Family Bonds: Book 2 of Sista

by Blackstar1979

Family Bonds the sequel to Sista. The the Superstars and Sistas have been through a lot that have carved out bonds where there were none. Will the past rip apart the bonds that have been forged or make them stronger? Reviews are welcomed as always.

22. Chapter 22 Sex, Drugs, and Broken hearts

Chapter 22

Sex, Drugs, and Broken hearts

Nikki's mom had taken a few things over to their new house. A guy came over and asked did she need help. She said sure if it wouldn't cost her later. Unlike at her dad's place on Cherry Road here on Cherry Hill she could see Angel's house or at least the gate. She was walking outside to grab some more stuff from her mom's car and decided to check her phone, she had got a message from Janet yesterday but most of the holiday day she wasn't up for talking to anyone.

Nikki: Hey I know you are on your tour but I just wanted to reply to your text from yesterday. Merry Christmas. I have good news I'm moving and I won't miss you.

Janet: My tour isn't for another hour (Tear) I'll miss you.

Nikki: no girl I won't have to miss you I am moving closer than I live now. I'll be right down the hill I will be able to walk home again and I won't have to hit three streets to do it from Angel's place. I get to go to the same school as I do now and for a few weeks I'll be living with Candy but I'll tell you about that when I see you.

Janet: (Bouncing emoticon) YiPPY yes please we will have to talk. Oh and the paperwork came back and my Momma is legally my momma now isn't that cool?

Nikki: That is super cool Paula is nice. Well I am about to ride back to my old house for more stuff but I'll see if I can come over later. Bye and good luck on your tour (Waving Emoticon)

Joshua wakes and hits the shower it was the day after Christmas as he walks back into their bedroom he just watches his wife sleep for a bit. She rolls over and the blanket slides down revealing her 9 month belly she was due any day now and they both could hardly wait to see their son. His cell phone plays "Best Friend" and he looks at the message from Candy saying she was heading to the Davenport to meet Logan and Bradley. He replies that Logan had called him, saying he was going to be running late. They were going to start in the building next door, get it cleaned out, so the Davenport could operate without interruption until Logan's company were ready to come through the wall. Opening up the stage and providing more seating. Candy said that was fine she was going to check on Nikki since she now had a car of her own, and thanked him again. He tells her she had helped them all it was something they all knew she had been saving for. She made him smile with her next text saying that was because she had the best brother, sister, and fiancée in the world. Angel's phone rings he dashes across the room to grab it before it woke her, too late she blindly grabs at it making it fall off the nightstand, he grabs it off the floor sees the caller and hit send handing it to her. "It's Mark"

Angel takes her phone mouths thanks and good morning as she put the phone up to her ear still lying in bed." Hey cuzo you guys going to the ranch? Yup I'll be in there in a second. Their still sleeping? Janet gone yet? Okay like I said I'll be in there in a second have fun guys. Okay bye." She gets up and felt good. Last night was great she was happy that Candy's to be father in law had not been trying to try anything and apologized for being a touchy kind of guy. Candy said he just shook her hand when it was time for them to go. After the family basketball game Angel gave Candy her plate, Deon said she hadn't fixed him one, but quickly said he was just messing with her. Angel was happy that Deon had calmed down with the "me against the band" attitude. She was happy for her girl Candy. Sophie and Luke had announced that they were not going to do the big wedding thing, which Angel told Sophie that she was fine with how things were shaping up having it here at the house. She was kind of relieved though. Sophie admitted that the big wedding idea just wasn't what she wanted anymore, after all the shit that had went on this year and the fact that she had planned a big wedding before and it tanked with the Julius thing. She was going to go through with it because she didn't know how Luke felt about it. She said right before thanksgiving he told her that he didn't care how they got married as long as it ended in "I do" he was cool with however they got to that stage. Sophie said Luke finding out just how involved his friend Trent was with the April operation cemented his decision, and he asked Sophie could they just go to his parent's island, she told him yes. So they were going to have a very private ceremony on his parent's island. The parents, the siblings and a few close friends. This also made Angel and Luke's mother's job a lot easier as far as planning went. Joshua was asked to be Luke's best man. Joshua was shocked and said he owed Luke so much. Luke told him he wasn't asking because of some work related pay back, that was his job and anything he did medically for or to them was paid for by their insurance. He was asking because he felt they weren't so different, and if Joshua had managed to gain and keep Angel, Jonathon, Chase, and Sophie's trust he must be hella trustworthy. Joshua told Luke he'd keep him off the couch but still planned on giving him one hell of a Bachelor party.

Logan had work to do. He had Bradley as a new hire, he'd seen some of his work and he needed to get the hell out of this house right now. Today they would be gutting the building next door to the Davenport, so he was about to hopefully get some of this anger that was eating him alive off. He puts Glenny in his little overalls and little work boots that looked like his. Glenny wanted his tool belt so Logan found it and strapped it on him it had plastic tools, but Glenny looked more ready than he did right now. Entering his room he avoids even looking at Megan grabbed his clothes, hit the shower, when finished he fully dressed in the bathroom, and walks back out. "Time for work Sport" he says as he gets his keys to his truck and picks up Glenny heading out the door.

Megan watched Logan move around the room, but something told her to hold her tongue. Logan needed time to cool off, he stalked the room like an animal. Seeing him last night try to run over Glenn was something she would have never thought her mild mannered husband would have attempted. She was glad Glenn got out of the way, the look he through her just now, nonverbally warned her to stay away from him. Megan gets up and cleans the room. Looking at the bed she'd been so trashed after drinking a big bottle of her favorite chocolate flavored vodka, fucking Glenn, and then the dash around the house in search of Glenny. They had realized that Logan had taken Glenny, and Glenn said he was going to leave, when she got back upstairs, she'd meant to change the sheets but figured Logan would do like he did when he was mad at her before, take Glenny and hit a hotel for a night. She was wrong, she woke when she heard his phone going off this morning, and him telling someone he was going to be running late.

Amy and Nikki take a milkshake break as they sit on Wendell's tail gate. He'd asked her what he always asked, and she told him no for the first time since she'd ran away. He thought she was kidding. She refused to buy anymore for two reasons, the fact that he didn't tell her that he had upped the dosage scared her, and if the pills weren't available she wouldn't be so quick to take one, and put that look back in her baby's eyes. Last night watching her baby girl sleep and not wanting to just stay up she tried her bed, but within 30 minutes she was back up pacing her room like a caged cat. She laid next to her daughter and got 3 hours of sleep. She was still tired, but not to the point that she would need a five hour to keep her going. Her baby girl was asking her something "Huh?"

Nikki kicked the dirt that her foot could reach, as she sat on the tailgate of her mom's friend's truck drinking her shake. "I asked, after we get through today can I go up to Angel's place? Janet is there, and I wanted to hang with her for a while, not to spend the night. I mean I don't have to or nothing." Her mom's friend returns in her mom's car and says what happened to moving. Her mom hands him a shake and tells him it's a shake break. He takes the shake and sits next her she gets up. Saying "there so you can have more room" He smelled funny, like he was on fire. She also didn't like him because even though her mom had introduced him as a friend, she remembered her mom calling her Wendell. It was because of this guy's job that he could give her mom the pills, he was her dealer. She wasn't going to make it easy for him to give her mother anymore pills. Her mom had flushed the baggy, she was going to get treatment, and Nikki didn't want her mom to cave again. She watched him like a hawk, as she sat on her mother's trunk.

Wendell noticed Amy's girl she looked just like Amy only shorter he was tired of the little brat staring at him. "Hey brat it's not polite to stare at people." the little brat mumbled her name isn't brat. "What I don't believe I heard you." Amy gets up and tells him to leave her alone, and tells her kid to cool it. The little brat says yes ma'am and turns to look out at the street. The little girl better watch her damn mouth he thinks to himself. No one disrespected him and he wasn't going to take no lip from some kid that wasn't his. A neon green car pulled up and the little girl took off after it, as it pulled into the yard up to the house blocking him in. He walks toward it telling the blonde to get out of his way, she was blocking him in. The blonde shrugged and backed out and parked in a driveway across the street. Wendell was surrounded by smart asses, he just didn't want to get blocked in, the bitch didn't have to park in someone else's drive way, she could have just moved to one side of this one so he could pull out. When she gets out of the car he noticed the blue ends of her hair. She was wearing a mini romper that had some nice cleavage going on. She smirked as she crossed the street talking to Amy's brat. "So Amy you going to introduce me to your hot friend?" He mummers as he stares at the blonde sticking the straw blindly in his mouth to enjoy the rest of the shake he held. The chick looked like she was going for some kind of punk look but in bed it didn't matter what you identified yourself as, fucking was fucking. The brat walked back to the car and got in the driver's seat. "I think your kid's trying to make a break for it." When he turned around since Amy wasn't saying anything she just stared at the ground. "What you two not friends I'll get rid of her but it will cost you." Amy looked up at him then cast her gaze on to the blonde.

Amy didn't expect Candy to be here, they were going to talk tomorrow. She didn't like that Wendell wanted a crack at the woman that was temporally raising her girl. Before Candy gets close enough to them to hear her she says to Wendell. "She's off limits, look she even has on her ring." He says he had plenty of married women clawing to get him in bed, rings didn't mean shit. "Weddell please just don't embarrass me." He says just loud enough for Candy to hear how could he do that to his best buddy. Amy groaned and closed her eyes. He was being an ass. This she wouldn't miss if her treatment went well. Wendell put an arm around her shoulders saying in her ear for her to watch her mouth he embarrassed no one, and if she got high and mighty on him, he would put a stop to it. He told her to introduce them that was all he was asking. He lets her go. Amy tried for an animated tone. "Hi Candy nice car. Um Candy Rabinenvitch this is my friend Wendell Denton, he is um helping us move," she says as she waves a hand at her stuff in his pickup bed. "That's why he asked you to move from behind the truck. No hard feelings I hope."

