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The Moonshine Task Force Series Chapter 102
LeightonI never realized how dark it is at night, especially out in the country, until I'm stuck in it. At my childhood home, I never went outside at night by myself. I wasn't one of those kids who liked to catch lightening bugs. The dark has always scared me. Usually when I'm at home with Holden, we're inside or we're outside together. I have to admit I'm spooked to be waiting on him. I can hear all the sounds of the wilderness and my imagination starts running wild. Nobody escaped from jail recently, did they? Or maybe there's some weird serial killer in the woods looking for their next victim."You're prime pickin' for them if they are, Leighton," I whisper as I turn the car back on, turn up the radio, and hope to drown out the sound of my own thoughts. Hoping like hell Sam Hunt can lure me into a sense of safety, I sing along to every song I know.I freeze when I see headlights in the distance. Glancing at the clock, I know Holden hasn't had time to make it over here, not un
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LeightonI've struggled with doing this for months, not sure if I should, but scared of what happens to me as a person if I don't. It's been almost a year since Brooks was put behind bars. A year since I've seen the person I once considered my best friend. This has been heavy on my heart though since I saw my dad on the side of the road.I've missed him more than I can say. I don't miss the Brooks who hit Trevor, I miss the brother I know, the one no one else got to see. He was kind to me, even when he was an asshole to others. He supported me going to Birmingham, and there were nights we'd talk about what we'd do if we ever got away from our Dad. That's the Brooks I miss. When I see Trevor and Whitney together, I miss the relationship I had with him before everything went sour. Before my dad got hold of him and turned him into the person he is now."I'm here to see Brooks Strather," I say quietly to the person behind the sign in desk at the state penitentiary where my brother is
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Havoc"You ready?" I yell through the house, hoping it makes Leighton hurry up. We were supposed to leave twenty minutes ago, but she wasn't sure what she wanted to wear. Luckily I'm not working today, so I don't necessarily have a time I actually need to be at the Founder's Festival, but I'd like to get there before all the carnival food is taken."Sorry." She runs into the living room, looking cute and sexy at the same time. "Do you think this will be fine?"She looks like any other twenty-something girl in the South on a hot summer day. Low-top Converse cover her feet, sans socks, a pair of cut-off blue-jean shorts encase the ass that I'm now well-acquainted with, and a tank top covers what looks like a bikini top on the upper-half of her body. The long hair I love to bury my face in is in some sort of intricate looking braid on her head. "I think I'm gonna have a hard time not looking at your body all day," I admit as I pull her into me, kissing her fully on the lips.The s
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Havoc"You wanna go?" I ask Leighton as we eye the Ferris wheel. It's one of the few rides we're still allowed to have at the Festival. The sun is starting to set and there'll be a fireworks show once it gets dark enough. One of the perks of living in Small Town, USA. I can't wait to see her hair under the colored lights. Today has been an affirmation of how happy she's made me. This woman gets me, and I get her. Every day she makes my life better, in a big fucking way.She grins up at me hard, so hard I see the barest hint of a dimple in her right cheek. "If you do. Just know I'm kinda scared of heights, but if you go, I'll go."Her grin gets my stomach shaky. It's not the first time it's happened, but it's the first time I've truly admitted it. I put my arm around her neck and pull her in, feeling like I'm the luckiest guy in the world when she loops her arms around my waist and slides up next to me in line. I lean in, kissing her forehead, taking my sunglasses off so I can see
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HavocI'm draggin' ass on this hot night. We were prepared for moonshine to move tonight, thanks to the tip from Leighton and some other intel we picked up. Spoiler alert, it didn't. Instead we sat in the woods, sweating our balls off. Nothing happened and the heat zapped us all. I hate when a plan doesn't come together, and it's not very often that mine don't. Failure for me is a hard pill to swallow.I park my truck in the driveway, grabbing my stuff as I groan. My shirt's wet, and my pants are rubbing against my legs in the most uncomfortable way. I want to get in the house, take a shower, and sleep with Leighton curled against me.We've been missing each other the past few nights. She's had a paper due, and I've obviously had work to do. I'm pissed that those nights I've spent away from her have been for nothing. Coming up empty-handed is not my idea of a damn good time.I've grabbed my stuff, and I'm fixing to head to the house when I happen to look at the garage and see t
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Leighton"Thank God it's calmed down," I sigh as I sit down in a booth, hoping to catch my breath for a few minutes. I'm a little sore after the way Holden woke me up last night, and I hadn't been fully prepared for the way we've had to work this morning. "That breakfast rush was insanity. It hasn't been that busy in a while."Ernie has a seat across from me, sighing with relief as he puts his own feet up. "I heard from someone during one of the heavier rushes that a transformer blew out on Mill Creek, and most of these folks were without power."Now that I can understand. "No wonder we sold so much coffee." I lean my head back against the plate glass window.Violet is holding a cold Coke in her hand and sinks into a chair facing us, putting her feet up in one she's drug over. "Can we lock the door for twenty minutes?"I laugh, because I thought the same thing. I don't want to worry about moving for the next hour, if my opinion counts. "The only way we'll open it is if my hus
