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“Yes.”
“I’ll be back,” her father said quietly – and her mother started to freak out from behind her, instantly setting off warning bells in Nicolette’s mind.
“Aeron! Wait! Aeron don’t do this! Think about it?! Luke is Armadillo’s son – his oldest child – and you can’t…AERON!”
Her father ignored her mother, who was now the one pulling at his shoulders bodily, reaching over him, and trying to take the keys from her father.
“Daddy?” Nicolette said in a high-pitched voice, suddenly terrified… only to see her father’s broken gaze turn to her.
“I can’t believe you two did this…” he whispered, his voice full of tears. “I’m gonna kill that boy for what he did to my little girl.”
… And with that?
The front door slammed shut behind him.
“AEROOOOON!” her mother screamed out, sobbing. “Oh, my gosh! Where’s the keys to the car? Where’s the keys, Nicolette? Where’s YOUR KEYS? Where areallthe car keys? Oh, my gosh! AERON TOOK THEM ALL!”
Nicolette stood there, heartbroken at the look on her father’s face and the desperation and panic in her mothers, before realizing that her father was indeed on the way to kill Luke.
He’d snapped.
Nicolette yanked her phone out of her pocket, hands trembling and barely able to press a button – only to hear Luke pick up.
“Hey Niki…”
“Run…” she whispered tearfully—and heard his audible intake of breath. “Run. My dad knows, and he’s on the way…”
“Got it…” he said quickly, hanging up – and her mother was already on the phone doing the same thing.
“Harley! Harley please…. Listen! I need Thumper to stop Aeron from killing Luke Fuller. He apparently married Nicolette in a secret wedding and she’s pregnant. I’ve never… oh my gosh, he’s going to kill my grandbaby’s daddy. He’s going to kill Armadillo’s boy…” her mother broke down sobbing.
“Mama…” Nicolette began.
“Call the Fuller house and warn them!” she barked out tearfully — and Nicolette did. Thankfully it was Armadillo who answered the phone.
“I married Luke – we are going to have a baby and…”
Armadillo cursed wildly, so much so that she held the phone away from her ear and felt heat touch her cheeks as her mother’s eyes widened in shock.
“Where’s Valkyrie?” Armadillo bit out.
“On his way to find Luke…”
“Thanks, Nicolette,” Armadillo said openly, his voice hoarse with gratitude for her having reached out to him. “Don’t call the police – and welcome to the family, sweetheart.”
Nicolette sobbed tearfully, wishing her own father’s reaction had been different – because it should have been a beautiful union of two families that had been friends forever.
Armadillo and her father were stationed together for years, had been through so much, for something like this to drive them apart?… To think her father was so hurt, so disappointed, so angry – and he was going to kill the man she loved?
It just shattered her soul into pieces.
She looked at her mother, who was crying angrily and dialing the phone, trying to get a hold of her father – who was ignoring the calls. Her mother then called Reaper, her father’s best friend, who reacted almost the same way as Armadillo… cursing wildly and hanging up on her.
Everyone was coming together to help stop her dad from committing a crime that would forever rip apart their families, stain his soul, and destroy her own.
Numbly, she got up and started looking for car keys—just in case her mother overlooked them… to see Caspar looking on from the stairwell.
“He went after Luke?” Caspar whispered nervously, looking unsure of what to say in this moment – and extremely protective of his sister.
