Satan's Sinner's #3: Becca and Bullet

**Chapter 2

Becca POV

It's been almost a week since the run-in at Indie's with Bullet. Frankly speaking, I'm fine with it. The distance is giving me clarity. I'm finally grieving the loss of the family I had wanted and craved for, for my little girl. The family I never got to have. One that loved me, simply because I'm me. I am in the 'processing' stage of it all. I know I need to talk to him. We need to talk out what happened a year and a half ago so we can effectively, and productively co-parent for Grey. I'm just not ready.

I know her first birthday is next month, and I want her to have all of her family there to celebrate with her. Ugh. I'll give myself another day to wallow in what could have been, of what I wish for, and then I'll put all the childish dreams I have behind me. Taking a deep breath, my phone ringing pulls me from my wallowing.

"Hey, bestie!" Parker practically sings from his end of the phone.

"Hey. You sound chipper," I muse. Still going over everything I learned from touring the daycares.

"I am! I found a daycare super, super close to work that I enrolled Brody and Rosie in. They only have a handful of openings left." He sang at the end.

"Where? What's the name? I wasn't super impressed with any I saw yesterday," I asked, scrambling for a pen to write down all the contact info.

"Same. It's in the hospital. Remember how a few years ago, they considered putting in a nursery for employee's kids?"

"Yeah." I drew out because nothing ever came from that. The Director of the hospital at the time nixed the idea completely. He deemed it useless.

"Well, our new director got on it! She combined offices, granted work-from-home requests, and made it happen! She also has different age groups with one teacher and one aide for most classrooms. They watch kids up to five years old. Infants are in one room, and kids aged 1-2 are in another room, and 3–4-year-olds are together. It's all in one big room that used to be offices, but they're separated into smaller classrooms for each age group. The teachers are awesome! And it's super affordable, and based on salary, plus bills. The hospital covers a portion of it also. They have a fundraiser once a year that helps fund this program and also goes towards the women's shelters."

"That's amazing!" I exclaim! This would solve everything.

"I told them you'd be calling or just going up there with Grey. You need to get her in because there's only two more spots open in her age group."

"I'm calling now and going up there after naptime."

"See you soon!" He hung up the phone. I dialed the hospital number and had the ladies on the switchboard connect me. After setting up an appointment, they added Grey to the list of kids. Thank God something worked out! I had my first shift in the ED in two days.

I was looking at what yummy snacks I had for Grey when she woke up from her nap that we could eat on the fly because we had to hurry to make it to the appointment on time. Tucking a few snacks in her diaper bag, I had my planner out, going over all the paperwork I would need to bring with me, just as someone knocked.

Opening the door without looking, stupid, I know. It was definitely my own fault. His barging in and demanding we talk when I said no, was his own stupidity. Bullet shoved his way into Kai and Parker's home we were staying in after I tried shutting the door on his face. Literally on his face. He pushed his face into demand I let him in so we could hash this out and fix us.

"I said I am not talking to you," I said lowly, through my teeth, enunciating every word so he'd understand he was facing off with a wild animal he'd just pushed into a cage.