All Chapters of The Moonshine Task Force Series: Chapter 171 - Chapter 180

MenaceJuneKarina is meeting up with some of her fellow teachers today at the high school. She mentioned something about helping to purge and clean some of the older rooms. They've been doing it for a while, a couple of the times some of the guys from the police department have been asked to go out and help move stuff, but I've never been one of them.She looks cute as she's ready for her day, with her hair pulled back in braids, a hat over her head, a pair of old shorts, and one of my old t-shirts. I reach up, tugging on one of the braids. "Have fun today."She gives me a look, one that says kiss my ass, before she grabs me around the waist."I'll see you later." She kisses me, squeezing the flesh of my stomach, before we part ways for the day. "Tell Caleb I miss him. I hope you two have a great day together.""Ouch woman, that fuckin' hurt." I rub my side where she'd grabbed my fat."That'll teach you to pull on my hair."I give her a hot grin. "Sometimes you like it

KarinaJulyThere have been a lot of times in my life when I imagined my wedding day, especially when I was engaged before. That day was supposed to be the most magical day of my life. It had been planned for almost a year. The dress had cost more than I'd been able to afford, but it had been a gift from my parents, and the honeymoon was more than my yearly salary. That had been a gift from his parents. I still wonder to this day if they'd known what was going on. If that had been their way of trying to buy me off. I should have known something was up when they'd been all too eager to spend what could have been a down payment on a nice home to send us away. All of that though, it pales in comparison to what this day means to me. Last week when Mason had asked me to marry him, I'd imagined a long engagement. I'd thought maybe we'd get married next summer before Caleb started workouts for next year, but the more I'd thought about it, the more I realized I didn't want to wait. W

KarinaSeptember"I'm so tired." I yawn loudly as I lay on the couch, my feet in Mason's lap. We're watching something on TV, trying to avoid doing yard-work in the early September heat. "I feel like I'm coming down with something." I close my eyes, snuggling into the cushions."You were tired a lot this week," he comments as he grabs the cover off the back and covers me up with it. "Was it hectic at school?""Not particularly, which is why I think I'm coming down with something. My stomach wasn't happy with me this morning." I mention the other symptom I had. "Maybe if I just take a nap, I'll feel better." I turn into the couch, hugging one of the pillows.The next thing I know, Mason's shaking my shoulder. "Rina, you've been asleep for two hours, time to get up."I fight against the lethargy holding me down. Working against the exhaustion to prop myself up. "Two hours?""Yeah." He runs a hand down my face. It's my favorite hand. His left hand that holds the ring I put t

KarinaNovemberSchool is routinely kicking my ass. Even though I've just passed my three-month mark in the pregnancy, I'm not feeling much better than when I started, and I'm still getting sick on a regular basis. It doesn't matter, though, the show must go on and I don't want to take time that I don't need yet. Because the due date is around the first week of May, I'll more than likely be taking maternity leave at Spring Break, so I don't want mess with any of the plans I already have. It's taking me longer to finish grading papers and make lesson plans. Pregnancy brain is really a thing, and I'm suffering from it, all the time. I'm finding more often than not, it's easier for me to get things done at school, so I'm staying a little later than normal every night. The librarian keeps the library open since she does work too, and I've been finding going in there with her helps keep me on task. Grabbing my laptop and my water bottle, I close up my room and head to the front of th

Karina"Can you cut this off of me?" I ask Mason after he's laid me down in our bed. His eyes flash to the hospital bracelet I'm wearing, and I can tell it annoys him as much as it annoys me. I don't like the reminder of what went down earlier today and honestly could do without anything ever reminding me again. After the hospital had pronounced me and the baby, which after some testing they told me they think is a girl, were okay, Mason had brought us home. "I'm so sorry this happened to you," he whispers as he cuts it off, rubbing at the irritation the plastic edges had left on my skin."Look at me." I give him my most stern teacher's voice. "This wasn't your fault. He was an unhinged psychopath who thought he'd get away with potentially killing kids. This isn't you, Mason. This is him.""You could have died," he argues.Grabbing his chin with my fingers, I force him to meet my eyes. "You could have too. What if he'd turned the gun on y'all? What if he'd decided to go d