kyle moves quickly towards the truck.

“Get back in the truck, Alyssa,” he yells at me.

I stop, standing perfectly still as the dog stops in front of me, growling and barking. I look up to see the lady has shut the door. I see the curtain pulled back some, I guess so she can see out.