Lyon's Heart (17 page)

I had to get back to the
shop but Kat didn’t want to be left alone so we bundled up the baby
and I took them back with me. The crises were coming hard and fast
it seems; as if something was trying to fuck with my perfect
existence, which I was not about to let happen. The baby got passed
around at the shop until I growled at them to get their asses back
to work. There were two other kids there whose dads had babysitting
duty while their women were off getting shit ready for the
holidays. So Kat put the baby down to play and stayed in there with
them while I went back to work. I had to put shit aside and do my
thing but it was never far from my mind all day. My woman was
vulnerable I never realized before that these things could actually
happen. That someone could destroy you with a lie so easily. I’ll
have to find a way to protect her from that fuckery now too because
I never want to hear that wail again in this life. It taught me
something else too; if I have the power to hurt her like that it
meant I had to be even more on my game. I have to make sure she
only ever feels loved. This being in love shit is murder, just
saying.

When the guys took a break,
I cornered Jared for some one on one.

“So how come you didn’t tell
me that your girl doesn’t like my wife?”

“Shit she told you about
that? It’s nothing Colt you know how females are it takes them some
time to get used to their man having a relationship with another
female. She’ll come around.”

“So you’re serious about
this one?”

“As serious as I usually am
why?”

I had to choose my words
carefully, we’re close yes, but as a man there were some things
that I wouldn’t put up with and I didn’t expect my guys to take
that shit from me either. On the other hand if this chick was
fucking with my wife it was a no brainer.

“Did you ever discuss Kat’s
past with Heather?”

“Of course not
why?”

“Some chick called her today
claiming that we were having an affair.”

“It wasn’t that crazy
Rosetti bitch was it? I thought she was in the loony bin for at
least another couple of months.”

“She is as far as I know and
Kat said it didn’t sound like her.”

“So you think it might be
Heather because she has a problem with me and Kat. I don’t see why
she would do that shit because she knows that would be the end of
us if she tried some shit like that.”

“You ever stop to think that
maybe that’s why she has a problem with you two, because you’re so
over protective of Kat?”

“She’ll get over that shit
because it’s never gonna change. You had to get use to it, if you
can do it she can too.” The idiot grinned and backed
away.

“What the hell are you
talking about?”

“Shit bro, you think I
missed all those death glares you used to send my way? Why do you
think I was always getting Kat into shit? It’s because I knew it
drove you freaking nuts, especially in the beginning when you were
pretending you weren’t interested.”

“Asshole; okay fine so you
haven’t told her about Phoenix and there’s no reason for her to go
looking on her own so that leaves me with just one
candidate.”

“The chick in the
hospital.”

“Yep, I can’t shake the
feeling that she’s up to some shit and until I do or I’m proven
wrong she’s my best bet. I just wish I knew what the fuck she was
after.”

“We’ll figure it out she
can’t get near Kat to do anything…”

“That’s what I’m hoping for
but you know her soft hearted ass would fall for anything. She’s
already trying to talk me into putting her up in our house until we
find out who she is.”

“Oh boy.”

“Exactly, anyway how are we
looking for the beginning of next year with those new
orders?”

“We should come in on time
the guys have been giving it their all as you can see. You still
working on that new design right?”

“Yeah I should have it
finalized by the spring if not sooner I can’t get the lines just
right yet.”

“You’ll get it bro I can’t
wait to test it, that’ll be the fastest one we put out so
far.”

“Speaking of which Cy wants
to make a visit to his wife after the holidays I was thinking we
could get the whole crew together like we did last
time.”

“Sounds good I’m sure the
guys would be down.”

“Yeah, I better go tell them
now, give them time to prepare in case they had something else in
the works.”

That evening, I was no
closer to figuring out who the hell could’ve called her and why,
and short of taking her phone away completely there wasn’t much
else I could do. The phone company had agreed to block all private
calls and put a trace on her phone after I was forced to fabricate
the story that my wife was the victim of stalking. What the fuck,
you have to be damn near dead to get any official help these days.
That’s’ one of the reasons why I’m so over the top as the people
around me like to say. I’m not going to wait around for someone
else to protect my family I’m going to take care of that shit
myself.

A little undercover call to
the hospital posing as a cop on the case, garnered me the
information that the chick was still there and that there was no
phone in her room and cell phones weren’t allowed. That didn’t
satisfy me enough though so she was definitely still in the
running. I placed a call to the nut house where Jennifer was a
resident and with a little maneuvering, learned that she was not
allowed to use the phone except for specific times when her family
called her so she was out. I didn’t know who else could be fucking
with us so I was at a standstill. My money is on the hospital chick
though. With this amnesia shit, there was no way to learn anything.
No way to move forward. She was good whoever she is. She’d thought
this shit through before she showed up here from wherever the fuck
she came from. I hated the fact that I was now so focused on what
was going on with her, that it was marring the holiday spirit that
we had going on once again. I’d had so many plans for Caitie bear’s
first and now they all seemed to be threatened by this shit. It was
up to me to either let this thing win or say fuck it and make sure
my girls had the best first Xmas together ever. I decided to go
with fuck it. Unless something else went to shit between now and
then, I was going to stay focused on what was important.

My Angel was still feeling a
little needy after dinner so I sat on the couch with both of them
on my lap. The little one was talking to the fire and eating my
shirtsleeve and her mother was sniffing my neck. Fuck me, I’m an
old married man. I felt like a Norman Rockwell painting but I
wouldn’t trade it for anything. There was nothing I’d rather be
doing. Truth is, I couldn’t remember my life before them. And to
think I almost wrote her off when we first met; my girl surprises
me everyday. I think she’s freakier than even me and that’s saying
a lot.

