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“Who are you calling?” Millie asked.
Blink ignored her. “Yes, I’d like to report an altercation at the Bayview Apartment Complex.”
“You called the cops? Pansy-ass loser!” Gen said.
“Two women, Millie and Genevieve Hitson, are harassing my girlfriend. Threatening her. Yes…we need assistance immediately. All right.”
“You asshole!” Gen shouted.
“Figures a bitch like her would be with someone like you. You’re going to regret messing with me!” Millie told Josie, looking her dead in the eyes.
“Millie,” Josie said softly, a worried look on her face, obviously still hoping to smooth things over with her ex’s family.
But Blink was done. That was a clear threat. “No one’s messing with you,” Blink said as calmly as he could, aware the 9-1-1 dispatcher was listening. “You were the ones who came here to yell at Josie. All we’re doing is trying to pack her things and get out of here.”
“Running away like the scared little nobody you are,” Millie sneered. “No backbone. You were never good enoughfor my Ayden. He feltsorryfor you—no friends, no real career, pathetic orphan.”
Blink stepped toward the women and this time didn’t stop until he was towering over them both. “Step back,” he growled.
“Make me,” Millie countered, lifting her hands and shoving Blink. Hard.
He didn’t move an inch, which seemed to frustrate the older woman. She shoved him again, but he merely shifted his body weight to absorb the impact.
“Freak,” Gen muttered under her breath.
Thankfully, the sound of sirens wailed close by.
“Don’t come near her again. Stop sending her emails. Your son is gone. I’m sorry for that, but it wasn’t Josie’s fault. You need to move on with your life and let Josie do the same.”
“Not a chance in hell,” Millie hissed. “She destroyed my son, and I’m going to do whatever it fucking takes to destroyher!”
A police car pulled into the lot and two officers quickly got out and walked up the sidewalk, to where Blink was blocking the entrance to the apartment.
“Step back, ladies,” one said.
To Blink’s relief, they did as ordered.
“We weren’t doing nothin’,” Gen whined. “Theystarted it. That guy, the big one, he was threatening us!”
“That’s not what the dispatcher says,” the first officer retorted.
“This is public property,” Millie said defiantly. “We aren’t breaking any laws.”
“She put her hands on him,” someone in the growing crowd said.
“Yeah, I have it all on video,” another said.
“Do you want to press charges?” one of the officers asked Blink.
He opened his mouth to say yes, he most definitely did, but Josie put her hand on the small of his back and leaned around him.
“No. We just want to finish loading my stuff and leave,” Josie said.
Blink sighed. He’d do whatever Josie wanted—but that didn’t mean he’d leave her vulnerable. “Wedowant to file an order of protection against them.”
“I’ll get your information so we can send you a copy of the incident report from today, which you’ll need to file. You can download the application for protection online.”
Blink nodded.
