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“I was only telling my dad and asking his advice. Mom overheard and decided to get involved.”
“But I haven’t even told Amy about you yet.”
“I know that, and the fact you’ve not done it is really grating on me.” I gesture at her. “You need to tell her. If this carries on, Amy is not going to forgive you so easily for keeping this from her.”
Elle looks away.
“We’re not discussing this now, Luke. Now is not the time.”
“Yeah. Right.” I drop it, but I have no intention of letting it go completely. “Anyway, Mom now knows about Amy, and she’s not happy that she wasn’t there at all.”
“Did you tell her about me?”
“No, I didn’t tell her anything about you. She probably thought that she would need to find out something about the mother of her granddaughter and hired someone to find out more about you.”
“So I get a creep following me and taking pictures as a response.” Elle shakes her head. “God, as if I didn’t have enough problems right now without adding a potential stalker of a mother-in-law following me around.”
“We’ve both got crazy parents.”
“Crazy isn’t how I would describe Dad and Megan. Psychotic, more like.” Elle closes her eyes. “God, this is giving me a headache. I just want to go through my life with my daughter. I don’t want any of this drama.”
I notice that she didn’t mention me in that, and I have to admit that it hurts to hear that she’s not including me. I push that aside. That is not something I should be focusing on right now.
“What are we going to do?” I ask. “Are we going to go to the cops?”
“I’m going to be letting the cops know about this, although I don’t know if there’s anything they can do seeing as we barely saw the guy.”
“But you have the camera. You might be able to trace it back to its owner.”
“That’s true.” Elle nods. “It’s in my car right now.”
“Get that over to the cops right now. The sooner you find out who is doing this, the sooner you can stop looking over your shoulder.”
“Can I take you up on the offer of using your lawyer for this? It might help me out a little if I have him with me.”
“Of course.” I squeeze her fingers. “You don’t need to ask, just call him.”
“Thanks.” Elle hesitates. “I’m sorry for coming to you like this…”
“Stop.”
Elle does stop, and I lean over to kiss her. I have to force myself to pull back.
“Don’t ever apologize for coming to me over this. I would want to know if you’re dealing with this shit.”
“I’m just bringing more trouble to you, though.”
I manage a chuckle.
“I think bringing me trouble should be the least of your worries. Someone’s following you and our kid. I’m not going to sit back and let it happen without doing something about it.”
Elle peers at me.
“Why do I have a feeling you’re going to do something that’s going to get you into trouble?”
“I won’t get into trouble. Trust me.”
Elle doesn’t look convinced. I kiss her again and sit back.
