Briar
“I can’t believe they kicked me out. Does the last name James mean nothing around here?” I ranted in the street like a madman.
I called my father so I could rant about the state I found my grandmother in, but his line was busy. Wesley James wasn’t the only one with the power to get her out of there.
I paused just before I got to my store.
My bodyguard Rueben was somewhere around here, watching me draw attention to myself.
I searched my bag for my phone, so I could call Severin and we could concoct a plan.
“Where is that damn phone?”
“Need help there, sweetheart?”
A man in a hooded black jacket marched up to me. I backed up and held my bag to my chest. I wasn’t about to get mugged today.
“I don’t want your money,” he rasped.
He sounded familiar, yet the hood was covering
