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“It's okay, mommy.” I flick my eyes to the rearview mirror. Morgan’s got her head turned, staring out the window.
Reaching around the seat blindly, I grab her hand and squeeze. “I love you, kiddo. And, whether Daddy shows up or not, we’re still going to have fun. Right?”
“We could go to the zoo?” she asks.
“We could totally go to the zoo.”
And just like that, thoughts of Derek are forgotten. “Can we see the penguins?”
“Uh, you can’t go to the zoo and NOT see the penguins! That’s just not right.” Morgan laughs, a smile taking over her face.
As we pull up to the school, I put the car in park and turn to face Morgan fully. “I love you, baby girl. More than anything in this world. You know that, right?”
Her head bounces up and down, her smile growing. “I love you too, Mommy.”
“Alright, crackerjack. Go knock 'em dead at kickball today. I'll be here to pick you up this afternoon.”
With a kiss goodbye, she hops out of the car, her backpack bouncing as she runs towards the door.
And now.
It’s time to go home and get some sleep.
CHAPTER TWO
Thorn
“Here ya go, Boss.”
Viper looks up from his phone with his signature frown as I drop into the chair across from him. Prez has everything a man could ever want and still always looks pissed off at the world.
I hand over the bag of cash I brought back from Jacksonville and watch as his eyes widen to the size of saucers.
“I know. Heavy, right?” I laugh.
The bag is much heavier than it looks.
I had the same reaction when Chief handed it to me.
“If I had to guess, there is well over a hundred grand in there.”
“We’ll know for sure once it’s sorted,” he says.
I nod.
Heaven’s Door has a vault room in the basement where we do our counting. From there, the bills move upstairs so they can be cleaned through the strip club. It takes a few days to wash it all, but Hector doesn’t care as long as the job gets done.
“Any problems?” he asks, raising a brow.
I shake my head in the negative. “Smooth sailing as always.”
It usually is.
“Good. Get out of here and go get your dick wet.” Viper waves his hand toward the door in his not-so-subtle way of telling me to get the fuck gone.
“Yeah, yeah. I hear ya’.” I shake my head as I get to my feet.
Ever since he got his head out of his ass and put a ring on Kierra’s finger and a few babies in her belly, he’s been a different man.
