I had everything in motion before I left the city. The plane was ready to take off, my guys met me on the tarmac with the tapes from Sanders's house and the hopped up kid was being held in a secure location. Lynn's whereabouts were being searched out. My only concern was getting to my wife who was already in surgery when I called the last time.I held my breath almost the whole way there pacing the confines of the plane willing the pilot to get there faster. The blood in my veins was ice I'd shut off my conscience. I couldn't even think about her lying on some table surrounded by strangers while they worked to patch her up. My baby must be so scared. "I'm so sorry Blossom." Fuck why did I keep fucking up with her? The doctor had assured me that her injuries weren't life threatening but that wasn't much consolation for me, the fact that she had survived would not spare the ones responsible.In the business world you have to play hardball more often than not. I've always believed in
My blood ran cold as I listened to the latest tapes my guys had brought me before I'd boarded the plane.My wife was laying in a coma, bruised and battered as I listened through the headphones, her hand clasped tightly in mine.'I could give a fuck about your little slut of a daughter, I just want her out of Gideon's life, but since you don't seem to care one way or the other either, I think I'll just go ahead and make it permanent.''Kill the little bitch for all I care, she's damaged goods now anyway, she has no reason to live, doesn't serve a purpose anymore, does that answer your question Miss. Halston?'To say I was pissed would be a vast understatement there was no limit to what I would do to make them pay. My men were already on the hunt but now I had new orders for them. I squeezed her hand in mine reassuring myself that she was here and she was safe from them. If I had to take her everywhere with me for the rest of her fucking life no one would touch her unless they went t
We spent the next hour and a half hashing out the best course of action when she was released.Dad wanted to know why she'd been airlifted in the first place if all she had were a few broken bones and I explained that they'd thought her head injury was more severe from the on scene examination. It didn't matter to me, as long as she was getting the best care that's all I really cared about."I think Ashley should come stay with us for a couple of weeks, we'll get her a nurse to help out but you have to work and I'm home all day anyway...""Thanks mom but no, she's my wife I'll be the one to take care of her, the nurse sounds like a good idea though.""Whatever works for you son, we're going to go check into the hotel now, we'll be back later, do you need anything?""No mom thanks and thanks again for coming."I watched them leave and checked my watch. I was surprised that I hadn't heard back from my guys as yet. Just as I had the thought my phone vibrated in my pocket."T
We spent two days in that hospital room together, two days in which I only left her side to take a shower in her private bath. I'd put everything on hold to take care of her, even giving her her sponge baths because I couldn't stand for anyone else to touch her. Always at the back of my mind was the conversation we'd started that night but I was afraid to bring it back up just yet. She was still so fucking fragile. So instead we spent the time talking and kissing, lots of kissing because as Blossom had put it, she needed the practice. It seems as if she'd gone away in her head, not a mental break like I'd believed at first. More like her way of coping with the trauma was to push it aside and not talk about it. I was prepared for the fallout though. I knew it was only a matter of time before it all caught up with her and when it did. I'll be there to pick up the pieces.For now we whispered to each other all day, made plans to do the things she liked, places she wanted to see. I
To convince your only child, a young beautiful girl, that if she found happiness in life she would perish that. Just…fuck.So now I'm left with the unenviable task of trying to shock her out of this way of thinking. I was so not looking forward to this shit but she needed a wakeup call and she needed it quick."Do you want to have an abortion?" I wanted to burn off my tongue as soon as the words left my mouth.She jerked as if I'd punched her."What, no, what...Gideon...how could you?" She tried to get off my lap but I held her tight. "Blossom be calm, I don't want you to have one either but if you believe our child will kill you then there's no way I'm going to let that happen.""But it's just an innocent baby.""Not if it's going to kill you." Please let this shit work; please don't let her start thinking of me as the fucking monster."But..." She covered herself protectively as tears flowed down her cheeks."I don't know what to do, what should I do?" And that's w
After clearing away our dishes from lunch I got in bed beside her and held her while I turned on the TV for background noise more than anything."Baby can I ask you something?""What?" She looked at me as her little hand drew patterns on my shirt. I was about to wade into murky waters here but I needed to get this shit taken care of. I'd decided to kill two birds with one stone. Since I'll be taking time off from work I could use the time while she was asleep to plan how to eliminate the fuckers who'd tormented her childhood. But first I needed to know who they were, if they were local or if she even knew who the fuck they were."Have you ever seen the doctor and the...monster anywhere else other than your house?""Uh uh." Her body was only a little tense so she wasn't going to go back into her fucking head again. At least I hoped not."Would you recognize them, if you saw a picture?" She didn't answer for a long time and then..."Could you get my school bag please?" I f
