Dana Sue had got herself together and was putting her fancy East Coast schooling bullshit to good use, playing hostess. Of course she was drooling over the baby, which reminded me of what she’d done immediately after I fucked her just now. Her ass better not be sick like that every morning or I’d lose my shit for sure.
We heard the rumbling of an engine minutes before Creed came barreling around the corner. His stride was a little more relaxed when he walked around to help his new bride down from the truck, and he didn’t seem to mind PDA, since he damn near ate her face off with a kiss. Then again knowing him, he could be marking his for all to see.
He watched her walk over to the other women to be introduced before joining us. “Hi boys long time no see.” I’m thinking he had a good fucking night because he was no longer looking like he was ready to chew nails. We were in a fucked up place if I was the one monitoring everyone else’s mood. I hope my town survived this little get together when the dust settled.
“Are we all here? I need to get a bead on this Stockton fucker if he’s around here before he flies the coop again.” Now that was the Ty I knew and loved.
“We still haven’t seen him yet but if you tracked him here and that book ties in then there are only so many places around here he could be hiding out. We’ll get to the bottom of it. Just one more player, he should be here…”
Just then Chaz opened up the gate and a whole fucking crew of bikers came riding in. The leader dismounted off his custom made top of the line ride with his wife’s name emblazoned on the side and headed for us. One smooth motherfucker this one, and the shades just tipped that shit over the edge.
“Fuck Lyon, what did you do, bring the whole gang?” We slapped hands before sharing a man hug while his guys dismounted.
“Well from your hemming and hawing bullshit I gathered this little meet wasn’t about bikes so I came prepared.” He stopped short when he saw the others lined off in the middle of the yard.
“What the fuck is this Law a soldier boy’s convention?” He looked around at the others before returning his gaze back to me. “The government know you soldier boy fucks are planning a coup?”
“Funny! No, this isn’t about that…” Shit, how the fuck do you tell an irrational man that one of his was in danger? I know this fucker and though he didn’t serve he would’ve made one hell of a mercenary. Then again that may not be true because he didn’t take direction well.
“Is it your family, the deal with your folks and your kid sister? I told you we’d come down and take care of it, but you said…”
“Nah, it’s not that either my bird ran to ground and the other one’s six deep.” Shit Law stop being a bitch and tell the man already. Yeah, but I was trying to imagine being in his shoes and how I would react to this shit.
I looked across the yard to where Dana Sue and her meddling ass posse were taking Creed’s woman and the teams’ girls off somewhere. Good, at least they would be safe in case something went haywire with this fucking guy.
“Why don’t I show you instead? And Colt, stay cool.” I saw his whole demeanor change with that warning. It was the first hint I’d given him that this might involve him, fuck. “Give me a minute.”
I walked back over to the boys and pulled Lo aside. “I need a solid brother, there’s going to be a lot of heat in that room in about five minutes. I know Colt, and I’m thinking of everyone involved he might be our loose canon.”
“How so?” He looked over to where the big guy was being introduced around and it hit me that he was the oldest one here though you couldn’t tell from his appearance, fucker never changes. Must be that young wife and the battalion of kids he had.
“You and I, we were trained, there’s a point that we can be pulled back from. Lyon doesn’t have that and I’m thinking when he sees his little girl’s face on that screen all hell’s gonna break loose.
I’m barely holding Creed back but that leash is about to pop, and your boy Ty isn’t far behind. At least with him he knows what he’s looking for, those two don’t, we have more questions there than answers.”
“And you?” I knew he was gonna get around to asking sooner or later. My grin was what you might call menacing. “I’m holding my shit down for now, but you best believe the shit’s gonna get ugly. I need to take care of my boys first though, Dana Sue is safe, let’s make sure these other women are.”
“Still looking out for everyone huh soldier.” We walked back to where the others were exchanging small talk even though the atmosphere was rife with tension. “It’s what I do.”
“Follow me.” We headed for the clubhouse and filed into the back room where the shit from last night was still hooked up. The SEALs lined one wall; only Lo took a seat, along with Lyon, Creed and me. While my men, Creed’s and Lyon’s held up the other three walls.
“Okay Lyon, the rest of us have had time to look at this shit in the last day or so. I’m gonna show you what we’ve got and then we’re gonna decide what to do next. As it stands we have more questions than answers…”
“Bro, you’re starting to make me nervous, I don’t like being nervous, just tell me what the fuck…” I passed the album off to him and waited.
I saw his brow furrow as he paged through and felt my muscles tense when he came to the page I knew his kid was on. “Caitie Bear? What the fuck is this? Who the fuck are these kids?”
“That’s what we’re trying to figure out.”
“Start fucking talking.” He looked around the table at all of us, his face set in stone. “Lo?” I turned to the man who’d sent me the book.
“Right. The book you’re holding in your hand was confiscated from the home of a man we suspect is guilty of human trafficking among other things...”
The fucker flew out his seat and headed for the door. Everyone in the room got to their feet because that’s what the fuck you do when confronted with a dangerous animal on the loose.
“Where the fuck is he?”
“We don’t know, that’s what we’re trying to find out, but I’m afraid this shit is bigger than we thought and it stretches far and wide.”
“I need five.” He pulled his phone and walked out of the room, with his boy Jared on his heels. “We wait.” I told the others as we took our seats. Hopefully whatever call he was making would give him time to cool the fuck down so he didn’t destroy my place with his shit. Fuck!
Lyon
“Kat.” I tried to calm my voice so I didn’t spook her, my girl spooks easily especially when it comes to me, and the kids. “Baby, I need you to go get the kids from school.”
My heart all but raced out of my chest because I wasn’t fucking there. I needed to be there to make sure my little girl was safe, but since I couldn’t be this was the next best thing.
“What why, they still have a few hours left.” I bit back the anger that was no fault of hers. Now was not the time to lose my shit, and she was not the one, never her.
“Kat, angel, I love you, now do as I say. I need you to go get the kids from school.” She’d know that me repeating the statement in that calm tone meant not to fucking question me and just do as I say.
“Okay um Colt, is everything okay?” I heard the strain in her voice and bit down hard. I’d promised her that she’d never know another day of worry and I mean to keep that fucking promise if I have to kill off half the fucks in the known world.
“It will be, call me the minute you and the kids are in the house.” I heard her talking to the baby as she got him dressed to go outside. I couldn’t help thinking of how she’d looked when I’d left her only a few short hours ago.
The way she always looked every morning in my bed. Well fucked and happy, giving her man shit about something or other. I remembered my kids at the breakfast table noisy and happy, and super imposed over that image was the one I’d just seen of my innocent little girl in that fucking book.
I hung up and called my father in law. “Drake I have a situation here can’t get into it now but I just sent Kat to pick the kids up from school. I need you to meet her there with a few of your deputies and escort them home. I need you to call dad and Emory and tell them to get to the house. My family is not to be left alone until I get back there.”
“Colt what the hell is going on?”
“I just saw my fucking daughter in some child trafficker’s book that’s what the fuck is going on.”
“You what, okay hold on, let’s think this thing through, first where are you?”
“Like I said, can’t get into it now, I have to deal with this shit.” I knew why he was asking but he was shitting in the wind. That fucker was as good as dead, the fuck.
“Yeah I know but Colt, don’t do anything stupid, think about Katarina and the kids. Let the law handle it…”
I’m pretty sure he wasn’t talking about Law, but what he didn’t know won’t hurt him. “Law’s already on it.” I hung up before he could ask me anything more and headed back inside to wait for the call from my wife.