Chapter 57

MIA

“SAY SOMETHING, ANYTHING”

He’d freaked out the minute we stepped into the parking lot and even when we got inside his car the situation hadn’t changed.

“I don’t- “

The ringing of his phone from the dashboard cut him short and he picked it up faster than I had ever seen him. To avoid the conversation and mostly to avoid the news.

I was the one who should have been shocked anyway.

I was the woman who was going to push three of his babies out of me and that…would hurt like a fucking bitch.

“Situation? What do you mean one of them got fucking shot? They are bloody rookies they should have had someone looking after them. Ooh, right.

I’m not going to grovel at the kid, Holy. He made a mistake, granted I shouldn’t have fired him but he needed a time out to cool off. Yeah, call him in, loop him in on the situation and get him on the field. Well, he’s re-hired damn it!”

And when he had thrown his phone somewhere in the back seat like soggy spaghetti he didn’t like, I was still there locked