Candy cringed at her last name as she did most times, and couldn't wait until it was changed to Baza. She had Candy R as her signature hearing the name spelled out was always a slap. The guy was huge he looked like someone had stacked two people together. He had to be pushing 6'8 he was tall as Jonathon but not as tall as Mark. He was staring at her chest. So she went with the first thing she could think of to say. "Hello Mr. Wendell my eyes are a little higher. There you go" his eyes were grey. He repeated her last name and a streak of nerves hit her. When he asked her was she any kin to Kyle she froze. "LIE! You don't need this right now just LIE" Her mind screamed. She must have taken too long to say anything because he apologized for her loss asking when she was going to take over the club. Since his wife didn't want it. "I don't know what you're talking about and I don't care." When he stepped closer to her Amy told him to chill. Candy put her hand with her ring on it on her necklace that Deon had given her she wanted him to see that she was taken and if that didn't work the necklace doubled as protection. If this big ox thought he was bad he'd get a surprise, and it wouldn't be good. He stepped back and said he remembered her now. Holy fuck where had they ever seen each other? Her mind tries to place his face. He drags her first name over his tongue stretching the A for as long as he could hold it, and ends it in Pants, winking at her. Now she knew she didn't want any part of this visit. He was one of the football players that treated her like shit, right after Joshua graduated. Guys like Denton were the reason school was so horrible that she had been drawn to the bad boy that she foolishly felt safe with for a time. She rolls her eyes and says "Really grow up?" He reaches for her saying he could think of something to go in her smart ass mouth. That was it she flips the capsule on the necklace and zapped his ass. "KEEP YOUR FUCKING HANDS TO YOURSELF" Candy screamed as she ran to her car Nikki gets out as she gets in. "We have to get out of here…" Nikki jumps in the back seat on the driver's side as they see Amy take off down the street on foot. Denton was still down but he wouldn't be too much longer. "Buckle up I'm going to go get your mom." Candy pulls down the hill tamping down on the erg to hit the gas and floor it all the way to Deon's place. "GET IN" Amy looks back and jumps in the passenger's seat. Candy saw Denton in her mirror raise his head and reach for something Amy screams he's armed. Candy puts her foot to the floor, as they speed down the hill she didn't slow down until she reached the highway. After merging she pushed her new mean neon green machine to 80 headed to Deon, to safety. Slowing down she takes the exit to Deon's place, when she parks in the garage, she says "Come on in" as she jumps out the car, and runs in the house as the huge door makes it's decent.

Nikki and her mom sit in silence in the car. Her mom's dealer had reached for Candy and Candy had zapped him with her defense necklace. It looked like a regular necklace but if you fingered off the safety and moved the top of the crown that hung on it, the thing sent out a heavy stream of energy. Deon had got it for Candy saying he saw it in a weapons store. Well Deon would be happy it worked, and would probably be buying a set of loads for it. The load was useable for up to 3 minutes. It hadn't taken three minutes to put the guy on the ground. Nikki looked at her mother's profile. "Hey mom, she said we could come in."

Wendell Denton got to his feet. He hadn't seen that shit coming. He remembered teasing and playing with the quiet underweight blonde when he was in high school, fuck his hands and feet still tingled. The little blonde had grew into her frame, and it seemed she had adopted the Grandville South attitude that she was better than everyone. He remembered him and his older brother making her cry. Today she didn't cry, she had shocked him in more than one way. He shook his hand trying to get rid of the fiery feeling that was still running up and down his arms. When he was able to move he tried to reach for his gun but had left it under his damn seat. It was for the best, if he got arrested with the shit he had in his system now he was going in for a very long time. Amy left with the bitch and the brat so they could help her move. After throwing her shit off of his truck bed not caring where it landed he texts her.

Sand Man: You ran off on my ass. That's fine you better hope it don't rain. I'm out of here looks like you got all the moving help you need. Have fun getting your shit out of the street. Don't call me until you need the Sand Man sweet fucking dreams bitch you'll be back everyone needs sleep.

Amy and her girl walk in the house as Amy walks through the house and sits in the living room she wonders where Candy went. Nicole was so at home here that she'd went into her room and came back out asking did she want to see her room. She says "sure dear" As she crosses the threshold of the room that Candy and Deon had given her girl. She gets a text message her nerves were on edge. Wendell was an ass and he was always armed. It was strange really the same parts of his character that she felt safe with when she ran from her husband, were the same things that made her run today. The not knowing whether he would turn on her was her driving force to get away from him, as he lay on the ground. She asks where the bathroom is and Nikki shows it to her, she goes inside and calls Chase it hit his voice mail she leaves him a message.

Candy runs in Deon's bedroom he was sleeping in. Taking the necklace off, and putting it on its charger, she crosses the room and curls up on the bed beside him. The fight and flight had run its course. Tears streamed down her cheeks that trip down memory lane was filled with so many landmines. The year after Joshua graduated, she knew she had two more years of hell. The football team like picking on her, they would throw stuff at her in class or pull on her shirt or her hair as they would walk by. When she would turn around one of them would wink at her. She remembered Denton too well, he was smaller than he was now, but back then he still had the build of a football player. A flash of memory hit her like a freight train. Denton and his older brother chasing her to her hated Grandville North bus. The older brother had graduated years before she had even hit high school. He was shorter than Wendell back then his hair was dirty blonde his blue eyes were cruel and you could tell his nose had been broken a few times. The time they caught her made her cry even harder as images of them pushing her to each other. She earned the nickname CAAAAANDY Pants, when his brother yanked her jeans down making her hit the football field. She didn't know what they were going to try but she wanted no part of it she screamed and her tears betrayed her fear as Wendell's brother stepped towards her a guy charged at him from out of nowhere knocking him down away from her. The guy started fighting with the two brothers and yelled for her to get lost. She didn't have to be told twice, by the dark haired stranger she got to her feet pulled up her jeans and ran in the other direction. She is brought out of her reverie by Deon stroking her back asking her was she okay? She looks up at him his eyes were half lidded as they met hers they widened she must have woke him, she had just needed positive contact she hadn't meant to wake him.

"My Queen what's wrong? You tremble and I heard you sobbing." She was fully clothed laying on top of the comforter. When she told him she had to use the necklace and why, anger punched him in the gut. He was torn. On one hand he was grateful the necklace worked, on the other hand the fact that some male had upset her enough to have to use it pissed him off. She must have felt his rising anger because his first instinct was to say something negative about the company Amy kept. She tells him that Amy and Nicole are here. Sighing he kisses his queen and holds her to him saying quietly. "You know my thoughts about that female, they have not changed." She says she knows but thanks him for not getting loud and saying something that could be overheard. He didn't stop what he was about to say because of Amy, he stopped because he didn't want to further upset his queen, or have Nikki over hear his loud ass talking about her train wreck of a mother. "I understand, that must have been very scary for you, you're safe now." she tells him she knows that. "When I woke you were crying and it did not sound like relief. Do you fear he will find this place?" She says no and reveals another part of her past that he wished he could have been there to protect her. He was thankful to the dark haired stranger whoever he was that had stopped the brother's torment of his queen. "Did they ever try anything like that again?" She says after that day she stopped cutting though the field and would go to the Davenport right after school and would work until Joshua, Michael, or Sally would drive her home. Until the middle of her junior year. Deon knew that is when she started going with Roman and skipping school altogether. So she'd traded a pair of demons for another. Deon sighs, she leans up with an apologetic look on her face saying he asked. "That I did, its stories like this that makes me wish I came to this country earlier than I did, then I could have met you sooner and been there to protect you." She made him smile as she told him some people are worth the wait.

Chase W: Hello sweetheart I got your message. I was in a meeting as for your things being scattered about the street. I have sent a crew to at the very least put your belongings inside the house. Your security system that you ordered arrived and my son says he will be over to install it. Dear as for believing that your acquaintance will try to do you harm in retaliation for what occurred this afternoon. If Mr. Wendell Cole Denton decides to darken your door without your expressed permission his private life will come to light and sink his professional one. If you wish I'll send a car for you.

Chase didn't tell her that he would also put a detail in place to protect her in his absence. If Denton dared try anything his men were to give the asshole a warning. He knew where the fucker lived and worked. Jonathon's camera system had picked up the motion from across the street and his license plate. Seeing him fling Amy and Nicole's things to all parts of the street made him itch to pummel the fucker until he stopped moving.

Bobby: Hey pop the house is wired and the passcode is in your friend's inbox. The alarm must be one of our newer models it can't even be killed if the power goes out. I about shocked the shit out of myself trying to cut the damn thing off by stopping the main switch. It was good I had Joy there just in case. The minute the beam hits you the alarm sounds and you got about 10 seconds before you are lit up like a neon sign. Joy was cool she shut it down before it could send my ass across the room the hard way. lol

Chase W: Robert you didn't read the entire pamphlet did you? lol

Bobby: Nope I assumed you install it like any of our other ones and before you say I made an ass of myself Joy has beat you to it many times on our way home. She says that is the loudest she ever heard me yell when I was telling her to cut the juice. I saw the gage still powering up after I shut down main switch on circuit breaker and just knew I was going to come out darker than when I went in. As Angel and her friends are fond of saying Life lesson learned. Lol

Chase W: And yet your first mistake is still better than my first try at setting the one in my first home. The Fire department still sends me Christmas cards.

Cassandra sat in her parent's kitchen looking for an apartment it was time she had got the job and the building was opening soon she and Gloria had set a start date for her to take moving promo for most of the bands. Joshua's band would be last since they weren't due to return to action until April or May of 2015. She'd got a text from Chad last night. He wanted to get back together he'd threatened her life if she didn't sign the damn divorce papers now he wanted to waltz back into her life like none of that shit happened. She'd followed his orders and his rule like a loyal puppy and he turned around and fucked and married her best friend. The sadness, anger, and hurt that provoked in her was almost what drove her away from her family for good. Last night when she returned to the house she went straight to bed. This morning her nightmare had her scrambling out of bed for the recent picture she had of Joshua standing with Bradley. In her dream he looked just like Chad and she returned to treating him like shit to get some of her own back. Seeing her baby brother's recent professional photo and not the overlay in her fucking head helped. Pulling her photo of Chadwick she put the pictures together and the hair styles were even different. Joshua had gained muscle but not height he was the same 5'10 he had been at 13. She noticed her brother's eyes weren't light blue like Chad's they were quiet dark. His goatee was wire thin and his chin strap was thicker than Chad's. She noticed a lot of things that put them apart. Chad was older and starting to lose his hair. His light blue eyes were always angry. Now that she was awake the expression on their face was the same back then, but most of the time Joshua was fighting and didn't give a shit who won it seemed. Even when he'd went silent on the family and wouldn't fight Bradley back for fear of going back to the state. His eyes told it all, there was a seething rage bubbling under the surface. She walked around the house they used to all live in stopping in the dining room all their parents stuff had been returned to this place, after Joshua had moved in with her new sister Angel. Something her mom told her about back then made her glad that her mom had went up those stairs after her and Bradley had hung him out the window and he'd scared the shit out of her with the first words he'd spoke in months. If it wasn't for the therapy Joshua would have self-destructed right up there in the bathroom. She was now in therapy, she no longer thought she deserved whatever happened, she had a new crush Rapture Sloan. Angel, Sophie and Candy had got her a few appointments with a personal shopper. Cass was going to do this starting over thing the right way. She had first thought she wanted Jonathon but after getting into the program he'd suggested. She found that he was just the first male outside of her father that was nice to her. She was happy for Jonathon and Gloria he had been in the program before she got to town so it was good he was getting a second chance at happiness.

