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Turning my head, I frowned at Axel. “When the fuck did you get here?”
Axel scowled at me. “I’ve been here the whole time…”
“The fuck you have,” I muttered. “I didn’t even see you.”
Axel rolled his eyes, then ignored me and focused on Cypher again. “I’m good at making bodies disappear.”
Cypher grinned. “Appreciate the help.”
We left the four of them and jogged our way back to our bikes. It wasn’t likely we were going to hit either of these places tonight. Cypher hated going in without a plan. We’d take tonight to make sure every move made sense and we’d hit them, simultaneously, tomorrow night. I was sure of it. I knew Cypher and his habits well.
My mind drifted to Ainsley and I hoped she wouldn’t be too pissed at me for having to babysit for a couple of days instead of a few hours. Either way, I knew Aella was safe with her.
We wouldn’t go pick her up and bring her back to the clubhouse for two reasons. One, Ainsley would probably refuse to watch her a second time. She’d only agreed the first time because of guilt and the fact that I’d dropped the girl on her last second. She hadn’t had time to tell me to go fuck myself. And two, it would be too chaotic for Aella. Better to leave herwith Ainsley, where she was safe, and then pick her up when everything was done and over with.
CHAPTER 24
Ainsley
Ilooked down as small fingers wrapped themselves around mine. My heart may have melted a bit as the little girl stared up at me with wide innocent eyes.
“Mama says hold hands.”
“Okay.” I squeezed her hand and walked with her across the parking lot to the station.
It’d taken a couple slices of pizza, candy, ice cream, and watching the same cartoon about five times before she fell asleep on my couch last night. Looking back on my actions I might have shot myself in the foot with giving her sugar before trying to get her to bed. Who knew that would be a problem?
“Uh… Where did you get her, Boss?”
Scowling at Owen, I pulled up a rolling chair and planted it right next to him, then helped Aella climb up into it. Owen looked decidedly uncomfortable with the little girl perched close to his elbow.
“I’ll give you three guesses.”
Owen’s brow furrowed. “Hmm…where did he steal a child from?” He looked over at the little girl who was now kicking her legs to get the chair to circle as fast as possible. She was entertaining herself, but I had the image of pizza and candy being spewed across the office in a circular pattern, exorcist style.
Knowing what I fed her last night, and this morning, I needed to get out of here before she puked and I was stuck cleaning it up. What was the point of being Sheriff if you couldn’t delegate some things to your deputies? I pointed at Owen, letting him know his guess was correct. “There’s your consolation prize.”
“Wait. He really did steal a kid?” Owen asked as I started to walk away.
“That’s what I’m going to look into,” I told him, walking to the back of the bull pen and pouring myself a cup of coffee before shutting my office door on his stunned, confused expression.
Sighing, I went and sat down at my desk. Typing my password into my computer, I got to work.
“Uh oh,” I heard a little voice say, followed by the sound of a demon being exorcised from her belly.
“Can you get that Owen? Thank Warrant for the pleasure.”
Three hours later,I sat back with a growl of frustration. “Nothing. How can there be nothing?” I slammed my fist on my desktop, making everything jump.
“Mama tells Daddy use words not hit things.”
I blinked over to my right at the little girl standing there with her hands clasped in front of her. My head snapped to the door.Sure enough, it was open a couple inches. When had she even come in here? The girl was a ninja.
“Your mama sounds like a smart woman,” I told her.
She smiled at me. “That what Daddy says.”
“Sounds like your daddy is smart too,” I told her with a chuckle.
