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“Novaleigh!”
“I’m working on it,” Nova said.
“It’s another day gone by! Another night! Do you know what it feels like to be this alone? I go to sleep and he’s not here? I have to cry myself to sleep, scared to death that my baby boy is out there… hurt… or worse. Nova… what if he’s… dead…?”
Nova’s throat clenched at that possibility, even though it had been her first thought the night her mother called, freaking out.
“Nova!”
“Mom,” Nova snapped back.
“Don’t get mean with me, young lady!”
“I’m not getting mean,” Nova said. “Do you really want to know what I’ve been going through trying to find Nick?”
Nova glanced down at her leg. Her bottom lip quivered.
“You have to tell me something,” her mother said. “Please. Nova. I’m begging you. I’m sitting here drinking coffee and all I want to do is pour a bottle of booze into the coffee.”
“Mom, no,” Nova pleaded. “Please… I…” She swallowed hard. “I hired someone to find him. Okay?”
“You hired someone? Really?”
“Yes, Mom. Really.”
“Why didn’t you tell me that earlier, Nova?”
“I didn’t want to get your hopes up,” Nova lied. “Okay? I can’t promise anything. But I told you, I’m doing everything I can.”
“Okay. That’s good. You hired someone! I assume, what, like a private investigator? Right? Someone who isn’t the law… but…”
“Yes,” Nova said.
That part was at least semi true. SOFRAW knew the laws. They just lived by a different set of them.
“I have to go, Mom,” Nova said. “I’m balancing this whole thing. Working. Looking for Nick. Dealing with the people I hired.”
She looked at her leg again and shook her head.
The tattoo burned.
“Okay. Thank you, Nova. I love you, baby girl.”
“Love you too, Mom,” Nova said.
Amazing the lengths it took for Nova’s mother to tell her daughter she loved her. Now wasn’t the time for Nova to go down that road. She placed her phone on the magnetic holder and opened all the delivery apps on her phone. She set herself to available and waited.
It took three seconds until an order pop up, dinging at her for acceptance. She agreed to deliver the order. She put her SUV into drive and started to move. Almost instantly, she noticed movement behind her.
Checking in the mirror, there were two motorcycles following her. SOFRAW bikers.
“What the hell?” Nova whispered.
Her tattoo itched and stung again. She told herself this was normal. Perks of being inked up by the VP of the club.
In some weird way, Nova felt kind of like an outlaw queen…
When Nova pulled into the driveway of the nice-looking house, the two motorcycles stopped at the end of the driveway.
