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I should've known Maverick would bring them in eventually. "Good. According to Tim Senior down at the service station, Thomas was last known to be in Oklahoma."

"I can work with that." Nolen turned back to his computer and started typing feverishly. The rest of us left him to his work.

"Did you get to talk to anyone else?" Maverick asked.

"Shirley over at the antique shop. We were really good friends in high school and I felt comfortable asking her. She's the one who directed us to Tim Senior."

Maverick nodded at Nancy's explanation. "I thought for sure you would've gone straight to Bee."

"That was my first guess, but I let Nancy take the lead. Besides, if I asked Bee, the rumor mill would've gone into full effect, and I wasn't sure I was ready to deal with that."

"Ain't that the truth," Easton grumbled. He would know better than anyone how quickly the gossip train could leave the station in this town.

"I'll keep her in mind as a last resort,” I advised them, “but in the meantime, we’re going home."

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Nancy

I paced around the small apartment. Something was bothering me, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

"We need to go to Oklahoma," I blurted out as soon as Lex stepped out of the steaming bathroom.

"Ummm, all right. Is everything okay?"

I chewed on my lip. "No, it's not. I don't know what's wrong, but something is. I need to get to Oklahoma and make sure Jimmy's okay."

"Then we leave now."

And just like that, Lex agreed. He didn't ask for further explanation. He didn't push it off until tomorrow or even another day. I voiced a concern and Lex was willing to drop everything to make it happen. I never thought I would find someone like that.

"Thank you."

"Baby, you don't need to thank me. If you feel something is wrong, then we need to go check it out. My whole life I'vefollowed my gut instinct. I wouldn’t expect anything different from you.”

I walked straight over and planted a kiss right on the man's lips. I could feel him get hard against my stomach, so I backed up with a chuckle. "We don't have time for that right now."

"Woman, you're the one who kissed me,” Lex growled as he stomped off to get dressed.

"Whoops." I said the word but didn't actually mean it. I liked knowing that it only took a kiss to turn him on.

In less than ten minutes, Lex was dressed and we were on the road. I called Jimmy as soon as we hit the highway.

"Hello?"

Shit, I kept forgetting I didn't have my phone, so every time I called Jimmy, it was from a different number. "It's me again."

My son huffed. "You really need to either get a new phone or come get yours already."

"That's actually why I'm calling. We’re on our way to see you."

"Who's we?"

I rolled my eyes at my son's tone but didn't miss the smirk on Lex's face from the corner of my eye. He was finding this amusing.

"Lex and I."

"Okay." My son almost sounded relieved by my answer.

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