Page 53 of Freeing Hawk
Laughing, I bit into his offering and looked over to where Angel was watching me intently. “Keegan wants to be emancipated from his parents.”
“I don’t blame him.” Angel replied. “His father is a piece of work and his mother—I can’t even imagine what that kid has had to go through.”
“I thought he couldn’t do that until he was like—what? Sixteen?” Cadmus was off the phone and was falling into one of the empty chairs. “Isn’t that the law?”
“In Texas, yes.” I replied. “I told him to think about it.”
“Okay guys.” Ghoul came back to us. “Our flight leaves tomorrow night. So, we have to stay here for the night and then head out.”
“There’s more than enough room.” Cadmus replied.
I nodded as I pushed the last of the food into my mouth. Feeling a little claustrophobic, I wandered away from the group, stopping to check on Kingston—who was still asleep. Soon, I found myself back on the balcony, the breeze a little cooler than it had been before.
“How are you really feeling?” Angel’s voice was soft.
I turned and rested my back to the railing. “Tired. Overwhelmingly exhausted.”
He pushed my hair away from my face and framed my cheeks. I thought Angel would have kissed me, but he didn’t. Instead, he used the hold on my face to pull me into his chest, then wrapped his arms around my body.
“When I take you home, you’ll have a bath, and we’ll sleep for three days.”
I laughed softly. “I wish. But I still have to figure out what I can do to help Keegan.”
“Are you really going to take on that fight?” Angel asked. “We can’t change his father’s mind. We know men like him. And the mother—I don’t even…”
“He needs a good home, Angel.” I pulled from his arms. “No child deserves an asshole like that for a father and a mother who hasn’t evenseenhim in weeks and gives zero fucks about it. He deserves better—he’s a fucking child!”’
“And I don’t disagree with you.” Angel replied. “But it’s not like we can take him home with us.”
I arched a brow. “Why can’t we?”
“Because, Sasha, he has parents.”
“You call them parents?” I snapped. “Seriously?”
“You’re a cop. You know the law.”
“Well, fuck the law!” I retorted angrily.
“Hey!” Dude stepped through the door. “What is with the yelling?”
Frustrated, I shoved by him and stepped back into the room.
“Hawk!” Angel called.
But I didn’t stop. Instead, I grabbed a gun for my holster and let myself out into the dark.
Chapter 12
Angel
Hawk and I still hadn’t spoken a week after we returned from Mexico. She’d stopped long enough in Texas to deal with the legalities of getting Keegan to go back to Tulsa with her since he was grabbed from there. Apparently, she had a connection that she pulled some strings with to get him out of the Texas system and into Oklahoma.
I didn’t understand the jurisprudence of it all and I was too tired to question it.
Afterward, it was as though she’d fallen off the face of the planet. Phone calls went unanswered and she had yet to reply to any of my messages.
By the second week, I couldn’t get my self to care anymore. I tossed myself into Alpha, working tirelessly, day after day beside Romeo. Tiberius enjoyed it—he was around people who he was familiar with, being active, rolling in the mud through parts of the obstacle courses.
