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I’ve shown her my scars and she’s touched them gently and where she touches them it my back tingles; I have to argue with my dick that this is not the place or time to want what it wants. When I ask her about pressing charges against Jeff she tells me that she wants to do it Monday while I’m at work and Luke is at school. This pleases me so that maybe he can and will be held accountable for his actions. She tells me that she needs her car so that she can press charges, but I have an idea.
I explain that we need to get her totally off the grid as far as for him tracking her whereabouts. I offer to take her car to a police auction house and donate it. When I mention this I can see panic start to set in on her face. I take her hand and caress it as I continue to speak. I have an older truck that she can have to get her around wherever she wants to go. That way it won’t be in her name its in mine and she won’t have a paper trail for him to follow. When I finish talking and am waiting on her response I don’t realize that I’m holding my breath until she finally answers me with a proposition that one day in the future she’ll be able to buy the vehicle from me and register it so that she can have something of her own.
We make arrangements for Luke to stay with Chris and Kathy for the next week. Monday she’s explained that she wants to go and finalize the current issue with Jeff. That means by Tuesday they’ll be on the way to question and probably arrest Jeff. So we make plans to leave with both cars and head towards Houston where a Texas Ranger friend of mine is going to take over her car and sell it at the next police auction. I haven’t told her yet, but she’s not driving her car down there just in case something was tampered with I can be the one driving. It’ll take us a day to drive down and a day drive back so, I’ve gotten a hotel room for us Tuesday night and we’ll head back Wednesday.
My boss has been great with giving me the time off next week. I had to do some negotiating though. In the end we decided that I’ll work Monday and be off Tuesday through next Sunday. Which gives us plenty of time to drive down and back. Lilly has mentioned that she’s got some work that needs to be completed, so having Luke out of the house for a few days means she can work without distractions.
The weekend passed with very little said between us. She’s had her head in the computer working other people’s book covers, ads and other things, she’s tried to explain it to me, but its like she’s trying to teach me algebra, I just don’t get it. She’s been pretty quiet since seeing the scars on my back. Usually when the women get quiet it means they’re thinking and it’s just before they run away like I’m some leper.
I called Detective Green and gave her a heads up about Lilly’s decision. I could hear the unspoken question of our relationship. I explain that she’s Kathy’s sister and with Chris being my best friend we decided that she’d be best protected here from a second attack. I hear the doubt in her voice, but she thanks me for the heads up and is looking forward to seeing Lilly on Monday.