(This series is a collaboration with my good friend Sanchez. His ideas, I ran with it. We will see how it evolves. He has a sound concept, and characters, I'm primarily piecing it all together and seeing how it plays out. We hope you enjoy our efforts.)
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"Take a right up here."
"This place is in the middle of nowhere Clinton." Mindy Biles followed directions out to Harbinger Shoals. She was right, while yes it was along the Atlantic coastline, the sea in Harbinger's backyard by less than a quarter mile, it was indeed lost to the world. What better place for someone like Nick Sanchez who was escaping a past of not so good fortune. Black Ops in his day, pilot, soldier, diver, all of the above and more. The Shoals was ideal for a residence far away from the beaten path, lost in time, rugged, mysterious, full of ghosts. Time to make some more he thought. Meaning, he intended to live out the remainder of his life here. The plan to fulfill his dreams and desires both dark and light with careful balance. He was a devil to some, a God to others. Purgatory story! Somewhere in the middle!
"Creepy out here too. It is looking better than it did though. You could barely see the house and barn before the overgrowth was cut down. Now it's looking more like a plantation."
"So, this Sanchez guy got you released from jail just that easily?"
"First offense. According to Sheriff Roster, I would have just got probation and a strike one on my record. Honestly Mindy even if you had tried getting me off, I was told the State wouldn't have let you. Dolan put in a good word for me with the local Judge and got my case thrown off the books before it really had a chance to go Stateside. I'm pretty grateful to all of them."
"So, am I Baby. I still feel miserable over that 9-1-1 call. We should have worked it out without involving the law. I think I worried more that you might hurt Grant and get worse charges brought up against you."
"Probably so. I was pretty angry. Hurt too."
"Baby, listen..." She reaches her hand over and holds his, " ... I will never betray you again. Now that we're communicating over what we might both need to be happy there's no reason to ever go behind one another's backs."
"We can sort out the details later. I've got three weeks community service out here to work off before I can technically go Deputy Biles. While it's not court ordered I made that bargain with Dolan and Nick. You know I always keep my word."
"Yes, I know. Can I run home and grab us some clothes and personal things from the apartment? I swear I won't even speak to Grant. You don't have much here, and we really aren't going to leech off of Britney, are we?"
"Only if someone goes with you. I can't go there, or I'd hunt Grant down. Brit is too new to our life still, and besides she has her mom to deal with. I can't impose on her. So, for the moment I need you to go grab my clothes at the hotel and take them to a laundromat. I need to feel clean."
"I can do that. I do need to quit my job though if you expect me to live over here with you. Which means I need to see about that dispatcher job at the station if the Sheriff even allows it."
"He will. Dolan's a good cat. We have a lil' savings to live off of now that it's not needed for lawyers and all. Left up here and we're there." She flips the turn signal on their Camaro and makes the corner headed down an old, paved road not so well cared for. It was getting spookier by the minute. "We can stay at the hotel a while longer. Week at least as long as it's the room the Sheriff got me. I need to bodyguard CC this week too."
"She sure is a pistol. I absolutely love her tattoo arrangement, if I'm being honest her body too." She giggled. "Can I play with her?"
"That's up to her. I'm not going there, because I respect Dolan."
"I understand. I'll settle for Britney. Do you really think she can handle a three-way fulltime relationship? I mean you and I are married; she'd just be the mistress."
"I think she's cool with that. My biggest issue is I want her to feel we're not using her for her money."
"Yet you're letting her buy you a Harley? A home for us all to live in?"
"Those items stay in her name. We only reside and ride. Long as she has the titles and deeds, we're not abusing her. I intend to treat her like she's you but give everything I got to our marriage too. We will all sleep in one King size bed. We share everything. We communicate our thoughts. Understood?"
"I love this new you. Baby I'll adjust, I swear."
"You got no choice Mindy ... after that 9-1-1 wakeup call there won't ever be another or I'm done."
"I won't ruin our marriage any further. I live for you Clinton. If I have to, I'll live for Britney too."
"We're here!" He nods at all the trucks, trailers and a Rez Rider bus that had dropped off the local reservations Santee employees. "Park up there and I'll show you around a bit before I go to work. Nick's not here yet, but I'd like you to meet him."
"As long as he doesn't yell at me."
"Might paddle your ass." Clinton winked unhooking his seatbelt.
"Is he cute?"
"Ain't ugly! Military stature! By the looks of him I don't even want to know what he's done in his life. I can piss my pants without knowing any of that."
"Mmm! I love a man in uniform."
"Uh huh! I recall you attacking me in my security guard duds. He only wears black, that whole tall, dark, and mysterious vibe. Oh ... wait until you meet his ... Midnight."
"His midnight?" She winced.
"Slave. A hottie named Midnight. He locked her in my cell with Shantel Bigelow. Naked and unmoving the entire day. It was crazy."
"Oh, my! So, he's into that BDSM stuff?"
"My gut says it goes beyond that term. I might take lessons and tie you and Brit up."