-Jacey- “Oh my dear! Are you all right?!” Petra asked, scurrying over to me. “Roy, get something to clean this up!” I stared at Leon, who grinned at me. I didn’t like the look of his grin. Caleb put his arm around me, a fake smile plastered on his face. I knew it was a fake smile because I knew a
Roy was frowning now. I think he was getting the idea that something was amiss. Please don’t say anything. Please don’t say anything, I silently begged, hoping either Roy or God could hear me. “Hey, is something going on here? You’re looking pretty squirrely, Mark. Are you guys upsetting Angela? S
“Nothing he won’t get used to,” Mr. Masterson said. Gail and Leon followed us onto the plane and sat near us. Will started to sit down by his father, but Mr. Masterson gave him a sharp look. “Tell your friends of your adventures, Will. Go on. Go sit by them.” With a wince, Will hobbled over to us
-Caleb- Jacey’s nails dug into my thigh all the way back to the Mastersons’ mansion. I think she was trying to keep me quiet. I didn’t want her to have to face all this alone, so I stayed quiet. As much as I hated Masterson, I knew he wasn’t lying. I was inconsequential at this point. They were kee
As though on cue, my mother came rolling up with Hank, a baby carrier strapped to her front. A fuzzy little head poked up out of the carrier, but that was about all we could see of Timothy. His hair. Hank looked cranky, sitting in his chair. “Eighteen and pregnant. I couldn’t be more proud.” “Nice
“I’d believe him, too.” I started pacing the floor. “There’s cameras everywhere. Oh fuck, did your dad add sound to this room?” “Yeah, it has sound. But I’m not saying anything that will surprise my father,” Will said. “I did tell him I wouldn’t let him get away with this. He’s just probably watchi
-Jacey-For two months, Caleb and Will put their heads together and whispered about how we could possibly get out. And for two months, they came up empty.My water broke in the middle of the night seven weeks after our recapture. Or re-kidnapping. Or whatever it was called.Caleb called for Will, an
“Can’t we please do in vitro again, Father?” Will asked.“You lost that privilege when you tried to escape from me,” Mr. Masterson said flatly.The nurse finished cleaning up Will Jr. and handed him to Mr. Masterson, who smiled down at my son and tickled his chin.“You’re going to be much better tha
“So, I think you’ve been doing some snooping,” Ike said, leaning in the doorway.My eyes snapped upward, and I was sure I wasn’t hiding the hatred in them very well. “What the hell is all this?”“Your inheritance. You know, this makes it easier. Your grandfather and I were trying to figure out how t
I dropped the headphones and was about to go striding into the office to break up their nefarious little clique when I looked at Dawn’s screen. She’d left it unlocked.There was a folder open I’d never seen on the server before.I glanced over the monitor to make sure Dawn wasn’t on her way back the
-Will-I sat behind my grandfather’s desk, bored again. After private schools, Yale, and Harvard Business School, I was bored out of my mind. I’d followed my expected trajectory. I’d done everything expected of me.Only once did I ever step a toe out of line. Well, almost. I suggested, at one of my
-Jacey-“Mom? Where did Uncle Billy put the Fruity Pebbles?” McKenzie asked.She’d been home from her first year of college a week and had already settled right in like she owned the place. Billy had taken to hiding the Fruity Pebbles they both liked, one, because he thought it was hilarious, and tw
Shower. SHOWER!!! I stopped her jerking me off and helped her into the tub then followed her in and closed the floral curtain.Jacey went immediately for the soap, lathering up her hands and then starting to scrub me.“You’re trying to kill me, aren’t you,” I groaned when she washed my rigid cock.“
I should have been overjoyed. On some level, I was ecstatic. But anger bubbled up in me as well, and I gripped her upper arms and pushed her just far enough away that I could look her in the eyes. “Jacey, you’ve been icing me out for almost a month.”Her eyes welled with tears, but she quickly dashe
-Caleb-A month later, Masterson was in prison, and Jacey and I were back on the farm. She had spoken to me less and less as the weeks passed and was now icing me out altogether. I didn’t blame her. I’d given her false hope.But I’d been so sure Masterson was going to bungle it with Will. A bad nann
“Good luck with that. Look, I really am on your side. This plea bargain is a good thing. Twenty-five years isn’t a short prison sentence, and maybe in that amount of time, he’ll be able to reflect on his actions. Hell, I don’t know, maybe he’ll find Jesus. What I do know is Masterson can provide for
“I hear what you’re saying,” Officer Alexander replied slowly. “And Lord knows I agree with you, but there’s nothing we can do, Jacey. Nothing. Do you understand? I want you to tell me you understand before we go back out there. You can’t make a scene.”My hands balled into fists. “If they don’t wan