Page 42 of The Prez’s Daughter

She didn’t feel guilty for hurting Lucas. He was a piece of shit who took pleasure in other people’s misfortunes, and she had never liked him. She hated him.

“Get the fuck out of here before I find my knife,” Nancy said.

Charlotte got to her feet, and Maeve reached out to her. “Let me go.”

“Honey, you need to calm down.”

“You don’t understand, he sent a video of me and Savage to my dad. Dad is going to know I’ve been sneaking around with Savage and we’ve not been playing friends,” Charlotte said.

“Shit,” Maeve said.

“Crap,” Eden said.

“Fuck!” This came from Nancy.

“I’m guessing this is a family problem, and I’m not involved, so I am just going to make my escape, because this has nothing to do with me.” Kristin was right to make her escape. This was a mess.

Nancy had her cell phone out, and Charlotte heard her calling. Pulling out her own, she attempted to reach Savage, but it was going to voicemail. Maeve and Eden were doing exactly the same, and for the first time, between them all, nothing was happening.

“You don’t think this means ... do you?” Charlotte asked.

She looked toward her mother, but Nancy wasn’t giving her the usual lies where she would tell her everything was going to be okay, and that was because they both knew this was not going to be okay. Her father was not going to be okay with this.

“I need to get to the clubhouse.”

“I’ll drive you,” Maeve said.

“We’re going to need you, and you,” Nancy said. All four of us are going to have to go.”

“Why?” Eden asked.

“Because it’s going to get ugly, and the more women there, who are important to the club, the better. You’re going to have to trust me on this.”

****

Savage sat at the bar, thinking about what Nancy had told him. He needed to come clean to Doc. He kept glancing behind him, looking at the door to the man’s office, and each time, he just turned back around and looked at the bar. He didn’t have a beer, nor a whiskey.

His buddy Paulie was doing his computer genius thing, trying to find whatever material Andy was threatening Jimmy with. He wanted to have all of that cleaned up, as well as the location of Martha’s niece, Betty. So far, Grim was nearly there, and because the man didn’t like to fly, he’d ridden there. Even at Grim’s pace, that was going to take some time. Savage had already turned down several of the women who kept trying to come on to him. He just wasn’t interested in any of the shit they were selling.

Savage’s cell phone went off, and he pulled it out of his pocket to see it was Paulie calling him, and he accepted the call.

“Please tell me you’ve got some good news,” he said.

“I’ve got some good news. The blackmailed images are all gone. Your real estate buddy got into some kinky shit, and trust me when I tell you, all of that is old news. The moment he met his wife, that was it, he got rid of everything. His membership to a brothel, all women he hooked up with, any shady shit from his past, he stopped. And to help him out, I just erased the shit Andy had gotten his hands on,” Paulie said.

“Thanks, man.”

“You’re most welcome. It’s what I do. So, are you and the little lady still doing well?” Paulie asked.

“I can’t talk here, right now.”

Paulie winced. “You know, keeping it a secret, and especially with whom you’re having fun times with, is never going to be a good thing.”

“I get it.” If Paulie was even advising him now, he knew it was time to come clean. Doc didn’t deserve to be lied to like this. “I’m going to talk to him. I’ll call you later, and thanks for this. What do I owe you?”

“Nothing. man, it sounds to me like you could do with a freebie, and besides, you know I love helping you out. Take care of yourself.”

Savage hung up his cell phone, just as the door to Doc’s office slammed open. He spun around on his chair, and the way Doc’s eyes found his, and the look in them, he knew the man had found out. He didn’t quite know how it happened, but the cat was well and truly out of the bag.