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“Okay.” I help her into her car and step back. She turns the key, and nothing happens. I take a close look at her car when she looks back at me in shock. There is a pool of fluid beneath her vehicle.
“Step back, baby,” I say as I lean down and take a better look. Both tires on the passenger side are flat. Fuel and I suspect brake fluid are leaking from the bottom of her car. I pull my phone from my pocket and dial 911.
I hear her on the phone telling her mom she’s with me and what is going on. She makes sure Bas is okay and then hangs up.
We don’t make it out to dinner, but she takes me to her condo, where I ask Bas if I can date his mom.
“Are you going to hurt her again?” He’s so protective of her. “Uncle Ryan said I’m the man of the house and need to protect my mom and grandma, but he said he has a team on her too.” His words give me pause and I dial Ryan.
“You have a team on Emmy?” I say in way of greeting.
“You can’t call her that. Yes, I have all my family under some kind of protection.”
“Not me anymore,” Jasmin says in the background.
“Most especially you,” he growls in response to her. “Why?” His question is directed at me.
“Emmy’s car was vandalized today. Also, I apologized to her, and we are dating now, so get over it.”
“Hurt her again and they won’t find your body.”
“I have my own sister, so I get it. I love her, and I’m not going to hurt her.”
“Okay, I’ll accept that for now. I’ll call my company and find out what they know.” He hangs up, and I turn toward Cynthia as she walks out of her room.
“I’m so sorry you had to say that on Saturday.”
She walks over to me and looks me up and down. “Don’t be an asshole again. It was time. Brent and Tai are both dead now. Ryan’s mom has known for years. The kids can tell people, there is no one left to protect. For the longest time I didn’t want to give Brent that satisfaction. I hated that he used Emmy against Ryan, as it was. She was two years younger, and Brent would ask Ryan why he couldn’t specialize like she had. It was awful. Tai worked in the ER too.”
“Brent sounds like an asshole.”
“He was,” both Cynthia and Emmy say at the same time.
“I’m going to bed, Mom.” Bas walks in and kisses his mom on the cheek. As he’s moving toward me to give me a hug, his cell phone in his hand vibrates and we all look at him.
“If that is either of my boys, they are grounded. It’s too late to be texting,” I bark.
“Bas, your phone is supposed to be in my room on the charger,” Emmy says and holds out her hand.
“I know, but I wanted to tell Hays and Dyne it finally happened.”
“What happened?” I ask, confused.
“You two are dating. We are going to be brothers now, just like we want to be,” he says as he hands the phone to his mom. “Tell them I’m heading to bed, but I told them that when I messaged.”
She looks at the phone, and I watch as the color drains from her face. I jump up from the stool at the bar and move into the kitchen, where she has been warming up food for us.
“What is it, baby?” I take the phone from her and look at the text message.
Dad
You will be coming back to me. She can’t protect her sissy boy forever.
I take a screenshot of it, then I send it to myself. Emmy asks me to send her a copy so she can send it to her attorney.
“What was it?” Bas asks, and I turn to him as I pocket the phone.
“Let me and your mom hold on to this. It’s okay. Head to bed, buddy.”
