The next day her bloodsucking accomplices descended on my house with their bullshit. Elena was the first to arrive early in the morning laden down with parcels and chirpy. Only one thing I know can make you that damn happy first thing in the morning. Either that or she probably got into Daniel's stash again."Elena, why are you here?""We have to get things ready for the party tonight son, oh my word what is that?" She made a beeline for the gingerbread house."Your husband brought that here yesterday.""That rat, I knew he would pull something like this." She folded her fists on her hips with a scowl."Look I don't know what you two nut jobs are up to don't want to know and leave my kid out of it.""Stay out of it son, this is grandma's business, serious business, where're my girls?""Kat's getting the baby dressed, you want some coffee mom?""Nope, had plenty before I left the house with your father the snake." She eyeballed the gingerbread house once more before hightailing
The rest of the day was chaotic with people in and out all day with the party bullshit. Char's words bothered me because let's face it, when you're suspicious of someone everything about them comes under scrutiny. She wasn't invited tonight so I could rest easy there but I needed to know what the fuck was in that room. Elena had given her a TV and an old laptop for company so she wouldn't go stir crazy. I wondered if that's what she was hiding, those shits can be very dangerous.***"Kat where's the baby?""She's on the bed Colt." She was busy putting earrings in her ears as she stood in front of the mirror."The fuck's she doing there? I almost had a heart attack when she wasn't in her crib.""She can sit up now Colt and she likes to watch her mommy getting dressed. Don't you Caitie bear?" She dropped down on the bed and tickled the baby who was busy chewing the shit out of one of my tee shirts."There're people in and out of here all night I don't want her alone.""Colt, she
"Babe, I have to make a run I'll be a few hours tops you good?""Yes we're good aren't we Caitie bear?" She waved the baby's arm at me."Tomorrow's her first Xmas, I can't believe it." She's so cute both my girls are."Come here." I kissed both my babies before leaving the house. I had to go pick up their last minute gifts and go by the shop and make sure everything was cool there since the place was going to be closed for two weeks until after the New Year. I didn't let thoughts of our unwanted guest take over today, like my wife said, it's Xmas, my little girl's first, and I want it to be damn near prefect. After tomorrow though I'm going after her ass hard. I still haven't been able to find anything on her, which was starting to burn my ass. "Put it away for now Colt just concentrate on your girls." My girls, it brings a smile to my face just thinking about them; I hope the gifts I'd picked out for them were enough. This is the sort of shit I worry about now fuck me.I p
"Kat whatwhere are you?" My heart was fucking stuck in my throat I know her voice I know when she's afraid."I'm on old country road please hurry."I grabbed my keys and ran from the shop with the guys calling after me. I heard the rev of engines behind me, which told me the guys were following. I guess they know me too."Stay with me baby I'm coming where's the baby?""She's here hurry please hurry I'm scared.""I'm coming baby I'm coming." "What happened?" "I got run off the road."I was almost afraid to ask what sort of shape they were in."Is my kid okay?" That's when I heard the baby screaming in the background. I kept her talking as I raced to find them every bad scenario I could imagine running through my head. "She's fine just a little scared are you almost here?""Yeah baby I see you." I also saw the police lights and other cars stopped on the side of the road. Her jeep was down on the embankment but Kat was sitting on the grass with the baby clutched tightly
"Colt, did you put a tracking device under Kat's jeep?""No, why?" All her trackers were inside hidden in the dashboard.He opened his hand to show me the tracker in the evidence bag."Son of a bitch." This wasn't my brand someone had placed a tracker on my fucking wife. It wasn't too much of a stretch to figure out who and when."That bitch did this, the day of the accident, that's why she needed to get under Kat's car.""But why there? Why didn't she do it while Kat was out shopping or something? That was a bit risky and the question still remains if you're right why?""Fuck if I know but I'm going to find out.""Colt I don't think that's a good idea, stay with the girls I'll handle it.""No way, my family my deal.""Son, I've pretty much kept my nose out of things but you can't handle everything this way. If this person has done this then we'll figure it out, we might have her prints on this, since we've retrieved them in the process of a crime I can get it taken care of fa
I heard what he was saying but there was no way I was leaving my family's care and protection to someone else. That's not what a man does. No one is going to fuck with what's mine and get away with it."You know I can't do that, I appreciate the offer but I have to handle this shit. She ran my wife and kid off the fucking road.""Okay tell me what you plan on doing. How are you going to take care of it?""I think it's best you don't know anything about that.""See, I can't let you do that son. We have to handle this legally. You can't go off half cocked like some vigilante and take matters into your own hands. I told you to give me some time and we'll get on it. If we go after her now without all the facts we could screw everything up.""We're looking at this thing from two different angles, you're talking about the law and doing shit the right way. I'm talking about this bitch coming here and fucking with my family, fuck the law she brought this shit to my front door there's no f