Bradley knocks on the back door when he saw that Cass was in her usual chair at the kitchen table. Some things never changed. He having to knock was a change that both saddened and angered him. The anger was now where it should have been, directed inward. Though he and his father were on the mend and spoke more, some part of Michael would never trust him as he once did. Bradley thought to himself that if he hadn't attacked his father and scared the shit out of his mother there would still be no restriction on his coming and going. Some actions though he regretted lead to where he was now he was clean, and alive with siblings that in the very least cared about him. He watches as Cassandra comes to the back door he was at least allowed in the house when someone was home that was a good start. In truth he had his old set of keys the locks were never changed another constant with his parents and the fact that Joshua hadn't changed them either with the exception of putting a stronger lock on what was now Cassandra's room once more said a lot about how Joshua felt about the home. Joshua had told him that sleeping in their old bedroom wasn't something he did until Angel started sleeping with him. Why that room, those four white walls, held such torment for his little brother, made him sick shaking the thought Bradley greets his little sister. "Hey just finished my day of real work. We got a pretty good team I still can't believe that Logan is giving me this shot. He says if everything goes well he may even let me lead bigger deals." Glancing over her shoulder he sees the apartment listings. "Um you planning on leaving?" She says it's time that she lived on her own. Cassandra had never lived on her own. She went from living here at home, to the apartment their father paid for to get them away for Joshua, then her to be husband moved to CO and she went with. When she got divorced she moved back in with the parents. "You could always move in with me. We did well as roommates." She shakes her head saying that was necessity because their only other choice back then was either live where their dad had moved them, or face their adult actions against a minor. Back then he thinks it could not have been that great for her. He could pressure her to do anything a few things thinking back on them made him ill the shitty situations he manipulated her into. He was just glad that the strongest thing she had did was drinking to his knowledge. Between him and her mate it was a miracle that she had fared so well. He chuckles nervously not wanting her to start in on the list of why not, that were running through his head. "Okay maybe not me, but why now? Just last week you said you loved being back." When not following his lead Cass was a sponge for their parents' approval and attention. She gets up and moves across the kitchen hugging herself. Stopping at where she had been seated he looks at the two photos one of Joshua and he, and the other of her ex Chadwick. Meeting his sister's eyes he asks "What's going on Cass?" When she first mentions Chadwick's name Bradley unconsciously cracked his knuckles. The bravado she was trying to show when talking about the creep that had treated her so badly, made him want to go find the fucker and beat his ass again. He'd went bat shit a few times on Chadwick Denton. After Joshua beat his ass Bradley would walk in and swing on him trying to getting him to swing back and get put out or sent back to the state, Joshua took the abuse until the window shit happened. When Cass moved Chad in it was go time. Most of the time it was for Cassandra. After he couldn't get to Joshua anymore Denton was a switch that would at the very least swing back. One time it had nothing to do with Cass Bradley was attracted to blondes. By then Chadwick was married to Cass and still hanging around the fucking high school being a creepy cheating bastard. Bradley remembered thinking the blonde that was running across the football field looked great with her long blonde hair big blue eyes and trim waist. The stopper for him was her age he was way too old for her and Denton and he were the same age. Chad and his little brother pulled the girl's jeans down making her fall. Bradley felt a surge of anger so powerful he couldn't stop his feet if he tried as he dashed across the football field and speared Chadwick off his feet starting a fight with the two brothers. The girl stayed on the ground screaming and crying until he told her to get lost she then bolted. Bradley comes back to the present with a rush as Cassandra reveals her fear behind why she felt she had to move away from their parents. "Cass I'll handle him, don't let him chase you away not like this." She looks shocked he knew if life was a class he'd failed the big brother section more than a few times. "Look I know I've been a shitty brother and all around ass to our family, but I wouldn't let someone else hurt you. It sounds stupid, I know, but hell it is how I feel."

Amy agreed that Chase could send a car for her. Nikki seemed torn between going and staying. Amy made her decision easier when she told her girl that she was going to stay at Chase's tonight and though she was happy they met and knew of each other she'd still rather her girl stay here tonight far away from another one of her bad choices. Nikki asked was she going to meet back up with her dealer. Amy's eyes widened as she told her girl the truth no. Amy knew she wouldn't be able to trust anything he gave her after today. Wendell was excellent with dosage, had a long memory, and a hot temper and she wanted to not be on the receiving end of either of those. Before she leaves, Candy and Deon emerge from the back of the house though they weren't touching you could tell they were together. Candy had at least gained some of her color back. "Candy I know I said it on the way here but I'm sorry for his actions toward you and thank you for bringing my girl and I here." At the close of her statement Deon stepped forward putting his arm around Candy. Candy shrugs and says she couldn't just leave them there like that. Not wanting to air her business to Deon herself Amy asked could they go in the kitchen.

Deon tells Nikki he needed her to help him with a sound issue she says sure and they head off to his music room. Candy sits on the sofa and offers Amy a seat. Amy sits and tells Candy about her treatment since she wouldn't be able for three weekends to take Nikki back. Candy says sure and asked did Nikki know that she would not be coming to pick her up for the next few weekends, because she didn't want Nikki thinking her mom was going to show just to be let down or afraid she'd ran. Amy clears her throat and tells Candy that she has explained all this and Nikki knows she will be unreachable for the first week. Candy asked what brought her to the point of wanting to change was it purely the actions of today? Amy looked away and spoke of what drove her to want to get and keep the drug out of her system. When Candy didn't say anything after her indrawn breath Amy looked at her.

Candy's blue eyes held something liking to contempt as she said. "You could have hurt her." Amy tells Candy that's the main reason she wants to stop now. Candy had wondered why Nikki had not texted or called other than their earlier texting at like 12 in the morning on Christmas, the rest of the day she was off the grid. "Silly me I thought she was off the phone and offline because she was having a blast with her mom like old times, as she said even before she went with you Wednesday. She could hardly stay still in the car, she was fucking excited because of the plans that you girls made. So I have a question. What happened after you hit her? Janet nor I heard from her all day, did you have anything to do with that?" Amy said no and told Candy about Nikki feeling guilty and how she had then explained what happened and the fact that she was getting treatment. Candy looked away this was getting too close to her using transference, this day had went down the crapper at top speed and she didn't want to transfer any other shit into this conversation. Rubbing her hands on her skirt Candy says "If Denton is the cure for the absence of your husband or whatever maybe Nikki needs to stay here." Amy says that Wendell Denton was her dealer and that he was helping her move as a friend, but he isn't usually such an ass. She continues by saying she hoped her treatment worked and thanked Candy for caring for her girl. There is no way Candy would have ever introduced a female to Denton no matter the age the guy was creepy in high school and it seemed he had just got worse as an adult or maybe it was just her. Squeezing her eyes shut she says "I need air" Candy gets up and walks outside. Minutes later Amy walks out on the porch and Nikki follows her to the car that had arrived. They hug and Amy gets in. Nikki stands at the curb until the car is out of sight.

Women weren't hard to come by but heck he is an owner/bartender at a club that you don't take a serious date to not unless you wanted to end up breaking some guy's face for thinking she was someone else's. Images of Rapture's latest obsession ran through his mind. Cassandra or Cass as she liked to be called. She looked gothic with her black hair and band tee type shirts heavy make-up on her eyes. Her pouty lips took some of the evil out of the look. He'd met her at Ivey Enterprises near the side entrance his bank was in there they kept his money nice and tight. Kyle had done extra shit but that wasn't Rapture's scene. He may look like one of hell's henchmen but he was just a normal guy that for now owned a club. Now that Kyle was fertilizer, Rap ran the club the legal way. None of that dragging females in that were surprised to what went down. It was members only now. No more of the fresh 21 year old virgin coming in to the lifestyle blind just because they had an ID that said by age alone they could enter and coming out fucked in more ways than one. Thoughts of some of the shit he'd done sexually made him think about Cass, would she approve would she be down or would she think he was a freak and run. Cold dread sliced at him as he pulled into her driveway. He looks at Cass's house the two story house was a little place right out of nothing special suburbia magazine. He gets out and stands next to his car sunglasses pulled down his nose. Usually he didn't give a shit if the females liked his kinky side. Most of them were from the club, so they were trained for lack of a better word. Ever since meeting Dixie at the bar in Grandville South he'd started thinking about dating seriously. Dixie was engaged and she hadn't texted him but he was cool with it, she wasn't rude about it. The ring on her finger told him she was engaged and she'd said with her own lip s. Once he stopped trying to gage whether she would do him anyway, they had a nice little chat. That night he'd saw one of Kyle's boys and didn't want Roman fucking with her by seeing him talking to her, so he left. Roman had disappeared shortly after Kyle showed up dead. Rapture was only responsible for Kyle's life within the confines of the club. Cassandra stepped out on her front porch and his breath caught. She had on a tight dress that hugged her curves. Her hair was done differently and light brown her eyes looked more open and her mouth wasn't incased in black lipstick the red looked really good on her. Classically she wasn't considered beautiful to society because she wasn't a size zero but hell the dress clung to her and outlined the curves he felt when he hugged her. She had big boobs and a nice ass. He'd never slept with someone not supermodel thin. He was a "thick girl virgin" but some of the things that ran through his mind as he walked towards her made him hard as a brick. "Nice dress" She gave him a smile and he wanted to rip the thing off her right here right now. She said it was one of her Christmas gifts. "From?" his voice was harder than he had wanted it to be they were dating this whole dating thing was kind of new to him. What he did in the past wasn't considered dating, it was more like jacking off the only goal with his massive list of girls with no names was release, none of this jealousy attached bullshit. It caught him off guard as she told him her sister and her friend got her a shopping assistant and makeover. Calming down after thinking some guy had got her the gifts he says in an even tone. "You look great. So when can I get my hug?" She stepped forward and hugged him and he held her in place pressed up against him. They just fit. She slipped her hand in between them. Her palm on his erection made him growl in her ear. "If you pet him he'll come out and bite you." She licked her lips and left her palm on him. "Keep that up and we won't make it to your brother's club tonight."

Logan had held it together today he was proud of himself but the closer he got to his home the more he just wanted to just keep the fuck going. His cousin Beth Kincaid had asked could Glenny come and play with her son. He didn't want Glenny at the house with Megan because it was very apparent that the woman he thought was his wife, the one he knew so well he seemed to not know at all. He wondered for the thousandth time today what pushed her away. They had been doing so fucking good. Though his anger was under control the hurt had moved in and taken a room in his heart. He pulls down his street looking for Glenn's truck if it was near his fucking house he wouldn't be responsible for what he did. He had a good 3 hours before day break. He keeps driving without a real destination in mind he soon finds himself outside of Mark's old ranch. Mark had moved out but the property still meant something to him, so he had it taken care of by the couple that had taken care of his horses when he was on the road. Logan pulled up to the gate and slide his ID through the slot and the gate opened. Logan stops as he sees Mark and Paula riding. Fuck he was going to ride to clear his mind and it was no use in turning around now, because Mark's system would have recorded him coming and then just leaving back out. This place was an hour and a half drive from his house. Not the best place to do a U-turn. Mark rode a large black stallion straight for Logan's truck. Paula followed on a mare that was a little more suited to being rode by a gentler hand. Seeing them together made him really think about doing the U-turn anyway. He was glad that when he showed up at work today Joshua and Deon and Bradley were there alone not that he had anything against Candy or Angel, he just wasn't feeling seeing the newlyweds and to be weds interacting thing today. Putting on his sunglasses, he steps out of his truck and pets the huge horse that Mark sat atop of. Paula climbed down looking at him. He shook her hand and greeted them both. Paula held his hand for a beat longer and asked him was he okay. Logan nods and said he was just coming to ride and check on the couple. It turned out that his presence scared Paula she'd thought something had happened to the twins. "Nope, Angel and all three of the girls are just fine. Sorry for worrying you got to go." Logan wasn't going to stay and mess up their alone time. He peels out of the gate the minute it opened. Mark and Paula stand at the gate watching Logan speed down the dirt road.

