"I see the girls are getting to you, you'd better hold out son, Drake and Daniel and I have a bet going and I put my money on you.""Oh really!" I knew it; fucking women."So what is it I can do for you Cy?" He cleared his throat and fidgeted a bit which alerted me to what was coming next; it seems every few weeks since we brought him home he got a bee in his bonnet about the same issue."Cy come on we've been over this....""I know Colt but you never let me speak, this time I mean to have my say." He meant business I guess because his face was set."Okay Cy let's hear it.""Okay, well it's like I've been saying all along; what you and your family have been doing for me is just beyond words and I feel like I need to give something back" "You won't let me pay for anything and even though I have a job now Elena still wouldn't let me buy my own clothes and food. Some days I go home and there're bags of clothes waiting for me." "She's always stocking the cupboards and the fridge
The barbecue was in full swing; my girl had done a great job if I do say so myself even though I'd been kicked out of my house early this morning and sent on errands while her and the sisters did their thing. Seems she'd been taking lessons from mom; send the guys on errands to keep them from underfoot. Of course I roped in Jared and some of the others to help out, dad was a lost cause on the weekend so I didn't even bother. Kat had spent the better part of the night before marinating shit and making sauces and side dishes. It had looked like a crap load of shit for one person to do but she swore she was having fun so I stopped stressing it. Around eleven o'clock at night I tried dragging her off to bed to fuck but she wasn't having it; said she had a lot more to do before the morning. By the third try I gave up on trying to entice her to the bedroom and just nailed her right there in the kitchen. She bitched and moaned about hygiene but what the fuck, she knows I need my night
By the next morning things were back to normal. The party had broken up around midnight, kids had school the next day people had work and shit like that. Kat's first foray into the sisterhood had been a big hit; she was proud as fuck and so was I. My woman could handle her shit and it was good that I won't have to rely on mom for those kinds of things in the future. I sound like a domesticated fuck."Babe get the lead out we've got work.""I can't I'm calling out sick." She buried herself under the covers. I felt her forehead and there was no fever. I checked her over, nothing; she looked like she usually did every morning; bed rumpled and fuck hot. I smacked her on the ass to get her moving."Ouch that's just mean, besides, I am too sick I think you broke me last night or this morning or whenever.""I wasn't the one doing Acrobatics babe. I think that last wine cooler you had loosened you up a little I have the sprained dick to prove it.""Humph, can't I just have ten minutes m
"Colt, thank you for this, this is... I don't know what to say.""It was your girls Cy, I had nothing to do with it; it was all mom and Kat.""This is too much and that headstone, you can't tell me that thing is only worth two grand." As a matter of fact it was worth fifteen but he didn't need to know that."Didn't the guy tell you they were having some kind of crazy sale?" He gave me a look like he knew I was full of shit, which I pretended not to notice as I looked around at the people who had travelled with us. There had to be a good sixty or seventy people here. The ones who stayed back were watching the kids or the business but everyone had pitched in in some way or the other. Mom and Kat had come up with the idea of a small service, which had just ended and now we were having a picnic under the tree that Cy had chosen to shade his wife.I'd made arrangements to have the grave tended bi weekly and her favorite lilies placed every Sunday. I'd at least let Cy have a piece of
Wedding plans are coming along just fine; Colton thinks I don't know he pulled a fast one with the planner to get out of doing anything but we've always known that's the way it would go; I won that bet beating Elena out by a nose. I won't tell him that his boys were in on that action though. I've been floating around here for the past few weeks in total heaven; I'm in love with my ring it's the most flawless thing I've ever seen in my life.The cut is called empress or something like that I looked it up; I know it's about ten carats but I have no idea neither do I want to know how much it cost. He'd had the words Lyon's Angel forever inscribed inside; how sweet is my guy huh?Mom has been singing a different tune lately as well, now she's Colton's biggest ally. Dad's smile is a little less strained these days also. As for Colton's family, well let's just say they've all been exceptional, even Daniel who is a complete riot when he's high. I've hardly been out without Colt since th
My phone was going crazy. I wonder what the hell the guys could be having problems with now that they all needed to be calling me at the same time."Hold on a minute Dennis I think I should answer this but get your guys started loading that stuff in the meantime.""Sure Colt." He whistled for his guys to get a move on while I answered the phone. "Jared what the fuck?""Get back here Colt someone took Kat.""The fuck you say?" I heard bees buzzing, that's the only thing that registered in my head; why the fuck was I hearing bees buzzing? Then I realized it was my mind and not actual bees. I don't remember walking to my truck and getting in, I just heard Dennis calling after me and someone cursing as I pulled out at high-speed. There was shit falling off the back of my truck but I could give a fuck.I made it back in record time. My whole crew was standing around outside ready for battle. I jumped from the truck and composed myself before I did or said something regretful; it was
Who would've thought that sneaking out to get a sandwich could cause this much trouble? Colton is gonna be so pissed when he gets back to the office and finds me gone, I'll probably never hear the end of this. I have no doubt that he'll come and get me, you see that's one of the things he always promises whenever I have one of my flashbacks or I wake up screaming, clutched in a nightmare from the night of the attack. He'd wrap me up tight in his arms and in his gruff no nonsense voice he'd swear that he'd always find me no matter what.We were stopped and my heart picked up speed again, with my hands tied behind my back as they were there wasn't much I could do, I'd spent the mad drive to wherever this was fighting to hold on and not give in to the need to escape in my head. All the things Colt and been teaching me in the last few months played through my head over and over as I tried to stay calm. It wasn't easy."Where are we, why did you bring me here?""I told you to shut th
Oh please, please, please. Is it strange that all I could think of in that moment was what would Colton do if I was raped? The thought made me want to curl into a ball and die. I didn't breathe easy again until he took his hand away.James left the room, I could hear him talking but wasn't sure if he'd called someone or if he'd completely lost it and was arguing with himself. I tried tugging at my restraints but he must've been a boy scout because there was no give. He'd stuffed a gag in my mouth before he'd left which wasn't the most comfortable thing. It made it harder to breathe for one and lying on your back with something stuffed into your mouth felt like you would choke on your own saliva.Think Kat, think, think, I couldn't seem to hold a thought my mind ran in a million different directions at once. I thought of my mom, my dad; all my new friends here and Colt's family. Mostly I thought of Colt and my heart hurt at the thought of never seeing him again. It just wasn't fai
"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