Forgiving You: A Switched Series Novella (The Switched Series Book 3) Read Online Free Page A

look her in the eyes.
    “Why, mommy?” she asks quietly.
    “I just need to take care of some adult stuff. She is going to take you to see Callie’s parents for a little while. They are really nice and I know you will love them. They have dogs and horses and lots of other stuff. I will come get you in a little while.”
    “Okay,” she says turning around to look at Callie. “Are they coming, too?” she asks, pointing at the babies.
    “They sure are, so you will have sit between them in the car and take care of them, can you do that?” Leighton asks smiling.
    “Yay!!!” she says, clapping her hands.
    “Thanks for doing this. Can I have your number in case I need to drive you crazy with texts checking up on her?”
    “Of course, Brody give it to her while Callie and I put the girls in their seats,” Leighton says. Brody gives the baby he has in his hands to Callie and they walk outside to load the babies. Brody grabs my phone and starts typing into it before I can grab it from him. I really hope he’s not seeing my last phone call was to Trent just a few minutes ago.
    “I’ll take her out and grab her booster out of my car,” I say, grabbing Ava’s hand and taking her outside.
     
    After the kids are all loaded, I am standing here with Callie watching my baby girl drive off with some girl I met a few hours ago. What am I doing here? We turn around and walk in silence back inside the house.
    As soon as we hit the living room where Brody and Ash are sitting, Brody stands up and hands me my phone.
    “Anything you need to tell us?” he asks. I shake my head at him, knowing he did in fact see who I just talked to before coming over here.
    “It’s not what you think. He’s a friend, my only friend for the past five years. I’ll explain everything, but I think Jaxon needs to be here.”
    “I’ll call him now,” Brody says, grabbing his phone out of his pocket.

Jaxon
     
    “So they really are real?” I ask again.
    “They are definitely real. I’m sorry man. I wish I could help you more. I can run the prints on them and see if anything comes up, but that old, even keeping them safe in the envelope, I can’t make any promises,” our forensics guys tells me.
    “Run the prints. At least I can say I tried. Thanks man for doing this and keeping it on the down low,” I say.
    “No problem. Let me know if you need anything else,” he adds before heading back to the lab.
    “You ready to head back home?” Collin asks, while we are walking back to the truck. Am I ready to go home? I have no idea what I want to do right now. Maybe I need to go find a bar and get into a good old fashioned fight. It’s been so long since I have punched somebody, which would probably be the one thing that would make me feel better.
    I’m about to turn on a street that would probably be the worst place I could possibly go, as pissed off as I am feeling right now, when my phone starts ringing. I pull it out and see that it’s Brody.
    “Hey man, I’m fine,” I answer. I know Callie is probably the one that put him up to calling me. That girl has been such a mother hen since coming into our lives a little over a year and a half ago. She has some crazy idea that she needs to keep her nose in all our lives and make sure we are all always perfectly happy.
    “Where are you?”
    “Nashville, why?” I ask. He is sounding very off and very nervous right now and I have a really bad feeling in my gut that I know why.
    “Can you come back to town and head over to Callie and Ash’s?” he asks quietly and calmly. Something is definitely up with him.
    “Sure man, what’s going on? If Callie put you up to this, tell her I’ll be fine and I will even come by and see her in the morning. It will be at least an hour before I can make it home, and that would be flying there.”
    “Fly here then. You are definitely going to want to stop by,” he says.
    “What’s going on, man?” I ask again.
    “Maya is here. She wants to talk to