Logan was in the zone, he had the window down his country music blaring, he would go home fix the front tire of his fastest Harley and go riding. There was more than one way to straddle some horse power. Once again he checked to see if his wife had any visitors. Hitting the remote for the garage door, he backs into the garage, and she is standing in the way. He stops inches from backing over her slowly. It still pissed him off that she would pull a stunt like this. Today was not the day to test the slippery surface of his self-control.

Megan had cleaned the house from top to bottom and wanted badly to call Logan. Have him answer like he always did with a chuckled "What's up Red?" but today she was met with more of his radio and in person silence. She sent him a text later this afternoon when he didn't return with Glenny for dinner time, it was 8 at night his only communication was a he's safe reply. She heard country music pumping though the house as he backed in and ran to the garage to wait for him. She meets his eyes in his mirror as he slowly backs in towards her. For a fleeting moment she thought he might run her over. She stepped back closer to his bikes and prayed he stopped. He did his truck bed door was mere inches from her chest. When he got out of the truck and headed towards her she opens her mouth to say his name only for him to walk not to her but to his fucking bikes. "Logan, I'm sorry please talk to me." he said nothing as he took the tarp off one of his bikes. Anger made her next words take flight. "So should I thank this pile of tires and engines for saving my life today?" He just started working on the front tire of one of his bikes right before he turns on the noisy air pump. "Look I can't take back what happened but I'm sorry."

Logan kept his hands busy and refused to look at her as he spoke. "So am I Megan. I'm sorry I believed you, when you said he was like a brother to you. I'm sorry I trusted him here with me not here. I think of the times I left for work with him with you here in my fucking house. I'm sorry that I wouldn't believe the woman I married right now, if she told me that last night was her first and only dip in the adultery pool." She asked where Glenny is. "Well unlike last night he isn't out in this damn cold ass garage freezing his ass, off curled up under my bikes asleep. You do realize these bikes are 600 pound plus. He's 3 feet and 36 pounds if one of them had fell on him, he'd be dead end of story, and where was his Mimi Meg? Oh yeah, upstairs sleeping peacefully entangled in filth." She fills him in on what happened after Glenn turned out his lights. "So you assumed that I took him with me that don't erase the fact that you didn't check." She says he was mad at her and she was afraid to call him. "You could have texted me telling me that my son saw what went on and was missing, but no. You just went up and crawled in bed. Or at least that is what I have to tell myself. If you went for round two I really don't want to know. I got enough of an eyeful to last me a lifetime." He turns off the air compressor and puts the front tire on his bike. She said she thought it was like the last time when he took Glenny with him. "That's complete bullshit, the times I have taken him I let you know in some way the night of Joshua's party you saw me leave with him. This morning I spoke loud enough for you to know I was taking him with me, I knew you weren't asleep. "

Megan swallowed hard trying not to breakdown. The fact that his tone was so even scared her. This time he didn't say fix it. She'd went to sleep with her son still missing. Glenny had hid in Logan's bikes another hiding place she hadn't a clue about. A dangerous one at that. The bikes sat and a slant all it would have taken is for him to bump the wrong kick stand and she could have lost the only son she would ever know. Yeah she was really wife and mother of the fucking year. "Logan what can I do to fix this? I'll do anything please just say the word."

"I have but few words that I want to say to you right now and none of them you'll like. Or you might, I don't know you anymore. I'm not even sure I ever knew the real you. I'm too close to the edge here I got to go." Logan puts on his helmet goes to throw his leg over his Harley to mount it. Megan pulls him almost making him tip over. "Don't Fucking touch me." he barks at her she steps back and after he regains his balance he jumps starts the bike and speeds off into the night.

Angel sits in JC's room holding Rosa feeding her as Janet feeds Katie "So do you think you'll like going to Ivey Enterprises as part of your schooling?" Janet gets an excited gleam in her eye as she says yes and why it will be so great that she will see firsthand how her future career could look. "That's great, Sophie says you will be under Marie. She's really good she was my finance Manager until I closed out my small business, but it looks like I am going back because though she has taught me a lot, I think I'll leave it to the pros." After the twins are sleeping Angel and Janet go downstairs in search of food. Candy calls saying she needed to talk. Her girl sounded weird and Angel tells her to come on over. In no time at all Candy and Nikki are coming in through the front door via Candy's passcode. Nikki greets Angel then the girls see each other and you would have thought they hadn't seen each other in a month instead of the two days it had been as they race up the stairs, talking a mile a minute. Angel checks the camera system in JC's room and all is still well as the twins are asleep. Candy walks over and sits beside Angel. "Hey what's wrong you sounded weird on the phone?" Candy tells Angel what happened with Wendell Denton. "Wait Denton? As in Cassandra's ex, that's the only Denton that I know of and from what Cass says it's a good thing we never met. Candy says Angel was out of high school 2 years before Wendell graduated. Angel hugs herself and says "Judging from Cass's age Chadwick would have graduated before Joshua or I started high school. Two years after I graduated so that puts him in your grade. I really didn't speak to a lot of the underclassmen or Upperclassmen, I mostly hung in the theater or the computer lab for extracurricular classes. I don't think this Wendell would have been too interested in being a stage hand or nothing." Candy says she knew Angel didn't speak to underclassmen she guessed it was good they were adults or they would have never spoke. "I never could figure you out girl you were in the music room but would leave when I would come in. Joshua told me you worked at the Club our senior year. I'd say hi and you would say hi or two seconds later you would just be gone. That's why I stopped coming over when you would be talking to Josh. I didn't know what it was about me that put you off. In fact I still don't to this day."

Candy fills Angel in on her thoughts back then about being not only an underclassmen but also being from Grandville North saying she didn't really think she was in Angel's league. Angel starts laughing. Candy glares at her saying she didn't see the funny. Candy felt like a total crazy person for laying out that line of thought. Her trip down memory lane this afternoon really did a number on her she guessed. She then noticed the laughter for what it was she made her girl uncomfortable. There was no mirth in Angel's expression. The laughter stopped as soon as it started.

Angel says. "Candy believe me there was no league. I didn't hang with a lot of people because though I was an Ivey Blah Blah it wasn't like that was the greatest thing in the freaking world. The females hated me for whatever reason, and the guys either teased the shit out of me, or tried to flirt with me. My mother was a nut and my real father was across the sea. Sophie and Joshua were the only people keeping me sane. I went to the functions the balls and the dinners in Chase's honor but most of the time I was stressed trying to uphold some image my mother had of how I should act in public. I never measured up to that image, and from what I know now that image was impossible from the time I was named." Angel turned away and flicked on the camera to see if the twins were ok and sees Janet and Nikki in the room talking and playing with them. She flicks it back off and turns back to her friend about to continue. "Candy if back then I gave you any…" Candy touches her hand that she had started tapping on the table and says that Angel didn't do anything. That it was purely Candy's inferiority complex back then and she was sorry she brought it up tonight. "Candy I don't get how you could have felt inferior hell, you can do a lot of shit that not many people in this town including myself can. You can play anything with keys be it piano, keyboard, pipe organ doesn't seem to matter, you can turn a hunk of sticky grey glop into a 5 foot replica of anything that comes to mind. I'm so glad you're my friend." Candy says she must have really been in her head this afternoon or she would have never brought this up. She then tells Angel about Amy and how that pissed her off and though she'd refrained from using transference with Amy it came out tonight at really the wrong person, because she thought of Angel as not only the best female friend she has but a sister. "Candy I've said before I feel the same way it's like I reconnected with Joshua and gained you as a sister. Sometimes transference creeps up and out before you can rein it back in its okay. I didn't notice a mark on Nikki's face but I also wasn't looking for one." Candy points out that Nikki covered it with her bangs which is the same way she wore her hair when her dad slapped her into the wall. "So Amy hits Nikki, now Amy is going to go get treatment. I hope it works because Nikki has been through a lot. God she doesn't need any more fist fights with anybody else that is supposed to love and protect her." Angel mindlessly rubs her stomach. Candy asked was he kicking. "Huh no he likes to stick his foot right there. We even caught him on one of the ultrasounds doing it. I'm starting to get worried my due date was a week ago. Dr. Middlebrooks says it's not as rare as I would think. She says only about 5% of children come out on their due date. He is moving around a lot more though. "

Candy says to Angel's belly "Now come on out of there JC before your mommy needs hair dye. We'll have to call ourselves Personal Touch Up." Angel pokes her and tells her to stop it as the both laugh. Candy sobers and says "I really did need to come this way and thanks for letting me talk your ear off." Angel yarns covering her mouth saying she was happy to help out even if it was just being a sounding board. "Angel how long have you been up and around today?" Angel tells her since this morning and that she was waiting for Joshua to come home. "He said he was going to head in around this time so he shouldn't be too long now."

At the Davenport Joshua walks out and stops as he looks at his truck. Bradley was parked on the other side of him he walks around his truck Brad's car was fine. "FUCK" Joshua says as he heads back into the club. When he passes Bradley his brother asks wasn't he going the wrong way? Joshua stops and says "Someone slashed my fucking tires but don't worry your roommate's ride is fine." Joshua goes into his office and slams the door behind him as he stalks to his desk he had a surprise for the person if he ever saw their fucking face. He types in position 12 and a camera overlooking the back parking spaces which were management and family only. No one else should have been back there. Leaning in to see who was fucking with his ride, he sees two figures judging by the long sleeved shirts they were covering as much of themselves as possible. He gets pissed even more when at no time do the pair look up. They fuck with his truck and then leave and merge into a group of people waiting at the front of the building to be let in. He tries to follow them on camera but when he rewound to see if the pair made it in he didn't see them. A knock sounds on his door. "WHAT?" Bradley asked to come in. "Yeah sure."

Bradley walks in and crosses to his younger brother. "Hey I went out there and I found this by your truck. Bradley tosses a picture on the desk. "I think it's time to call the fucking cops." Joshua looks at the picture of himself next door helping Logan take out a counter and put it in the recycle truck. Joshua texts his mechanic and tells him what happened to his truck.

