“Do you mean Harken? He isn’t here, he went to work I think.”Priscilla scoffs and pushes her way into the house. She scans the room as if confirming he really isn’t there, before turning her glare back on Noel.“Are you aware of what the hell happened to me today?”Noel shakes her head and glances towards the basement door, seeing it still firmly shut.“Come up stairs, I need to get changed and you can tell me what happened. I was going to call you after I got out of the shower, a few things happened after I dragged Harken out of there,” she says and tugs Priscilla to her bedroom.Shutting the door to make sure her dad doesn’t hear anything that happened, she turns to her closet to pick out clothes.“Alright, start from the beginning,” she says. Priscilla takes a seat on her bed and crosses her arms, suddenly looking pale.“It honestly happened so suddenly, I barely remember how we got on the topic of it, but I remember mentioning something about Nolan and Karl being pigs while we we

“What the hell is that going to solve?” Harken grits through clenched teeth. Scott sighs. “If you’re right, and Nathan James plans to use all mean necessary to have you cooperate with him, then we need him to act so that we can catch him during. Until he makes any sort of threatening move against anyone, there’s nothing I can do, and it would be a waste of time to report this with no evidence. Threatening someone on the sidewalk doesn’t count unless there was another witness and slight actions to back up the claim, otherwise it’s just empty words.” “So, I’m supposed to just wait for this bastard to do something? It might be too late by that time, this is a murderer we’re talking about, with a connection so powerful he was able to dodge jail time and get released early. We’re not just dealing with Nate James, anymore, there is obviously someone bigger behind him, and we have no clue who the hell that can be, yet you just want to sit back and wait?” “Does Nate see me as a means of pro

Harken is torn between running out of there with Noel right this second and running after Nate to beat the crap out of him for having someone tailing Noel all this time. He is the biggest fool for not putting it together sooner and allowing this to have gone on for so long. He has naively thought that he was the only one being watched and under constant danger, but that was never the case. The target has been Noel from the beginning, and Nate has merely been confirming his own beliefs through Harken’s reactions. “Is everything alright?” He jumps at the quiet voice of Noel, standing right behind him. “Why did you come out?” he asks. “I peeked through the door and saw Nate isn’t here anymore, I thought it was okay to come back out,” she shrugs. “Why are you just standing here?” He continues to stand there and look down at her, a mix of emotions in his blue eyes. Wrapping his arms around her he pulls her

“You can see that I’m perfectly fine now, dad. You don’t need to keep staying here, I’m sure you have tons of work to do at the office.” Scott has been pacing the length of the hospital room for the last few hours with Harken sitting numbly in the corner looking at his phone. He wants Scott to leave just as much as Noel but knows the minute he opens his mouth, wanting to have a moment’s peace with her to calm his anxiety. Despite her sitting there completely intact, he can’t shake the foreboding feeling he has felt since leaving the crash scene. Abel left an hour ago, claiming he was going to go back and check out the cameras again, giving Harken the idea to check if any neighbors have cameras around the Ashford house. “The hoarder next door,” he mumbles to himself as he remembers the sketchy neighbor always eyeballing his motorcycle every time he came ripping down the street. It’s a vintage bike for sure, but not something meant to sit and collec

It’s been a few days now since the accident and Noel is finally able to return to school with not as much damage done as she expected to her studies and grades. The police report came back that the brakes were at fault and needed to be replaced before the accident, which caused them to seize when pushed down at full force.Noel remembers specifically, however, that Priscilla’s brakes stopped working before she tried pressing down on the pedal, a clear indication the brakes weren’t working well before she even tried using them at all.But even Harken and Abel confirmed that a thorough check was done of the car before it was impounded, Priscilla’s parents refusing to let her drive it anymore.Harken has also been spending a lot more time at the pub with Abel, spending most nights at his apartment down the street so they can work easier, still tracking down the man who broke into the bar and dealing with Mayor Wright trying to buy out the entire block of businesses.Noel has been trying