Authors: Jordan Silver
The Billionaire (16 page)
Half an hour later while we were buried in ugliness
Ashley started tossing and turning on the screen. I hit the off switch.
"Be right back guys."
She was sitting up by the time I got there looking
rumpled and just a little lost.
"Hey babygirl had a nice nap?"
"Uh huh, I'm hungry." She rubbed her eyes
like a toddler.
Shit, how the hell had I let time get away from me? I
hadn't made her anything; thankfully mom had prepared meals and stocked the
freezer.
"What'll it be love, we have..."
"Pizza."
"You want pizza?"
She gave me the biggest grin and I was reminded that
the tyrant had forbidden her fast food, so pizza, although not ideal while she
was recovering would be a treat for her, there's no way I was going to deny
her.
"Pizza it is, what do you want on it?"
Her face scrunched up as though she didn't quite know
how to answer.
"How about everything?" I ruffled her hair.
"Okay sounds good."
I lifted the phone and placed an order for five
extra-large pies, which made her eyes pop out of her head, which in turn made
me grin.
"Five pizzas?" She squealed after I hung up.
"My security team is downstairs."
"Is something wrong?" Instant fear.
Will there ever be a time when she didn't show fear?
When her first instinct wasn't danger? I know it's too soon, we've only just
begun although it feels like we've known each other a lifetime. I hate every
moment of insecurity she feels, it's like a stake through the heart.
Sitting next to her on the bed I brought her head to
my shoulder while my hand went to her flat stomach where my son or daughter
laid
;
an innocent just as she'd been.
I needed to make our world just a little safer for my
child and I needed most of all to erase that fear and apprehension from my
loves' eyes.
"There's nothing wrong, they're just going over
the stuff we found earlier that’s all.
"Did you figure it out yet?"
"Not quite baby but we'll get it
eventually."
"Maybe..." Her body trembled slightly as she
broke off what she'd been about to say.
"Maybe what hon?" I kissed her softly in reassurance.
She shrugged before answering me under her breath.
"Perhaps my father might know something, I mean he knew them right, he
must know what they were planning to do with me."
"I'm way ahead of you babe, we're going to
question your father later but we need more first."
I still wasn't telling her about the younger kids
who'd been abducted. First because we needed concrete evidence that the two
fuckers were involved though everything pointed to that fact already, and most
importantly, I wasn't sure how she'd react to the news and with her pregnancy
so new and already threatened I didn't want to take the chance.
"I don't want you thinking about this anymore for
today okay, you just rest."
"But you said I could help."
"And you have love, and tomorrow I'll think of
something else you can do to help, but no more today."
There's no way I'm going to have her in a room full of
men, not while she was looking all vulnerable and sweet and
..
.
fuck
I'm an ass. I didn't want anyone else near her, wasn't
willing to share her just yet if ever and I didn't want to leave her up here on
the computer where she might run across something by mistake.
I couldn't distract her the best way I knew how, not
with a roomful of men downstairs waiting for me, neither was I too thrilled
about leaving her up here awake.
"I'll tell you what babe, how about you watch
some movies and have your pizza while I finish up with the guys and then I'll
come up and
..
." I whispered just what I wanted to
do to her in her ear.
Her face grew beet red and she clapped her hand over
my mouth as if I was in danger of being overheard.
"Gideon..." She was blushing and chastising
me but I noticed her breath was already short and her nipples were pebbled.
"The hell with it." I had her under me,
still being careful of her injuries as I kissed the hell out of her. The
ringing of the intercom from the doorman brought me back to reality.
"Fuck...you're dangerous little Blossom, you made
me forget we're not alone, now be a good girl and give me a couple hours
okay?"
She nodded her head and bit her lip, which made my
cock twitch. I turned away before I lost my fucking head and took her guests or
not. I took care of the pizza delivery and saw that she set up. Just as I was
about to head back down to the office my phone went off in my pocket.
It was one of the guys I had on Lynn. She was supposed
to be moved in a few days and I planned it so that everything went off without
a hitch. I didn't want any trails, there was to be no escape for her ever.
"What's up Skinner?"
"She called a hit."
"She what?" What the fuck? I looked over at
my wife who was too busy enjoying her pizza to pay me too much attention.
"Not to worry we took the call, her line goes
directly to our switchboard."
"Who?"
"Your misses."
Was this bitch psychotic? She was putting another hit
out on Ashley? She was laid up in the hospital and already she was back to her
shit, fine.
"Move to plan B."
"Yes boss."
With this new development although it was likely
impossible that anyone could bypass the safeguards I had in place, I was not
about to leave Blossom's side. I called down and had a private talk with Gage
who assured me that they could handle things without me for now. I told him to
send one of the guys up for the pizza and hung up.
I didn't share any of this with Blossom as I joined
her in the bed for pizza but my ears were pricked for the phone call I was
expecting. It shouldn't take long to introduce air into an IV needle and kill
that evil bitch. So much for trying to be merciful, these people had none and I
was fast finding that when it came to Ashley, neither did I.
"You're tense again Gideon what’s wrong?"
"Not to worry sweetheart, eat your pizza."
She bit into the hot gooey cheese eyes closed a humming noise coming from her
throat. Damn, how could one so young and innocent be so effortlessly sensual?
Her every move made me rampant, like an untried youth
with his first woman. She was hardly through chewing before I was stealing a
kiss. Pizza forgotten we attacked each other’s mouths like starving hounds.
Making sure she was comfortable I crawled between her
thighs and with her head in my hand plundered her mouth. She was always ready
for me, even now when she was hungry for food. There was no, not now Gideon,
just total acceptance. And more than that, she was with me all the way, a full
participant. That kind of acceptance was intoxicating, made me want to be in
her all the fucking time.