Phil: I'll have the tires replaced by tomorrow afternoon at the latest

Joshua: Thanks man I'll have it towed there tonight so it's waiting on you in the morning.

Phil: Kid don't worry about that I'll send one of my guys. Getting a tow this late at night from some of the companies around town is like playing roulette with your ride. I'll do you one better since I know it was you that threw me some work. I'll cover your towing and only charge you for half a set of tires fair enough? Do you have a way home? We don't need that wife of yours out this late. I got your wedding photo your girl sent me in my office.

Joshua: Yeah my brother just told me he'd take me home. Tell your driver to get my keys from the bartender I'm not too keen on leaving them in the truck. I checked the video and my alarm didn't even go off. Nothing was sent to Interactive Auto or nothing.

Phil: That's fucking weird I'll check the alarm system. Be careful kid it sounds like you got yourself an admirer.

Joshua: I will Thanks Phil Got to go.

Joshua gets in the car with Bradley seeing his truck just pissed him off. Brad asked was he going to the cops tonight or what. Joshua sighs "Nah I'll make a report tomorrow morning, I just want to get home right now. It's bad enough that Angel is going to wonder where my truck is. Yeah just what I need right now a fucking nut that is begging for a taste of 10 inches of steel" Bradley says does he have an idea who would want to get sliced. "That's just it, if they wanted my attention they got it, but I still don't know who it is. They never looked up and I'm only guessing it was a pair of males by their height relative to the top of the truck and body profile." Bradley says that he'll be around the club more and if he needs and extra fist for a fight call him. "Thanks bro" Joshua gets out and heads into the house he turns around watching to see if Brad got out the gate okay. When he sees the taillights disappear he walks around to the garage and goes in that way. Walking through the house he soon finds Angel curled up in JC's room in the recliner the twins were out like lights. Angel gets up and almost topples over. "Hey watch it babe"

"It's kind of hard to do that, when I can't see my feet." He calls her a smart ass and they head to their bedroom. Angel flips on the monitor so she would be able to hear the twins but turns the screen down so it wouldn't be super bright in the room when he returned from his shower. She'd missed him, he was first helping Logan until the rest of his crew showed, and then he was at the club getting it ready for the New Year celebration. When he came to bed he sat at the end of it just staring off into space. "Long day babe?"

He drops his head to his chest. He didn't want to freak her out which is why he came in the normal way he did even though there was no truck with him. He wouldn't hide it from her even though his protective nature screamed from him to do so. On a sigh he gets up and walks to the head of the bed getting in beside her he turns to her "Angel there's something I need to tell you, and I really don't want to but I'm not going to go back on our no secrets thing." She asks what it is. He tells her about him getting off work walking out and finding the slashed tires, the picture that Bradley found and the fact that he couldn't make out who it was when he looked on the camera. Her eyes tell off on her even before she admits her fear. He wasn't scared he was pissed, that someone was fucking with him. She lays on him hugging him with her head on his chest as he rubs her back staring at the ceiling. She asks him to please report it to the police. "Yeah I will later I just needed to be home right now." She says she was glad he got a ride home she missed him more than usual today but couldn't fathom why. "All I know is when I saw it, I just felt I had to get to you as soon as I possibly could. " He felt her tense up like she was in pain. "Are you alright babe?"

Angel tries to breathe through a sharp pain in her pelvic region. She hisses out "Shit" then moves off of him and curls in on herself. She had been getting twinges but nothing this hard. Joshua tells her to breathe out in a firm tone. The pain starts to dissipate and she starts breathing again. Her eyes were watering from her squeezing them shut so tightly. She gets in a more comfortable position and he grabs the huge bed pillow so she could put her feet up. Exhaustion swept over her like she'd ate a lot of sugar and was entering the crash. She lazily watches him as he sits at the bottom of the bed when he takes one for her feet off the pillow and starts rubbing she couldn't hold back the moan that came out of her. Warmth spreads all over her taking her under at his touch.

Megan paces the floor of her home. She called Logan and he wouldn't answer she was afraid to text him since she knew if he was riding she didn't want him to end up a splat on the road trying to read a text that said I'm sorry or where are you. She wanted her baby and her husband back home. She calls Mark's number. Paula answered in a rush. "Hey can I speak to Mark please?" Megan heard muffled speech and Mark's baritone. Her brother was bound to still be pissed but she just hoped he'd stay on the phone long enough for her to talk to him this once. Mark comes on the line and says one word what? "Mark I'm sorry for calling you like this but have you seen Logan? Glenny ran away last night and I haven't seen or heard from them since." Mark asked did she tune up the band on Glenny's butt like she did Janet, was that why he ran away? Megan knew she deserved that that jab at her barrowed parenting discipline tactic. "No he saw Logan and Glenn fighting and darted to god only knows where. Then Logan took off"

Mark had noticed the bruising coming up out Logan's beard and thought maybe he'd got hit in the face with the basketball last night. Mark knew Logan wasn't a shit starter so it was going to be interesting to find out why Glenn felt the need to pound on a part of his family. "I'm not sure I really want to know the answer to this question but why were they fighting?" Megan says that Logan misunderstood a situation and snapped the next thing she knew fist where flying. "Uh huh Bye Megan" Mark knew Logan and unlike his sister Logan didn't drastically change personalities like clothing. Something went on last night and Mark wanted to find out just what had Logan not home and where the hell was his nephew?"

Mark calls Logan's private number the boy had two cellphones cause he didn't want business and work on the same phone. It goes to voicemail. "Hey just got off the phone with my sister your wife mind on telling me what has you and Glenny MIA and fighting with Glenn Call me back." Paula goes to sleep Mark knew it was going to be awhile before they did something like this again, Paula was jumpy and Megan calling in the dead of night really didn't help his wife's nerves. Logan calls him and asks could they meet at the bar down the road from the ranch. Mark sighs and says "yeah I'll be there in a few. Is Glenny ok?" Logan tells him Glenny is safe and sound at his cousin's place.

They meet at the bar Logan had pulled up his Jacket and kept his chin down even though it wasn't cold in there. Mark points at him and then at the seat in front of him. "Okay so you can stop looking like turtle, I already saw what I thought was the effects of you catching one from Joshua throwing the ball wild yesterday. What happened? I just don't see you fighting Glenn unless there was a hell of a reason."

Logan takes off the jacket and sits down leaning in he says "Yeah Glenn was fucking my wife so I tried my best to best beat the living shit out of him." A waitress comes over and asked did they want to order. Logan orders a bottle of Grey Goose and some Jack Daniels for Mark. When the woman leaves the table Logan sits back and tells Mark what he walked in on last night after rushing to get home on Christmas night.

Mark's expression of shock rose his eye brows over his sunglasses almost into his hair line. Their drinks arrive Mark takes a drink "Did Glenny see that shit?"

Logan looks at his drink and downs about half of the bottle. "When I went in the house I sent Glenny in to go change into his bed clothes, and all I can say is Glenn had clothes on and so did Megan I really don't know what Glenny saw I heard him yell something like coming, and I like an idiot, turned to tell him to go back in his room. That's with Glenn turned out my lights. Megan says lil man came in, took one look my ass on the floor, looked at them then darted out the room. By the time I woke I just knew I had to get out of that house. I almost ran over Glenn, he ran out like he was going to try and stop me from leaving, I was at the end of my rope if he had of tried that shit Megan pulled today one of my cousins would have been locking my ass away for vehicular homicide." Mark asks where Glenny was when Logan came to. Logan takes another drink. "I didn't know he'd ran and hid or I would have stayed and looked for him. I rode around for a few hours but Christmas night early the next morning there really isn't anything in the way of something to do. I go in the garage and was going to fix the bike I parked outside here. I pull back the tarp and Glenny is on the fucking ground under my bikes. I take him in the house and he's out he only moved around when he got in the warm house. Megan says she thought I had him with me she didn't check no call, no text, or anything just assumed in the few minutes it took me to get the fuck out of the house I snatched up Glenny without even telling her? Mark you know me, I don't play those kind of games. Megan just went to bed, she didn't even bother to change the sheets. So after I got my son in his sleep clothes and put him in his bed, I slept in his room in the recliner. She wants me to give her an all clear on this, on this I don't think I can. I've been there for her through everything. She call herself testing me this evening, standing behind my truck the only thing that made me put my foot on the brake wasn't Megan. Sometime during the night Glenny got up and crawled in the chair I woke to that little boy asleep right here." Logan points to his chest. "A hard realization slapped my foot on that brake." Logon counts off on his fingers as he says "As Long as I keep it together I'm all Glenny has. His mother is in prison, Megan I have no idea who she is right now, and Glenn gave him to us like his pen was on fire."

Mark looked over at Logan the boy had been riding the fence for a while now and he didn't need his brother in law losing the slippery hold he had on his control. "Well Logan your right you need to be away from her for now until you can get yourself together. Paula and I are going home today how about you and Glenny go to the ranch that way you get some time to figure out your next move. Because, if you go back like you are now there is only so much the human psyche can take and I don't need to see you on Snapped or no shit." Logan thanks him. "You can stay in the spare bedroom tonight sleep off some of that Goose and go pick up your son in the morning." Logan says he would have to wait on that because he wasn't fit to ride right now. "That's why I brought my truck." Mark puts Logan's bike in the truck bed and they head to the ranch.

The next morning Angel wakes and sees Joshua getting dressed. He bends down kisses her and tells her to go back to sleep. "No I'm awake now, I need to check on the twins." He says they are fine he checked on them before he showered and turned the monitor back up. "Joshua please file that report this morning." He says he will and that Bradley is coming to pick him up in a few and has already said he wasn't taking him to the club until after he filed it. They talk for a bit until his phone plays Joshua's guitar version of the Song "Born to Be Wild" one of the first covers he did with D Lighting. Bradley turned it on and started talking about how he liked this version better than the original. Joshua never told his brother that he'd did the cover. Joshua gives her one last kiss and answers his phone walking out their bedroom.

After her shower Angel goes to JC's room and checks on the twins. Katie was awake so Angel sits by the crib and picks up her little fussy cousin. "Come on now Katie there's nothing that bad." At the sound of her voice Katie starts to calm down. "Oh so you like when I talk to you that's fine." Angel talks to her baby cousin as she changed her and fed her. Gazing down at her little cuzo Angel wondered for the hundredth time what JC would look like when he came out. Angel lays her back down since she'd been fed and was now sleeping.

