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He threw the controller down on the couch and grabbed what little hair he had on his head between his fists. “Fuck yes. Yes, check my house. Check Channing’s too. You could just do a stakeout there. Yeah, he’ll go there. He’ll go back to his place, too. I know he has shit stored somewhere. Probably buried it in the backyard.”
“Okay,” he nodded and turned.
I must’ve made some noise, because I’d actually startled him.
“Yeah,” a smile overtook his face. “No, Lucy has a mind of his own. I can’t help that he showed your puppies how to dig out of the yard. What do you want me to do from a thousand miles away?”
“Alright. Thanks. Bye,” he said before hanging up.
“What’s up?” I asked.
My voice sounded raw.
He pursed his lips. “Varian, somehow, escaped from the transport today. Fuckin’ blows my mind, because he didn’t even know when, where, or how he was being transferred. Whoever helped him must’ve been justlying in fuckin’ wait.”
My insides shriveled up even more. “So now we have Varian out of prison? Are we even safe here anymore?”
He thought about it for a few moments before answering. “Yes. I believe so. But I’m going to stay at an inn instead of here. Just in case. I don’t see him coming this way; but, just in case, I don’t want to put them in danger.”
“That’s not necessary,” Andrea said from the doorway.
We both turned to find her standing there, ringing her hands.
Her hair was slightly mussed from the ocean breeze, which only exacerbated her frazzled look. “I don’t want you to go. You just got here.”
“Ma,” Loki started.
“No. You’re not leaving,” she said in the most authoritative voice she could manage.
“Andrea,” I tried, but she was shaking her head no before I could even get two words out.
“No. You’re staying. That’s final. I have a ham for Christmas Eve, and a turkey with sweet potatoes for Christmas. I won’t have that...man...ruining this for us. I want to have a real Christmas. As a family. I deserve that, don’t you think?” Her voice quivered.
“Oh, mom,” Loki said before he enfolded her in his arms.
I snuck out of the open door, squeezing in between the door jam and Loki’s broad back, and walked outside to overlook the ocean.
Although it was touching that she wanted that, I couldn’t help but worry about the potential danger. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but I had a feeling that Varian would find us. No matter how adamant Loki was to the contrary.
Chapter 18
Dear naps, I’m sorry I was such a dick to you when I was a kid.
-Life Lesson
Loki
Christmas night
“Hey, daddy. Did you get my Christmas present?” Channing asked her father.
It was currently Christmas night, four days after finding out that Varian had escaped.
The state of Louisiana knew he was out, too, because he was leaving a trail of devastation in his wake.
First, it was the security guard that was driving the van.
Varian had constructed a shiv made out of toilet paper, building it like one would paper mache, complete with shit to ensure the weapon held up to the test.
