"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
The next morning she questioned me up one side and down the other about my run the day before but I didn't share. "Why don't you focus on Thanksgiving babe, isn't it like in two days or some fuck?" I planned to stay around the house today and the kids were staying home. They were going on break in a few days anyway so it shouldn't matter."No, I want you to tell me why we took the kids outta school and why Tommy and the others have been staked out in my kitchen all night.""No.""Colton, are we in trouble?" I hated that tremble in her voice, hated that she was worried."No baby, you know I would never let anything happen to you, but there's some shit going on that I thought it best to have my family where I can keep eyes on them for the time being. It's nothing for you to worry about, I want you to go ahead and enjoy your holiday and don't give this shit another thought."I went around the place making sure we were secure and then I went to work getting everything I could on the
The next day, as I've been doing since coming back from Law's, I was preoccupied at the shop. People were hounding me for their shit because the holidays were coming, but my heart wasn't in it. Thank fuck I had a crew who knew what they were doing. I sat at my desk with my mind in turmoil. This time of year is very important to my family they go all out. I do all I can to see that they have whatever they need, but this year I'm not so sure. With this shit hanging over my head, I don't know which way to turn. That's a lie, I want to go shed some blood to keep my family safe, but there's more going on here than just the threat against mine. Usually I wouldn't give a fuck, but I keep seeing those little girls looking back at me from those pages.There was one thing I could do while I cooled my heels, so I picked up the phone. "Mallory, you got anything new for me?" I knew if he did he would've called me already but it was something to do. I hate this shit; and now Kat's on my ass about
Thanksgiving went off without a hitch and now we were in the homestretch for Xmas. Kat was still not acting right but I put it down to this holiday crap. I had my eyes and ears open while doing my best to shield her and the kids from everything that was going on. The kids were back in school for the next few weeks and that was giving me some problems, but I found a way around it.The days are getting better since I've lost that feeling of impending doom. For a minute there I was seeing danger around every corner, drove Kat and the kids batty with my over protective shit but they'll get over it. "Kat where your kids?" Fucking house was too quiet, that could only mean the little fucks were up to some shit they weren't supposed to."They're in the house Colt, where you expect them to be? Ever since you put us all on twenty-four hour lock down they hardly even go in the backyard." I wonder what her problem is? I watched her walk around putting away the baby's clothes and muttering to h
Kat's up to some fuck again, I don't know what it is yet but I'ma fuck it outta her. One hard stroke and she'd tell me anything, but I'm biding my time. Char and her shit got me thinking. Every year we have a big shindig at the house. Usually my crew and Mallory and his kids would drop in, but I never thought to invite Law and his people, maybe this year I would, we could all do with some merriment after the last few weeks of bullshit.I found her and ma in my kitchen whispering about who knows what when I got home one evening and braced myself. Not for nothing, but there's hardly ever a time when these two are huddled up that my ass doesn't end up in the middle of some shit I want no part of."What're you two up to now?" The way they jumped apart told me all that I needed to know. "Okay what is it let me have it." I folded my arms and leaned against the wall staring down the both of them. They shared a look and twiddled their thumbs. "Speak now or forever hold your peace ladies, Kat