Page 86 of The Voices are Back

“From what the court order explains, you have to be accompanied by another adult. One that can verify that you are not mistreating any minors.” He looked around. “Do you have any supervising adults present?”

Just then, the back room door opened, and out walked Adler Newsome. The douchebag who’d tried to switch my son at birth.

He swaggered into the open area at the front just as Sunny said, “Ah. That makes sense then.”

Adler and Justin both looked at him, confused.

I was confused, too.

But only because my brain was clouded with a killing fog.

For the two of them to be hanging out, there had to be at least some knowledge of what the other had done/was doing.

“And I hate to break it to you, Justin, but a convicted felon doesn’t count as a supervised adult,” Sunny offered. “Unless you have someone else up here, you’re already in violation of this.”

He jerked his chin in the young kid’s direction that’d been manning the front desk.

The kid was likely all of fifteen and definitely still a child. He was also looking on with his phone in his hand, recording every second of the standoff.

He was bouncing back and forth between looking at Sunny and me, and then Justin and Adler.

Justin’s smirk fell off his face as he heard Sunny’s words. “That’s bullshit and you know it. Those charges were bullshit charges. I changed in front of my girlfriend’s daughter. My girlfriend who, might I add, broke up with me later because of a falling-out. Then accused me of that. I’ve been doing this business for fifteen years now without any supervisory adults. I think I can keep doing it just fine.”

“Not when you have this kind of prior, and definitely not when these kids are taking your advice and starting fires because of something you urged them to do when they couldn’t handle their emotions. Justin Kingston, you’re under arrest.” Sunny pulled out his cuffs.

Adler stepped back and said, “Don’t worry, buddy. I’ll keep this place up and running while you’re arrested. We’ll figure this out.”

“Actually, about that,” Sunny said as he produced a second pair of cuffs. “You also have a stipulation in your early release. And that is to stay away from children when you’re unsupervised. But also, you’re under arrest for the assault of Kayden Fellows. He filed a criminal trespassing charge on you, as well as an assault charge, just a few minutes ago. You can explain yourself down at the station as well.”

Adler stiffened, and I could tell he was damn close to protesting.

But I shifted my feet, ready to intervene if I needed to.

“I would also like to point out that I have body cameras on the front and the back half of me. New issue with the sheriff’s department.” He smirked. “It’s a live camera feed, too.”

That’s something new. And very interesting to hear about.

“I…” Adler hesitated, unsure what to do or say now.

“Are arrested.” Sunny nodded his head.

And then they were.

They both walked calmly to the cop car after having their hands cuffed behind their backs.

The young teen babbled about “locking up” and Sunny and the two men walked calmly to the cop car and got inside.

Then Sunny was giving me a nod of appreciation for having his back, and I turned back to my woman who was nowhere to be found.

“I’m over here.”

I looked to find her in the car, windows rolled up, and only the one cracked just a small amount so that she could “hear” but not “be in the line of fire.”

Fuck, my girl was smart.

“Ready to go home?” she chirped.

I grinned at her.

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