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Nova remembered that half grin. All those times she’d see that half grin and where it led… This time the half grin led to Linc walking out of the bedroom without so much as a hug.
The door clicked shut, closed, and Nova looked around the room. It was kind of a mess. A typical single guy mess. Clothes hanging out of drawers. Clothes on the floor. Clothes tossed everywhere. Part of Nova wanted to start cleaning things up.
Why? This is not my job.
Nova stepped back and slowly sat down on the edge of the bed. It was soft, forgiving. She touched the blankets and slowly dug her fingers into the comfortable covers.
Her heart picked up a little bit of speed. Her mind flashed images of her inching back on the bed, putting her head on a pillow, waiting for Linc to come back…
Nova’s fingers touched something besides the blanket and she pulled out a neon-green thong bunched up in the blanket. She gasped and held it out with her thumb and pointer fingers. The bedroom door opened and Maggie came in carrying two bottles of beer.
“I can use a break for a minute,” she said. “Hey, nice thong. I have that same one.”
Nova’s heart paused for a second. “This isn’t mine. I just found it in the bed.”
“Ah,” Maggie said. “You’ll find a lot more than that around here. Linc is kind of a slob.”
“Is this your thong, Maggie?” Nova asked, fearing the answer.
Maggie chewed on the bottom left corner of her mouth. Nova accepted that as a resounding yes. That made Nova stand and walk to Maggie to give her thong back to her.
“Look, I’m not sure what you and Linc are…” She sighed. “This life is crazy. You know who I am to them all, right? I’m just a deecee.”
“A what?”
“Deecee… Or just the letters D and C. Stands for devil’s cunt. That’s what all the women are to them. It’s a joke for them. That as woman, our vaginas were created by the devil to ruin their lives. Every woman here hopes to get picked by one of them. Chosen. Become theirs. Wear their ink. Then you have complete protection. Kind of like what Linc just did for you out there.”
Nova swallowed hard. This place is lawless yet… organized…
“Did you fuck him?” Nova whispered.
Maggie took her thong back and tucked it into her back pocket.
“Do you really want to know?”
“I want to know,” Nova said.
“You know, by now I’m used to someone slapping me or punching me for screwing around with their guy. I know that makes me sound like a whore, but I’m not. I enjoy myself. And if someone is willing, then what does it matter? To answer your question, no, I haven’t fucked Linc. Nothing of his has been inside me.”
“But your thong…”
Maggie handed Nova one of the beers. “You want to know that bad, huh? Okay. I brought him a drink last night after he got shot and jerked him off. I took my thong off and made him come into it. Not sure if you noticed my thong was a little stiff.”
Nova’s head spun. “Linc got shot last night?”
It was like one shock after another… all with the backdrop that Nova’s brother was still missing.
“Oh, fuck,” Maggie said. “Who are you to him? Why is he treating you so different?”
Nova didn’t have those answers. She took a sip of beer. Then another.
Being near this outlaw life—even for a short time—made her want to keep drinking.
Chapter Ten
Let Us Pray
“We’ve got a problem,” Linc said as he made two big fists and placed them on the table.
