Blood Moon

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ᴛᴇɴ: ʜᴏᴍᴇ

You stare at James for what feels like forever but in reality it is only a few seconds. Surely your mind is playing tricks on you from the lack of sleep. The exhaustion is making you hallucinate. Either that or you're in the middle of a nightmare. You have to be, this can't seriously be happening.

It probably shows on your face that you don't seem to understand or believe what James just told you because he repeats himself.

''He's been arrested.''

You clear your throat. ''Wh- When?''

''Earlier today.''

''What happened?'' You feel like you're going to be sick. Your stomach is one big knot.

''I'm not sure yet, he didn't have time to tell me everything. I'm leaving right now to get him out. I thought maybe you'd like to come with.''

You nod and James opens the door to his SUV for you, leading you to take a seat in the back.

You stop right before getting in. ''What about my car?''

You can't exactly leave it in an open field.

''You can give the key to Jesse. He'll get it home for you, on our way back we'll stop to get the key back from him.''

''Ok.'' You take your car key off of your keychain and give it to Jesse.

James helps you up and he follows right behind, sitting next to you. The next 3 hours are going to be extremely long and painful.

Ransom had spent the 3 hours on his way there cursing at James and insulting him in his head. He kept seeing the sad look in your eyes when he told you he had to leave and he wouldn't be able to reach you in any way, and the memory was just as painful every time.

He hated James for making him break the promise he had made to you to stay with you, he hated James for punishing him like he was just some punk kid who didn't know how to get his head out of his own ass. He had proven time and time again that he was a good soldier, that he could be trusted and now that he has you, suddenly all that work has been thrown out of the window. Unfairly so.

He suspects that James liked that Ransom didn't have anyone in his life; no significant other, no friends or family because it meant that all of his time was devoted to the family. Then, Ransom met you and he started splitting his time between you and them.

Why could they all have someone in their life except for him? Had they expected him to stay single for the rest of his life and just give them all of his time? Because that would be completely ridiculous.

Was he going to get punished every time he spent too much time with you, all according to James?

He's about 90% sure that that is what's going to happen and he's already angry at James for it.

Thankfully he hadn't been the one to drive because he had been so lost in his own thoughts that he didn't even see the 3 hours go by or how he got to his hotel.

He has a week long meeting in front of him, he used to hate them and he absolutely still does. Always have, always will. It's a very safe way to do business but it's a giant pain in the ass.

What Ransom has to do is meet with the possible gun suppliers that James talked about, they are going to get together every day and little by little they'll get more information about the other.

The first day he met with the gun suppliers, he felt like something was off with them right off the bat. They seemed nervous, they tried to hide it but Ransom is really good at reading people. They were twitchy and they hesitated for too long whenever Ransom asked them a question.