Lyon
Chapter 101

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 f**k 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 f*****g 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.”

“A*****e; 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 f**k 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 a*s 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 f**k, 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 f*****g 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 f**k 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 f**k it and make sure my girls had the best first Xmas together ever. I decided to go with f**k it. Unless something else went to shit between now and then, I was going to stay focused on what was important.