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just a bit, but for some reason she was angry too. “I got it, Captain,” she said with a mock salute. “This is the deep undercover mission.”
     
    “Right.” He looked so weary she wanted to take back the sarcastic bite of her tone, but it was too late for that.
     
    She looked around her mostly empty shop and knew why she had been dragging all day. It was because she’d slept in the empty bed of Jack’s all alone and the way she had twisted and turned all night she’d have thought it was the first time that had happened. For one thing someone had changed the sheets, so she couldn’t smell him as much and the other thing she just couldn’t put her finger on. Jack’s friend Avery, better known as Loud Mouth as the patch on his jacket indicated, was a quiet gentle bear of a man. She chuckled to herself now thinking of the oxymoron they’d given the man to be called daily. He’d barely spoken 17 words while in her presence, but he let her know what time he’d come take her home.
     
    She’d tried to tell him that she was fine going home by herself, but he wouldn’t hear of it. “I promised Stormy I’d do it, so I will.” The large man had said, and she figured why fight it. So here she stood in her floral shop waiting for him when she could have been half way home. She hoped nothing had happened to the man, because he was 45 minutes late.
     
    Gathering up her stuff, she shut down the shop and gathered her things. She was planning on having a quiet night since this was the first time she would be alone in a while. Thinking about missing Jack wasn’t an option. Natalie was going to enjoy herself if it killed her. She had one of her favorite wines chilling in the refrigerator; it was a gift to herself a few months back when she’d beaten her own financial record for the month, but she’d never opened it. Tonight was the night for being happy and celebrating her life.
     
    The shop door opened and a medium sized man walked in. At first glance there wasn’t anything remarkable about him but he did have on a different kind of motorcycle jacket; it read The Reapers.
     
    The man walked over to her with a smile on his face, but the way her stomach lurched, you’d have thought he’d threatened her.
     
    “Natalie. Right?” The man said coming closer to her.
     
    “Yes, I’m Natalie. Can I help you with something?” Her mind was whirling with questions. Why did this man know her name? Who were the Reapers? Why was her stomach turning into a big knot?
     
    “There was a problem with the guy who was supposed to pick you up. Loud Mouth asked me to take you home.”
     
    Something about this didn’t sound right. “That’s alright. I was going to go out with a few friends on my way home, so I guess it’s a good thing that guy didn’t come.”
     
    “We want to make sure you’re safe and sound so we can tell the big boss all about it.” The man had a twitch in his eye, and she didn’t know if that was from guilt of if that was just his nature. Either way, it didn’t inspire a lot of confidence on her part.
     
    Natalie didn’t know what to say to that. She knew that Jack worked with a seedy lot of characters, but if he’d sent this one her way she had to believe he was safe. The man scared her somehow and it was probably because she felt like he was really trying not to.
     
    “Alright then, let me lock up.” She went to the back to grab her purse and thought to shoot off a quick text to Jack.
     
    Jack: Your new friend from The Reapers came to pick me up. I hope everything is okay with Loud Mouth.
     
    “What are you doing?” The man’s voice behind her sounded a bit agitated. She hoped the man wasn’t on the stuff he was selling. From what she knew about people with addictions, they could be temperamental and unreasonable. The hitch in this man’s voice made her think he was getting upset.
     
    “I was just telling Jack that I hoped Loud Mouth was okay.” She put her phone in her purse