-Jacey-The days passed too slowly and too quickly at the same time. I missed Caleb terribly. and no matter how much Will pleaded with his father, I hadn’t seen Will Jr. once.At four weeks to the day since I gave birth, Mr. Masterson finally appeared in our bedroom. My heart sank when I saw he didn
A very beefy security man cracked his knuckles and replaced Mr. Masterson at the door. With a grunt and two slams of his shoulder, the door opened with a cracking sound.“He barricaded the door with a chair from the make-up table, sir,” the beefy thug said, holding the door open for Mr. Masterson. “
“Get rid of her,” he growled.“Sir?” the remaining security guards asked.“You know what I mean. Just get rid of her.” Mr. Masterson waved a hand vaguely in my direction.The thugs closed in on me. I backed flat to the wall, but there was nowhere to go.One of them picked me up, and I screamed and k
-Caleb-The first thing I noticed was that the door wasn’t opening. At least not much. This made the guard next to me scowl.What I saw next made my heart beat fast. Jacey. My Jacey was in my apartment.Sitting on the floor. Duct taped, in her lingerie nightie, with her mouth covered.Rage simmered
“Oh, baby, I love you,” I murmured and kissed her.Jacey started unbuttoning my shirt. I helped with the cuffs blindly, both of us fumbling as we tried to kiss and strip at the same time.“I love you, too,” Jacey said when we came up for air.We didn’t stay that way for long. I bunched up my shirt a
Jacey’s arms descended from over her head to wrap around my neck. “You want to give me a baby, Daddy?”I shivered when she called me ‘daddy.’ It was so fucking hot. “Yeah,” I said, putting my hand over her belly. “Daddy’s gonna put a baby right here.”Jacey bit her lip, and her eyes swam with tears.
-Jacey-I put my hand over Caleb’s as we sat in the fourth row of the church, toward the middle. Caleb had done a wonderful job with the flowers, blues and whites, and Will’s baseball memorabilia was sitting on and around the coffin. All in all, everything was beautiful.The priest had been paid a l
There was a terrible hush then a flurry of murmurs.Masterson spared us a glare, and Caleb shrugged helplessly.My stomach roiled. Was he going to blame us for this?“Ladies and gentlemen, please. The man was only speaking his truth,” Masterson said, dabbing at his eyes. “And he’s right. I should ha
“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