Sophie walks to the door of JC's room she'd been wanting to chat with her sis she had a business trip this afternoon and would be gone until the 31st. Sophie noticed that since she'd lived in this house alone for almost 4 years that it felt much more like a home with her family around. Her stint with Julius after the engagement he disappeared, leaving her to come home alone. At one point before Angel moved back home, Sophie toyed with the idea of asking Angel could they just sell it. Sophie had no longer saw a need to live in a Mansion full of bedrooms alone. Coming back just hanging around this house that hadn't changed in years had been getting harder and harder to do. Now when she came home with Angel and Joshua starting a family this house was a home again, not just a functional museum of their stuff. This place would now be a stage for the new memories that they were all building every day. Her father was back in town. Florida wasn't far by plane, but it was even better now if she wanted she could jog to her dad's house. Sophie would admit to anyone that would listen that she was a daddy's girl always had been, and she didn't see that going away anytime soon. Though there was no blood tie between her and Janet, Sophie thought of their weekly house guest as a little niece because she and Paula were closer than the casual business associates they had been a little under a year now. She now had not only a brother that she didn't know about, but a brother in law that underneath her teasing was a pretty decent guy that treated her sister right. Then there was Luke, just thinking his name put a smile on her face. She would have never guessed that a hometown friend from long ago would mean so much to her now. "Angel I" Angel jumps at her voice. "Hey everything okay?" Angel gets up and walks into the hall. Something was wrong she could see it in Angel's eyes. "What's going on sis?" Angel heads into her bedroom. Sophie follows when her sister closes the door and tells her what had put that look in her eyes, Sophie was stunned into silence. Then anger rose at the fact that someone else was messing with her family again. "Has Joshua filed the report yet?" Angel tells her he was on his way to do that. "I came to tell you that I'm going to be in meetings out of town until the 31st"

Angel drops her gaze to the floor shaking her head. "It's selfish of me I know. I really wish you wouldn't leave. But if you don't and something happens to you because of me I would never forgive myself. Never mind, go maybe the distance will keep you safe." Angel sits on the end of her bed. Her thoughts were a jumble.

Sophie could feel the vibes of unease and she wanted to stop this negative train of thought. "Angel it's not selfish stop saying shit like that okay. This clearly has you stressing and if I left I wouldn't get much done in the way of work. I'd be worried about what's going on here." Sophie texted her dad and tells him about someone slashing Joshua's tires and taking pictures of him. Chase sent back a text saying he'd put a detail on Joshua. Sophie gets off the topic of potential stalkers and moves on to JC. She could hardly wait to see her nephew. She knew Angel was a week late as far as the due date but when Angel started saying something about it she told her if she was worried to go see Middlebrooks so at least her sister had a few answers to the many questions she had. Middlebrooks had assured Angel that JC was as big as he should be and his heart rate was strong. That information in turn took away if not all, some of Angel's concern.

After filing the report Bradley takes Joshua to get his truck. As promised Phil had it ready for him. Joshua knew someone wanted and had received his full attention. The question was would they be ready for the consequences of gaining his attention in the mindset he was in right now? Bradley followed as Joshua took his truck back to the club parking even closer to the building. He wanted this Parking area that his wife and his friends would park in gated. He'd called Logan but Logan hadn't got back to him. He looks over at his glove compartment some habits didn't die he grabs his daggers and belt out and put it on before walking into the club.

Joshua's I Lead Jacket covered the weapon belt but Bradley saw him put it on while he was standing with the door open. As he walks in the club with his little brother he says "Hey Joshua If you want, and this is just a suggestion I could teach you how to shoot." Joshua stopped turned to him and told him no. Bradley didn't know why Joshua was so against guns he figured it had something to do with not being taught how. He asked Joshua did he know how. Joshua kept walking when they reached his office. He turned the system off and turns back around what he said shocked Bradley. Well that proved he could shoot just chose not to. The shit he was finding out about his little brother was shocking. Joshua tells him not to ever repeat what he'd did not even to Angel. "Hey my lips are sealed. So does she at least know the guy is dead?" Joshua nods and says only a few people knows what really happened. Yeah after learning that little tidbit that Joshua felt nothing but anger while filling some guy with enough half load tranquilizers out of a gun to empty the clip knowing he was killing him with no remorse, said Joshua probably didn't need a firearm anywhere near him. "Were you sober?" Joshua nods Bradley blows a breath through his teeth "Shit I thought I was crazy you take the cake bro."

"I'm not Crazy Brad the fucker had been stalking Angel this was after beating her up in a fucking hotel gym to the point that night I could have lost the love of my life and the life of my son. Watching Angel recover and try to deal with it fearing that his lame ass would come after her if she told shredded me. Knowing he was so fucking close all that time. I thought later after all was said and done I would feel something like remorse for taking a life with all the martial arts philosophy running around in my head, but I don't. I was already pissed he drugged my friends and used them as bait to lure Angel out at night. He'd pretty much sealed his fate when I heard him admit that he planned to make my pregnant lover jump in the lake by our house and shoot her with the tranquilizers, so she would be found the next morning. When I heard him speaking I just snapped something in my head said end him and I did. Brad I've worn anger as armor for nearly 20 years there isn't anything I wouldn't do to keep my wife who evens me out and makes me happy, safe." Bradley nods and changes the subject clearly uncomfortable. Joshua turns the system back on and sets a camera on his and Bradley's car. They walk out in the bar to get started moving the rest of the removable stuff out of next door.

Deon shows up with Nikki. Nikki hands Joshua the signed paperwork Joshua tells her that she couldn't start right now. Deon asked why not even before Nikki could. Joshua pulls Deon aside and tells him what's going on and that he didn't want her here until they found out who had decided he was interesting enough to stalk. Deon soon takes Nikki back to her mom so she could spend some time with the drugged out bat before she went to therapy. He hoped it worked out because the path Amy was on right now wasn't going to do anything but destroy her as it had her bastard of a husband. Their new home was the one Roman hid in when he was dating or whatever he and Evie called themselves. The house looked different and he realized someone had gave it a paint job and repaired the crack in the front window from the when the car exploded taking out Evie. He and Candy had spoken about the fact that she wanted to move back into her house. Deon knew it was coming she owned the house it was one of her first achievements when she ran away from home. Those four walls were her trophy of triumph over the shit she had been through with her dad. The fact that her dad ended up face down in her hot tub weirded her out, but Logan had assured that he had replaced the hot tub with a different model in a different color for half the price of the first one. Logan was a master when it came to rehabbing a house. Now he would be aiming his hammer at the club this year business was looking up.

Mark wakes to Paula poking him. Cracking open and eye he sees that she is fully dressed. "Woman what are you doing?" He groans. Last night's little talk with Logan took more out of him than he'd expected as soon as he'd made sure Logan was in the guest room, he'd came in and fell in bed. Mark was going to have to talk to that lying sister of his. He still couldn't believe she had gone and messed up the only thing she had got right. He was glad Logan was the person he was, because his brother in law saw the edge and didn't go over it he retreated. Other men would have probably been in jail after discovering their mate with another in their bed. Glenn needed to get his head out of his ass because he'd jumped back onto the crazy train with this stunt. Paula says it is Saturday morning time to go get the girls and go home. He had promised if she wanted to go back on Saturday they would. Getting up Mark says "the girls are fine but a promise is a promise let me get a shower and we can head out." Mark gets up runs his hands through his hair as Paula is about to leave the room he says "Paula, Logan is in the guest room." She quickly closes the door and asks him what was up with Logan saying he'd been ready to go the minute he drove up yesterday. "Megan cheated on him and he walked in on it Christmas night. So he's going to stay here for a time until he can decide what his next move is gonna be, he's on the edge and right now if he goes back it won't fair well for either of them." Paula asked was it a random guy or was it someone that worked for Logan? Mark blows a hiss through his teeth and says "Oh he knows him, but the guy don't work for him, it was Glenn."

Paula makes a face. "You guys were damn near raised together right?" Mark nods and says Glenn lived right down the street from their childhood home. "That's just sick of both of them. She was always yelling about how her and Glenn were close as kin. It's clear that Glenn don't give a shit about fucking up someone's marriage." Mark says he don't know what the hell is wrong with his sister and his friend. "I wonder does Glenn know she likes to beat on kids in the name of discipline. Holy fuck, where is Glenny after all the shit Janet told us about small shit she did and would get hit for. It only happened when Logan wasn't around. She could hurt that little boy." Mark takes her hand and reassures her that Glenny is safe with some of Logan's relatives and would be coming here with Logan today. Paula takes a relived breath and says "Okay. Well go get your shower and I'll fix breakfast then we can head out. Hearing this shit just makes me want to go and hugs the girls." Mark kisses her and heads into the bathroom.

Mark and Paula had retuned and taken the girls with them back to their home in Pittsburg a few hours ago. Now Angel, Sophie, and Candy are downstairs in the game room Sophie and Candy are playing one of Sophie's old Sega racing games on the 96inch screen. Angel just watched and listened to the friendly competitive banter. She wasn't nearly the gamer her sister or her friend was. Angel and Sophie's shirt com's both go off at the same time. Sophie pauses the game saying she'd get it. Sophie calls the guard gate and her face becomes all business like she's in court, gets up running up the stairs to the main level while putting on her headset. Angel yells after her "Sophie what's wrong?" Angel gets to her feet and climbs the stairs Candy walks behind her since her balance wasn't that great.

Moments earlier Cassandra is on her way to Ivey Mansion to chill with her sister and tell about her great date with her new man. She had heard that Sophie would be there as well she wanted to thank the girls for giving her the gift that surely kept on giving. Her makeover and her new clothes were a good start on the new her. Rapture loved the little black dress she had on she could see it in his eyes when she walked out on the porch to greet him. They had went to the Davenport and danced and went back to his place for some real alone time. She pulls to the gate Angel and Joshua had given her a passcode so she didn't have to wait for the guard to let her onto the property. She pulls her hand back in the car put it on the wheel about to hit the gas and pull into the gate like any other time. Hearing a motor rev makes her look in her review mirror the truck was coming up the hill really fast and there wasn't anything up here but the gate entrance. The truck was barreling straight for her. She couldn't move out of the way the gate was starting to open. She screams as the truck doesn't even slow down. Suddenly pain exploded in her head and darkness claims her.

The driver of the Heavy-duty 350 pickup truck watches as the guards try to push the car back enough to open the gate the door to the mansion opens and a woman steps out yelling into a head set. That gate didn't even dent but that car did. The driver takes a picture of the carnage they had just caused, hits reverse whips a U-turn, and speeds off down the hill. Cars fall in line behind the truck. They weren't cop cars. The driver slams on the brakes and smashes into the lead car making it block the rest of the others on this one lane strip of road. The driver put their foot to the floor when shots are fired from the cars now using the out of commission car as cover. The driver saw the idiots trying to get a picture of the License plate good luck with that the driver thinks. This truck was stolen from a garage that had an automatic door opener, all you needed was to find some guy on vacation, a truck with quick start, and a garage door opener that was purchased through the same place the driver got theirs. The driver loved technology when it worked in their favor.

