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CHAPTER 2

"Baby girl"

I look up from the padlock on the Jokers’ Wrath co, he’s scary, and he’s deadly But to h, I’d never tell him that He’d probably cut me He’s been President of the club ood at it It was always nice, growing up and knowing he had your back

One thing was for sure, none of us ever got bullied at school

"Hi, Daddy" I s into his ar in his scent and letting it wash over me Leather, mostly And hter before pulling back and looking up at hi my face

Can he see the pain in my eyes? He didn’t meet Michael, but he knows about him They’ve all met him before, ere friends We kept it quiet for a while e first started sleeping together, but after he disappeared on ether for a while

"I’ht I sat up with a heavy, sinking feeling in my chest and tried to call Michael over and over I’ot to that point, buta little confusing for me I just want answers I don’t understand how someone can just switch off like that

"You know I don’t like it when you lie toh and roll my eyes "Thanks, but no thanks I can handle this one"

He grunts

I hug hiirl upset over so my head "Seriously I’m okay"

He stares at me, then nods and steps back "Go inside, your mom into the shed situated on the coh the door

My e of Pocahontas, seriously The resemblance is uncanny All that dark hair, those almond shaped brown eyes, that skin that’s so soft and olive If they ever made the cartoon into a e does nothing but

"Mom" I s me to take a step back

"I haven’t seen you for a week! Where have you been? Matilda told me you were okay, but your sister would tell me you were alive if you were dead Hell, she’d bury your body and stuff your bed with fake pillows and have "

I chuckle

Matilda would She has htly crazy, which is why I adore her

"I’ve just been busy, it’s fine How are you?"

She steps back and studies me the same way Dad did I think she learned that from him Her brown eyes narrow, and she says, "You’ve been upset"

"How can you possibly tell that?"