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“He never leaves home without it,” Dad chimes in with a singsong voice.
I start to laugh, but then the searing pain in my ribs stifles it. “Fuck. This hurts.”
“I know,” Sloane says softly. “It’ll pass, though. I thought you might want to know that Skeller was treated for his gunshot wound to the shoulder and will be transported soon to jail to await sentencing. He’s been arrested for kidnapping, assault, and attempted murder.”
Thank fuck.
“Too bad you didn’t get him center mass,” I grumble. “That asshole doesn’t deserve to live.”
Sloane gives me a sympathetic smile. “He’s going to go away for a long time. Rather than a quick death, he’ll have decades to think of what he did. He’ll die in prison, Two.”
“How did you find us?” I rasp out. “He said he made it look like we ran away together and then got rid of the phones.”
Not to mention, my car is now at the bottom of the fucking lake.
That hurts almost as much as my physical injuries.
Sloane steps closer and lowers her voice. “Let’s just say we had unofficial help from an associate.”
“Who?”
The nurse excuses herself and Sloane’s shoulders relax.
“Jude,” she says quickly. “Nathan had him looking into all of his friends for anything suspicious. Jude, no doubt illegally, hacked his way into Skeller’s emails and other cloud-saved documents. In all his digging, he found pictures of Gemma. A lot of them.”
I scowl, the hatred for that man boiling my blood. “Sick fuck.”
“He also learned that the workshop you two supposedly bailed were the only real people he invited. The rest were newly created emails. It was obvious it was a setup and Jude picked his way through all of it.”
I owe Jude a beer.
“My God,” Dad hisses. “The lengths this Skeller man went through. Horrible.”
“With our ‘anonymous tip,’” Sloane continues, arching a blond eyebrow, “we were able to get a warrant and move quickly. It looks like we arrived just in time, too.”
“If you didn’t…” Dad trails off. “Thank goodness you did.”
Sloane nods grimly.
“I’ll get out of your hair and let you rest, but when you’re up to it, we’ll want to ask some questions,” Sloane says, handing a business card to Pops. “Skeller was caught in the act. It’s an open and closed case, but we do need Two’s full statement to button everything up.”
Sloane leaves and my dads relax. Exhaustion wins over and I start to drift off.
It’s finally over.
That stalker is out of my girl’s life.
Forever.
Gemma
Weeks later…
I’m nervous.
Really nervous.
I gaze up at Two’s cute home through my windshield, feeling uneasy about the upcoming dinner. It’s been nearly a month since the abduction and I’ve seen lots of Two and his fathers, but this is the first time we’ll all spend some time together the four of us alone.