Had it been only a few short weeks ago that I'd seen her for the first time? How could life change so drastically in such a short space of time? And what the fuck else was going to come at me next? I walked over and looked down at her as she slept peacefully I had to go see Gage which meant I had to leave her. I took the monitor with me in case she woke up while I was gone.Gage was looking out the windows of my home office when I got there. He turned at my entrance and with a nod took a seat across from my desk."Do we know as yet how Halston and Sanders paths crossed?"I've had him doing some digging while we were in the hospital. Though the tapes had revealed much, they hadn't answered that little kernel. Those two didn't move in the same circles and I needed to know everything before I moved. I wasn't about to leave any stone unturned I wanted the names of all the players down to the smallest one."She was having you followed. I pieced that little tidbit together from all the s
She was awake when I got to the bedroom with her snack. She looked so small and lost it tore at my heart. I knew she was afraid and that more than anything else pissed me the fuck off. She shouldn't have to be afraid.Her leg and arm will mend, but fear is something that lived inside and was hard to exorcise. She alone knows the terror that she felt at the hands of these people, not even my anger can negate that.Looking at her brought me to a decision, something I thought I would never do now made perfect sense. I hope to God it was the right thing to do."Hey Blossom, after you've eaten, I'd like to talk over some things with you okay?" She nodded her head as she took her salad.She still had that wary look in her eyes; she was too young for this shit. How had I forgotten that she was this young? She was still weeks away from her eighteenth birthday and I felt guilt pull at me.I'd gotten a seventeen-year old girl pregnant. The fact that she was my wife didn't do much to allevia
"You're not driving that car." It was later that night and it was time for bed. She was walking around the bed rubbing lotion into her hands, which was part of her nightly routine. Her hair was now down to her ass, some sort of side affect of the pregnancy, but I loved it. Gave me more length to work with when I'm hitting her pussy from behind. Her breasts are also another favorite of mine these days, like they needed any help. Now they're fuller and filled with milk, which I'm not ashamed to say I partake of on occasion. In fact I'm about to enjoy some just as soon as I get the coming argument out of the way."Why can't I drive the car?""First because it's my baby, and second because it's a classic and I'm not sure what the laws are on that particular car being driven."She lifted her silk nightgown up to her hips and straddled me, flinging her hair back over her shoulders. "I'm your baby." She nibbled on my neck and pressed her pussy into my cock. Well yeah you are; I put my
But that night her screams had been of a whole other nature. It's not easy for a man to watch his woman in that much fucking pain and not be able to stop it. Afterwards when they'd placed the girls in her arms she'd acted like that shit hadn't just happened while I'd still been fucking traumatized."What did you or he do this time baby?" Just then the culprit came through the door into the nursery. He went first to Dana who was asleep in her mother's arms and kissed her head before coming over to do the same to little Jenna who was nodding off on my shoulder. He's a very proud uncle and one of the many people I have to fight to get some time with my kids. He's grown a good foot in the last year and eats like a linebacker but he's still a boy with a boy's heart. He's in school and doing well there, curious about every fucking thing under the sun. A son any father would be proud of until he started encouraging my wife in her shit."What have you been up to Jason?" He looked back at
Things were finally quiet now almost a damn year later. Somehow we'd kept her name out of all of it, which had been my only concern. After we'd buried her father she seemed to have put the shit to rest. She'd wanted to go through her old home for any mementos she might want to keep and I'd let her. Now she had little pieces of her mom throughout our new home. She wasn't hiding and crying anymore, these days she was too busy driving my ass up the wall for that. Between the two of them it was like a three ring circus around here. I spent most of my time during daylight hours feeling like a fucking school principal but the nights, well let's just say her sensuality hasn't waned. In fact pregnancy seemed to amp that shit up a notch or two.She loved sex, loved spending hours on end under me; some nights we'd go at it until early morning when I'd finally have to call a halt lest she hurt herself. I fell in love with her pregnant body, she was ripe and round and so fucking sex that just
