Lyon's Heart (23 page)

“That, was amazing
Colton.”

“You damn near killed me
Angel with your horny ass. We have to go clean up but I can’t move
just yet I think your pussy finally did me in.” I knew that shit
would crack her up which it did. Now when I looked down at her
there was no more lingering sadness in her eyes.

After I got us both showered
off she said she was hungry so we went downstairs for something to
eat. In all the running around and baking I think we both forgot to
eat so we had a light meal of soup and a sandwich. She looked about
twelve with her hair wet and face bare of any makeup. Her tiny
frame was shrouded in one of my robes which dragged on the floor
when she walked. I didn’t bother reminding her that she had just as
many robes as me if not more and none of them would make her break
her damn neck, what’s the use? She’ll just ignore me anyway as she
has every time I’ve brought it up in the past.

“You’re asleep on your feet
bedtime for you, our little one will be up with the crows and
rearing to go.”

“Carry me.” She smiled
sleepily at me and I picked her up and headed upstairs to put her
to bed. I held her until she fell asleep and slipped from the bed
to go handle my shit.

“Where’s Lydia?”

“Her little ass better be
home in bed if she knows what’s good for her. So what’re we dealing
with here bro?”

My boy Travis answered my
call and showed up like I’d asked. I told him to come later in the
night while Kat was asleep so she wouldn’t stick her nose in my
shit. We stood in the middle of my driveway with two of his boys
out of the glare of the streetlight. Anyone seeing us standing
there arms folded legs spread would think we were going into
battle. We were all well over six feet very imposing and the tats
and muscles didn’t help to dispel the notion of biker dudes up to
no good.

“Fuck if I know, this chick
just turned up here under the front wheel of Kat’s car.”

“What the fuck was she doing
on your driveway?”

See like minds and
shit.

“That’s what I said but
everyone else seems to think I’m blowing shit out of
proportion.”

“What does your gut
say?”

“This is fucked.”

“The gut don’t lie bro, fuck
what everybody else thinks, so what are we doing? You want me to
make this bitch gone?”

Fuck.

“Nah I need your connections
I want someone to run her prints as soon as possible I need to know
who she is before I end up fucking up some totally innocent
woman.”

“You got a picture of this
person? She might not be in the system and if she’s not prints
won’t be of any help. You said she has amnesia, on the off chance
that she’s not full of shit maybe circulating her picture would
bring her family out the woodwork.”

“I didn’t think about that
shit my father in law said they didn’t want to put up flyers just
in case she was hiding from some shit like an abusive
husband.”

“There’re ways around that
shit, fucking cops; get me a picture and I’ll see what I can do
I’ll have dad get one of his pigeons on the prints in the
meantime.”

I passed him the can I’d
taken back from Drake. “Thanks man I really appreciate
this.”

“No worries bro I gotta get
back my woman had a little thing last night so I don’t want to be
too far for too long.”

“What kind of
thing?”

“Some fucker jumped her for
her coat I had to put his ass out but he’s a dumb fuck so he might
try hitting back at me. I’d as soon he doesn’t get another chance
at her.”

“He’s still
breathing?”

“I know right.” We
bullshitted for another five minutes before they headed out. I hope
I’d done the right thing; I have guys in my crew with connections
but none that could get me the results as swiftly as old man
Mallory. Three days till Xmas, I wanted this shit done like
yesterday.

“Colt?”

“Right here baby.” I slid
into bed behind her and pulled her back into my arms.

“Cold.”

I pulled the covers up
around her shoulders and cuddled her closer kissing her
forehead.

“Sleep
sweetheart.”

She dropped off to sleep and
I laid awake listening to her breathe; my mind played back over the
past two years. Meeting her, falling in love with her, watching her
grow from the timid little mouse into the beautiful wildcat that I
now held in my arms. She hadn’t tried any of her crazy stunts
lately not since the baby. Not that I wanted her trying to break
her damn neck but I don’t want her becoming that person that gave
up her life because she was a mother and a wife. I want her to
retain that fire I want her to be as free as she wants to be to do
whatever she wants. So much has changed in her life in a short
space of time. She’s a fucking millionaire for one thing though she
doesn’t act like it. She’s still my sweet little girl who looks to
her husband to spoil her.

“I love you my precious
Angel.” The whispered words were followed by a kiss to her
forehead. She sighed in her sleep and cuddled closer. I fell asleep
with a smile on my face feeling at peace for the first time in a
long time. With Travis on the hunt I should have something soon
hopefully and I can go from there.

Chapter 13

The next morning just as I
was heading downstairs the doorbell started going crazy.

“Hold your horses what the
fuck?”

I opened the door to a
comical sight; dad was carrying large boxes and struggling to keep
them upright. Cy was behind him rolling his eyes. I guess he’s
spending too much time around Angel because he’s picked up a lot of
her nasty habits.

“What’s all
this?”

“You don’t want to know son
I have to get to the shop.” Cy walked by me and dropped his
boxes.

“Don’t you have to get to
the hospital?” I turned my attention to dad who was struggling with
whatever the fuck that was he was hauling.

“Took some time off, now
help me put this thing together.”

“What the hell is it?” The
description on the box said it was a gingerbread house, a six foot
edible gingerbread house.

“Dad were you blazed when
you bought this?”

“It’s cool right? Caitlin’s
gonna love this, I’m gonna win best Xmas gift hands
down.”