"How badly do you need that pizza?" I
nibbled her ear as I ground my thickness against her, letting her feel my need.
"Later, I'll eat later, kiss me."
I was only too happy to comply. Her sweetness went to
my head making me lose my hold on sanity. All I could think of was getting
inside her, having her, owning her.
Our loving was soft and sweet, no rush to the finish.
I poured all the love and devotion I felt for her into my every touch, my every
whisper. And for those moments in time it was just us, me, my wife, and the
miracle that was our love. She refused to release me from her clutches after I
emptied my seed inside her and I was only too happy to stay right where I was
;
buried to the hilt.
The ringing of my phone had me jack knifing off the
bed after giving her a quick kiss and pulling out.
"Thorpe."
"Your wife is safe."
"Good."
I hung up the phone there was nothing else that needed
to be said. Now I needed to pay Sanders a visit to gain some insight into
whatever sick shit the senator
was into.
I was no longer worried about going too far, my
conscience was clear. I'm no vigilante but I understand the concept of doing
whatever it took to keep your loved ones safe.
Blossom had fallen asleep in the short time I'd been
on the phone so I pulled the covers up around her shoulders before going back
to work on the computer. I guess that last round had knocked her out.
Picking up the phone I called Gage once more to make
plans for my visit to Sanders. I will have to put that off for tomorrow. The
new threat to Ashley was still too fresh and I didn't feel comfortable letting
her out of my sight even though Lynn had been eliminated.
I didn't feel one ounce of remorse for her demise. I
might regret slightly the fact that I hadn't been the one to end her, that I
hadn't been able to look her in the eye as I took her life, vicious bitch.
I guess I could have the kid she'd used to hurt Ashley
released, I'm sure he wouldn't be any trouble. The beating he’d sustained
should help him see the error of his ways, dumb fuck.
It didn't escape my notice that we'd been robbed of a
honeymoon. When this was all over I was going to see to it that she got that.
Starting with a wedding that she could be proud of, I'll have to get mom on the
ball for that one
;
just as soon as I cleaned up the
mess that was cluttering up my fucking life.
Blossom slept peacefully that night as I kept watch
over her. As long as her enemies were still alive and free I don't think I'd
sleep comfortably again. Obviously the senator had been grooming her for
something I didn't see him just giving up this easily.
Who knows how much money he'd invested in this thing
or what the hell her virginity had to do with it? I had no doubt that that's
what all the physicals had been about, not to mention the way her father had
raised her.
It's almost as if he'd been rearing her for just the
purpose of selling off her virginity; that alone was cause for me to break his
fucking neck.
There were no reports from the guys on his house, no
red flags, but who knows, the sick fuck could be communicating with the senator
in other ways. I still had yet to decide what I wanted to do with the senator
and the doctor. Full exposure, which might mean getting Blossom involved or
just death; either way they were both
gonna
die.
A man with the senator's power would have a long
reach. It might take years to bring him down and there was no guarantee that he
didn't have safe guards in place to cover his ass. So I had to think long and
hard about where I wanted to go with this exposure thing. I had no qualms about
finishing off a piece of shit child molesting bastard and his sidekick. I just
needed to find all or as many of their victims as I could before making that
move.
This was turning into more than I'd expected or
planned for, but I knew my wife would want us to help the other victims. For
her I would leave no stone unturned. I already had a growing list of missing
children and corresponding flights to Southeast Asia, which told me these
particular
kids
had been taken there. All I had to do
was pick up the trail over there and find them and return them to their homes
if possible.
The thing is, they'd been doing this shit for a very
long time some of these kids will be adults by now, if they were still alive.
One way or the other, whether I ended these monsters
or brought them to justice first I’m going to find a way expose them to the
world for what they are. I just have to figure out how to do it without her
name ever coming up.
I asked my parents to come sit with Ashley, there's no
way I'd leave her on her own, not even with topnotch security in place. I had
to let my father in on a little of what was going on. To say he was displeased
would be a great understatement. Not only because of the horror that I shared
with him, but because this was his daughter-in-law.
If there's one thing you can be sure of with us Thorpe
men, it's the fact that we hold our women in the highest regard, we don't take
any slight or infraction against them lightly.
Mom was kept in the dark, all she knew was that I had
something of great importance to attend to and didn't want to leave my young
injured wife unattended. I had no idea how long my little chat with the asshole
would take but I wanted to give myself as much leeway as possible. This way I
was sure that Blossom would be in good hands.
Mom was all excited to be spending time with her new
daughter seeing as how I'd been hogging her this whole time her words not mine.
"Oh Gideon have you heard, Lynn passed away, some
kind of freak occurrence. She apparently got an air bubble or something and
died, can you believe it, what a shame such a young woman and with so much
potential.
The look dad sent my way told me he had put some
things together from what little I'd divulged and was coming up with some
pretty accurate answers. I just gave him a slight nod to acknowledge him and
kept my mouth shut.
"Blossom's still asleep, I wrote down the
instructions for her medicine. She needs to eat as soon as she wakes up. Don't
let her do too much mom no matter what she says, I'd prefer it if she stayed in
bed for at least another day. You guys can shop online or watch one of the
hundred movies I got her. No heavy discussions I don't want her to worry about
anything until she's back on her feet."
"Gideon good grief I'm a mother, I've taken care
of a sick person before. I promise not to have your Ashley running a marathon
while you're away. Now give me your list of instructions and be gone with
you." Dad laughed at her put upon attitude.
"Thanks mom." I kissed her brow before
heading back to the bedroom to kiss my babies goodbye.
“I’ll be back soon baby, be good for mom okay.” I kissed
her before kissing her tummy. “Bye baby Thorpe. Take care of mommy for me while
daddy’s gone.”
