Page 73 of Wait For Me

“She’s been whoring herself for the fucking Violent Order,” I informed them. “Breakneck’s been having her tailed.

“What about Knox?” Mitzi asked.

“What about him? He’s fine. Nova had him with the other kids last I saw.”

“No, I meant, is the baby Kip’s?”

“Jesus,” Star hissed. “Don’t say that out loud right now. My brother just took too many hits today.”

“The kid is his. I made him get the test done, even though he already married the stupid cunt,” Mack informed us.

“Well, that’s good then,” Mitzi managed to choke out.

“What a fucking day.” I worked to clean my woman up as she leaned into me. “I think we need to get away from this place for a little bit.”

“What do you have in mind?” Star asked with a little more personality in her tone. I was thankful for it too, because her imitation of an emotionless robot was worrying the shit out of me.

“Did you ever go to Vegas during your travels?”

She shook her head. “I wasn’t old enough to go when I passed by there before.”

“We should go.” Star’s beautiful brown eyes twinkled with amusement as she watched me doctor her up.

“People end up getting hitched when they ‘just go’ to Vegas.” Her warning was nothing more than a tease, and I gladly took the bait.

I winked at her. “Countin’ on it, Twinkles.”

26

Star

We did not get to go to Vegas right away, despite how eager we both were to get away from all the drama surrounding my family. Instead, we had to wait until Kip could get an emergency hearing with the local family courts to gain full custody of Knoxville.

After seeing the photos and video that Breakneck and his team gathered while Ashlynn was under surveillance, the court had no choice but to side with Kip. His son was clearly seen sitting in a car seat while multiple men drank, smoked unknown substances, and fucked Ashlynn while the baby appeared to be crying in the background. Ash wasn’t able to speak for herself because she had her jaw wired shut thanks to yours truly.

“So, she can’t have any further contact?”

Kip shook his head. “They terminated her parental rights instead of just giving me sole custody and supervised visitation for her.”

“Wow. That’s extreme.”

“There were more videos,” Kip explained. “One where a box was put over my son, so no one had to see him sitting there in his car carrier in the corner of the room. One of those fuckers kicked the box too.”

“Oh, God! Kip.” What the fuck could I even say to that. “I wish you guys had let me just fucking take her out.”

He shook his head. “Jared was right. There were too many witnesses, and her mom would have raised a big stink about it, if she’d disappeared.”

“Yeah? Where is she now? Where was she when her daughter was dragging your kid to her fucking whore appointments?”

“Pretty sure her mom washed her hands of Ash, especially after her daughter was charged with neglect and abuse. Don’t know if the charges will stick, but it was enough to make my soon-to-be ex-wife’s mother tuck tail and hide somewhere.”

I thought about it for a minute. “I’ll bet money that she rats to try to stay out of jail.”

“Nah, she couldn’t be that stupid,” Kip said, and Jared nodded his head in agreement.

“Really? She was dumb enough to get in bed with The Violent Order.”

“Fuck, I guess that’s true.”

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