“You’re an idiot there’s no
competition besides I’ve already got you beat.”

“No way boy, this has got to
be the best gift ever, she can play in it and eat it.”

“The box says four years old
and up.”

“Who cares I’ll get brownie
points she’s going to love it, look at all the colors and the
candy.”

“She’s not allowed to have
candy she’s too young.”

“Boy you have to stop I fed
you candy when you were her age.”

“You fed me candy when I was
nine months old and Elena let you?”

“She’s only nine months
old?”

“What the fuck?”

“Kidding, kidding, just help
me put it together. Listen those women are up to
something.”

“What women?”

“Your mother and her hen
pack.”

“What do you mean up to
something? How do you know?”

“I worked her over to get it
out of her.” He wiggled his eyebrows at me, nasty ass.

“Gross, talk.”

“They have some hair brained
scheme to keep the new girl close so they can keep tabs on
her.”

“Close how?”

“Don’t be surprised if she’s
at the table for Xmas dinner.”

“What?”

“Listen son they might be on
to something; no one’s been able to find out anything about this
girl yet and she’s not talking. If you think she’s up to something
I think the best thing to do is keep her in our scope.”

“I don’t know I don’t want
her around my family especially not around Caitlin.”

“We’ll all be there she
won’t get anywhere near them I’ve got the boys on high
alert.”

“What boys? You Cy and
Drake?”

“Yep, we’ve got it
covered.”

What the fuck it’s like a
forty-eight hours mystery.

“I don’t know about this why
can’t mom stay out of this shit?”

“Because she’s your
mother.”

We finished putting the
house together just as Angel and the baby came
downstairs.

“Gappa gappa.” She fought to
get down out of her mother’s arms and toddled over to her
grandfather.

“Look what grandpa got for
his best girl.”

She went crazy over the
stupid thing, who wouldn’t? It had lollipops on top and gumdrops
and what the fuck ever. I give it two hours before the shit was
down. With the way my girl was drooling these days it would be
melted in no time.

“Told you I was going to win
best Xmas gift.”

I didn’t even bother
answering him I’ll be there all day with that shit. He hung around
for a while before heading out. He looked like the cat that ate the
canary because Caitlin couldn’t get enough of the stupid ass house
that was now taking up half my damn living room.

While my girls played in the
living room I headed for my office. I needed to think about this
new development with mom and her bullshit. The mere thought of
having this stranger in the same room as my family didn’t sit well
with me but dad was right; we would be surrounded by people. My
earlier search of the three convicts turned up nothing, two of them
had sisters but their Facebook pictures looked nothing like this
girl. That reminded me I still had to find a way to get a picture
of her, maybe this Xmas dinner thing might be good for something
after all. I could always use the festivities as a cover for
snapping one of her. Unless the guys got a good one on
surveillance. What the fuck I’m supposed to do with it afterwards
is beyond me but I’m sure old man Mallory if he did get involved
would know what to do. Not once did I stop to think that I might be
wrong about this, that I really was blowing it out of proportion. I
knew in my gut that I needed to be on guard until this person was
out of here.

A check of the facility
where Jennifer was staying didn’t turn up any missing patients and
as to getting a list of newly released ones that was a bit harder.
They weren’t allowed to release that type of information unless you
were a family member and with it being the holidays who knew how
many people got bit by the Xmas bug and decided to take their loved
ones home for the holiday. She could be anybody and that’s what
scared me more than anything. The guys on her had already reported
that so far there hadn’t been any movement. She wasn’t making any
plays that I could follow, wasn’t giving me anything.

The phone rang breaking me
out of my reverie.

“Lyon, Travis, those prints
aren’t in any data base in North America bro get me the
face.”

“Damn you did that shit
already?”

“Dad has someone down at
Quantico they put them through VICAP or some shit and came up
empty. Now with the picture it won’t take that long because he has
the face recognition shit at the house.”

“I don’t even wanna know
bro.”

“You and me both so let me
know when you have something for me I’ll be in and out all day my
woman is running my ass all day with this Xmas shit. Maybe I’ll
bring her by to see your girls it’s been a while.”

“They’d love that thanks
brother.”

“
No problem, catch you
later.”

Okay so she’s not a criminal
that’s a good thing I guess but that doesn’t get me any closer to
figuring out who she is and what the fuck she was doing on my
driveway.

I did some paperwork for the
business and got my boys’ bonuses together. I should’ve taken care
of that shit already but with all the shit going on around here I’d
forgotten. Fuck.

I headed back downstairs
with my girls to ask Kat about the shit she had planned.

“Kat where are we with the
Xmas party plans?”

“Everything’s taken care of
Colt geez you’re just now remembering that?”

“When is it
again?”

“Tomorrow night Xmas is in
three days. The moms have it under control they didn’t think I
should have to handle it with the new baby so I let them have it
but next year it’s all mine.”

“Maybe or maybe next year
you’ll have my son and it will be the same story all over
again.”

Damn she still blushes so
fucking cute.

“The baby almost ready for
her nap?”

She bit her lip and looked
up at me from beneath her lashes, she knew why I was asking her
that shit.

“Give her ten minutes she
loves this house I wonder if we can string lights around
it.”

“It’ll melt the shit, call
me when the munchkin goes down for her nap I have some stuff to
finish up.”