Sophie was furious as she all but marched into the front yard yelling orders to the security staff. Someone had crashed a car into the fucking front gate. Was this what she got when she wanted to play a racing game or two and relax? All hell breaks loose as she heard screeching tires and shooting. Sophie runs back to the house she didn't need to end up in the hospital. Though the security team was trained, bullets didn't have a conscious she wasn't up for becoming a bullet wound bitch no matter who was shooting. As she gets back in the house behind the heavy front door the sound of chaos is instantly shut off by the soundproofing. She took a small amount of comfort in the fact that when they had the glass door replaced, Ivy Furnishings had come out with a bulletproof door that looked like the one that Dave had cracked with his damn big ass head. Frank the head guard calls her which was luckily his habit when she was home. She didn't need him freaking Angel out. "Frank what the hell?" He explains what happened and that the driver of the car was alive but needed a med crew. "Well get one here now." Sophie knew he was merely covering his ass since the gate was party open it had to be someone that had access. She'd ran back in the house so fast when they started shooting she didn't get a good look at the car. Frank tells her who the accident victim has been identified as. "Keep me posted Goodbye Frank" Sophie's day had just hit the crapper with that news. Joshua was going to be bat shit and the last thing she wanted to do was tell Angel and potentially have need for two stretchers. Yeah she wanted to see her nephew, but not cause his mom freaked out and went into labor. She also wondered who the target was, was it Cass or was the truck trying to break in? Scenarios ran through her head giving her a headache. She closes her eyes as she leans against the door.

Angel wobbles up to the main floor from the game room she was going to stop going down in the basement or up the main stairs until after JC was born. The basement stairs and main stairs were steeper and since the stairwells were 7 foot across she could only grab one side. She was thankful Candy was behind her keeping a hand in the center of her back. In the kitchen on the back stairs, the railings were close enough for her to grab them on both sides for extra support so at least she could still get up to her bedroom. When she gets to the atrium Sophie was leaning on the front door with her eyes closed. "Sophie what is going on? You had them disable my mic and my shirt com so what gives?" Sophie tells her to sit down she had something to tell her and she wanted to preface it by saying that everything was going to be okay. Candy helps her onto the sofa. Sophie paced as she told what was going on stopping here and there saying "Okay?" which meant she was nervous. It all sank in like a ton of bricks. Angel started taking large breathes she needed to stay calm the balloon exercise was working. Sophie asked her was she okay? Truthfully having her sister and her friend here in the house and not out where the shit was hitting the fan was better. Sophie had ran out there and could have got herself hurt, but seeing her standing here safe was a nice plug for the balloon Angel was filling in her head. Whatever it was it was over for now, is what she had to keep telling herself. "Yeah, I don't know who is behind this but at least whoever did it is gone for now. Did the camera pick up the person's plate number? Have you heard anything more about Cass?" Sophie says no to both questions as she pulls up Interactive on her phone and starts talking to the security team. It hit Angel that Sophie had run out into that shit storm. Her words flew out before she could say it nicer. "We don't know who the fucking target is and I don't need you getting yourself hurt or worse. Don't ever do that shit again."

Angel was pissed at her she could deal with her sister's anger because she knew what was behind it. These were the same things she had said to Angel when she went running out the house when Joshua was captured. They both knew that went against all they were taught as kids by Chase. "Okay Angel I get it okay. I ran back in when I heard gunfire. I wasn't thinking, okay." Angel points at her phone and says she could have followed protocol and told the crew the same shit in here out of the line of fire watching the cameras on her phone, or in her office. "Okay point taken, enough okay?" Sophie knew she was still running on nervous energy because though the trembling and the headache had stopped, she kept saying okay like she was reassuring herself that it was over. When Angel gets up, walks to her and hugs her she hugs her sister back. Though she knew where her sister's mood swing came from when Angel whispers that she would be lost without her spoke volumes about why she was trying to chew her out. Sophie says "I'm okay sis now let's contact Joshua before his parents get a call and that side of your family implodes in on itself again." Angel agrees and says she'd text Joshua.

Angel: Joshua call me when you get this text it's important.

Her phone rings almost as fast as she had hit send. She answers and he instantly asks what is wrong telling her she sounded upset. Taking a breath she tells him about everything. When she finished he was so quiet she thought the call had dropped, she didn't want to have repeat this. "Joshua are you there?" he says he was there and that he was on his way to his parent's house because he didn't get an answer when he called them on his office phone. "I don't think they were in the car Frank only said Cass. She's at Sheldon medical since Sally transferred all their networks over from the CO place since their staying in this area now Sheldon Center was on her list. He says he going to head there now in case they notified Sally and or Michael. He didn't have to say what they were both thinking Sally was a loose cannon when it came to her family. He asked did she want him to come pick her up. "Um no for one I don't know if whoever did this was a part of you know what we still don't know who their after or if it is someone that is after Cass." He says okay and tells her he loves her and that he'd be home as soon as he checked on his sister.

Cassandra wakes to voices all around her someone was playing with her hair. She was numb and she hears a whooshing sound she knew where she was. Chad had put her in the hospital a few times when she's got to lippy for his liking. She'd try like an idiot to fight him back but her punches didn't rock him like his rocked her. Her damn chest hurt. When she tries to put her hand on the soreness white hot pain zapped though the numbness. "Ow" she moans. The person that was playing with her hair starts speaking and it's her mom. "What happened?" she sounded slurred to her own ears like she had been drinking. Her mom tells her she was in a car accident in front of Angel and Joshua's house. Cass tries to look at her mom but she was really tired or something was wrong. She thought she had opened her eyes but couldn't see anything. "Momma I can't see are my eyes open?"

Sally continues to stroke her daughter's hair which seemed the only part of her that wasn't bruised. "Honey your eyes are covered. The Dr. says he'll remove the pads in a day or so. They had to make sure they got all the glass out. Do you remember anything about the truck hitting you?" Her baby tells her no and asked how long she had been out. "You were knocked out at the scene it's been about 7 hours. Your brothers and your dad are here to see you." Cassandra tried to move and winced. "Honey please stay still. What do you need I'll get it for you." Cass asked could Sally raise her head a little lying flat like this she felt vulnerable and it was freaking her out. "Okay Honey I'll ask the doctor" Cass begs her not to leave. "Mama is right here. I'm not leaving you." Sally pushes the button and shortly Luke walks in and says he's glad she was awake. "Can we lift her head a little she is unconfutable?" he moves around to the other side of the bed and takes her vitals. He raises the bed with a remote and tucks it close to Cass's hand. Telling her that the button controlled her pain med. "Do you think that is wise what if she overdoses of course she's going to be in pain?" The Dr. assures her that Cassandra could activate the pump a select number of times in a 4 hour period. Sally had something like that when she was in the hospital for her back she'd been trying to break up a fight at her school many years ago and fell down a flight of stairs. "So she won't get it every time she pushes it?" He shakes his head and says it's time released and the dosage has been calibrated for her weight. "Thank you doctor Sheldon." He tells her what he told them when he saved Michael it was like he didn't know how to except praise. He then leaves the room.

Luke heads into the OR tonight the hospital was getting slammed. Middlebrooks walks over to him. "Lucas go home you've been signed in here for 22 hours and I haven't seen you once take even a break. You're going to keep this up and be on your face." He snaps at her telling her did she want to go in OR 3 then and try to reattach the man's hand that he almost cut off trying to reenact something he read in a gothic novel. Or how about the 9 year old little boy in OR two that needed to have bullets removed from his abdomen cause his uncle was shooting at his mother and shot him. Luke knew he was losing it and this was why he had put the rule in place because some of his staff worked right alongside him. When Middlebrooks put her hand out for his IPad and says he'll thank her later he hands it over and storms out of the hall. She was the only doctor on his staff that could enact the rule on him, yeah he was the head doctor and owner, but she was a senior doctor had been in medicine way longer than him, she wouldn't have enacted the rule if she didn't think he was near the point of total exhaustion, he hadn't even realized that he'd been here that long. He kept pushing his meal time back. He sits in his car and soon is waking up. He yarns "Okay that answers my question on where I'm going and how I'm getting there." He hardly remembered coming outside or getting in his car. He calls the transit service and hoped he could stay awake long enough to get picked up. He gets out hoping that the cool night air would keep him awake.

Joshua had visited and with Cassandra the camera had caught her she'd taken off her fucking seat belt since all she had was a good 20 feet to go after the gate would have opened. He was guilty of the same shit. She had almost went through the front window and her glasses had got broken when she hit the window face first knocking herself out cold. Now there was a chance she would be blind, three of her ribs were cracked they'd stopped the internal bleeding her hand was broken and they had to reset her arm back into socket. Joshua gets to his truck and sees Luke climbing out of his car. The doctor had left this morning around two covering for one of his head surgeons, that called in sick and it was about to be a new day. Joshua walks over and asks Luke did he want a ride home because he looked like shit. Luke cracks a smile and says he was waiting on a car because driving wasn't on his big list of to dos. "Have you been waiting long?" He shrugs and says he called them when he woke up in his car. "Well cancel the ride and I'll drive you home or were you heading to your place?" Luke says he was heading to Ivey Mansion it was the closest bed. "Come on bro it's the least I can do." Luke must have been really tired when he got in and buckled up 2 minutes into the drive and he was back asleep. Joshua drove up the back way and made sure the gate was closed after he drove in. "Luke your here now go get this new thing called sleep in a bed." Luke climbs out the truck looks around and almost asked where they were. He climbs the back stairs and opens the back sliding door. The house alarm goes off Joshua jogs up the stairs and put in the code it fell silent again.

Luke walks in Sophie's room taking off his tie and unbuttons two buttons on his button down he sits on the end of the bed. Jerking himself awake he finishes disrobing and walks into the shower. The hot water felt good. He must have stood there too long for one the water had stopped and Sophie was glaring at him. His legs hurt which meant he fell asleep standing up. He put his hands out and braces himself against the wall as he lifts one leg trying to get the feeling back in it. "Hey"

Sophie woke up in her office when she realized that it was the 28th she got up and headed to her bed. She got a text from Middlebrooks saying Luke canceled his ride but that she had to enact the no sleep rule on him. Sophie walks in her room hearing the shower going and following the trail of clothing she heard snoring and looked in, Luke was standing under the spray sleep. He had got a call off from one of his surgeons that was covering for him since this was his vacation he'd been there all day. She turns off the spray and he opens his eyes. "Good morning how are you still standing? Middlebrooks says you canceled your ride so how did you get here Luke? Don't tell me you drove. There's already been one car smashed into my front gate today." He shook his head no and says Joshua drove him here. "Well come on let's get you in bed so you can stop putting dents in my shower wall trying to hold yourself up." He mumbles sorry and looks where he had his hands balled into fists on either side of the stall. He drops his hands to his side and the wall snapped back in place. They go to bed and Luke is sleep once more within seconds of reaching the bed. Sophie snuggles down and goes back to sleep.