We spent weeks afterwards cleaning up the mess those two had left behind. That's when we found out we'd only touched the tip of the iceberg. The filth ran far and wide and by the time we'd scraped the bottom of the barrel we'd unearthed names of dignitaries and high ranking businessmen and women not only here but abroad. The most horrific thing I think was how far back the shit had gone. We're talking a century or more here. The fuckery read like a Victorian novel, maybe something people would've read to their kids to put fear in them and keep them in line. Only this shit wasn't a story, this was real. Pages upon pages of documented records of the atrocities one class had perpetrated on another for almost two hundred years. At least that's as far back as we were able to go.After the initial rescue when I'd finally been able to go visit the children and see what kind of state they were in, we'd said fuck it and just went ahead and got the others out immediately. Seeing that shit f
"I'm not afraid of you, you can't touch me; what I am is bigger than you and the idiot masses.""Oh really, I've been wondering about that. Tell me senator, if you have the power to turn Starks into an animal of the night why are you and your sidekick trussed up like two old bitches in my warehouse? What, you ran out of powers?""I'm not a fucking dog, you think I did all this so I could run around in the woods smelling my own ass?""Actually I have no idea what it is that you were trying to do. Why don't you fill me in since you've got nothing more pressing at the moment? If you didn't want to turn yourself into an animal exactly what is it that you were after?""I wanted eternal life." His eyes moved around the room like a feral cat ready to pounce. Maybe that's why the guys had used so many chains to bind these two. They were both bat shit crazy."Ahh, every megalomaniac's wet dream, you wanted to play God.""I am a god.""Oh yeah, which one?""The one." He all but bellowed.
"I had to do it." The kid started to shake and I put a reassuring hand on his shoulder. My head started to pound, I'd had enough. "It's okay Jason. Where's the body?" I directed my question to Gage and the others."Already taken care of." Fine now I just had to figure out some lie to tell my wife when she came back into the room. "You don't ever tell her what you did you hear me Jason?" He just looked up at me trying to be brave but he was just a little boy. A little boy who'd just killed his own father. Will the evil these men set off ever end? I heard her coming back down the hallway and braced myself.She walked right over to him her eyes searching him for injuries. "Jason what happened? Were you in an accident?" He looked to me to take over. I was still trying to come up with something plausible. "It was a deer baby nothing to worry about." That seemed to calm her a little bit and she started fussing at him to go clean up and get out of his ruined clothes.I was pretty much
I felt her excitement as soon as we entered the gates. The long driveway that led to the monstrosity at the end was lined with blossoming trees, their scent permeating the evening air as we drove through."Gideon?" Her hand tightened on mine as I kept driving until we reached the front door."Is it?" she turned to me with her eyes wide and brimming with excitement. It did my heart good to see that."Yes love, it's all yours." She threw her arms around me and peppered my face with her precious kisses."Can we go in? I wanna see it.""Sure love the key's under the mat."I got out and walked around to her side feeling lighter, this had been a good decision after all. Maybe a few hours spent in the house she'd picked out weeks ago, that I'd bought her only today would go a long way to erasing some of the terror she'd faced earlier.We walked around the big old house going from room to room. I let her wander at her heart's content standing back while she ran her fingers over the two
When enough time had passed that I thought the coast was clear I led the two prisoners from the room. Not that anyone could mistake the panic room for a prison. It had been built with every comfort in mind and after meeting and marrying Blossom in the last few weeks I'd made doubly sure it had everything needed. She was leaning heavily against me like all the air had been knocked out of her, too much. I kept a tight rein on my anger though not willing to add to her distress.I exchanged a knowing look with Jason when I caught him removing the headphones that he'd had plugged into the monitor. That could only mean one thing, he'd been shielding her from what the men were saying, but he himself had been listening in. Chances are he heard them make mention of his father and his part in what had taken place here today. It was a fucked up situation in more ways than one. More so because I'm gonna have to sit this kid down at some point and explain to him why I offed his old man, but fi
"How much longer?""Soon Gideon, there's a lot to take into consideration here. We have an unknown in the house. Granted it wasn't the kid that sold us out, which I'm inclined to believe he didn't. If we off these two assholes we have clean up. The team's already on standby by the way; you're gonna want to get to Ashley as soon as possible and I'm thinking you don't want her seeing dead bodies laying around, too many questions." "So we have to do this right. On top of that, although this place is like a fort it's still surrounded by other high-rise buildings and you have more glass in here than the Corning ware factory; you get the picture? We need them in the right location to act, then we'll move."What he said made perfect sense but still all I could think of was her fear. Now I had the added worry of whether or not her friend had betrayed her as well. Knowing her if that proved to be true it would hurt her more than being hunted by her old tormentors would.One thing's for sur