Everlasting - Christine Michelle Page 0,17
bidding me a good day and hurrying from the room to his next appointment. The nurse came in after I was finished dressing again and she walked with me up to the front desk to set up the appointments I needed, since I hadn’t been listening to the doctor about them.
“He thought you might need someone to go back over everything,” the nurse told me as she offered a sweet smile. “If you need anything, forget, or want clarification on what he needs you to do, just give us a call.” She placed a business card in my palm then. “I’m sure you already have Dr. Middleton’s number, but this is mine as well. Just in case he is unreachable. I’m a registered nurse midwife, so I can help too.”
“Thank you,” I told her as I scooped up my appointment cards and set out to head to the club, only when I left the office, Christina was waiting for me by my car. “What are you doing here?”
“Jay and I are staying in town for a bit, again. The images you sent me earlier, I forwarded them to Keys. I came by to tell you that she got a hit on the woman. Her face was seen on a random camera. It’s the first good lead we’ve had in a while. It also means that she came all the way here to deliver this package herself. Keys wants to know if you still have the envelope and everything. Maybe there’s a chance we can nab a usable fingerprint off of it this time.”
I nodded my head and then turned toward the sound of a motorcycle coming at us. J-Bird rolled up beside the curb and kicked the stand to his bike down before hopping off and coming to join us.
“Lucy and Tiger Lily have the twins and Pike,” he told Christina and me.
“Why? Amber and Ashton should be in school.” Panic set in as I thought about why they wouldn’t be there.
“The girls were in a fight,” he informed me.
“What? Why?”
“One of their little asshole classmates told them that their dad left because he didn’t want them anymore.”
“Jesus, what next?” I groaned the question, not really wanting to taunt fate to drop another bomb in my lap, but seriously, could the cruel bitch just back off of my family for a fucking minute and let us breathe?
“What do you mean by, ‘What next’?” Jay asked, not missing a beat as I lamented having a big ass mouth.
I hadn’t even mentioned the pictures to anyone from Aces High yet. I knew the moment I handed anything over to them, they would shut me out again. Instead, I had entrusted it to the women of S.H.E. So far, it sounded like I’d made the right decision.
“She got another picture and gave it to us,” Christina told her man.
“What?” Jay exploded. “He’s our President!”
“No, he’s not. He’s your brother, but you left the club behind years ago. The men aren’t capable of handling this one,” I told him. “He’s been gone for two months and nothing. You all have nothing.”
“What are you talking about? They’re doing everything they can to find him and bring him home to you,” Jay argued.
“Is he home yet?” Silence was my answer. “I gave them two precious months to bring him home. They brought me nothing. I gave the women of S.H.E…” I glanced down at the clock on my cell phone, “Five hours. They already have a strong lead about where he might be. A woman is part of his abduction. The Aces High MC doesn’t have a great track record dealing with women involved in their problems. They’re too prideful to know they need a woman’s help.
“Tell me, would you rather bring him home, or keep waiting on intel that will lead them to the ‘man’ they’re trying to negotiate with for his release? A woman is setting up these photos that I keep getting. When was the club going to stop chasing the ghost of a man who they think they need to deal with, and start chasing the woman who is obviously in charge and using Deck for her own personal reasons?”
Instead of answering, J-Bird turned to his old lady. “You should have told me.”
“I would have. Later,” she insisted. “No secrets!”
“No secrets,” he whispered back to her. “I get it, Ever.” Jay finally acknowledged. “How about we all head to the clubhouse, conference Keys in, and get everyone on the same page?”
I climbed