I found the pothead in the basement in a haze of smoke. All I could do was shake my head, because there was really no point in saying, or doing anything. "Your wife's looking for you.""Oh hey Colt, I was just taking a little breather, you know how your mother gets around this time of year." He rolled his eyes and put out the little end of nothing he had in his hand."Yeah, what I'm trying to figure out is why she's doing that shit here instead of at your house." "Son, get real. You kids are all grown and gone, there's no one there in that big old house but your mother and I. She needs more than that for her holiday fix; besides, do you think I'm stupid? I know she'd run my ass into the ground with her shit, all it takes is a little bug in her ear to get her on the right track and there you have it.""What the fuck? Are you saying you're the one who thought this shit up?""Boy, weed is not for running around and shit, I do enough of that at the hospital. A man smokes the good stu
I think they got to her first because she was nowhere to be found, but I wasn't about to go anywhere near Kat and her mother in law right now to see if she was with them. I helped the boys tinker around with their bikes some, and kept an eye on my Caitie Bear and the mini douche, before Jared headed for home, leaving me in Lyon hell.Pretty soon, it was time for the others to clear out and I still didn't know what the fuck Kat, her mom and Elena had spent the last two hours in a huddle about. I said goodnight to my older kids and grabbed the baby who was acting like he had the eleven to seven shift somewhere.The sneak came into the room not long after but was giving me a wide berth. Her ass was still upset, tough, that's what the fuck she gets for plotting against her husband with the enemy. I decided to fuck with her just because I could."Come here Kat." I shifted the baby to one arm and held the other out to her as I reclined on the bed. My son was a fucking drool machine, my wh
I'd forgotten that it was way past bedtime and my kid was asleep. She looked so innocent, like my little girl. Why couldn't anyone else see it? When I look at her, especially at times like this when she's not looking back at me with one of her mother's patented looks, all I see is the little angel I brought home from the hospital.She'd been that little girl for so long, even as she grew and times changed, she'd still been my Caitie Bear. But all that had changed almost a year ago when she met that boy. Now I'm lucky if I see the shadow of that kid. It seems I spent as much time watching her sleep now, as I did her first two years of life. It's about the only time I have with her these days. That's not exactly true but fuck it's beginning to feel like it. She is so much of my heart, the first from my body. Mine and Kat's first creation, and she will always hold that special place in my heart. I thought for sure that I would have more time with her before I had to deal with this bu
" Colton, you need to go talk to Caitlin." She was trying to sidetrack me. I've been laid up for a couple days with a bum knee and her little pussy hasn't caught a break once. "What do I need to talk to her about? What's wrong with her now?" Fucking teenagers and hormones and shit; there's always some fuckery going on around here. She was busy folding sheets and looking ripe in short shorts and a tight tank. My dick was looking for round three. I had no interest in talking to anyone right now."Her little friend is moving away.""Which one?" Kid's got a ton of 'em she could stand to lose a few. I can't step foot in my place without somebody else's brat running in and out my damn house. "Todd."I got the biggest fucking grin on my face. "COLTON! It's not funny.""What, you want me to be sad that he won't be around to get his grubby little hands on my little princess?" After the whole holiday dinner debacle, I'd had a strict talking to with my little girl. She'd given me the cold
"Hey princess how're you doing?" Damn she looks so sad."I'm fine daddy.""You sure, anything you need to talk about?" She shrugged her shoulders and picked at her nail. Shit, just like her mother, talking to her is like pulling teeth."Okay then if you're sure you're okay." I turned to make my escape but I should've known better dealing with Kat number two."Daddy." Shit she was tearing up.I'm gonna kill that little fuck for making my princess cry. "What is it baby? What's wrong?" I walked over and sat on the bed next to her, wrapping my arm around her. She put her head on my shoulder and her hand on my chest. Still daddy's little girl. Why couldn't she stay little and sweet for at least the next thirty years? Why did she need to go getting mixed up with boys and shit?"He's leaving daddy, he's moving away and I'm just going to die if I don't see him again. You have to do something daddy please."What the fuck? What the fuck has this kid been doing with my kid? If I find out
"Catalina what're you doing?""Oh nothing." I found her puttering away in the corner of my workshop in the basement. The same space she'd conned me out of a few weeks ago when she was spilling state secrets. I'd been sidetracked by a phone call on my way to search her out half an hour ago and all but forgotten. "Why does your 'oh nothing' smell like sulfur?""It's nothing daddy, just a little experiment.""Uh huh." I'm finding a convent for her ass first thing."Guess what daddy?" Oh fuck."What baby?" I wasn't getting anywhere near whatever the fuck that was she was doing. I was already biding my time to make my escape. Maybe her mom knew what the hell she was up to in my basement."Aiden pulled my hair and called me a brat.""He what?" I was headed back up the stairs for his lil ass. He knows the rules; never put your hands on your sisters."Oh daddy don't get mad, get even. That's what nana said.""Which one?" I stopped in my tracks, that shit don't sound too good."Nana E
I needed to go. My boy Law had just called and said I needed to get to his place and from the sounds of it the shit was serious. "Catalina's little friend is coming over to work on a school project together isn't that cute?"It was the 'isn't that cute' that tipped me off. "What little friend?" Her cocky grin told me I was not going to like what came next and I was right."You know, one of her many boyfriends, she told me this one might be serious so she invited him over to work on their science project together." I glared at her for half a second before stalking her across the room. "Didn't I say no girls; huh? Didn't I know this shit was going to happen?""Who in the fuck is this kid and what science project?""Some volcano thing they have to work on calm down. Your father promised to come over and help you know he's a science buff.""Yeah that's all we need is to get somebody else's kid high.""Oh pooh you know he doesn't do that around the kids stop it.""I know they'll be
I wasn't planning to head back tonight, Law had captured some of the hate fucks and I'm guessing he was planning to work them over for answers, but my sneaky ass wife needed me home. I had what I needed anyway, and though I was willing to help them do clean up when the time came, I wasn't about to wait around cooling my heels while they did their thing.I told them as much before heading out, I needed to get home so I could have eyes on my little girl, reassure myself that she was safe. I had time on the ride to think about the last fifteen years. I hadn't even thought about Porter at all in all that time and had done everything in my power to erase him from my wife's memory.How was I going to tell her that this shit was back to bite us in the ass? She didn't even know that I'd offed that fuck for what he'd done to her and I wasn't about to tell her, neither was I about to let his asshole family fuck with me and mine.I had some hard thinking to do. Here I was thinking my family
"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