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Chapter Two
O’Shea
“You have seventeen new messages. First message…”
I sighed inwardly, already knowing who majority, if not all, of the messages were from.
“Shea…it’s Kayla. I’ve been trying to get in touch with you since…everything happened. Can we at least talk about it? I really didn’t mean to—”
“Message deleted. Next message.”
“It’s me again. Please call me back—”
“Message deleted. Next message.”
“Shea, it’s your mother. Kayla has been calling me nonstop asking where you’ve run off to and I’m running out of things to tell her. Give me a call when you get a chance. I love you, son.”
“Message deleted. Next message.”
I went through the rest of the messages, deleting them halfway through whenever I’d heard Kayla’s voice. This had been my routine ever since I’d left Virginia, listening and deleting all voicemails and text messages from her. I was sure she’d said everything she’d needed to say during our last conversation, so I was no longer interested in hearing what she wanted to talk about three months later.
“Morning, Smith,” my boss, Rocky, said as he walked out of his small office. I looked up from my phone and gave him a small smile.
“Morning, Rocky. How’s that arthritis treating you today?”
“Eh, I ain’t no spring chicken, but I’ll manage. Got my sidekick with me today,” he answered, taking a bottle of Aleve out of the pocket of his overalls and giving it a shake.
I chuckled. “That’s good then,” I said, following him out of the waiting area of the repair shop and into the garage.
“Oh yeah, since I like ya so much, I’m assigning you the doozy that came in last night,” Rocky said as he unlocked the door to the garage.
“A doozy? That bad?”
“From what I’ve heard, yeah. It was late when it came in, so I haven’t seen it just yet. Jared called me to let me know he was dropping it off. I guess we’re both in for a surprise,” he said, pulling the door open.
“Shit,” I mumbled when the car came into view. Blood covered the middle of the badly cracked windshield and hood, mud covering the bumper that looked as if it hung by a miracle.
“Looks like it’ll be quite a fix,” Rocky said as I continued staring at the car.
“What the hell did they hit? An elephant?” I asked. He was definitely right about the car being quite a fix. Dollar signs racked up in my mind as I continued to examine the damage. The owner of the car was already looking at a hefty bill and I hadn’t even looked under the hood yet.
“Not an elephant, but a deer. You know those son of a bitches are everywhere around these parts. Hit the deer and landed right in a ditch,” Rocky said and clasped my shoulder with a firm hand.
I nodded and rubbed the stubble growing along my jawline. “That explains the mud then,” I said with a sigh. My phone rang in my pocket, setting my teeth on edge.
“That ex of yours again, eh?” Rocky asked.
“Probably so,” I said with a sigh.
“If she’s still chasing you after three months, maybe she wants to reconsider,” he said and walked away. I ground my teeth. Just because she may be ready to reconsider didn’t mean I was. I’d leave her to simmer for a little while longer.
Crunching gravel snapped me out of my musings, revealing a Jeep Cherokee coming down the driveway.
“Ah, there’s my niece,” Rocky said, taking a few steps out of the garage as the Jeep rolled to a stop next to the damaged Nissan Altima. When the three women stepped out, it wasn’t hard to spot which one was the owner of the car.
“What…the…fuck,” she exclaimed, making her way over to the car and examining the damage. She removed the baseball cap from her head and ran a frustrated hand through her black hair, revealing a huge knot on her forehead. Despite the alien egg growing out of her head, the woman was fucking gorgeous. Her baby blue eyes scanned the car as she nibbled on her bottom lip, stress tightening her baby doll features. My eyes drifted along her body, my gaze briefly settling on the tops of her breasts exposed by the fitted tank top she wore. Her Daisy Dukes put her long, slender legs on display and her ass was something to marvel. I definitely wonder what it would be like to have those legs wrapped around my—
“Don’t drown yourself in your own drool, kid,” Rocky joked under his breath as he went out to meet the women. “Ashton, Ava, Alex—so good to see you again.”
