"Well shit!" I heard her screams as I paced back and forth outside the closed bedroom door. Everyone else on the ranch was either outside in the yard or in my living room waiting for news, except my brother Kyle, my cousin Travis, and my friends Brand and Clay who were leaning against the wall across from the door watching me.I felt like an extra in a bad Western movie or some shit. If it were not bad enough that Dana Sue had gone into labor damn near in the middle of the night, she'd also have to choose a night when it was hotter than hell and I'd been out on one of my seek and destroy missions.It's sheer luck that I'd made it back in time to be here for her when she needs me, only now Doc Sommers and her old ass refused to let me into the room. Barred from my own fucking bedroom, ain't this a bitch.All the other women were in there holding her hand but me the husband and father had been relegated to pacing the hallway. Apparently I was making a nuisance of myself.Not sure wha
"Colton come on we've got to go, get a move on.""I thought that was next week!" She had me halfway out the door but I was still dragging ass."I'm very sorry oh mighty one, that Dana Sue and her baby decided to offset your schedule; had something more pressing to take care of did you?" The older she gets the more she loses her damn mind."You sure the kids are going to be okay?" She rolled her eyes at me and opened the door, like she was going to leave me if I didn't get the lead out. "They're fine, they have all their grandparents to look out for them; now come on it's not like this is the first time we're doing this."She had a point; and this is the reason I don't like this friend shit, when the fuck did I become 'that guy'? Kat and her shit. I've been in and out of Georgia more in the last year that I have in all my life put together. Each time a kid dropped she had to be there. Her ass should've taken midwife classes. Then again, nine kids, so."I don't see why I need to be
I looked at my watch for the tenth time in five minutes. Time seemed to be at a standstill just when I need that shit to move faster. She'd been in there for hours, her screams getting louder until she was hoarse."Come on brother, she's going to be fine. We did everything right." Kyle clapped me on the shoulder as the others nodded and put in their two cents. Clay and Brand ran through all the things we'd done to make the place ready for the babies and their safety on top of all the shit we've had to do to make sure our women were safe as well. It's true that the guys and I have had many a late night sit down about the changes we're gonna have to make around here when the babies come. I don't mind admitting that I've had a sleepless night or two over the idea of being a father, something I got used to the bigger she got.But right now I'm sweating for a whole other reason. Something that scares me more than all the other bullshit I've been dealing with after coming back home to cl
The door opened behind me and Kat walked in. "I'm sorry Dana Sue, that husband of mine.... Never mind, I'm here now." She all but pushed me out of the way until she realized I wasn't about to budge, so she took her pain in the ass self over to the other side of the bed."How is she doing doctor?" The doc gave her a rundown on what was going on. Something about centimeters, and what the fuck ever which she seemed to understand. I just kept my focus on my wife while they talked but I have to admit she seemed a lot more relaxed now that Kat was here.Ten minutes later the kid came screaming into the world and I didn't breathe until I heard the words 'it's a boy'. "Yes! Thank fuck… I mean, thank you baby you did good." The other three looked at me like they wanted to gut me.I felt like laughing and didn't know why and then I smothered my wife with kisses while my heart beat wildly in my chest. "Thank you baby." I wiped the tears from cheeks and kissed her one last time while behind me
They were mine to protect, to love, to shield, to shelter. It was a frightening and sobering thought and yet it filled me with such strength, a different kind of strength; an inhuman strength that made me feel like I could move mountains. They were both so perfect, my wife and child. An unexpected gift that I will never stop being grateful for. I held his little fingers on one of mine and smiled down at his questioning look. Already giving me shit, just like his mother."Hey buddy, sorry, didn't mean to disturb you." He went back to eating and wrapped his little fingers around mine and I felt that shit in my heart. "He has a nice strong grip look at that; he knows I'm his daddy."He should! She'd had me talking to him while she was carrying him because we'd read in one of the million books the women have floating around here that it was good for him. Apparently some asshole had decided that kids can hear even while in the womb, I still don't know how the fuck they figured that on
They walked through the door and I was surprised he'd let her out the house. She looked like she was ready to pop any second. She said her hellos and waddled her ass over to the coven, which were still going strong.It's strange how that works whenever we're together now. We no longer have to tell the women to stay out of our shit; they just find their own corner out of our way and leave us alone. Not that I trust that shit, I think Mancini's woman organized that shit.I'm pretty sure she'd taught them that it was easier to play along than to fight us. Speaking of which, "You hear from Mancini lately Lyon?" I love the way his hackles rise whenever I mention the spook as he calls him, or the SEALs."Fucker, he keeps sending my kid shit to experiment with, thinks that shit's funny because he doesn't have to deal with the fallout." He leaned forward in his chair, hands clasped as they hung down between his knees and all semblance of the carefree guy who'd just been sitting there was go