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Leighton"Your phone has been buzzing since you got up to go to the bathroom," I tell my husband as he comes back, having a seat across from me."Must be something big, everybody knows I'm off tonight and it's date night." He flips the phone over and I raise my eyebrows at the five missed calls."Told you it went crazy while you were gone." I was so hoping we'd have a nice night tonight. Violet's not back at work yet; she's recovering while Caleb and I have been picking up the slack. But Ernie closed early tonight to give us some time off. I had grand plans on taking my husband back to our house and showing him how much I love what he's wearing.His jaw tightens as he situates himself in his chair, pressing a button on the phone. "I got a bad feeling about this." He presses his fingers against the bridge of his nose, pinching it in a way that tells me this may be a long night.Something in the way he says the words puts me on edge as well. Our food hasn't gotten to us yet, and I'v
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Havoc"When does this end?" she questions as we lie in bed a few days later. I've had to report my findings to the state, and while I want to keep her name out of it, I have to figure out a way to do so. We haven't come this damn far in our relationship for me to have to lose her over something like this. "When are we allowed to be happy?""We are happy," I remind her, pushing her hair out of her face as she leans against my chest. "It's the other bullshit we could do without. The outside influences, and the people who want to make things difficult for us.""My dad," she sighs. "It's always going to come back to him. He'll always want me under his thumb, under his control. Until he's out of the equation, we'll never be able to let our guard down, Holden."I know she speaks the truth, but I have a plan. One I happen to think is foolproof and will get this bastard away from us for the rest of not only our lives, but his as well. I'm scared to tell her, afraid that she may still have
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CruiseFive Years Later"Molly's asleep." I press my wife up against the door to our bedroom, spreading open-mouth kisses along her neck as we grind against one another. Pulling back, I push my hands up her tank top, palming her breasts, moaning as I feel her nipples peak against her bra. "I paid Kelsea her stupid-ass babysitting fee, she's gone. We're alone." I can hear the annoyance in my voice. It's been an on-going argument between the two of us, how I'd watched her for free as a kid, and now she charges us.We've been out with friends and family, had a DD, and both of us have had a little too much to drink. Her with the margaritas she likes to indulge in with the ladies, and me with the whiskey Morgan and I were shooting straight with my dad."God, I want you." She rakes her nails across my neck, down my back, and fists my shirt in her hands.I want her too. Molly is three now, born within the first two years of us getting married, and we've finally got this parenting th
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Ruby"Where are you taking me?" I watch as Caleb drives through the streets of downtown. This fall night is cool as rain falls from the sky. It's not sheets like the day he shot the armed man, but a steady drumming against the roof of the Jeep."You'll see." His deep voice has a secretive lilt to it, one that I've come to know well in the year we've been together. He's not great at keeping secrets, but when he does, they're the best kind.As he turns in front of The Café, I grin. No matter what's happened inside the building or in front of it, this is still one of our favorite places to go, to be. On any given night, we can walk inside and find any number of friends or family inside. It's darkish in there tonight, but I figure maybe the electricity is flickering because of the rain storm we're in. Earlier in the day, the school had lost power.He snags a parking spot near the door. "Don't touch the door, I'll come around for you. I don't want you get wet."Since the first nig
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RubySeptemberBack when I bought this dress so many months ago, I had assumed I would wear it for Valentine's Day, but because of Caleb's schedule we were never able to make a special date work. He never did take me to that dinner, but we've had so many other special moments that I truly can't complain. Tonight, however, I'm thrilled to be wearing this dress to watch him get an award for bravery."You look absolutely gorgeous." He comes up behind me in the mirror as I'm applying a layer of lipstick."You don't look so bad yourself." I turn around in his arms, helping to straighten his dress uniform.I don't think Caleb has ever looked as hot as he does right now. There's something about him being so buttoned-up that I'm loving. "It's cutting off my circulation." He pulls at the fabric around his neck."You're fine." I slap his hands away. "Are you nervous?""Not really," he says with a shake of his head. "Nerves was playing for the college football championship. This is
