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CHAPTER EIGHTY ONE
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2024-10-29 19:42:56JoJo had it in her hands, the key to everything, to all their pain and fears and the mysteries and it felt so fucking small, do trivial in its size.
It was her father's old watch, she could remember it from the years when she'd been younger.
It was funny how all these details hadn't registered with her in all her rush to get to it, to retrieve it and save her sister.
The hassle at the creepy firm she'd just been at and the ridiculously over priced ride home hadn't mattered one bit to her.
It had all passed in a blur and she'd been standing over the phone waiting for the call to come in asking for it so she can go to wherever they want to drop it off, be it the end of the earth.
But when it did, it had been Brad instead, asking her to stay put and giving her the best news she's heard all day.
Her baby was okay.
She couldn't wait to hold her again and confirm for herself that she was indeed okay.
And while she waited, she's paced
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"What did you say Brooks? She can talk?"She asked, her voice high pitched, breaking her embrace with the other woman.Brooks face was a dead give away to her question.God, no."Easy child, don't make this too hard on both of you. She had her reasons, reasons you appreciate one day."The disbelief was clear as day on JoJo's face."I don't think so Brooks," she cried, tears coming in torrents again."I've spent half my life devoted to her and the best she could do is lie to me? I don't think any reason can make up for that......"The older woman came to hold her again, letting her get all the tears out.She was about saying something else though when they heard a car pull up so close to the front door.JoJo jerked out of Brooks arms, her heart beating her to death.God, please let it be them, she prayed even as she rushed outside.The door opened and out came Adam carrying....."Oh my Go
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Jordan wasn't thinking of the pain that was shooting through him as JoJo held on to him, he was thinking about how much he's missed her instead.His little fire cracker.She looked stressed and tired and broken, he'd seen all that while she'd been fussing over Riley, before she turned to see him standing behind her and it annoyed him to know that he hadn't been able to save her all that pain and trouble, but he was here now, it'd get better."She kept mumbling 'I'm sorry' into his clothes, staining the front of his shirt with her tears that he'd rather not see, like it was her fault he'd charged in head first without thinking of the consequences or that he'd been caught and beaten up.Of course it wasn't and look, it had paid off and they had their little princess back home.For someone they'd just rescued, Riley was doing well already, chasing after her puppy.Hopefully, she'd have no lingering trauma from that incident.She was too
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He was in bed with his doctor checking him before she ventured out.The man had asked her to let him rest and she had every intention of doing just that.She had pressing matters of her, like answers to the questions messing with her head.She went down the stairs, lost in her own head.Of course she had Meghan to question but she didn't want to face her mother just yet, she wanted time.Maybe till forever.She bumped into Brooks at the bottom of the stairs and the questions in those wide eyes couldn't be any mistaken.The woman worried about Jordan more than an ordinary house keeper would worry for her master.She probably does see him as her son now."He's fine, Brooky, still in bed with the doctor fussing over him and he hates it."She made a face and smile when she noticed Brooks try to hide the relief the news brought her,and failing miserably."It scared me to see that way, scared me to death."
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Jordan was out of bed already even though it was against the doctor's orders and it was giving JoJo one hell of a headache worrying about him and his health.She came down this morning, after her little talk with Riley, only to find him rambling on to Brooks about being back at the office by tomorrow.He infuriated her with that attitude of his and acquired nonchalance about his health and life, and it was so because she worried do much about him.The doctor had said two weeks of absolute bed rest and it's barely been a week since the whole shit went down and he already wants out.If only he knew how much she worries.....She'd lost it this morning and had given him the rough part of her tongue and now she sat on her bed, regretting it.It was no fault of hers that she cared this deeply for him but she shouldn't have let go on him after everything.It had been a disrespectful thing to do.She'd stormed up here and had remained
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