Safe Love (Love Brothers #4) by Liz Crowe Page B

met?”
    Margot frowned at him. “No, what difference does that make?”
    AliceLynn sniffled and pointed to the cop. “Sorry. This is
    Mark. He’s my daddy’s friend from high school.”
    “Oh, okay. So, Mark what’s going on here?”
    The man frowned.
    “It’s fine, you can tell her,” AliceLynn said under her
    breath.
    “Well, there was an illicit gathering here, at the park.
    Some of the boys were doping the drinks, according to AliceLynn. She called
    them on it and they got…ugly with her.”
    Margot held the girl tighter. “It’s fine. I had my…um…”
    “AliceLynn pulled a knife of them,” Mark said. “Cut one of
    ‘em on the arm. And then she ran.”
    “It’s when I got this,” she said, touching her bloody face.
    “I fell.”
    “I told you to call your daddy,” Mark the cop said. “I don’t
    know this person, no offense intended ma’am.”
    Margot dropped her arm from around AliceLynn’s shoulders.
    “Well, I’m a friend of the family.” A strange kind of emotion was filling her
    head now. One she didn’t like. “Why did you call me, AliceLynn?” The girl kept
    her gaze down on her shoes.
    “You said I should call you if I needed anything.”
    “Yes, but this is something your father…anyway, we’ll deal
    with it. Can we take her home?”
    “Daddy’s not at home. He’s at Rosie’s,” AliceLynn said with
    a certain tone in her voice that lit a match to Margot’s fury.
    “Okay, I’ll meet you there. You should ride with them.” She
    pointed to the cops. The girl’s jaw dropped.
    “AliceLynn, your father needs to know where you were, what
    you were doing and with whom.” She indicated the gaggle of delinquents with a
    jerk of her chin. “I’m not going to shield you from confronting him, honey. But
    I will stand with you when you do it.” Whirling and heading for her car before
    she said something really awful, Margot climbed behind the wheel and followed
    the cop car a few miles to a tidy little white clapboard house on a street
    lined with similar ones with a ‘for sale’ sign on the lawn. Rosalee Norris’
    house, she surmised, pulling up to the curb and steeling herself for the
    looming confrontation.
    She met Antony and Rosie at the door, but this time when she
    gave her little ‘it’s not my job to shield you or my place to come between you’
    spiel, AliceLynn let it fly loud and clear and in front of Rosalee just where
    Margot’s ‘place’ was—in Antony’s bed. Antony lurched forward and grabbed his
    daughter’s arm. Margot clapped a hand over her mouth and started backing away.
    Then Rosie fainted.
    And everything changed.

 
    Authors’ note: If you have read “Love Garage” and wish to
    read a “hidden ending” for this companion novella, just click here . It’s
    highly recommended that you read “Love Garage” first, to get the full story of
    how all this works out in order to fully appreciate the ending of “Safe Love.”
     
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About The Author
     
     
    Amazon best-selling author, beer blogger, brewery marketing
    expert, mom of three, and soccer fan, Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and
    graduate of the University of Louisville currently living in Ann Arbor. She has
    decades of experience in sales and fund raising, plus an eight-year stint as a
    three-continent, ex-pat trailing spouse.
    Her early forays into the publishing world led to a groundbreaking
    fiction subgenre, “Romance for Real Life,” which has gained thousands of fans
    and followers interested less in the “HEA” and more in the “WHA” (“What Happens
    After?”). More recently she is garnering even more fans across genres with her
    latest novels, which are more character-driven fiction, while remaining very
    much “real life.”
    With stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries,
    on the soccer pitch, in successful real estate offices and at times in exotic
    locales