"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

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

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

"He's the wrong one asshole.""This ain't got nothing to do with you Lyon.""If it concerns him it concerns me, now walk the fuck over there and check on your boy.""Didn't you already do enough to him? He spent days in the hospital already." "If he'd kept his ass away from my kid none of this would be happening." We were so distracted by him that no one noticed Brian wasn't moving. "What did you do to him? Get the ambulance you idiots; what're you cops good for? Just standing around." "Did she kill 'im?" Creed asked as we all looked at the cop that was trying to revive him. Caitie didn't look too bothered. "No, but it'll be a long time before he messes with anyone else again. Cerebral cortex." Her father high fived her and pulled her in for a hug. My champ wasn't crying anymore. She looked like she was ready for blood."Go grab your bags kid, you're coming home with us." I didn't argue with her dad. Not because I was afraid or anything, but I knew she'

Yeah, somewhere right now, there's a young girl or woman in these people's hands. It burnt my ass that I could do nothing but sit and wait, but I'd learned a long time ago that sometimes waiting, biding your time and doing shit right, garners better results. "You two head up to the office we've got work to do. I'll go tuck my kid in and be right there. Mancini you know where you're going I presume.""Yes, I won't be long." He went to kiss his wife and kid I guess before heading back downstairs and out the door. I left Law and Creed going one way once we reached upstairs and headed in the opposite direction to my room. The way the place is built, there's a curve in the hallway so you can't see the office from the master suite and the guest bedrooms are separated from the family space by a long hallway around another curve, all flanked by windows. The hallway was dark, something I didn't think of when I sent my kid up here to her mother. I wasn't watching where