I stayed awake long into the night looking over my wife and child and turning shit over in my head. My deal was almost over, Junior was back in the area according to Intel and once I see to him and get rid of the asshole sheriff I can turn my complete focus on the assholes Colt was talking about. And then there was the senator; fuck, I'd forgotten all about him.Brand's woman was ready to get that shit going now that her kid was here so it was looking like we were going to be making that call in the next few weeks give or take. Not sure how that was gonna go down, but I have a pretty good feeling that the man in question is going to do the right thing. How he's going to react to finding out he had a kid after all these years, not to mention who her dear old grandpa is, is anyone's guess, but the Hayden St. John I know from his public persona strikes me as a very standup guy, he won't blame his daughter for that shit.The only problem I have with that whole situation is that him bei
I walked further into the yard and away from the main house, taking in the scenery for the first time in way too long. Those eyes of his stayed on me the whole time, steady, unblinking, questioning. "Your great-great-great grandfather built this place. When he first came here this was nothing but barren land for miles around, so he carved out a place for him and his young wife." "Years later your grandfather, my father, built it up to what you see today." I told my son about my childhood growing up here and the life I'd led with a loving mother and father, and the siblings that came after me. About his aunt that he'd never get the chance to meet.He looked at me as if following my every word, his little face so like mine I was still finding it hard to believe in the miracle that he was. I hoped and prayed in that moment that he wouldn't have the same legacy as I.That he wouldn't find himself one day hunting down the man who'd killed his old man. I wanted so much more for him. I
Hah, Colton Lyon thinks he's slick, but he forgot that I know him very well. I didn't spend the last eighteen years with him not to learn a thing or two. I knew when he sidled up to me this afternoon and sweet-talked me into throwing this impromptu barbecue that there was something more behind it.I didn't ask too many questions, though, because I was sure that whatever he was up to had to do with our friends, so I'd warned the girls to be on the lookout and just go with the flow.The sheriff showing up here was unexpected, though, but apparently, that was part of Colt's plan whatever it was. "Look!" I pointed out Law walking away with the baby after the little talk he'd just had with Colt and Creed."Whatever it is has been taken care of. Now we can breathe easy.""If you hadn't warned us in advance, I would've died of fright when your man came over and told me to take the baby to Law."Dana-Sue actually shivered as she looked in the direction of our men. I've told them a million
Mancini had called earlier with the news that it was taking him longer than expected to smoke Junior out. Kyle, Travis, Lyon, and Creed have been acting shifty-shady since this afternoon, and now this."Fuck!" How could I be this stupid? Mancini found the Fox in the desert a few thousand miles away, how is it that he can't find one spineless asshole stateside? Shit!"Lyon, what did you do?"He had his burger halfway to his mouth when I asked, and just then his phone rang. He didn't say anything more than hello before he smiled and hung up again."***LYON***That was perfect fucking timing. Now there's no question of the asshole sheriff coming at my boy for this shit. I'm pretty sure he won't be heading back this way anytime soon since his hands were about to be full. The only thing left to do now was tell Law and get the hell back home.I walked over to Creed, who looked like he was holding his very pregnant wife up while she chowed down on some grub. "Creed, a minute." He
I'm not trusting this shit, one fuck! I looked around at the BBQ pits that were already smoking and the men and women who stood around my yard. I'm not sure even Dana-Sue, who was the one to come to me with the idea for the impromptu get together, knew what was really going on.After I'd caught Lyon and the others with their heads together this afternoon, I've been on high alert, but they weren't giving away anything, even Kyle, who I could usually threaten into telling me the truth.That boy had grown up way too fast in the last year or so, something I regret but understand. He's my little brother, the only one of my blood left after the massacre, but he's still a man. Now he has our cousin here to back his plays I can't keep a leash on either of their asses.I didn't suspect anything right away when Dana-Sue came to me with the idea, but as time went by, I started to get that feeling. Lyon's sneaky ass is up to something. I'm not sure what, though, since he'd turned my place into
"Travis pullout!""No fucking dice." I rocked my cock into her harder and grinned at the fury on her little face. All these years later, her pussy's still tight as fuck. "I think it's time we give the kids a sib."She tried pushing me off her with her hands on my chest and out of her snatch with her tight pussy muscles. A hand wrapped tight around her throat soon put a stop to that shit. I leaned in close and licked her lips before drawing her tongue out with mine.She wrapped her legs around my hips and pushed her pussy harder along my cock, no longer interested in me pulling out. I knew that would do it, little freak. I fucked her like it was the first time, hard and deep with a finger-tickling her puckered ass hole as my cock drilled into her and my tongue playing hide and go seek in her mouth.Our youngest just turned five, three boys and one little princess who's all her mother, and I'm already missing the sound of little feet running around the house. "Give me another child."
