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now."
     
    Wade groaned and said, "I wish she'd have
told me..."
     
    "How could she? She didn't even know your
fricking name, or where you were. Besides, she felt like it was her
problem, not yours...a freak accident that she was going to deal
with herself. That's how Jess is, she doesn't ask anyone for
help...not even me. If I see she needs help, I have to insist,
before she'll accept it."
     
    "So why didn't she tell me once she saw me
today?" Wade wasn't buying into the martyr thing, because she'd had
every opportunity to tell him.
     
    Jazzie looked at him and said bluntly,
"She's afraid you'll try to take Angel from her."
     
    "I wouldn't do that, unless I thought the
baby was in danger, or that she wasn't a good mother..."
     
    "Don't forget, she doesn't know you from
Adam...you were a one-night stand, which by the way, she'd never
had before. The last guy she was with screwed her head up pretty
badly, so it had been a damned long time, since she'd been with
anyone. I had to push her into pursuing you."
     
    "She told me that..." Wade told her, and
he'd believed that at the time, but had rethought it today, after
what she'd done with Beau.
    "Well, she told the truth...and you've
treated her like garbage...I know what you did with that
redhead."
     
    "She's a friend, and I didn't do anything," Wade told her shortly.
     
    "You were using her to make Jess jealous
tonight," Jazzie accused and flipped her hair over her shoulder,
causing white dust to float in the air.
     
    "Yeah, I guess I was..." Wade admitted then
told her, "I tried to talk to her before the show and she shot me
down, so I was a little pissy." He pulled the truck up into the
potholed motel lot, then asked, "What number?"
     
    "Eight...that's where she and Travis are
staying," she said.
     
    That name had been bandied about a lot
tonight, but he didn't know who the man was. Fear that it might be
her boyfriend caused a lump to form in his throat, and he grated
through his teeth, "Who the hell is Travis?"
     
    Jazzie looked at him with a smug smile and
didn't say anything for a minute, evidently letting him stew,
before she told him, "Her brother and her manager...tonight her
babysitter"
     
    Wade huffed out a relieved breath then said,
"I want to meet my daughter," before he shut off the truck and got
out, going around to the back to carry Jess inside. Jazzie yelled
over the truck to him, that she'd be in room nine if he needed her,
and then walked off. He guessed she was going to give them some
privacy, and he was thankful. There would be enough drama in a
minute, without adding that spicy little woman to the mix.
     
    When he opened the door, Jess opened her
red-rimmed, sad green eyes and her lips wobbled again. "Shut off
the waterworks, sugar, you're gonna make yourself sick," he said
gently, then told her, "We're at the motel." He pulled her
shoulders until she was at the edge of the seat, then put his arms
under her and lifted her into his arms.
     
    "I can walk, just get my crutches," she said
brokenly.
     
    "You're not going to walk though, I'm
carrying you, so just shush and enjoy the ride," he told her with a
grin, trying to coax a smile out of her.
     
    She sighed then laid her head on his chest.
"Angel's probably sleeping, so be quiet."
     
    Wade kicked the door shut, then walked to
the motel door with the brass number eight hanging drunkenly on it,
then kicked it twice. He didn't care if he woke the baby or not,
because he planned on doing that anyway. A soft mewl, sounded
behind the door, then it turned into a lusty wail, and he heard a
man curse, then the door was flung open. Now that Wade knew the man
was Jess's brother, he could see the resemblance between them, and
his heart did a little dance of relief in his chest.
     
    "Lord, Jess, what the hell
happened?!? " he shouted when he saw the cast on her leg. He
stepped aside and Wade walked past him to gently lay her down on
one of the double beds, though he didn't want to when he saw the
nasty