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After
I’d taken care of her ass, I thought I could at least grab an hour downtime
before the shit wore off and she started her shit again; but I got hit from a
whole different angle. My phone started going off so I grabbed that when I saw
it was Deanna calling.

I
couldn’t make heads
nor
tails of what she was saying,
but I knew something was wrong because she was crying. I didn’t start panicking
right away because that’s not my style, and besides, I needed to stay calm to
deal with whatever the fuck this was.

“Take a deep breath and start at the
beginning.”

“Holly’s
gone.”

“What
do you mean gone, where is she?” I was already moving but still keeping my
cool.

“Someone took her from school.”

“School? Didn’t school end hours ago?”

“I know but I thought I could
find her before now, now the cops are here and they’re asking me all these questions,
you’ve got to come.” I hung up the phone after learning that she was still at
the school and looked around for my keys and shit. Lily who had been alerted by
the tone of my voice was watching me with fear in her eyes.

“Come
‘ere baby, there’s nothing to worry about. I’m just
gonna
go see where lil bit got off to and I’ll call you in a minute. Look at me. It’s
under control okay, no worrying think about the baby.” She nodded her head at
me but I knew she wouldn’t listen. Holly was hers too and she would feel the
same fear I did until this shit was resolved.

I
called the guys on the way to the school letting them know what was going on
and to be on the lookout. I’d already ascertained that the tracker in her ID
bracelet wasn’t working or had been taken off because it was showing her on
school grounds and I’m pretty sure the cops weren’t such fuck ups that they
would miss a little tow headed sprite in their midst.

I
headed right to where the signal said she was, knowing exactly what I would
find. Her bracelet was lying in the grass almost casually, like it had just
fallen off her hand. But I knew better, I knew there was no way for it to come
off unless it was taken off and the only way the person could know what it was,
was if someone told them.

The
only ones who knew, was her mother, Lily and I and I knew Lily had no part in
this so that left only one person. I found the cops and the principal along
with Holly’s teacher in the office like that’s where the fuck they were
gonna
find my kid. I heard the engines of about twenty odd
bikes roaring down the street headed this way.

“What
happened?” I directed my question to Deanna because although Holly was taken
off of school grounds I had no doubt that she had something to do with it. She
looked at the cops, maybe for protection, who knows? But in that moment she was
right to be afraid. I’d never come this close to fucking her up before, and a
room full of cops or not I was holding onto my temper by a thread.

“I don’t know what happened…I”

“Mr. Masters if I may have a
word with you.” The head detective in charge stepped aside and waited for me to
follow him. He started off his spiel with how he knew I was once one of them
and they were doing everything in their power to find my kid and all the other
bullshit.

“Yeah? You plan on finding her standing
around in here? She’s been missing for hours didn’t they tell you?”

“Yes but we were only informed a
half an hour ago.” I glared at Deanna who cowered back in her seat but now was
not the time to let loose on her ass. First things first I had to find my
daughter.

The
cops did their questioning as to where I was and all the shit they needed to
get out of the way before they could proceed. They had already issued an Amber
alert and done all the necessary things that were needed in situations like
this. The irony was not lost on me and I thought, not for the first time since
getting the call. If this might be payback for one of those times that I’d
stepped in and saved a kid from a monster.

I
couldn’t let myself go there. Couldn’t think on what may or may not be
happening to my little girl right now. I just focused on finding her and
getting her back in one piece. When the cops were through doing their thing and
a search team had been coordinated it was time for me to go do my own thing.

I met
with my guys out in the parking lot and gave them a quick rundown. I had no
leads and nowhere to start, because Deanna swore she didn’t know who could’ve
taken our daughter. But I already had my own ideas about that. “First place I
want you guys is at this Paul’s apartment and any other place you’ve tracked
him before. I could be wrong but my money’s on him.” the only thing that kept
me from being one hundred percent certain about that was why in the fuck Deanna
would tell that hump about the bracelet.

