Mickey's Baby (SEAL Daddies #3) by Annie J. Rose

Author:Annie J. Rose [Rose, Annie J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Karin

Staring crazily at the door with the TV on mute wasn’t working very well at calming me down. I eyeballed the boxes in the corner, but I couldn’t bring myself to face them. I’d sleep in a chair. As if I’d sleep anyway. I had a baseball bat propped between my knees. I was jumpy as a cat.

I had thought I was overreacting at first, or I’d hoped I was. But when I talked to Brendan and showed him the pictures, I knew I wasn’t. He had told me the guy was a major drug dealer on the island named Carlos Dominguez. He sold drugs, ran some black-market shit, and may or may not dabble in assaulting college girls on spring break or at least letting his crew get away with it. Drugs—that was bad. Big deal, sleep with the fishes, do not fuck with these people bad. Throw in the recreational roofies and we had a true crime scenario that meant I might never fall asleep again. Brendan had told me that we needed to be very careful. He didn’t want to freak Elise out either, but he wanted to keep her safe. The thing was, I didn’t know if safe was even a possibility at this point.

A knock sounded at my door and I nearly jumped out of my skin. I grabbed the bat and got to my feet. I wanted to burst into tears.

“Karin, it’s me,” I heard Mickey say from the door. My heart eased its way down out of my mouth and continued pounding like I was about to die, but I felt something like relief just from the sound of his voice. It unstuck me and I ran for the door and opened it.

I wanted to go right into his arms. But he brushed past me and immediately started searching the place. I trailed after him, suddenly afraid that someone was lying in wait. I hadn’t thought to look around. I finally stood in the living room and waited on him. He came out of the bathroom and nodded, letting me know we were alone.

He came up to me, crowded me a little, “You okay?” he asked. He looked at me with such concern my knees turned to water. I blinked fast and hard, no tears, no weakness. I nodded that I was okay, but my chin trembled and told him I was lying.

“I’m a little freaked out. I don’t know what to do,” I said, my voice shaky.

He took me by the chin and made me look up at him, “Hey. I’ve got you,” he said.

Something settled in me then. I nodded. I acknowledged that he did, in fact, have my back on this and that he was going to be there for me. Even though I got scared and broke up with him, this man wasn’t going to let me down. Tears started in my eyes, but I set my jaw and didn’t let them have their way. It was all I could do to keep my hands at my side.

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