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The second time had been because a little boy had gotten lost, and they’d canceled all shows so the staff could help search for the child.
The third time had been due to tornadic activity.
And now, the fourth time, it was due to excessive wind.
“So you think it’s safe for me to come home?” I asked.
“I think that it’s safe for you to come home,” he confirmed.
I stared at Kobe, studying the softness in his face that I only ever saw when it came to me.
Even when he was staring at Morrigan, he always stared with a look that you couldn’t quite tell if he liked you or not.
In my case, I knew that he liked me.
At least, now that I knew how to read him really well, I did.
“If I leave and come home, the time for hiding is no more,” I said, feeling my heart rate start to quicken. “Are we sure, sure?”
The idea of going home felt like something I couldn’t reach on the top shelf. Like I was so close, but I would never be able to reach it without getting a helping hand.
Kobe was the one that offered that helping hand.
“As of about three minutes ago,” he said as he showed me his phone. It had a message that I hadn’t seen before from the sheriff, Sunny Summers. “She’s been caught.”
I looked at the message.
It was indeed from the sheriff.
It read:she’s been taken into custody. No chance of bond.
Elation speared through me.
My last hurdle had been surpassed.
“As for the Lisbeth and Farrell situation,” he tossed his phone down onto the couch that we were sitting on. “I think that one is one we’re going to have to let play out in court. There’ll come a time when Natalie Dean—the woman that was just arrested for taking your hit—will have to appear in court. When she does, she’ll implement her trump card, which’ll be Farrell and Lisbeth’s implication in putting out the hit. From there, they’ll be arrested, and you’ll have to appear in court to tell them about what’s gone on for the last decade of your life. But I think it’ll be okay to come home in the meantime. We have a team in place already gathering evidence against them. Any move they make is now documented.”
“I want to go home.”
I whirled to see JP staring out over the edge of her bed, staring down at me with pleading in her eyes.
I felt my heart drop at the sadness I felt.
She didn’t look surprised by what she’d heard—dammit, I should’ve had this conversation outside—but she did look heartbroken.
That was something I never wanted her to shoulder.
“We’re going home.”
CHAPTER 17
Remember that dude you thought you couldn’t live without? Now, look at you, happily sucking other dick.
-Text from Folsom to Morrigan
FOLSOM
So maybe the first text that I’d sent her in a really long time—longer than either she or I wanted to admit—shouldn’t have been about me seeing her sucking dick.
