HAVOC by Debra Anastasia

Author:Debra Anastasia [Anastasia, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DEBRA ANASTASIA
Published: 2018-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 39

Animal

Merck had been texting me in the two days he had to stew about meeting Ember again. He hadn’t changed his mind, but he wondered what to bring, what to wear, if he should provide a side dish.

It was sweet to see him so excited. When I approached Nix later in the evening after I got home to the girls, he was thoughtful for a while.

He asked my opinion, and I offered that I thought it was a good choice. Merck was a good dad. At least, from my standpoint. Nix brought up that having a cop in our house was a tricky situation. We wanted him not to be watched or tagged as our friend, and we didn’t want our people to think we had switched sides at all.

We settled on letting T smuggle Merck in. And Merck had left it up to Nix and me to decide what to do about Ember. We debated the merits of telling her and then letting Merck reveal it.

In the end, we decided it wasn’t fair to spring the news and the man on Ember in the same night.

It was late on Saturday when we all convened. Both Becca and T made themselves scarce. Nix and I had tipped them off to what was going down. They would be on standby if Ember needed some female interaction after the news we had for her.

Finally, when Nix and I had settled into the living room, Nix texted for Ember to drop downstairs.

She gave us both suspicious looks when she got to the living room and folded her legs crisscross on the sofa. “You’ve all been too nice to me lately. And now you’re staring at me weird. What’s going on? Are you kicking me out?”

Her phone was clutched in her hand. I had a thought. “You alone in that phone?”

“What do you mean?” She hugged it close to her.

“You don’t have any of your friends on FaceTime or anything, right?” I waited to see what her body language told me. Sure enough, I was right. She pressed the buttons to show me that she was no longer broadcasting the discussion to God knows how many people.

“I’m in trouble, huh?” She was starting to shut down.

“Baby girl, no, we have news, though. And we’re going to deliver it to you like people who care about you.” I sat forward and put my elbows on my knees.

Nix nodded. “It’s nothing scary.”

Ember nodded and looked from Nix to me and back again. “Okay, I don’t know what to expect, but okay.”

I waited for Nix. I felt like the news should come from him. If she had questions about Merck, I would share.

“You and I, we might not have the same dad—which you’ve known.”

Ember’s eyes grew wide.

“Well, it turns out, we know who Mom was involved with around the time you were conceived.” Nix cleared his throat. “His name is Merck. Well, that’s his last name. Animal said you met him the other day? His first name is Patrick.

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