"Are you sure about this?""Hank, nobody stays in hospital for a week after giving birth these days. Even the Duchess of Cambridge only spent seven hours after having her last child." "I give a... I don't care what she did and her husband could be a halfwit for all I know. Are you well enough to leave the hospital?""Yes sir. The baby and I both have clearance.""Smart ass!" I wasn't too jazzed about us staying in a strange place either but if she needed it it's what we'll do. I'd stayed up the whole night working while she and little Tatiana slept. I held my kid most of the night against the express wishes of the nurses but who cares. They seem to think I'm setting a bad precedent, the kids' barely a few hours old. "Okay then, whenever you're ready." She was dressed and ready to go since the sun came up but I wasn't budging until the doctor said it was okay. I'd made doctor Stein stay back before leaving for New York because she's the only one I trust. I
"That's no mere businessman and that's no ordinary housewife." We looked out the window at the two people who'd just stepped out of the chauffeur driven car that just pulled into the driveway."How do you know?""Body language Kat.""You're imagining things Colton." "The fuck I am. He's cased one side of the street and she's taking the other. And he's strapped he's carrying. "How can you tell? She was trying to see over my shoulder and still keep the curtains still. "There's a gun in the small of his back.""Get real. Who would bring a gun to a meeting about their daughter?""The fuck, they're coming to meet Mengele, I'd load up to." After this Flanagan guy called I had to think fast since he said he was almost here. She still doesn't know what's going on with Mengele and the computer and she's not about to learn. Thinking fast on my feet I told her that the principal had mentioned this gifted school bullshit and that these people's kid was gonn
"So, is it always like this? They disappear up the stairs and leave you ladies down here?" They all looked around at each other."Isn't it that way at your house?" One of the women Mrs. Lyon had just introduced me to spoke up. I wasn't ready to remember their names because I wasn't sure how this thing was gonna go yet. "Nope, they can try." I'd already ascertained that the house was clear for lack of a better word. There were more live bodies here than the freaking MET but I didn't sense that mob boy and I were in any danger. Add the fact that the Mallory boys were here and that brings it down to a danger level of point zero-zero five. But that Lyon guy is...something. I know kill lights when I see them. "Oh dear I'm so sorry, I didn't notice that you were wearing an aid, are we being too loud.""Oh no you're fine." I fiddled with my 'hearing aid' and heard the men's voice come through loud and clear. Good, now I can listen to Shane in one ear and these chicks in th
"Did you have fun with your new friends?" We were in the car on the way back. I'd been there much longer than I expected and was still processing shit."How much did you hear?""Enough, so there's a human trafficking ring and some kinda offshoot in this neighborhood?" "Seems like, and our kid's the one who found them more or less.""What's with the drone?""Lyon's kid apparently took her brother's drone which he had no idea had been doctored and went hunting." "Good girl! So our Lily's starting early.""Mouth, none of your shit. I already let you teach her how to shoot that damn thing you call a toy. Leave my kid alone.""You heard what the teacher said; we should encourage her. By the way, those women, hello. Okay, so the ones that have only been married for a year or so I understand, but Kat? Almost twenty years in and she still doesn't know how to play the game." When she started tying up her hair I knew where her mind was going. Meddling fuck!
After that long day spent closed off in the office it was time to take a break. I had about an hour before I needed to go pick her up from school and I still hadn't gone by the house yet to see what all the cleaners had done. I hadn't talked much, but I'd listened plenty and taken mental notes. They were doing this for Caitlin in a roundabout way so of course I was front and center. Once everyone left and it was just the usual crew, which meant the SEALs, Law, Creed and Jared, I told Mancini that the house was ready and he could go ahead and call Jace and the others in if he wanted to. "We have to do some stuff over there first before you move in.""Huh? What stuff?""I don't let my people live in unsecured houses kid. Lyon, you guys got anything else doing the rest of the day? I might need a hand." "What you need?""We need to secure his place before he moves in there. I've got everything in the car but the more hands we have the faster it'll go. I don't
We had a blast. I didn't know shopping with grown men could be so much fun, oh crap, they were like little boys, touching everything, commenting on everything, it was nuts. If the women were there they would've probably been scolding them every few seconds, especially Tyler who was always messing with something, unreal. They did get serious when it came time to pick out the tux though. "Caitie wants me to get the color that matches her dress." I waved my hand up and down from my neck to my waist. I knew he remembered every detail of that dress when he chose the perfect color tie and cummerbund. Damn, what a father. *** That night her mom insisted that I stay for dinner. "In fact you should have dinner here with us every evening. Your poor mother must be worried to death that you'd starve." I waited for her husband to nix that idea but he didn't say a thing. After dinner Caitlin and I didn't ask, but told her parents we were heading out for some ice crea
I thought my heart would burst when I touched her for the first time. It was knocking against my chest so hard I swear she could hear it, and was surprised when she couldn't. And the sounds she made as my fingers glided across her flesh, I didn't know they would make me forget my well-earned discipline and want to take too soon. I ran my fingers through her wet slit for the first time from slit to clit and felt her flower open up to let me in. Emotions overwhelmed me and there were tears in my eyes and my hand shook when I slipped my finger inside her for the first time. She tensed up and I held still letting her get use to having me there. "Look at me!" Her fever bright eyes looked into mine, her cheeks red in the fading twilight. "Can you feel my finger inside you?" She bit into her lip and nodded. "No don't close your eyes, there's nothing to be ashamed of here. It's just you and me, and love." "I'm going to spend the next few days giving you my finger so get
I heard the noise seconds before she asked. I'd already seen where Mancini and the guys had added the security to the house, had found all the eyes and ears, but stupidly hadn't turned them on before jumping into bed. It's because I'm not accustomed to doing it here. That, and the fact that she had me so worked up I could hardly function. I saw the shadow at about the same time I heard the noise but my only thought was to protect her from seeing what was about to happen. The shot rang out and I heard her scream seconds before I knocked the Mac book to the floor. I rolled off the other side of the bed and crawled. The room was in darkness but there was light coming in through the window. "I told you I'd get you asshole, come outta there." I used his voice to decipher where he was in the room. I only had one chance at this since I didn't have a gun on me. As his footsteps got closer I got ready to spring into action. "I saw you and that bitch driving down to the p