The Billionaire(41)

I held her hand as we drove through the streets not wanting to lose  contact not even for a second. When I let myself think of what could've  happened to her the fear threatened to choke me. After today I was going  to make damn sure that nothing like this ever touched her again. I  don't see how I'm going to keep her away form the children that were  even now at the place I'd secured for them. I wasn't sure how involved I  wanted her to be in that whole scenario. If it were up to me she'd  never give her past another thought but that's just wishful thinking.  Even I couldn't pull that one off.

It made me sick to my stomach to think what might've become of her had I  not come along, had she not caught my eye that day not so long ago,  which was beginning to feel like years. Soon, hopefully before the  little one gets here, things would've settled down and we could look  forward to a life of love and peace. I'm going to spoil her ass rotten  starting tomorrow and everyday after. Starting with this.

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 hundred year old wood and exclaimed over the view out the  windows. She was happy. After the day we'd just had I consider that a  minor miracle. I put it away for now and tried to enjoy her pleasure in  her gift. Leave the madness outside for at least a little while.

My only thoughts now were of my wife and child. I could us here, could  almost hear the laughter and the joy I knew she would bring into all our  lives.

"Is it really ours?" She turned from the window where she'd been gazing out over the gardens in silence.

"Yes baby it's ours, you can change anything you don't like."

"No Gideon I love it just as it is. I can't wait to decorate, we should get books."

Her excitement was infectious as she walked over to me and laid her head  on my chest. She still wasn't moving as easily as before because of the  accident but she was getting better. She'd had to run and hide from tow  madmen on crutches. The seriousness of the situation was now hitting  home hard but I fought to hold it at bay as she caressed my chest.                       
       
           



       

"You want decorating books?" I hugged my sweet girl close enjoying the feel of her in my arms, safe and whole.

"Uh huh."

"You don't want to hire someone to do it?"

"No I want us to do it, can we please?" That face, so precious, how did I get so fucking lucky?

"If that's what you want Blossom then that's what we'll do." She could  ask me for the world and I'd find a way to give it to her. I know fuck  all about decorating but I guess I can learn.

"Have you had enough...Hold on." My phone went off in my pocket.

"Thorpe."

"You need to get back to the house." It was Gage and from the sound of his voice something was very wrong.

"What's going on?" I wrapped an arm around her and led us to the door.

"It's the boy?" Fuck, she couldn't take anymore.

"Is he alive?" I squeezed her shoulder when she gasped, she had no idea who I was speaking of but she knew something was wrong.

"Yeah but we've got a situation you better get here as soon as  possible." At least he wasn't dead. Whatever it was I can handle it as  long as I didn't have to tell her that her childhood friend was dead  just as she'd found him again.

"Is everything okay Gideon?"

I kissed her hair as I led her to the car. "Yes baby everything's fine  we just need to get back we'll get your books later okay."

"Okay."

My heart was a little unsettled as we headed home. I didn't know what I  was going to find there but I knew it wouldn't be good, the tone in  Gage' voice told me that much. Traffic was light so we made good time  and was soon heading up in the elevator. She'd been quiet the whole way  here but I could tell she was scared again. Will this shit never end?

My men were all standing around in the kitchen. At the table in the  middle of them was Jason, he looked shaken and he was covered in...

" Is...is that blood?" She hobbled to his side before I could stop her.

"What's going on, who hurt him?" What in the fuck? I walked over to where she was standing next to him already close to tears.

"Uh that's not quite what happened boss." Gage inclined his head towards  Blossom. I took that to mean he wanted me to get her out of the room.

"Ashley why don't you go get some towels so we can clean him up?"

"But he's hurt, Jason where are you hurt?"

"I'm not Ashley..." He looked to me for help.

"Blossom baby go get the towels like I asked." She looked up at me and left the room reluctantly.

"Start talking."

"He did his old man." Well fuck.





Chapter 36



"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 done, tonight it all ends we had the lead we needed  for all the missing and I was confident that we would handle it. There  was no reason for this shit to go on any farther, the guilty will pay  there was no doubt. My idea of making the senator pay in the public eye  was now null and void I'll have to do that shit postmortem. His days on  this earth had come to an end when he entered my fucking home and hunted  my woman like she was nothing. Now I just had to find a way to leave  these two here without too many questions.

"Ashley baby come with me." I took her out of the room and up the stairs.

"Gideon why was Jason out hunting a deer?" Shit.

"I don't know baby maybe he needed to let off steam after the day he  had." She seemed to give it some thought as she took a seat on the bed.

"I have to go out for a few hours, I want to go see about the kids we  brought home I didn't get a chance to talk to them before we had to come  back here." She opened her mouth to ask to come along again I'm sure  but since I was lying my fucking head off I had to cut her off.                       
       
           



       

"Same rules baby you're not going anywhere near them until I'm sure it's  safe. Now tell me you're gonna be my big girl and be safe until I get  back." She pouted but came over to hug me. "Fine Gideon but I'm having  junk for dinner."

"Brat; Just add some vegetables to your plate and I won't be mad." She  turned her face up for my kiss, which I gave her while hugging her  close. "You promise me that you're okay?" She nodded her head before  laying it on my chest. "I'm fine now the police will take care of those  horrible people so I don't have to be scared anymore." Not entirely  right but if that's what worked. "That's right baby, now go get cleaned  up you've got deer blood all over you. She didn't seem to want to let me  go so I kissed her head and tapped her ass. "I'll be back before you  know it."

I followed her to the bathroom to run her bath before heading back to  the kitchen where my men were keeping Jason company. Someone had found  him some fresh clothes, which reminded me, the kid needed to go  shopping. Gage was kneeling next to him whispering. I'm sure the horror  of what he'd done was now catching up to him. I'll deal with that later,  time to put an end to this fuckery.