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Hey, tell me you're still in Cheyenne?
Thankfully, he replied almost immediately.
Jaxon:
For about another hour, why?
J.D.:
I need a ride to the arena. Someone jumped my rookie.
J.D.:
There's a bottle of THC liquid in it if you can meet me in the lobby in 5.
Jaxon:
See you there. Just need my boots and keys.
Thank fuck! Pushing out a heavy breath, I ran across the room for my bag, pulling out one of the spare bottles of the liquid I used in my vape pen. This stuff was easy to get in the legal states, but places like Wyoming weren't quite so accepting. If I knew Jaxon, and I did, he'd spent a little too much time high, and had probably blown through his entire stock.
Then, shoving my hat onto my head, I grabbed my phone and vape pen, then headed for the door. I had my hand on the handle when another text came in. Worried Jaxon was backing out, I checked it, only to see another message from Tanner.
Tanner:
Grab Cody's makeup. She says she's getting pictures.
A laugh actually slipped out at that. Of all the things for her to worry about, of course my girl would want to have an official picture. For the rest of us, if we didn't get it done, they'd use last year's, but Cody didn't have a last year's to use. For her, this was validation, and with the way she'd been fucked over, I could actually understand how much this meant right now.
So I hurried back to the sink and found that cute little bag girls used to carry their pretty shit. A few tubes were still on the counter, so I put those in, zipped the top, then called it good. Stretching my legs as much as I could, I stormed through the hall, needing to get to the lobby as fast as possible, knowing my girl - and guy - were waiting on me.
Thankfully, Jaxon was a little faster than me. When the elevator reached the ground floor, I stepped out to see the man pacing by the front doors. He checked his phone as I crossed the room, then began pacing again.
"Jaxon!" I snapped. The moment his head turned my way, I tossed the bottle of vape liquid at him. "Let's go."
"What the hell's going on, J.D.?" he asked as he left the building only a pace before me. "Is Cody ok?"
"Cody's always ok," I assured him, even though I had no idea if that was true.
It was what I'd want her to say about me, so I was saying it about her. I figured that was how things worked with us. She was a badass, and no one else needed to know if she maybe had moments where she just wanted to stop hurting. To everyone else, she'd be the toughest of the tough in the whole wide world.
"But you said someone jumped your rookie," he pressed.
"Yep," I agreed, aiming for the big blue Dodge I knew was his. "Austin and his crew think they can chase her off. Well, they just forgot her boyfriend might be even meaner than me."
"So why are you going to the arena if she's ok?"
I reached the passenger door just as he got it all unlocked. Before I answered, I climbed in, then focused on my seatbelt. Jaxon hurried to get his key in the ignition, clearly a little frazzled by my need to get moving. The kid was a good one, but a little too easy to spook, if I was honest.
"Because no one fucks with my rookie," I told him. "I want to make sure Tanner put enough hurt on those assholes, and Cody needs to be pretty. She's getting her photos done."
"Oh." He twisted to back out of the parking space, then pulled out like this thing was supposed to be a hot rod. Fucking gas trucks.
"And you can make sure the rest of the guys know Austin and Derek are dead to me," I said. "They crossed a line today, Jaxon."
"Hitting a girl?" he asked. "Although Cody's tough. I have a feeling she hit back just as hard."
"And they touched something of mine," I growled. "No one touches what's mine."