“I’ll
follow you home Deanna.” I stopped her in the parking lot as she headed for her
car. What I had to say to her wasn’t fit for public consumption. The cops set
up strobe lights because darkness was setting in and there were volunteers
lined up to start the search. Since it was already dark the search wouldn’t
last too long tonight and they’d pick it up in the morning, at least that’s
what the cop had said when he told Deanna it would be better if she were at
home just in case there was a ransom call.

I
followed her home while some of my guys went off in the directions I’d sent
them and my three shadows followed me. When we reached the house I overlooked
her distress and repeated apologies. There was so much wrong with the way she’d
handled this shit that I didn’t know where to begin.

“Who
did you tell about the bracelet?” She opened her mouth and I knew her so well
that I knew she was about to lie to me. “And don’t fucking lie to me, you’ve
fucked up enough as it is.” She wrung her hands and looked away.

“I might’ve mentioned something to Paul
about it a while back.”

Fucking
bitch, I ought to ring her fucking neck. “What else might you
have
told him and when is the last time you saw him?”

“Um, he came by not too long ago,
maybe a couple days.” Now she was nervous and she had every right to be. “After
I told you not to have this guy around my kid.”

I was
barely holding onto my temper by a thread, but I needed to get as much
information out of her as possible before I ended her ass. Somewhere out there
I knew that sick fuck had her in his clutches and who knows what the fuck he
was doing while I was here wasting time with this piece of navel lint. What the
fuck was I thinking when I hitched up with her?

I got
all I could out of her lying ass to try to get some type of handle on where
this guy might be. In all the time he’s been on the scene I was never able to
get beyond a certain level while researching him and that thought more than any
bothered me right now. There was always something about him other than the
obvious that made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Now she was telling
me how she’d told him about Holly’s security detail and shit.

I knew
that she’d done it out of spite. Ever since Lily’s pregnancy she’s been acting
crazier than usual but I never thought for one second that she would put my
daughter in danger. I listened to her until she wound down and when I was sure
I’d gotten everything out of her I let her see what I really thought of her. If
I could’ve killed her then and there and get away with it I would’ve. Maybe I
still could, and who would blame me? She’d practically hand delivered my kid to
a man she’d been warned had a violent past.

“What the
fuck
were
you thinking?”

“I didn't know.”

“I don't give a fuck about you
and what you didn't know. Anything happens to my kid you're dead. Pack your
shit and get the fuck outta my house. Now.”

“This is my home.” She flew up from
the couch where she’d been sitting as I read her the riot act.

“No, here is where I let you
stay for my daughter’s sake but since there isn’t a snowballs chance in hell
that I'll ever let you near her again, there's no need for you to be here any
longer.”

“You can't do this, she's mine
too.”

“If you're here when I get back I will gut you and bury your
ass somewhere.” Her eyes widened and she stumbled backwards.

“Oh yes bitch you fucked up royally. The next time you see
my kid she'll be thirty fucking years old. By then she'll know how to take care
of herself. No contact from now on, not even a fucking postcard.”

I turned and left after that,
her tears and pleading bullshit didn’t mean shit to me. Now I had to go hunt
this fucker down.

I would ask
one of my boys to stay here and make sure she was gone but I knew they
wouldn't. They were all staying close until Holly was home safe and sound. “Any
word?”

“Nah boss, the
others called in and he’s not in any of those places. Nate’s headed back to the
club to see if he can find anything that we’ve missed in the earlier searches.”
Deke was pissed and scared though he tried to hide it. I felt like a fish out
of water because I didn’t have the slightest clue where to go from here. If
this was somehow about me I had no doubt that I’d hear something soon. But if
it went south and the fucker just…

No Blade,
don’t think that way. Can’t think that way. I’ve been here before; only those
other times it was someone else’s kid on the line. This shit did not feel good
at all. I will never again tell another parent not to worry that everything
will be okay, because those empty words mean nothing when your guts are hanging
out and your heart has been ripped to threads.

We spent hours
searching in every hole between the school and all his known haunts with no
luck. Lily had called me about five times but I had nothing to give her. I
didn’t want her stressing over this either so I was in a tight spot. Trying to
keep her sheltered as much as I could without making her feel left out of the
loop.

