Taking What He Wants(28)

"Oh is it?" Oh hell, Santino looked.......what the fuck is that look? I don't think I've ever seen it on a human being outside a movie. Sinister was too tame a word.

I had the feeling the Fieldings were in for a world of hurt, and if they thought I was bad, even I knew I had nothing on the Escalantes.

I felt myself shiver as the three brothers turned their attention on Celine.

Damn, she's so fucked.





Chapter 15





DELIA





Well it looks like I have a new father, I'm not quite sure what's going on around me everything seems to be going really fast and I can't seem to catch up.

After Vi.....my....father stopped going on about the baby things had gone something like this.

"Well now she must come home with us."

"Uh, no,.......I respect how you feel, you've just met your long lost daughter, you're excited about that understandably, but my wife stays with me, always, no exceptions."

There was silence following that mandate by Chase, no one spoke for a while, I drew closer to him and accepted his reassuring squeeze, he didn't seem too worried about the outcome so I relaxed against his side. As much as I wanted to explore this new family dynamic of mine there was no way I was leaving him to do it.

"Okay boys, let's go." Vito summoned his brothers and they rose from their chairs to leave.

"Where are you going godfather?"

"You'll see soon enough not to worry daughter we'll be back." With that they were gone.

Chase and I had spent another hour with his family before he decided it was okay to take me home to our own fortress; cue eye roll I had the feeling it might be some time before I saw the outside world again.

We were both a little jolted when the three brothers showed up an hour later on our doorstep with their suitcases.

Chase just shook his head, opened the door wider and pointed up the stairs.

"You know where everything is."

They bounded up the stairs like three teenagers instead of the middle aged men they were.



That was three days ago and now I find myself hiding out.

If I thought having to deal with Chase's over protectiveness was a pain, it was nothing compared to the tyranny of my new father and uncles, now instead of one overbearing male I had to contend with four.

It had been decided that I wouldn't go back to school for a while, that had caused the first argument, the brothers thought I should go to a top notch university to learn the ins and outs of business, my father thought he should just hire someone to teach me the ropes, and Chase said I will do whatever I chose to do as long as we didn't have to be separated.

How something like that could go on and on for hours was beyond me but I soon learned that the brothers liked to argue with each other.

They fell over each other trying to boss me around, Chase thought it was funny, he could go off to the office knowing that no one was getting anywhere near me with my new guardians on the job. He said he had the best of both worlds, our bedroom was far enough away that we could still get as loud as we wanted to so our sex life was in no way hindered and he had someone or ones to run rough shod over me while he was at work. Huh.



"Chase, you have to make them stop." He laughed on the other end of the line.

"Why, what are they doing now?"

"They got ahold of one of your crazy books that says its good for the baby if I eat all natural foods while in the womb, now they're juicing and baking from the pulp or some such thing, the only problem is they wouldn't let me help and I don't think any of them have ever seen the inside of a kitchen in their lives."

He laughed his fool head off but I was being very serious, I don't think I've been allowed to lift anything heavier than a fork since they got here.

I'd asked if they didn't have to go to work and they'd looked down their noses while admonishing me that men of their worth didn't work, as much as they oversaw their dynasties.

When they started talking about my having to meet with their moneymen and board members and whatnot I got a headache. I could barely grasp the concept of Chase's wealth and largesse after coming from such humble beginnings, accepting that I was now the heir to not only my father's but my uncles' fortunes was just too out there.

I'd asked if they didn't have anyone else, no other family member that was expecting to inherit but they had planned to leave their wealth to a committee that would feed certain charities and other interests they had after they were gone, they were only too happy to give it all to me. It was too much.

Chase said I'll get use to the idea in time but I wasn't too sure.

As for my other family, there was something in the works there but no one was telling me anything. In the evenings Maxwell and Drew would come over and the men would lock themselves away while Rhina and I sat talking or knitting baby booties,I would beg for leniency but Chase's face always got hard when I tried and my father and uncles just patted my head and told me it was nothing for me to worry my head about. They scared me.