I've already fielded calls from Lyon and Creed, both wanting the heads up once I get a bead on him. I'm pretty sure Law doesn't know what the two of them are up to, and I'm not getting in the middle of their shit. I've suffered more headaches since getting tangled up with those boys than at any other time in my life. Especially Colton Lyon, this fucking guy. I'd have thought with my aversion to authority that I'd be butting heads with the SEALs and maybe even Creed since they've all done time in the military.But funnily enough I get along just fine with them; it's Lyon, the only other one of us who didn't see any action that gives me the most grief. I'm convinced the generals in the army have nothing on his ass. At least he's just as opposed to anything in authority as I am.As my mind played over this latest debacle of theirs, my hand found its way to the hard mound of my wife's tummy where my kid laid. I still get a kick out of the way my life has changed in a little more than a
She wrapped her arms around me and sniffed my shirt before rubbing her nose across my chest. It's one of those weird things she does that makes no sense but gives me the warm and fuzzies all the same. And just that easily, I put everything else away and just enjoyed the feel of having my woman in my arms.With nine kids underfoot, these moments have become too fucking scarce. I realized then that it had been a long time since we'd had a moment to ourselves, not since the trips were born, in fact.With all the shit that's been going on, I'd dropped the ball. Have to get back to spending time with my girl; fuck everything else. I didn't bother calling her out on her shit, what's the point? She's following in her mother in law's footsteps complete with her own hen pack. As long as she's happy, we're good. I have ways of keeping her ass from going too far, but damn she's a sneaky one.I had no idea she was involved in this shit, but from what Mancini said earlier, it seems like all th
My house didn't look much different than when I left it hours earlier. The women were still gathered in the living room, but someone had been to the kitchen because lunch was on the table. There was no sign of the sheep, so I'm guessing the wives had taken care of it."Is he asleep?" She still had the baby bundled up in her arms like it was the middle of winter. "I just fed him, but this boy doesn't like sleep it seems like. He's been staring wide-eyed at everyone and everything for the last half an hour."Probably for self-preservation, poor kid. I reached for him, and she grudgingly gave him up after fussing at me about how to hold his head the right way. He looked up at me with my eyes, and my heart melted. Fuck me; I'm so done!Is this how my dad felt the first time he held me in his arms? Did his whole world shift too. Did he think of all the things he had to do to make my life better? How could something this small pack such a punch? I knew without having to be told that my li
If there were a way to do it without eyes falling on me and my people, I'd be the first one to say let's go for it. But since getting married, and now with the kid, I can no longer take those kinda chances. It's not like before when I had only myself to think about.Speaking of my son, every once in awhile, I had to shake my head to clear it because my mind kept going to him; I miss him already. He's brought a new kind of excitement to my life. It's because of him and his mother that I'm trying to tread more carefully now to make the right move at the right time.If I fuck up, it's not just me that will suffer, but those two as well. That's not something I can live with, no matter how much of a bitch Colt calls me for it. This fucking guy, he has more guts than ten men. "Colt, I told you before, we can't hit them both at the same time it'll raise too many eyebrows. Everyone knows I blame the sheriff for not arresting Royce for the murders. If both he and Junior come up missing at t
We'd gotten rid of one thorn in our side with the Fox, but there was still a lot of shit on all our plates. The SEALs were still hunting down the men who'd killed their CO, I still had Junior and the sheriff to deal with, and Lyon had his new shit. Creed is the only one whose shit was pretty much done. "So let's put this shit together, what're we looking at?" Lyon prowled around the room in that way of his, like a panther about to strike. "These boys were just telling me about your little bird that got away again. You sent the asshole bigot packing but we all know he's probably back in those hills starting his fuckery again. What else?""The sheriff, gotta get rid of his ass somehow. Once I take care of those three things I'm pretty much in the clear, but we can't have any loose ends if we're going to invite the senator here.""Have you ever thought of going to him?""Thought of that Creed, but that would mean Brand and his woman going it alone, not gonna happen." We'd played aro