Quit Bein' Ugly by Vale Lani Lynn & Vale Lani Lynn

Author:Vale, Lani Lynn & Vale, Lani Lynn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lani Lynn Vale
Published: 2021-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

As long as I have a face, you’ll always have somewhere to sit.

-Text from Croft to Carmichael

CROFT

I was lying in my bed alone the next morning, and I really, really fuckin’ wished that I’d told the judge that I wouldn’t be coming in today.

Only, I’d misspoke, and now I was going to be forced to go in whether I wanted to or not.

Easing out of the bed, I kept myself distracted by thinking of Carmichael.

She’d left last night around nine, and she’d taken my dog with her.

Why?

Because Danger and Lion had really hit it off, and Danger had needed a friend. So, I’d let her go home with my dog.

That, and I’d wanted to make sure that she had extra protection.

We’d gotten word from Flint last night that there hadn’t been anything or anyone found in connection to the break-in at Carmichael’s place, or my shooting.

Meaning, whoever had done it was still out there.

But, while we’d been out yesterday, Flint had been busy.

He’d put a full security system into Carmichael’s place. And when I say full security system, I was talking top-of-the-line, only the people that had the connections, security system.

I wasn’t sure how Flint had gotten his hands on it, but I’d been damned impressed.

Still, I’d sent her with Lion just in case.

I hadn’t slept well last night, either.

I’d been thinking of all the things that could potentially go wrong.

Like what if I didn’t hear her in the middle of the night and something happened? What if someone got in despite the tricked-out security system? What if I physically wasn’t capable of helping her?

Needless to say, as I shuffled my way to the bathroom, the very last fucking thing that I wanted to do was go try a case.

But I didn’t have a choice.

I had exactly an hour and a half until I had to be at the courthouse, and shot or not, Judge Stanley would not be forgiving if I was late.

Getting through my normal daily routine, I was just getting to the point where I put the button-up shirt on when I realized that it wouldn’t be happening.

Though I was moving a little better today, tiny buttons and a screaming arm were not for me.

That, and I needed the bandage changed and I couldn’t reach the exit wound at my back.

Plus, I could really use an excuse to go see the sexy little thing across the street.

Finishing up everything that I could on my end and taking some drugs to hopefully hold me over, I grabbed my shirt, tie, suit jacket, keys and phone before heading out the door.

The walk to Carmichael’s place took less than a minute, and I was surprised to find that, although it felt fairly bad, I was moving a whole lot better than I had the day before. Things didn’t absolutely kill me when I walked. More like a dull throb.

When I knocked on the door, though, the reverberation down my arm made me grimace, which was when she chose to answer the door.

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