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We all looked over at her.
“What does?” I asked her.
“I was downtown a few weeks back,” Briget explained. “Shopping for a princess collar for Miss Daisy and I was walking her on a leash along the sidewalk when we passed an alley. It’s a dead end type alley, always been that way. You know with walls of buildings and another wall at the end of it. But suddenly, the asphalt on the ground separated and a steel door rose up. I halted right there and stared. Then an SUV drove out of it! I jumped out of the way because it almost ran me over. I looked back at the alley and all I saw was just the alley and asphalt.”
“Where did you see this?” a voice called out.
We all looked over a few seats down to see Talon standing from his chair as he glared at Briget.
Chapter Two:What’s In A Name?
Briget
Everyone at the long table stared at me.
Glancing around at them, I looked up at the tall man who had stood from his seat, Talon Walker. “It was a few weeks ago,” I told him. “I was walking my dog and this SUV came out of literally nowhere. And I really meannowhere. There is nothing in that alley. Never has been.”
Talon slowly shook his head. “And where did this happen?”
“Downtown near the old shops.” I shrugged. “Was a freaky thing and that asshole almost ran me over.”
“Deacon,” Fate said.
I looked over at him. “What?”
“Had to be Deacon or his men,” Fate told me. “That’s who was in the SUV.”
I agreed. “Yeah, I figured that out. But since he knows me, I don’t understand why he didn’t stop and at least apologize.”
Fate laughed and asked, “Apologize?”
I nodded at him. “Tell me he was sorry for almost running me over. I mean he does know me and who I am.”
Liberty joined Fate’s laughter and said, “Yeah Talon, Deacon has manners, ya know?”
“What do you mean you know him?” Talon asked as he ignored their banter.
I shrugged. “At the time, he was friends with Belle. You know, helping to get her sister back. So, a couple times when she first met him, he would come by her apartment and I met him in the hall.”
“You’re lucky to still be alive,” Talon stated with a growl in his voice.
“I wasn’t important enough to him to bother with, I guess? I mean he had no reason to hurt me. Why would he do that?”
“Wow. Haven't you heard anything we all have been telling you about this guy?” Fate asked me.
I now looked over at him. “I heard some of it, but I’m nobody, why would he even care about me?”
“You aren’t a nobody,” Belle said as she shook her head at me. “You are a wonderful person, my best friend and my hero. You saved my life, remember?”
I rolled my eyes at this. “It was perpetrated by fear, Belle. Don’t be giving me some kind of credit for bravery that I don’t deserve. I’m no hero. Swinging Betsy at that fruitcake wasn’t brave.”
“Betsy?” Fate broke in. “You named your bat?”
I shrugged my shoulders. “Sure, why not?”
Fate chuckled. “So have you named your toaster, microwave and your phone? Do they all have names?” he teased.
I narrowed my eyes at him. He seemed to be having quite a bit of fun at my expense. “Sure, Teddy the toaster, Mac the microwave and Chelly the Celly.”
