Total pages in book: 159
Estimated words: 155775 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 779(@200wpm)___ 623(@250wpm)___ 519(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 155775 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 779(@200wpm)___ 623(@250wpm)___ 519(@300wpm)
The scowl actually lifted off Butch’s face. “Huh, didn’t think you’d ever find the balls to do that. Or the good sense.”
“Cash has plenty of balls,” Addie said.
Cash cleared his throat. “Thanks for the defence, baby.”
She nodded, giving Butch a stern look. For some reason his lip twitched. Maybe it was gas. Then he was scowling again.
“You need to question Limpy. You sure it’s him?” Butch said.
“It’s definitely him,” Cash replied. “And obviously, we know we need to question him. That’s where we need your help.”
“You need somewhere secure. How are you going to get him there?” Butch asked.
“We’ll have to wait until after midnight,” Cash said. “So that no one sees us. Then we’ll carry him out to our rental car.”
“We have a covered porch out the back door that you can drive up to,” Dotty said. “Then you can stick him in the trunk and drive him out. No one should be able to see him.”
They all turn to look at her.
“What?” Dotty asked. “It’s just logical, isn’t it?”
“It is,” Butch replied. “Are you going to get into trouble for being a part of this?”
“In trouble? Like with the police or with my bosses, because I’m a lawyer who’s taking part in a criminal activity?”
Shoot, Addie hadn’t thought about that.
“You don’t know anything, all right?” Butch told her. “You shouldn’t even be in this room. Go into your bedroom and stay out of it.”
Wow, he was bossy.
Dotty shook her head. “I’m in it now. There’s no going back.”
“I want to go with you,” Monroe said to Cash. “I should be there when you question him. This is because of me, and I should be there.”
“Absolutely not,” Ralen barked.
They all gave him surprised looks at his vehement denial. Why did he care so much?
Cash cleared his throat to get everyone’s attention away from his friend.
“The three of you need to stay here,” Cash told the girls. “Where it’s safe.”
He wouldn’t have Addie anywhere close while they questioned Limpy.
Not happening.
“What if he wasn’t alone?” Monroe asked.
“Shit,” Ralen said, running his hand over his face. “She’s got a point. What if Limpy wasn’t alone? We can’t leave them unguarded.”
“I want to go,” Monroe said.
“Me too,” Addie added.
“Yes, we’re going.” Dotty folded her arms over her chest.
Butch grunted. “Fuck. They’ll be safer with you. I can find a place where they won’t see anything.”
“No,” Cash said. “I won’t have Addie there.” He didn’t want her around him when he was like that . . . when he was working. He didn’t want her to look at him differently. And it was his job to protect her from the bad things in the world.
“We will be safer with you,” Dotty said. “And we want to be there. We’re all going. Right?”
“Right,” Monroe said, moving to Dotty’s left side.
Addie walked over to her sisters and straightened her shoulders. “Yep, that’s right.”
Cash pointed at her. “You’ll do as you’re told, Stowaway.”
She drew herself up. “No.”
“Have you got anyone who can come watch them?” Ralen asked Butch.
The other man ground his teeth together. “No one I’d fully trust with them. Fuck! Fuck. I should be there.”
“Right, because that’s what the situation needs,” Dotty said. “Another bossy male trying to tell us what to do.”
“Seems you do need that,” Ralen shot back at her. Then he sighed. “So, we’ll take the girls with us. Where do we need to go?”
Addie was so nervous. She was trying to keep herself calm, but her stomach was a bundle of nerves. She wasn’t quite sure what they were going to do with the guy that was stuffed in the trunk of Cash’s rental car.
And she had to admit, there was a strong part of her that didn’t want to know.
However, she also wanted to show Cash that she could be a part of his life, that he didn’t have to put her up on a shelf and wrap her in bubble wrap in order to keep her safe. Because she knew that he’d get tired of doing that, and there was no way she ever wanted him to get tired of her.
They pulled up outside a storage place that was filled with old shipping containers. Ralen got out and went to talk to somebody inside the small building at the gate.
When he returned, he handed a key to Cash. “Storage unit eighteen. The guy inside said he owes Butch a favor and that he never saw us. I get the feeling he does this a lot anyway. I don’t think this is the type of place where people store Grandma’s unwanted antiques.”
Yikes. Was this a regular thing that people did? She turned to look at Dotty and then Monroe. She was sitting in the middle seat in the back. Cash had actually placed her in the seat and done up the seatbelt. That was slightly embarrassing and also made her feel completely cared for.