In the end we went with something simple. I had the super knock on the door and tell her there was a gas leak in the building and she had to leave. Of course we had to tell the other tenants the same thing to make it look legit but what the fuck. Most of them weren't home anyway; most normal human beings were out getting ready for the holiday. According to the guys who were on her she headed for the mall. I decided to go in alone; the place wasn't that big anyway. I could toss it in an hour tops. I went in and headed straight for the bedroom. Everything was neat and nothing looked suspicious, the computer was sitting on the bed and left on. There was nothing there but some shopping site. She had a cup sitting next to the bed and her clothes were folded neatly on a chair. I opened the closet door and that's where I got my first break, she had three different wigs in there in different shades. Red, black and some crazy looking shit with spikes and colors. What the fuck did she ne
I tried peaking around the corner without being detected but the way the room was built I couldn't see right in. I was going to have to be careful on my next move because I'll probably have only one shot at this. My mind was processing shit like a machine. The only reason Kat would let her get the drop on her was if she had a weapon so whatever I did I was going to have to make it count."Please just let me put her there on the couch she's scared can't you see she's scared? She's just a little baby she has nothing to do with this.""You know what you might be right, it might be fun raising your brat while you rot. Think about me torturing the little bitch every day of her life. Of course that luscious husband of yours and I will have more kids. I think I'll send the stupid little brat to boarding school.""Why are you doing this? You'll never get away with it think about it. Colt knows all about Taylor and what he did""Lies, all lies, my boyfriend would never have touched you an
"Uncle Hank, can you get me some castor beans?" This kid, she keeps you on your toes; always up to something. Add the fact that she's her dad's carbon copy and well - "Who are you planning to poison little girl?""Who-what? No one, what do you mean? I have to go mommy's calling me. Coming mommy." The little sneak hung up as I grinned.I hung up on my end and called her dad. "Lyon, what did you do to piss off your daughter lately?""Which one? The damn place is crawling with them.""My girl.""Mengele? Nothing why, what did she say?""Well, she's trying to get her hands on castor beans and knowing your kid as I have come to, there can be only one reason for that.""Fuck me, Catalina, get in here." The panic in his voice cracked me the hell up."I'll go and let you take care of that little issue. Call me if she drops any bodies and you need help with clean up. Then again you're pretty good at that shit yourself.""Fuck you, I have to go deal with Hitler's youth catch you later." I hung
They were all set to come to my place because Elena had invited all the women to the surprise shower. Cierra Mancini was in the field and would be coming later than the others.On the way here in differing stages, they got the call that Catalina had been taken and rescued and that Kat had gone into labor.Mancini who wasn't supposed to be here for another day at least had flown out after talking to Jared who'd told him that we had the asshole in our warehouse."I knew that you would kill him and I couldn't let that happen. The cops would've had no choice but to look at you and I can imagine in that position you wouldn't have been thinking straight. We thought it best that one of us take it from there.""We? Who is we?" I looked around at all the men gathered in my backyard."All of us!" Logan answered for all of them, which is pretty much what I suspected.Mancini had made the decision to take point on this one and the others rallied around my family and I while he did his thing. No on
"Uncle Hank, can you get me some castor beans?" This kid, she keeps you on your toes; always up to something. Add the fact that she's her dad's carbon copy and well"Who are you planning to poison little girl?""Who-what? No one, what do you mean? I have to go mommy's calling me. Coming mommy." The little sneak hung up as I grinned.I hung up on my end and called her dad. "Lyon, what did you do to piss off your daughter lately?""Which one? The damn place is crawling with them.""My girl.""Mengele? Nothing why, what did she say?""Well, she's trying to get her hands on castor beans and knowing your kid as I have come to, there can be only one reason for that.""Fuck me, Catalina, get in here." The panic in his voice cracked me the hell up."I'll go and let you take care of that little issue. Call me if she drops any bodies and you need help with clean up. Then again you're pretty good at that shit yourself.""Fuck you, I have to go deal with Hitler's youth catch you later."
