“I don’t expect to be away from her for any length of time, not now anyway, but I want you to promise me that if anything happens to me, or if I’m not around for whatever reason, you’ll make sure she’s okay.”
“What the fuck Creed? You expecting trouble?” His hackles were already raised and his stance changed automatically to protective mode. That’s one of the reasons he’s allowed so close. You save a man’s life once and he thinks he has to have your back forever and a day.
“Calm down brother, the barbarians aren’t ate the gate, not yet anyway. You know I’ve always done what needed to be done, never thought twice.
The kind of life we live, the shit we do, there’s always going to be some asshole gunning for us. No, let’s leave that for now. Let’s focus on this shit. I just need to know that if anything goes down that everything is hers. I already have it in writing, but I’m telling you, and I’m asking you to watch out for her.”
I hated like fuck to have this conversation, but it was something that needed to be done. I didn’t fool myself that everything was fucking roses. No I wasn’t expecting to give up the ghost anytime soon, but after leaving her like a fucking candle in the wind for the past nine years when I thought she was protected, I wasn’t about to take that chance again.
“You knew a little about her because I needed you to just in case something went south while I was in the army, and because I needed someone other than me to be aware of her and that she was to be taken care of. You and Law are pretty much the only ones who really know anything about her, now you know a little more than you did.”
“I think you should know the aunt was a bitch and the man she’s shacked up with a piece a shit wanna be rapist…”
“He didn’t…” My boy posed up like a rooster; that was just the response I was looking for. “No he didn’t or I wouldn’t be standing here talking to you right now. But he did enough that I wrung his dick off as in I disconnected the shit from his scrotum.
I’m pretty sure there ain’t a doctor this side of heaven can fix his shit. He would’ve probably been better off if I’d have cut him, then they would’ve been able to sew it back together, this way he’s totally fucked.”
“Damn boss, remind me never to get on your bad side.” He cupped himself like an ass. “Don’t get on my bad side.” I said that shit with a straight face because he knew I meant it.
After the betrayal of her aunt I wasn’t in the mood to deal with anyone else’s bullshit, and there’s nothing worse than someone close to you fucking with you like that. I did acknowledge that part of that stemmed from my insane jealousy of anything male being around her.
“So the aunt? Wasn’t what you thought? That sucks. Are we paying her a visit or nah?” He would understand, he knew a little of what I’d been doing over the years.
He hadn’t been with me as long as Law has, but we go back enough and like I said, I’d saved his life once and he took that shit seriously for some fucked up reason and won’t leave my shadow from that day to this.
“I ever tell you I’m glad as fuck I saved you from that gang of cutthroats in that alley?” I clapped him on the shoulder before heading over to the bank of windows that looked towards the house. I didn’t feel as heavy anymore with that shit out of the way.
We went over some security measures, shit I needed to put in place because I wasn’t going to have eyes on her twenty-four seven as much as I’d want to, so I needed others to pick up the slack. At least until I knew the danger had passed.
I delegated some other shit we had coming up because I wasn’t about to leave her for a while after I took her virginity. Every girl needs a honeymoon period or some shit, or so I’d heard.
As to an actual wedding that was something she was gonna have to put together on her own. I knew fuck all about that shit and the sheep weren’t given to such things, not that I would ask them, I’m not that fucking clueless.
“That run we were supposed to make, I’m gonna need you and the boys to take point on that, shouldn’t be too much trouble, I’m sure you can handle it just fine without me.”
“The cartel?” Or so they like to call themselves. What they were are a bunch of lowlifes who’d watched fucking Scarface once too often and thought they were fucking gangsters.
They were a motley crew of fuck-ups made up mostly of ex-criminals who thought they got a bad rap, not because they were innocent but because they’d been caught.
This band of misfits had made the monumental cluster fuck decision to run meth in my backyard, no fucking way. I did the grid ratio on my little town and there were more fucking kids per square mile than livestock, and in this neck of the woods that’s saying a lot.
Okay that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but there were a fuckload of kids. No way were they peddling that shit here. Not to the kids, and not to the parents.
“Don’t insult the Italians I don’t think those fucks would appreciate it. Anyway as I was saying, pick a crew and go do as we planned. Don’t leave a brick standing. These fucking meth labs crop up like weeds so make sure you destroy the root and get their asses out of our town, let them go fuck up somebody else’s shit.
Try not to kill anyone, it’s not that big a job and the fucks are just stupid not inherently evil okay.” He grinned the bloodthirsty fuck he is and saluted me. “As you say boss. Ahem, about the sheep, uh, you do know that some of them thought or at least were hoping…”
“I give a fuck what they were hoping, all I care about is what was said and I never said one fuck. Keep an eye and an ear out, any of them get out of line where she’s concerned I wanna know.” Yeah, I wanna handle that shit personally so they know the decision, whatever it may be, is final.
With everything squared away to my satisfaction, I let him go and headed back to my office to kill some time until she woke up from her nap.
Chapter 11
Creed
I spent the morning with half of my mind on the club and the rest of it in that bed with her. The fucking calendar was mocking me now every time I looked at it; the time was almost here.
I’d called her my wife to the men because that’s exactly what she is. I just had to make that shit legit now but I wasn’t too worried about that. As far as I’m concerned, the moment I breech her for the first time is as good as me slipping my ring on her finger.
I fucked around with some invoices and shit but it was all Greek to me and I’m not bilingual so that means I got fuck all done for the next hour. All I could think about was her, just across the way, waiting.
I couldn’t hold a damn thought so I ended up going back to the house just to be near her. She was still asleep when I looked in on her, all innocent looking under a mountain of covers.
I tried to imagine that fucking pervert standing and looking down on all that beauty and defiling it, and wished I could fuck his shit up all over again. I checked my watch on the back of that thought.
There weren’t any sirens heading towards my place and I figured if he was gonna make that play he would’ve already, so I guess it was wait and see what, if anything he was gonna do next. I left her and went into the kitchen to check the cupboards.
I hardly ever spent much time here before, but now with her in the house I was gonna have to stay on top of this fuckery like food and whatever the fuck else people stocked up on these days.
I’ll wait until she was up to get started on that shit because I didn’t have a fucking clue. I puttered around impatiently until I heard movement in the bedroom and her voice calling out to me.
“You up? Let’s go get some food in you.” I yelled from where I stood not trusting myself to go to her. She came out to the kitchen in an old pair of jeans and a shirt that was way too tight across her chest.
“Change of plans, we need to go shopping.” No fucking way she was walking around like that. She blushed and looked down at herself and I didn’t have to be a mind reader to know what she was thinking.
“Hey look at me. Whatever is lacking, it’s not on you or because of anything you did. I’m to blame mostly, but never you okay.” She nodded her head yes and I took her hand and kissed it before leading her out to my truck, she wasn’t use to riding yet and I didn’t want to overdo it.
I could hardly find my fucking keys; that’s how long it had been since I’d been in my ride. She wasn’t here twenty-four hours yet and already she was changing up my shit.
I had to lift her tiny little ass into the passenger seat, which got me to thinking about getting her her own car. I knew she had a license because she’d taken the classes at school, but Dee had convinced me that she didn’t need a ride as yet since the town was so small and my girl hardly ever went anywhere.
I’m not even gonna think about the real reasoning behind that shit this morning. I’m working on a fresh start. Thinking about that bitch would set me back a couple steps. All good thoughts Creed.
I buckled her in, kissed her cheek, which made her blush sweetly at me, and walked around to my side with a brand new boner. There was no use hiding that shit because I was sure it was going to be an all day thing, or at least until I bedded her and got the shit out of my system.