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It wasn’t as messy as the living room, but there were still drawers pulled out, and dishes in pieces on the floor. I could work with this.
“She has to know about the flash-drive,” Callum said, still following behind me.
I peered into the dining room. “Was it necessary to dump her parent’s ashes out?”
“Aye, I didn’t do that. She did. Or maybe dude in the freezer. Either way, it wasn’t me. I respect the dead, for the most part. I wouldn’t mind pissing on her daddy’s remains.”
“Me and you both,” I replied absentmindedly. I wasn’t sure how close Nova and her father were. We hadn’t gone that deep into our family histories. Half the time we spent together consisted of me being balls deep inside her pussy.
The other half I was focused on figuring her out, learning just who Nova Markov was.
I didn’t get the feeling she hated the him, even though she should of. I scanned over the table, grinning when I spotted her mistake.
“Whoever that man is downstairs, he didn’t do this.”
“How do you know?”
“That.” I pointed to the near empty liquor bottle Nova had left behind. Truth relied on perspective, and I had plenty of that. “Now, tell me, why of all days would she decide to empty that urn?”
It took him a second, but he eventually caught on to what I was getting at.
“Well, fuck.”
I shrugged. “We can handle this. She can’t. She won’t know how.
“Yeah, that’s true,” he agreed.
“Let’s go.” I walked back through the house.
I needed to get to her before someone else did. Nova wasn’t a seasoned criminal. I was. I lived and breathed this world of mayhem, thrived in it.
I had to give her some credit for making it as far as she had, but at the end of the day, this puzzle of hers wasn’t hard to piece together. And that was just one of many problems. She was way out of her depth, involved in something so much bigger than she could imagine.
I felt like a first-class jackass for not realizing what the fuck was going on sooner. I’d made a colossal mistake where she was concerned. It wouldn’t happen a second time.
CHAPTER NINE
NOVA
I pulled around to the back of the building, wondering how safe it was to leave my car here without supervision. The motel was one of those places that hosted seedy affairs, hookers, and other dirty deeds that went down in pay by the hour rooms.
Weeds were growing through the cracks in the asphalt, and litter from fast food was strewn across it. I popped open my door, taking a cautious look around as I hit the lock button. There wasn’t a single soul in sight. Same with the cars. Only two sat in the back, parked closer to the shabby building than mine was.
Out front there were three more, four if I counted Emery’s.
My paranoia that Rhett would somehow materialize out of the thin air had me choosing this spot. The Camaro was too noticeable to sit where someone could see it from the main road.
I snagged my purse from the passenger seat, deciding to leave the bags until I had better clarity on what was going on. I pocketed my keys, and reached skyward, hearing a s
mall pop in my back. Walking forward, I tugged my shorts down from where they’d risen.
I had drove for so long my ass cheeks were numb, and my legs felt like jello. I could have stopped miles back at the first place I’d initially suggested, but I needed the drive.
Turns out, that was for nothing. It did nothing to clear my mind. My emotions were just as jagged, if not more than they had been, my insides were tight.
I’d made it out of Legacy Falls, but now I was faced with another question I didn’t have an answer to.
What now?
