My Nephew's Dad the Rockstar (Book 3 Steel Wolf Collection)

Chapter 15

The next morning I'm awoken by the ringing of my phone. One glance at the clock and I realize Hunter and I both slept through the start of school. The phone stops ringing and I settle in for a few more winks of sleep, but my ring time chimes again. With a groan I check and see the caller is Kim. Instantly I'm wide awake. She wouldn't be calling this early if it wasn't important.

"Hello," I answer hearing the grogginess in my voice.

"Kinsley, I'm so sorry if I woke you, but this couldn't wait," she says all in a rush. What now? I prop myself up in bad against my pillows. "They want Hunter at the court house when you go. I guess the judge is deciding custody and has basically given it to Pam. If what I'm reading between the lines are true."

"How can this be I thought there were steps she would need to go through before she could take him." I state thinking back through my classes.

"Somehow everything needed was signed off on. Which is odd since he's on my case load and I never saw anything." Papers ruffling can be heard through the phone. "Let me see who here signed off on them." The ruffling stops. "Shit," she says sounding stunned then brings herself back under control. "Please pardon my language, but seems my supervisor signed them."

I hold my head already feeling a headache coming on and my brain has already put the puzzle together on how she got them signed. "Is he a bit sleazy and has a hard time getting women to notice him," I ask already having a pretty good idea of the answer.

"Yes," she says quietly. "Between you and me don't know how he even got a job here. He must have connections with someone higher up." She mutters the last part more to herself than me.

Ding. Ding. Ding. Sleazy supervisor was her way in. I'm sure she offered tricks for him to sign off on the paper work. Typical Pam using her body to get what she wants and the sad part is she comes out on top every time.

"Seems Pam has another male eating out of the palm of her hand," I tell Kim.

"No...you don't think.... would she..." Kim stutters through her words not able to string together a complete thought.

"She would and she did. But too bad we won't ever be able to prove anything," I remind Kim. "She's been doing this for years."

Kim sighs on the other end of the phone. "Any luck on locating the father? At this point he might be out only option."

I freeze over Kim's question. How to answer? I think I might have, but funny story I think Lucan Taylor is Hunter's father. Yes, the Lucan Taylor from Steel Wolf. Proof? No I don't have any proof other than the fact they look so similar and a letter I found in Emma's personal belongings. No I haven't opened the letter.

Kim would check me into the nearest looney bin and all hope of getting custody of Hunter would be out the window. Granted the hope is quickly dwindling. My hopes on my new job holding some weight in the court room disappears. All I have left is whatever Aubree might have up her sleeve.

"Not anything that could be useful," I settle on telling her. Maybe I should let her in on the fact Aubree is working on something, but all of it could fall through before anything is started.

She reminds me of the date and time of the hearing. We make plans to meet before the hearing starts to go over a few things. I fall back in the bed in a huff when I realize I can no longer put off explaining to Hunter what is going on. He needs to be brought into the know before he steps foot in the court room.

Or I could hide under the covers and pretend none of this is happening. Like when I was younger I would hide under the bed when my mother was arguing with her latest boyfriend. Emma would find me every time and we would huddle together making plans of our future. A tear leaks from my eye. I miss the Emma of my childhood.