Free Midnight Call (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Keyonna Davis

Porello is. For your sake, I hope you are able to snatch the kid and not get caught because there is nothing I can do to help you if you are. Don’t think you will be safe if you get arrested either. That will be the least of your worries because you would never make it to trial. The man has people locked up that are still loyal to him. He can reach you even there.” Stanley pulled the car to the curb.
    Robert waited for Officer Stanley to get out and open his door. “Thank you for helping me. Just get the buyer lined up, and I will contact you as soon as I have the kid.”
    Stanley grunted and got back in his car. Before he pulled off, he rolled the window down. “I will help you this one time but, if you ever do something this stupid again, don’t bother calling me for help.” With that, Officer Stanley pulled away from the curb and drove off.
    Robert looked around and frowned. The bastard had dropped him off in the middle of nowhere. The one good thing was that he didn’t have the feeling he was being watched. He had lost his trackers for now. With Stanley working on finding a buyer, that left Robert with the task of finding a way to kidnap his own kid. He laughed at the thought as he pulled the piece of paper with Sarah’s brother’s address from his pocket. He would pay a visit to the area and stake it out. If he were lucky, he would see Sarah’s brother and the baby. At least that way he would know what baby to steal. It wouldn’t do for me to steal the wrong kid , he thought as he made his way down the street.
     
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    Nadia had just about figured out how to buckle the straps on Addison’s car seat when Steve walked in the room. It had taken her nearly an hour to get the baby dressed and ready and her diaper bag packed with everything she might need for their trip to the park. She felt stupid when she tried to zip the diaper bag and couldn’t. She realized then she had packed ten outfits, thirty diapers, and a gallon-size bottle of baby wash. She had no idea why she felt she needed the wash, but at least Addison would have been the cleanest baby in town. All this prep for an hour trip to the park. Nadia didn’t know how parents did it.
    After downsizing to only the essentials, the bag zipped shut easily, and Nadia moved on to the stroller. At first she tried to lay Addison in the seat, but then she realized the baby was too small and she could easily slip through one of the leg holes. She tried stuffing blankets around the baby like a protective cocoon, but that didn’t work either because the baby couldn’t sit up on her own. She kept ending up slumped over to the side. Nadia was about to give up and stay home when she remembered the day she’d met the guys for the first time at the park and Steve had Addison in the stroller. She closed her eyes and pictured that day and realized that Steve had Addison in her car seat sitting on top of the stroller. That was how she’d ended up twenty minutes later sitting on the living room floor in front of the car seat trying to force the thing to buckle.
    “Nadia, what are you doing?” Steve asked.
    Nadia could hear the amusement in his voice and wondered how long he had been standing there. “I thought I would take Addison for a walk to the park for some fresh air. I didn’t know I was going to have to become a rocket scientist over night to figure this stuff out.”
    Steve laughed and reached for the car seat. “Don’t worry. It took us a while to figure it out the first time, too. After you do it once, it becomes a piece of cake.”
    Nadia watched as Steve buckled the straps in a few quick moves then lifted the seat and snapped it to the top of the stroller. “Damn. You mean to tell me that was all it took? Do you know how long I have been in here trying to make that thing work? Why would anyone want to make something so complicated?”
    “I always said it was good to learn one new thing a day. Look on the bright side. You just learned yours