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RubyI'm lying on my couch, re-watching some TV show I've seen a million times, trying to figure out how to get through to Caleb when the doorbell rings. At first I ignore it, not wanting to disturb my brooding, but then I hear his voice."Red?" It's unsure and soft as he knocks on the door this time. "I know I don't deserve for you to let me in, but I'm asking you to. Please?"For a moment I think about ignoring him, I think about letting him sit out there and sweat. Give him the same type of reaction he's given me, but I realize quickly one of us has to be the bigger person. That person is me, because I know he's hurting and I know he's dealt with the situation he's been thrust into the best way he knows how.Opening the door, I stand there with my arms crossed. Until I see what he's carrying in his hands.The ugliest looking cupcakes I've ever seen in my life."I finally realized why he made them, even though they looked like shit," he gives me a slight smile. "It's the
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Cruise"How'd you get in here?"My dad is waiting on me, probably ready to rip me a new one, just like Ruby did. I'm so not in the mood for it tonight."You don't need to know how I got in here." He gets up from where he's sitting on my couch. "Instead, what we need to do is talk about how we're going to get you to where you need to be.""What the fuck is that supposed to mean? This is me.""This isn't you, we both know that. I didn't raise you to be a fuck face. You haven't been answering my calls, your mom's, Kelsea's, or come to find out Ruby's, so let's talk about this Caleb. What the fuck is going on?""Nothing." I grind my teeth together, not wanting to do this with him."We've done this once before son, and we won't do it again. Do you remember when your friend died? Remember when you pushed everyone away? How'd that work out for you?""How does having a murderer for a son work out for you?" I fire back at him. "Because I'm on administrative leave for committing
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RubyI'm sitting in my car watching Morgan and Caleb eat through The Café window. This is what I've been reduced to. It's been a week since the shooting, and so far, Caleb's refused to see me. I went to see him the other night, and it was a bad scene."What are you doing here?" Caleb opens his door, arms crossed over his chest. "I figured me not answering any of your calls let you know I'm not up to talking to anyone right now. Including you."Not gonna lie, this hurts. Seeing him like this hurts, hearing him talk to me the way he is hurts. But I won't give up on him. I promised Kelsea months ago that I would be here if he needed me, that I could handle whatever was thrown at me."You need me," I talk against the tightness in my throat."I need to be left the fuck alone. You. Mom. Dad. You all need to leave me the fuck alone.""We won't," I shake my head standing my ground. "We won't leave you alone to deal with this by yourself.""Fine, then if you won't leave, I will."
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CruiseThe July sun is beating down on the pavement as I make my drive around the streets that make up Laurel Springs. It's been a boring day, for the most part, but I'm not stupid enough to think it'll last. Lately it's been slow and I've been feeling a lot like the other shoe might drop. This nagging feeling hasn't let go for the last week, but I know eventually either that shoe will drop or I'll get over it.Rain came through over an hour ago, but it did nothing to cool the day down. It's now a sauna outside. In certain parts there's actually steam coming up off the road. Behind the sun that's moved in, you can see more clouds behind. A dark hazy threat looming in the background, more storms are moving in. The stillness of the day threatens to break wide open when they do.Because of the heat that's been baking the ground and asphalt for days, most people are inside this afternoon, enjoying the air conditioning and not wanting to have heatstroke. Probably one of the reasons th
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CruiseI love the smile on Kelsea's face, love even more that I'm the one who put it there. "You excited Kels?" I grin into the rearview as we make the drive to Birmingham."So excited, like I knew you knew him." She bounces in her seat. "But I didn't really know!"Him references my college roommate Slater Harlow, known by everyone who watches professional baseball as Savage. He's a formidable force on the baseball diamond, having the best season of his career. We're not as close as we once were, because life took us two totally different directions, but we still hang out every once in a while. Typically I like to keep the fact I know him from just about everyone, because I know he values his privacy. Now though? Kels is old enough to go to a major league game, and I'm doing my best to impress Ruby."I've known him a long time." I think back to our college days, how both of us had been so damn homesick. Him more than me, since I could at least head home on the weekend. Slater w
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RubyIt's a hot summer day, as I walk onto the practice field. Since school let out in early June, I've been catching up on sleep, taking a summer class, and spending as much time with the man in my life as I can. Neither Mason nor Caleb are here today. Both are on duty, so another parent has offered to help the girls practice. Karina is sick with a summer cold and me? I'm here, not sure what the hell I've gotten myself into. Kelsea and I are spending the afternoon together, beginning with me picking her up. So we'll see how this goes."Ruby!" I hear as I shield my eyes and look out along the field. Kelsea is running toward me, her backpack bouncing as she runs."Hey Kels," I greet her, a real smile on my face. She and I haven't had a ton of time with one another, but as Caleb and I have gotten closer, the same has been true for the two of us. "You ready?" I wave to today's coach as she walks beside me."I am, it's hot out here." She pushes her hair back from her forehead.Ta