They were all set to come to my place because Elena had invited all the women to the surprise shower. Cierra Mancini was in the field and would be coming later than the others.On the way here in differing stages, they got the call that Catalina had been taken and rescued and that Kat had gone into labor.Mancini who wasn't supposed to be here for another day at least had flown out after talking to Jared who'd told him that we had the asshole in our warehouse."I knew that you would kill him and I couldn't let that happen. The cops would've had no choice but to look at you and I can imagine in that position you wouldn't have been thinking straight. We thought it best that one of us take it from there.""We? Who is we?" I looked around at all the men gathered in my backyard."All of us!" Logan answered for all of them, which is pretty much what I suspected.Mancini had made the decision to take point on this one and the others rallied around my family and I while he did his thing.
I woke up the next morning fully rested. My wife was still out so I went to check on my daughters. Catalina was ready for release or so they said, but I checked her over myself.She was her usual pain in the ass self and tried to con me out of some shit so I knew she was okay. I was feeling better until I walked back into Kat's room where she was just waking up and overheard the nurse telling her about her release later that day."Are you out your fucking mind? She just pushed three human beings outta her body. The fuck you mean she can leave in a few hours?""Sir, it's hospital policy""I give a fuck" I stopped myself there because I know she wasn't the one making the rules and it wouldn't be fair to rip into her."Hold him, I just changed him and fed him." I passed Kat the baby. "You can leave now." I sent the nurse from the room before leaving myself. "Colton what're you going to do?""Don't worry about it."I left and headed to the nurse's station. "I need you to make a note
I spent the next seven hours running between the two rooms because Kat wouldn't calm down unless I went to check on our daughter and I was seeing that shit played out on the monitor they had her hooked up to.Every time she panicked her pain level went up, something I was in no way equipped to handle. The whole fucking hospital staff knew how I felt about it because I told them at the top of my lungs.Law called me while I was making my way back to Kat for the tenth time. "What's up buddy? I can't really talk right now I have a situation here.""I know, your boy called us when we were on the road.""We should be there in about an hour but the girls are worried.""You're headed here?""Yes, the shower was this weekend remember? The SEALs are already in flight.""Shit I forgot, I guess I'll see you when you get here. I'll have my mom and mother in law set you guys up.""How're your girls Colt? He didn't""No, I got to her in time. She's sleeping it off right now but Kat's the on
"Colton something's wrong, Catalina didn't get off the bus.""What the fuck are you saying? Where are the others?""Everyone else is here except her.""And they didn't notice that she wasn't on the bus?""They did but the driver refused to stop the bus."I'd already pulled my little gadget. "I'm on it Kat no worrying." I hung up and called for my guys as I headed for my bike.My heart started beating right again when I saw the little red dot that showed me where she was."Someone grabbed my kid let's go." They mounted up and we headed out.There were no other thoughts in my head, only getting to her and dealing with whomever the fuck had taken her. I knew it wasn't anyone we knew, because no one would take one of my kids without me, or their mother knowing.Just who it could be was making me sick in the gut. I clenched my hands around the handlebars and willed myself to breathe. The warmth of my blood turned ice cold. This fuck is dead!I heard my guys talking to me in my hea
I rode up and around them and headed back the way I came with them following close behind. We didn't need to talk; we all knew where we were headed. I got there before they did and opened the security gate.I turned on only the bare bulb overhead light leaving the rest of the room in shadows. I kicked a chair into the middle of the room and waited.They dragged him in kicking and screaming. "Who are you?" He focused on me before I throat chucked his ass and pushed him down on the chair.I opened my little bag of treats and shoved two leaves in his mouth. Mengele wasn't lying that shit worked fast. It started out slow, maybe taking thirty minutes before the first sign of distress."What is that, what did you give me?" He eyed the bag in my hand and asked after I stopped holding his mouth together. "Where's the kid? You tell me that and I'll let you live, you don't, you die."He put up a good fight that dragged on for damn near three hours. That's when the fun really started. He los
I could hardly sleep that night my mind wouldn't let me rest. And maybe that's what saved me from my wife's wrath the next morning.Instead of reaming my ass for leaving her high and dry over the breakfast table, she picked up on the fact that something was bothering me.She reached over and squeezed my hand but instead of giving word to her thoughts just gave me a questioning look.I shook my head and indicated the kids who were trying to out talk each other. "Caitlin put it away." Her hand disappeared lightning fast beneath the table."I was just saying good morning daddy." She's trying to get this kid killed. I seriously tried to find justification for five solid seconds but the little shit hadn't done anything worthy of a gutting. Other than robbing me of my daughter."Not at the table." She's so much her mother's kid she left her chair and came around the table to wrap her arms around my neck. "I'm finished with my breakfast so can I be excused from the table?""Sure, go a