Chapter 31
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
TEXT MESSAGES FROM THE GUYS
SATURDAY NIGHT
Joker: How’s it going?
Demitri: Fine. Mia took the bitch down like the bad-ass boss lady she is.
Joker: Of course she did. Was there any doubt?
Aiden: That’s our girl.
Demitri: Excuse me?
Aiden: Sorry, that’s your girl!
Demitri: That’s what I thought, asshole.
Grady: How are the other girls? Are they okay?
Demitri: Fine. Staying to hang out with the new friends. Thanks for sending them, by the way.
Aiden: What new friends?
Joker: The Boulder Canyon gang. Davis and friends.
Grady: Why’d you send them?
Joker: Because they could help?
Aiden: Who was with Davis?
Joker: Sarge, Tiny, Ranger.
Aiden: Seriously, fucker? You sent in the hot guy brigade?
Joker: You worried?
Grady: Fuck you.
Joker: Touchy, touchy.
Daniel: Demitri, I’m glad everything’s okay. We’ll be back Monday. Check in then?
Demitri: You’re playing dad and having to separate the boys, aren’t you?
Daniel: Yes. It’s like they forgot these guys were there for us, too, and that they are all very happily married.
Demitri: Jealousy is not logical.
Daniel: Now if only they could decide who they are jealous over.
Grady: Fuck you.
Aiden: Fuck off.
Demitri: At least they are in agreement there.
SUNDAY NIGHT
Demitri: All’s quiet on the western front.
Nate: Wasn’t that a book about World War 1?
Demitri: Yes.
Nate: Germans?
Demitri: Yes. It was pretty anti-war.
Nate: Is this where I make an inappropriate joke about you being Russian?
Demitri: You can try but doesn’t change that it was a good book.
Nate: You take all the fun out of things.
Demitri: I try.
MONDAY MORNING
Demitri: When will you all be back?
Joker: What’s wrong?
Demitri: She didn’t wait too long to retaliate. The bar’s been vandalized.
Daniel: How bad?
Demitri: Not sure yet. We haven’t gone inside. Window’s broken out though, and we can see damage on the inside.
Aiden: ETA is about an hour.
Joker: I called Sammy. He’s calling some of the guys he knows on Rock Hill PD.
Demitri: Do we have to involve the cops?
Joker: Yes. You need a report to file a claim on your insurance. At a minimum.
Demitri: She’s going to hate that.
Daniel: I know she’s not a fan of them with her history, but we’re calling in the good guys.
Demitri: I know. Thanks. I’ll try to keep her out until you get here.
Joker: Don’t touch anything.
Demitri: You got it.