KAT

Colt is really good at
easing my fears but he’s a guy he doesn’t understand how it feels
to feel like your whole life is being threatened. His answer to
everything is fuck it. I wish I could be that brave. He says I
insulted him, only Colt would look at it like that but that’s what
I love about him. He just always tells it like it is. This girl in
the hospital is bothering me too but for a different reason. Here I
have so much and she has nothing. Because of me she’s lost her
memory and will probably end up spending Xmas alone. I’m sure her
family is out there somewhere looking for her and that breaks my
heart. She seemed so young too, like my age maybe and that just
made it harder. My life has been so full and perfect for the past
two years that sometimes I stay awake at night just staring at
Colton as he sleeps. Wondering how I got so lucky. Yes he’s gruff
and opinionated, and he likes to tell me what to do but I love it.
I love the way he’s crazy about our daughter, how that little girl
has him so completely wrapped around her little finger that he’d go
above and beyond just to make her smile. I can’t believe I even
doubted him for a minute but I had no answers as to why someone
would want to make up something like that unless they wanted to
hurt me. I can’t think of a single soul who would want to do that.
Since moving here and marrying Colt, I’ve only been around his
friends and family and I know none of them would do such a thing
because Colt would kill them. There were no ex girlfriends in the
picture except for Jennifer and she was locked away somewhere where
she couldn’t be a damn menace. Colt said he was going to make sure
she never got out, not while his daughter could be a target but I’m
pretty sure he couldn’t do that. Then again this is Colt we’re
talking about here so maybe I’d hold judgment on that one. Not
since that James guy that went and burned himself to death have we
had any kind of trouble, Colt sees to that. It might be weak to
admit but I love that he stands in front of me, that he wants to
take care of everything or as he puts it, ‘ Your job is to look
after the kid when I’m not here and make sure she eats and sleeps
when she needs to. Other than that, what the fuck else do you need
to be worrying about? That’s my job.’ That’s my caveman.

He seems to have put the
whole phone call incident behind him but I can’t. When the person
first called she’d caught me off guard. Colt was right, I didn’t
stop to think, her words just threw me and I went into a downward
spiral. The thought of my beautiful husband in love with someone
else almost killed me. To lose his love would be the worst thing in
my world. There’s no way I could ever survive without him crazy as
he is.

I laid awake all that night
wracking my brain trying to figure it out but I kept hitting a
wall. There just wasn’t anyone I could think of who would want to
hurt me. I didn’t leave any friends back in Phoenix, no enemies
either except maybe for a few people who were pissed that the
police had gotten involved in the whole sordid mess back there. But
I couldn’t imagine any of them hating me that much, and besides how
would they have got my number? No one knew where I was. Donna had
been my only real friend, the only one close enough to know about
Greenville. No this had to be someone who knew Colt and wanted him.
The thought made my stomach hurt. It’s silly I know but I don’t
want other women even looking at my husband. All that stuff he said
earlier I know for a fact if the tables were turned he’d have
jacked me up before I could talk some sense into him, hah. Once on
our honeymoon, some guy was checking me out on one of our few trips
into town and Colt went ape shit. I thought he was going to beat
the poor guy to death and all he did was whistle at me when Colt
had gone to the bar to order our drinks. It’s remembering things
like that that helped me put the phone call behind me. Or the way
he is with Caitlin, I know Colt would never hurt his daughter in a
million years. He was right too; he’s never given me reason to
doubt him or his love for me. If anything, he’s overly attentive.
Why couldn’t I have remembered any of that earlier? Damn. I’m going
to have to make it up to him. The blowjob and hot sex wasn’t nearly
enough. He was hard enough to shop for as it was now. I have to
come up with something else.

LYON

It wasn’t Caitlin that woke
us up in the morning, but the ringing phone. Rolling over, I
answered as I looked at the clock. Almost seven, my baby will be
waking up any minute screaming her head off.

“Hello.”

“Mr. Lyon, this is the nurse
at the hospital. Your charge is ready to be discharged later this
morning and we were wondering if you’d made any arrangements to
have her picked up?”

What the fuck?

“There seems to be some sort
of misunderstanding. I don’t have a charge in the
hospital.”

“The young lady that was
admitted after a car accident, we have you down here as the only
contact.”

“
She’s not my anything,
first of all, and my mother is supposed to be there to get her.” Of
course Kat woke up just then and started motioning for me to give
her the phone. Yeah, like that shit was gonna happen.

“Well, there was a problem
with that. Some ladies did show up here to take her home but she
was very afraid to leave with them since she doesn’t know them.
Your wife apparently left instructions that either you or she were
to be called when it was time for her release.”

“What time is she being
released?”

“Anytime after eleven,
that’s when the doctor finishes his rounds. We’ll need someone here
to sign her out by then.”

“I’ll have to get back to
you in a bit.” I hung up the phone with that unsettling feeling in
the pit of my stomach. If this bitch whoever she turns out to be,
ruins my daughter’s first Xmas, I’ma break her fucking neck; the
fuck?

“Do you know anything about
that chick being released into our custody from the
hospital?”

“Um, I might’ve said
something that first day that if they didn’t find her family we’d
take responsibility.”

“So you went behind my back
and against my wishes.”

“Colt…”