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“What about you?” Kingpin asked, warming my hands in his.
“It’s none of your never mind,” I said, taking my hands away and stuffing them in my pockets. I’d been dealing with it on my own this long. I’d been getting along just fine without anyone.
“I planned to take you for a checkup today. Find out for myself.”
“You are not. What about Sky?”
“Jassica took her for me. I said I had some unexpected business.”
“Already lying. You’re a scoundrel. I won’t have you missing your time with her.”
“You’ve got to get out of the cold,” the biker tried to get a hold of me.
“Can you give me a minute I was in the middle of something?”
Realizing we were at the cemetery, Kingpin stepped back.
I had to speak to Donette in my mind. If I was going to do that I could’ve just stayed at home.Yes, that's him. That's the father of my child. No, he doesn't want me. He has a wife. He just feels obligated. Yes, I’m sure. It was his idea, the lying the Hallow business. He’s in as big a pickle as me. Yeah, you could say we are partners in crime, Donette but that’s not at all appealing to me. No, I won’t be sleeping with him again. Lying to Hallow? I don't know what I'm going to do. I guess I don't have to decide until I see him, now do I?
Donette stopped answering. Kingpin led me over to the nice, blacked out, SUV he’d driven out here. Obviously in my state, I couldn't ride on the back of a motorcycle.
Inside, Kingpin tried again, “I’m worried about you.”
“Don’t be. I have gloves,” I pulled them from my coat and put them on. “I’ll wear my seat belt,” I said, dragging it on. I wrestled with it.
Kingpin reached over and buckled it easily.
“You ain’t worried for me. You’re worried for your baby. I’m just the vessel, an incubator. You don’t have to worry, he’s mine too. I worry enough.”
“Let me take you to the doctor,” Kingpin said and pulled out onto the road. He wasn’t asking, he was just doing.
“Which doctor because I already have a doctor?”
“The same fella Sky’s seeing. He’s the best.”
“And risk running into your wife? When hell freezes over.”
“Jassica’s right. You don’t look good.”
“Well, I didn’t think I had to get all dolled up to visit my best friend’s grave.”
“That’s not what I mean, Eve. It’s not your looks, but your actions. You’re weak.”
“You try to have your baby. It’s not easy. If you wanna make yourself useful you can take me over to my apartment so I can get my pills. I ain’t taken them in days now.”
“You have medicine you’re supposed to be taking and you haven’t?”
“You act like I had a choice. You did practically kidnap me. We’ve been snowed in until today, and I was heading to get them before you interrupted me. Spring Hills just happened to be on the way.” I needed to talk to someone about what’s been going on.
I gave Kingpin directions. Turning around, he decided my medicine was more important than forcing a doctor’s visit on me. He drove over to my quaint one-bedroom apartment. Inside, I grabbed a couple of laundry baskets and packed up all my belongings in a matter of thirty minutes.
Kingpin noticed my lone mattress. “You don't have much here.”
Eager to move into the furnished house at the Eagles’ nest with Hallow, I left so much at Gran’s place. Not only my things but anything Donette left me. I told him that as a way of explanation. Though frankly, I was embarrassed I could live this way. Honestly, I’d saved up a decent amount of money. I intended to furnish the place soon with not only a couch and table, but everything for a nursery. But I’d been too tired, too weak. Kingpin was right about that.
I said, “I don’t need much. Growing up, we were so poor we couldn’t pay attention. All I needed was away from Royal Road before I caused any trouble.”
“I wish you hadn’t run away. I wish you would’ve told me,” Kingpin said, leaning against the wall since we had nowhere to sit.