It's Sunday the 28th Angel and Joshua head to visit Cassandra and give Sally and Michael a break they had stayed overnight. Michael had convinced Sally to please go home and get some sleep. She only agreed because Joshua said he and Angel would come and Bradley had said he would stay with his little sister tonight. Joshua looked in the review mirror as the security team filed in behind his truck. He had spoken to Chase and asked him if the tail he'd received was from him he noticed a car following him to the hospital yesterday. Chase had gave him the description of the security officer that was following him. Joshua took a measure of comfort in the fact that he knew someone or a group of trained people had his back if something went down. Unlike the STOP team Chase had hired this team which meant he trusted them. They soon pull into the hospital parking lot and head in to the waiting room. Angel looks over at a lone figure that was reading a magazine. Joshua followed her line of sight bends down and asks his wife. "What's wrong?" She says the guy was staring at them when they walked in she'd caught him out of the corner of her eye but she could just be being paranoid. Joshua looks over at the guy and the magazine raised higher. Well the guy was too small to be one of the guys on the video that had slashed his tires. "He could be a fan or something as long as he stays his ass over there, he can look all he wants it's touching I have an issue with." They soon meet up with Sally and Michael in Cass's room Sally walks over and strokes Cass's hair and says she would return when her mean old father and brothers let her, which would be bright and early tomorrow. Cass tells her mom don't be too hard on them most of the time she was asleep.

Chase laid in his big bed alone and looks at the ceiling, this was the day before Amy would go to rehab though it was needed and his suggestion, he was still going to miss having her around. She was miserable he could tell. She hadn't had anything to help her sleep since Christmas aside from the 4 hours here and the 20 minutes there she wasn't getting any real sleep. When Nicole was home with her in their new home she would curl up with her child but was only getting about 4 hours if that. He told her when she couldn't sleep to call him or text him. They had agreed since she was going to therapy they would wait on announcing that they were a couple to her child or his family. He was going over there tonight after Nikki went to Deon's place so he could spend her last few hours before she had to get on the plane. So much was going on someone tried to get on the property at his children's home, and someone had slashed his son's tires. The plate on the truck his security team chased was registered to a man that Chase worked with on one of the committees. When Chase contacted him the man reported the truck stolen. Chase tracked the call and the man was on vacation where he was supposed to be in Orlando Florida. Chase didn't believe the man would lose his mind in such a manner but trust wasn't his strong point beyond family and a few close friends.

Amy sat in her kitchen she'd tried sleep last night and got none even when she went to lay in bed with her girl. She was nervous about going to therapy and the thought of leaving her girl even for a good reason still made her feel like she was once again abandoning her. She runs her hand through her hair then put her head in her hands looking down into the coffee she'd made. She would hopefully get sleep when Chase came over after Nicole went to Candy's this afternoon. She already missed him. Her phone rings a familiar ringtone, she answers out of habit and instantly regrets it.

"Hey sleeping beauty need my help?" Wendell says as he gets out of his car and walks up to her front door. "You should be ready by now." She tells him to leave her alone or else. "Or else what bitch I know where you live remember. So which one of these local programs do you think is going to be your salvation? I might want to pay you a visit." She says she's not telling him and just let her try this. "I could get you off of it. Where that brat of yours?" Amy hangs up on him. He starts beating on the door and hears her screaming at him. He steps back kicks the door. It flies open smashing something and he marches in, her brat was on the landing of the stairs, Amy came running out the kitchen yelling for her brat to go back upstairs. Wendell pulls his weapon and tells Amy "Come here or I put a hole in her fucking head." Amy slowly walks to him. Begging him not to hurt her baby. "Brought something for you, a going away present. I'm telling you you'll love it you'll be sleep before your head hits the pillow. I'm only doing this because you my best customer." Amy says not anymore and continues her begging. The brat looked ready to piss herself. Amy now stood in front of him. Something changed in her eyes. Wendell points the gun at her chest. "That's close enough can't have you zapping my ass like your little blond bitch." Her brat suddenly jumps down behind the couch." The fear returned to Amy's face as he aims at the couch and pulls a prefilled syringe out of his pocket. "Take this don't worry it's pure." Amy takes the needle and asked what it is. "Your drug of choice. You got all freaked out because you took the wrong dosage and reacted badly that was my bad, this will even you out. Amy you don't have to stop using just be more careful." Amy tells him she wasn't good with needles. "Just put it right there pierce your skin and push down" he points to her arm with the gun. "As long as it gets under your skin surface you'll be good to go." She begs him not to make her do this she knew he was still angry but killing her was over the top she had been loyal and he said he supported her. Her self-loathing and self-doubt was what he was waiting on but he'd doubted he could make it surface with the kid in the room. "Tell your brat to go back upstairs if I see her try to sneak back down I'll use her ass as target practice." She begs her brat to go upstairs and not to come down until she called her. Amy starred at him with question in her gaze. When the brat takes the stairs two at a time he gives Amy his full attention. "Okay I was pissed when you hung up on me but you and I know you want sleep, and that I can provide. You think your suffering now wait until you get to the place and all you have is a room no drugs no nothing. You really think that's the miracle. Heck Amy you're doing that now but you want relief so bad you can taste it. Who is to say after you blow all this money that you'll even succeed? Look at you staring at the needle. If I wanted you dead I wouldn't use what I risk my job for everyday I'd just make you eat my gun. I know you didn't put that blond bitch up to that stuff me and her we have history. This will even you out. You think of this as like Nick's issue." Her tears start to fall at the mention of her fear that she would end up on a slab just like her husband. Wendell had her he knew it the moment they didn't have an audience. He slowly put his gun away. As he steps closer to her. "He was trying to take himself out. You don't want to die you just want sleep. You want me to do it? I can make it painless I'm really good with needles." Amy puts the needle to her skin closing her eyes. Saying she's trusting him. This mix would have her hooked why kill a golden goose. "I'm not here to hurt you I'm here to help y…"

Nikki ran upstairs and climbed out on her mother's balcony. She had to make the idiot come outside. His blue car was parked in the driveway. She was about to jump on his car, set off his alarm, and make a break for it when the gay couple that lived to the right of Mr. MacBride that had welcomed them to the block yesterday ran across the street and into her front door. She runs back to stairs and watches as the two sneak up and jump her mom's dealer and start beating the crap out of him. "He has a gun" the words left her mouth in a scream. One of the guys grab the gun and chucks it out on the lawn. The bigger of the couple punches the dealer in the face so hard he slumps they carry him out the house. Nikki runs downstairs her mom just stood with tears in her eyes with the needle near her skin. She whispers what if therapy doesn't work. "Mom no you promised no more drugs. Do you want to die? He came in here armed, he was going to shoot me." Her mom dropped the needle and ran in the kitchen. Nikki followed fearing her mom was going to run out the backdoor she looked so freaked out. Nikki closes the kitchen door and locks it. Her mom sat in a chair with her head down crying loud and hard. Someone taps on the kitchen door. Nino the biggest of the couple that had beat up the dealer was asking was everyone ok. Nikki yells yes. Her mom wipes her eyes and walks to the door and opens it. Nikki steps out of the way. Her mom thanks the guy. He reaches in and pats her shoulder saying he didn't know there was something wrong until he saw the little girl about to dive bomb the car. He continues by saying his boss would have had his ass in a sling for not protecting her and her young but this wasn't the same car that was on his list.

Amy asked who his boss is. Nino laughs and says "Mr. Ivey hired me and my husband Eddie to protect you and you're young. You sure you okay?" The woman nods and pulls her phone. "I called Ivey he says he on his way." The woman looked still a little shocked the little girl came from behind the door asked did they kill the nut. "Nah, I'm just glad he didn't hurt you girls. Well as long as you girls are good let me get back out here Eddie is meaner than me."

Jonathon and Gloria head out of his home as Jonathon is pulling out of his garage he sees a fella on the ground being pinned there by his neighbor. "I don't think I want to know. They usually keep to themselves other than a hello." He raises his gaze to the door of Nikki's new home it was wide open. That was odd the door should have stopped when it made a right angle. He'd been in the house when it belonged to Evie's parents. Thinking that something was amiss he tells Gloria to stay in the car. He parks on the street, gets out, jumps behind his car as a car comes flying up the hill and stops in front of Nikki's house. He was really confused when Chase gets out of the car walks in the grass and grabs the downed man by the hair yelling at him when he starts punching the guy, Jonathon walks up the walkway "Ivey that's enough what's going on?" his neighbor gets in his way. "Eddie I'm not here to fight ya. He shouldn't be pounding on the guy out here where everyone can see." Eddie fills him in on what the guy had done and why Chase was about to make the guy eat his own ass. Jonathon was livid, Nikki was his talent's girl if only on paper this piece of filth deserved to be dealt with. Jonathon walks over kicks the shit out the guy. Coming back to himself he clasps a hand on Chase and tells him "Ivey go check on the girls." The minute Chase storms into the house Jonathon tells Eddie "Deal with him." Eddie says "with pleasure" as he and his mate pick the battered dealer up and tosses him in their suburban that Nino had pulled in front of the fight blocking street view.

Nikki hugs her mom one last time and gives her the locket with her picture in it that had an audio file of her saying "I believe in you mom" before she watches her mom's image fade from view as she rides in the passenger seat of Candy's car. Her mom had been standing on the sidewalk waving at her. Candy was speaking to her. "Huh, Yeah I gave it to her since she won't be allowed to call or nothing for the first week at least she will be able to look at the picture and push the button and hear me still." Candy tells her it was a great gift. "Can we try to make another coat bench that thug broke the one we made?" Candy says they could go pick up some clay right now if she wanted. Maybe it would be dry enough to fire by the time her mom got out. Nikki beams and says "that's a great idea."

After Candy's car sinks below the visual line of the hill they lived on, Amy walks back in her home the front door had went back too far when Wendell had kicked it in, it had broken the ceramic coat bench that sat behind the door. She looks at the damage to the only piece of furniture that she had a real connection with, her girl and Candy had made it years ago and it had become a real part of the décor. She closes the door and locks it. She couldn't deal with the mess right now she would before she left but not right now. Chase had stayed inside whiles Candy and she had spoken, and her, and Nikki said their goodbyes for now. He rises from the couch when she turns around with her locket her child had gave her in hand. Moving towards Chase she hugs him. He kisses her and tells her she had to go he understood but he wanted her to know that he would be waiting for her safe and healthy return. "I just hope it works." He hugs her to him and tells her that he and her girl believed she could beat this she just needed some help. "The more I think about it the more it freaks me out." Chase takes her hand and asks her to let him be her distraction. "You're so much more than merely a distraction. I'm going to miss you so m…" He cuts off her comment with a kiss telling her tomorrow could be a day for thinking, right now he wanted her to relax so she could be energized for her trip. They make love from the living room up to the shower and finish in her bedroom. After thoroughly pleasuring her she curls up and falls asleep. For a time he just watches her sleep until sleep claims him as well.