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“My bet would be Bailey because you left right after she mentioned Mac was at the hospital because of an emergency.” Devil shrugged when I looked at him.

“All I know is when I was outside cleaning out the back end of my truck, Luna opened the door with her cell to her ear and asked if I would drop her off at Sami’s on my way here. So that is what I did. When I pulled up in front of Speed’s house, Carly was walking in. And no, I didn’t ask Luna why she wanted dropped off. I’ve learned that I’m better off not knowing,” Ghost said, then glanced at each of us. “So, need a lift or not?”

How the seven of us squeezed into Ghost’s crew cab, I don’t know. But I was thankful it was a short ride to my house. I only hoped Mac was still there, and the women hadn’t freaked her out to the point she took off.

Chapter Ten

Mac

The knocking at thedoor startled me, and I wondered if I should answer it. Emery had only been gone about forty-five minutes and he would have his key anyway. I walked to the door and looked down at the clean sweats and t-shirt I borrowed of Emery’s after I’d taken a shower. His clothes hung off me.

Biting my lip, I reached for the lock.

“How long are you going to stand there before you open the door? I can hear you on the other side,” Carly voiced from the other side of the door.

I’d been busted, and I had a feeling that when I opened the door, Carly wouldn’t be the only one there. I took a deep breath and flipped the lock and pulled opened the door. I was right, it wasn’t just Carly outside. Bailey, Sami, Luna, and River stood on the porch around her. Neely and Ally and Sawyer, who I knew was Dr. Agassi’s daughter, stood looking at me while Poppy smiled from River’s arms.

“Girl, are you going to let us in? I have to pee,” Luna said, then pushed Carly out of the way. I stepped to the side, and she walked past me followed by Karma, the dog her and Ghost rescued who I hadn’t noticed on the porch.

Luna had wrecked on her way to my office when a truck was in her lane as she came around a curve. The man had just thrown Karma’s pups out of his window in a trash bag. When River’s dad, the sheriff, went out to the man’s house, he’d found the momma dog half-starved. Ghost and Luna had talked the shelter into letting them adopt the dog before the waiting period. They’d named the poor thing Karma and from what I heard from Bailey, the dog had taken to Luna and rarely left the woman’s side.

“Next time ask me to move. And how can you have to pee again? You peed right before we left Sami’s house,” Carly said as the women piled into Emery’s house.

“Sorry,” Sami said and started walking down the hall. “I’m going to need to go after Luna gets done.”

As I watched Sami walk down the hallway, I noticed Karma sat patiently by the door, waiting for Luna.

“I haven’t seen Karma in a while. She’s really filled out and looks great,” I said as I turned to the women.

“Yes, she looks great. Now let’s go in the kitchen and sit down, and you can tell us how you ended up at Emery’s house last night,” Carly said, and Bailey smacked her shoulder.

“Can you be any ruder?” Bailey asked.

“I know that’s a rhetorical question because you know Carly can be,” River said, and Carly flipped both women off.

The little girls giggled, reminding us they were there, watching and listening.

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