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“I missed the fuck outta you.” She stopped with a grape halfway to her lips and stared at me. Then she started crying. The books talked about this. I scooted over and took her in my arms, and let her cry it out. The guilt was gut-wrenching. I’d made my pregnant wife cry. Monster.
Now, I really did promise her anything as long as she stopped crying. She giggled, a sound I hadn’t heard in almost a week, and the knots in my gut untangled themselves.
I wolfed down my lunch and hoped she didn’t notice that I was in a rush to get her out of there. When she was about to leave, she was smiling, and I whispered a promise in her ear about what I was going to do to her tonight.
As soon as she was gone, I called Kieran back and sent him on an errand. If that twit was bold enough to show up here, then she wasn’t as simple as I thought.
I hadn’t really paid much attention to her before because, as far as I was concerned, she was just the woman who helped destroy my woman’s marriage to that jackass which cleared the way for me. But now that I’d seen her in action, my perception changed. She might be more dangerous than the ex.
THUNDER
“What did you find?” Cam had just called with an update on Deidre Hall, a name I suspect isn’t her real name either. No wonder there wasn’t much on Deidre Samuels; she doesn’t exist except on paper. That name has only been in use for the past four years, but before that, she didn’t exist.
“It looks like you were right. Her real name is Dierdre Fossie. She changed her name to Samuels four years ago, but it wasn’t done through legal channels. She’s running from the law.”
“Oh, is she now?” Why am I not surprised?
“Yeah, there’s a warrant out of her arrest in Arkansas. She and her live-in boyfriend were running a scheme out of their apartment, one of those things where they rob the elderly of their homes and retirement funds and stuff like that.”
So, your average low-level bottom-feeding scum. But why did she use the name Hall this time? My only guess is that she was looking to change her life again and make another run. If she did it once, why not do it again?
But this place is only an hour away from her place with Dan though, not nearly far enough to take that kind of risk unless she was factoring me into her plans. I have a feeling that that’s just it. When I saw her that day at his place, I knew something was up from the way she looked at me, but I was more invested in dealing with him than with her, so I didn’t pay too much attention to her.
It never crossed my mind that she would even think that she stood a chance with me. But then again, I’ve met people like her, both men and women, who are oblivious to everything but their own bullshit. They live inside their heads and think everyone else should go along with whatever is on their agenda.
Or maybe she thinks I’m as blind as that asshole she got to destroy his life for her. I’m not sure what the guy was thinking, not that I care. But anyone who saw those two women would have to wonder if he was maybe high or having a psychotic break when he chose to fuck his whole life away to be with that one.
Not in looks nor personality did she even come close to my girl. And since she’d done me a solid by getting him out of my woman’s life and hadn’t taken part in attacking her that day on the street, I was all set to leave her alone. She had a kid to raise, after all, and since my plan was to destroy Dan and his mother, somebody needed to stick around for the kid. But that was dead now, too. At least it won’t take me any more time to decide what to do with her.
Had she not shown up here and got herself caught on my facial recognition cameras, I wouldn’t have suspected a thing about her past. I guess I’ll never know why she’d used the name Hall here instead of Samuels, but in the scheme of things, it doesn’t really matter. Fossie, Samuels, Hall, it didn’t make a difference. All three of them were fucked.
“She’s also into heavy drug use or used to be anyway. No one knows what she’s been up to since she fell off the face of the earth four years ago.”
“I see; anything else?”
“Yeah, according to your timeline, she would’ve had to meet Dan and gotten pregnant all in the same week she went on the run, or….”
“Or, the kid’s not his.”
“That’s what I’m thinking, but I could be wrong. It's pretty close, though.”
“Do you have a picture of the ex?”
“I can send it through right now. He wasn’t part of whatever went on here, though. He’s already behind bars. She ran and left him holding the bag.”
“Send it anyway.”
I hung up with him and called Kieran. “Is it done?”
“Yeah!”
“Where’s the kid?”
“With the grandmother like you suspected. There was no one else home, and the door wasn’t exactly fixed after you kicked it in, so it was a breeze getting in and out.”
“Okay, come back.” I hung up and called my guy on the force. This was going to turn out much better than I expected with her prior warrants. Two down, one to go.
It had taken some time, a whole week, but I’d finally found a way to make them pay for making my woman feel less than. I didn’t expect her to show up here, though, and give me that added bonus.
