Jaxx didn’t show up for work Monday until Wednesday. I knew he would be busy with his mother. It’s always been like this for the past years. He was an only child, and his parents weren’t together. They only married to appease his grandparents, and so that he wouldn’t be bastard. Other than that, they didn’t stay together long enough. She was protective and possessive of him, but at the same time, she let him be. But she was always one to show him off to her amigas.
By the time early Friday evening rolled in, I slept on my office couch, exhausted as a damn K-9 after a twelve-hour duty.
Blue and white. Crystal blue and aquamarine waters and powdery white sand. The sun was in my face and the waves were softly crashing on the shore. The beach was calling me. I was about to dive i
