Bear City Girls Bond Enforcement

All you knead is love

It was a good day to be lazy. It was Saturday, I was done with my work for today and I had new books. Nothing to do except dive into my latest treasures.

Ring! The display said, Sarah calling.

Dammit! Now don't get me wrong I love it when my pal calls, but I got a sixth sense about this one. She wants me to help her with a damn skip, I know it!

Last year, some of us traveling sharks moved closer to each other. We developed a great bond and it had started getting expensive with all the catch up trips we were taking. And Sarah, my crazy girl went off the rails and became a part-time bounty hunter! Can you believe that crap? And she blames me! She said we had a convo about icky jobs and PI's and I likened us to Stephanie Plum and her sidekick Lula. How does that get us involved in skiptracing? And get this! Mary and Rockie are on board too! Those crazy broad's run the bail bond office and Karen lost her mind and is our legal counsel. Not exactly what I had in mind when I imagined us going into business together. I imagined us in Turkey, soaking up the sun, bebeks and bears, oh my!

Ring! Dammit.

"What?" I answer.  "The answer is no!"
"You don't even know what I'm going to ask!" She laughed out.
"Yes I do, you have a skip and you want back up." "How did you know?" She asked, she always asks.
"I just do. The ring is different."
"I'm sitting outside, get dressed. We have 10 minutes."
"No! I have a date with Master Ben! His new book is out."
The tone beeps that I have a second call. Mary. "You sicced Mary on me?!" I accused again. The tone beeps again and now it's Rockie? What the hell?!  "Why is Rocky calling me too?"
"You need to be on the skip Jess. I called you because I need you. You know I can't do this without my Lula." She wheedles.
"For heavens sake fine! I'll be ready in 15 minutes. and tell Mary and Rocky I said OK!"

30 minutes later we are sitting in her behemoth of a Cadillac.  An old Cadillac.  One that drives like a tank. "You know we don't exactly have to be like those novels and drive the hugest car ever." I said as we ramble down the road.

"It has character." Sarah said with a grin.

"OK so what are we looking for?"
"You'll love it!" she exclaims.
"Let me out now.  You always say that and it never ends well. I honestly don't know how Mary and Rockie keep this going because we are not good at this!"
"But it's fun and it gets us out!"
"What about the last one?" I said. "That one wasn't fun! That guy was riding a cow he stole, for the third time, I might add, claiming it held the essence of his soulmate and we had to hog tie him to take him to get bonded again! And to make matters worse, we had to tie her to the car to get them back to town."
"But he was such a sweet guy!" Sarah exclaimed.
"Karen had to adopt that cow because it kept running away from her owner. Derek still blames me for that!"
"OK, but what about the one before?"
"You mean the stupid teenager we had to find because he was licking ice cream and he cornered us in the freezer and locked us in? The only reason we lived is because Manny keep tabs on your GPS and we hadn't moved for 20 minutes."
"But we got to eat that ice cream."
"OK that was a good point but the time before that," I trail off.
Sarah grinned devilishly and a huge grin crosses my face.
PBS Trina, we say in unison.  "OK fine, I got to taser her prude ass and we found out she does like Daddy Dom stuff, just in public. So what's this assignment?" Resigned to the fact that I was working today.
"It's a bear," she said.
I slowly turn my head to look at her. "Like a real bear or a bear bear?"
"A bear bear straight from Istanbul," she says joyfully.
"How in the world did a bear bear make it to this freaking town and why did he jump bail?"
"Judge Matthews," And that's all she needed to say.  "Ah, public smoking ever since The Honorable Judge Matthews quit cold turkey, he's been an ass about enforcing the no smoking policy. But why did he jump bail?" I ask.
Sarah laughed again and said, " Apparently he has contraband in the form of fresh baklava and he confiscated it." That damn judge and his sweet tooth.