I didn’t want
to go home at the end of the night. Not with my girl still out there but I knew
it was better if I got some rest so I could start fresh in the morning. The
cops gave me an update but I wasn’t holding out much hope on that end. They
gave me the whole let us do our jobs spiel but that shit didn’t fly. The fucker
was dead one way or the other. He was dead the minute he put hands on my kid.

I went home
after my boys and I worked out a schedule for the next day. Nate still hadn’t
found anything by the time we knocked off and I tried not to be discouraged.

My phone rang just as I was parking
my bike in my driveway. “Blade.”

“I’m on it.” That was Jake on the other end. In all the
turmoil I’d forgotten to get in touch with him.

“Thanks brother, you got everything you need?”

“Of course, and don’t mention
it.” He didn’t stay on too long and I dragged my ass into the house.

Lily had every
light in the house blazing as she sat on the couch huddled under a blanket.
Seeing her face went a long way to easing the pain in my chest, but fuck I wish
this day were over.

I sat next to
her and pulled her into my lap with my hand on her protruding stomach. She
curled into me and let her tears flow. I let her cry for a minute before drying
her face and holding her close.

We sat there
in silence for the longest time as I felt my child kick in her womb. All that I
kept telling myself was that things will work out; that I will find my
daughter. I kept pushing back the memory of her little face because even that
was too much right now

“Let’s go to
bed.” I picked her up and carried her into our bedroom where we both got
undressed in silence. When she reached for her nightgown I took it from her
hand. “No baby you don’t need that.”

“Okay.”

We climbed
into bed on opposite sides and met in the middle. Without words being spoken
between us our lips met in the dark. Soft and sweet and sad as I tasted the
tears on her lips. I rubbed her body up and down on my growing length, making
sure to hit her at the right spot. In the back of my mind was the wonder that
my body could react even at a time like this; that I could want her even now.

Pushing her
hair back from her face I stared up at her in the moonlight. “I love you Lily,
my Lily, my heart.” I don’t think I’d ever said anything that gentle to her
before, and when her breath caught and she lowered her mouth to mine I kissed
her as softly as I could.

“Lean back for
me baby.” She leaned back and I ran my hands over her middle and up to her much
fuller breasts and back again. She trembled and sighed as I lifted and took one
of her nipples between my teeth. She was still grinding her pussy into me and
on one of her downward slides I lifted her hips enough to find her with my tip.

Easing her down on my length I kept
my hand there to stop the last few inches from going in and hurting her but she
pushed my hand away.

“I don’t want to hurt you baby.”

“You won’t, just love me.”

I eased the
last few inches up inside her and clasped her hips to control her movements.
With her nipple in my mouth and her pussy clenched tight around my cock, she
rode me nice and slow. I let her keep that pace for as long as I could until
the day caught up with me.

I tried to leash myself I really
did, but there was no hope for it. There was a storm brewing inside me and Lily
was about to reap the whirlwind.

“Hang on baby.” I turned her onto her back and drove into
her, stopping short at her wild scream. “You hurt?”

“Uh-uh.” She pulled me back
down to her and fucked up at me even as I slammed into her over and over.

Halfway
between fucking her into the bed and trying to pull my thrusts, I realized she
was soothing me with long strokes of her hands up and down my back. It was then
I realized I had totally lost it. I had her practically pinned against the
headboard and her legs were stretched at an odd angle. She was wide open and my
cock looked like it was tearing her in two as I watched it go in and out of
her.

“Fuck Lily I
can’t stop, I need this.” I pounded out all my frustration and anger on her
poor pussy, and all the while she encouraged me with her body and her words.
When I’d fucked myself to exhaustion but still hadn’t cum, she once again
turned me to my back and took over.

She pulled my
hands up onto her sides where our son was doing cartwheels. “Feel.” I looked up
at her beauty and was hit by a love so profound it defied words. Then and only
then was I able to spill my seed inside her warmth.