"I'll get her." I rolled out of bed and went to get my little princess the next morning. She was making enough racket to raise the damn dead, just like her mother."Hey, hey, hey I'm here, what's with you this morning huh? Did you think daddy left you, huh? Come here beautiful girl." I picked her up out of her crib and laid her on the changing table. She was giving me the stink eye I guess I'd taken too long."Listen you your old man got here in plenty of time so don't you be giving me looks." She giggled when I tickled her belly and started pumping her legs and cooing da, da, at me. Damn if the crew ever knew how teary eyed I got every time my little girl does that I'd never hear the end of it. After I got her all squared away I took her into her lazy ass mother who was still lolling around on the bed. When she sat up to get her breast ready for the feeding I was right there front and center, this was one of my favorite parts of the day the best way to start shit off. My greedy pi
I went out back to my crew because I knew they'd probably be of more help than the cops who I don't trust for shit, not with my wife's life. The boys were hard at work trying to knock shit out before the holidays. There were ten new shiny bikes lined off against the wall waiting for delivery. Since the business had grown so much in such a short period of time I'd had to hire some more help, which in my book was a good thing. Five more men had money in their pockets to take care of their families it's all good."You guys find out anything about that chick from last night yet?""Nope no word on the street about anyone missing and we checked the whole area.""I made some calls to the next town over and there's nothing there either. You guys been checking the news? If she's missing it might be broadcasted." Jared was with me on this I'd told him my suspicions about the whole thing and he wasn't any more jazzed about the situation than I was."Nah I didn't think of that." Maybe becaus
At the hospital I had to jump through hoops to get into her room. The fact that they'd been the ones to call my house with this shit didn't seem to matter. I had to use the pothead's name to get pass the dragon at the desk, she was going on my shit list too. In the room I don't know what I was expecting to find. I had built this person up in my head as some sort of monster, but in the bed all I saw was a young woman who looked harmless enough. She didn't look like she was out to harm anyone and the empty look she turned my way didn't give me anything. Too bad for her whoever she was that my gut was sending off warning bells like a son of a bitch. I put on my 'I give a fuck face' and went farther into the room. Please don't let me strangle this woman in this bed. That's my natural reaction to any danger I sense where my wife is concerned."Hello there I'm Colt, they tell me that you don't remember anything?""Are you my husband?""Fuum no. No, my wife supposedly ran you over on m
I called Drake as soon as I got back in my truck after placing the can in the Ziploc bag I had hidden in my pocket; I came prepared."Drake I've got that chick's fingerprints on a can. Can you do something with it so we can find out who the hell she is?" "How the hell did you do that? Never mind I don't want to know. I'm at your parents, come on over.""What are you doing there, don't you work?""Off-day and Tina is over here doing something or the other with your mom. We didn't tell them about last night though so don't say anything."Shit, I really didn't want to deal with Daniel and his shit. When I got to the house, the three men were in their usual spot, gambling as usual. Dad had his pipe going, as was to be expected, and the place smelt like nothing but weed."Can't you arrest him or something?""It's out of my hands now son, they made it legal.""Dad put that shit out, how can you concentrate on anything when you're always high?""Weed doesn't make you high boy, it ma
Caitlin's fever was all the way down by the time I got back to the house but she was still a little fussy. I put everything else aside and focused on my wife and kid."How is she?" I picked my girl up out of her playpen for a hug."Hey baby how's daddy's big girl?" She laid her little head on my shoulder and hugged. Best fucking feeling in the world I don't care if it makes me a sap."Better, her fever is down and she's not as fussy; how did it go at the hospital any change? Does she remember anything?""Nope, your girls are on it though." I gave her a look for being sneaky but she didn't even have the decency to look embarrassed.She seemed happy enough with the fact that her posse was going to see about the victim though so that was one less worry for me; until she found something else to harass my ass about."I'm making fettuccini and chicken Alfredo for dinner sounds good?" "Sounds great, I'll help you." She was busy sitting on the floor wrapping gifts. She looked relaxed a
I looked over the gifts under the tree from my place on the couch while my little girl rested her head on my chest. I eyeballed them to make sure I hadn't forgotten anything.I'd already bought them a truckload of shit but it never seemed like enough. Kat had enough jewelry and bullshit so it was hard finding something special for her. Caitlin had damn near every toy appropriate for her age though I've been hearing how it wasn't right to spoil her so much. How she was going to grow up to be a diva whatever the fuck that meant. I was thinking really hard about buying them a guard dog because Caitlin goes crazy whenever she sees one on our walks around the neighborhood; but I'd read that that didn't always work with a new baby in the house and I might end up having to cut the damn dog's head off for fucking with my kid so I think it was better I left that shit alone until Caitlin got older. "Da-da-da." Shit her voice was weepy, and she was starting to burn up with fever again."K
Caitlin was sick again in the night. No sooner had we put our heads down on the pillow than we heard her fussing in her crib."Bring her in here baby, she'll sleep better with us." Either she was too tired to argue or she agreed with me because she didn't make a peep as she headed for the nursery. I could hear her cooing to our girl over the monitor before they both came back into our room. As soon as my baby saw me, she started calling for her dada, only it sounded more like a croaking frog than my little princess. I took her from her mom and laid her on my chest petting her back, which was hot through her clothes. She shuffled around until she got comfortable and settled down. Needless to say, I slept on and off all night, too afraid of rolling over on my baby to really sleep. Kat on the other hand, was ass out and all but snoring. She didn't even wake up for Caitie's rare middle of the night feeding.The next day, I stayed home again. I had to put the load on my crew but it
***I had a lot of shit to do in the next few days. I had orders to fill and demands to meet so I really didn't have time to obsess over the mystery woman. Kat and Caitlin were going to be busy with the grandmas so I knew they were safe and there was really nothing to worry about. The baby's teething was still making her miserable but she wasn't as sick as she had been at the beginning of the week. Grimaldi that old fuck had called in a last minute order for some high roller friend of his for the end of January. Since we were going to be shut down for the holidays I wanted to get a head start, because there was no way I was going to take my guys' vacation time away from them and their families. So I left the house not really wanting to but as a businessman you gotta do what you gotta do. I walked into a madhouse at the shop with everyone trying to get all their last minute shit done. Not that we weren't prepared but like me my boys are perfectionists and we all wanted to make su