Lyon
Chapter 109

“F**k me.” I ran my hand over my face as my mind raced. Everything in me wanted to run back to the house, bundle them up and take them the f**k away from here. The other side of me wanted to snap someone’s f*****g neck in half.

“I’m calling a meeting. You go drop the tree off and meet me back here in ten.” I pulled my phone and called Paul, one of my crew, and told him what I needed.

Jared and I headed back in the direction of the house. He broke off and went to his truck while I stood at the back of the house and looked back towards the woods trying to figure out what, if anything, whoever had been out there, had been watching.

We hadn’t been spending as much time back here because of the change in the weather but could they see into the kitchen and if so why the f**k would they want to?

I knew who was behind this. There was no doubt in my mind that it was the chick that was on my driveway, but in the off chance that I was wrong or that for whatever f****d up reasons she might have an accomplice, I had to be careful.

One thing was certain after the initial gut punch. I wasn’t leaving my home because of some sick f**k, f**k that. I’m not uprooting my daughter and hiding her away somewhere. I had more than enough security around this place so that no one could get near my house without alerting me.

The first thing I needed to do was reinforce the fence running along the back of the woods and do it in a way that Kat wouldn’t suspect. That should be easy. All I had to do was tell her that the fence had come down or some shit.

They didn’t have anything planned in the next few days that entailed her leaving the house without me, so that was covered and I planned on having people around them at all times from now on until I got to the bottom of this fuckery. The trick was how to do it without alerting her to the danger.

“Colton what?”

“F**k baby, back inside.” F**k, I scared her. She closed the door but stood there looking at me like a deer caught in headlights while I tried to calm the f**k down. Way to go Lyon. Way to not alert her to what’s going on.

I went to her and pulled her into my arms while easing her away from the glass enclosure without being too obvious about it.

“I’m sorry Angel, I didn’t mean to scare you.” I squeezed her, folding her tighter into my body. The thought of her being in danger scared and infuriated me in equal measure. Nothing was going to f**k with her, not now… not ever. I pulled her head back and kissed her before placing it back on my chest.

“Colton, what’s wrong?” Think fast Colt; don’t f**k this up. “Nothing’s wrong Angel, my mind just wandered there for a minute and you spooked me.”

“F**k me.” I ran my hand over my face as my mind raced. Everything in me wanted to run back to the house, bundle them up and take them the f**k away from here. The other side of me wanted to snap someone’s f*****g neck in half.

She leaned back and looked up at me. I put a scowl on my face to let her know I didn’t appreciate being spooked. Better that than letting her see what was really going on inside my head.

“It’s all that crap you read. I told you to stop reading that stuff. You about scared me half to death.” I hugged her and kissed her again to farther dispel any suspicion.

“I’m sorry babe, maybe you’re right. Maybe I need to lay off a bit. Listen, the guys are coming over to help me out a little before we have to leave for the hospital.”

“Help you out with what? You guys gonna strap on the aprons and bake some cookies?” She grinned up at me just asking for trouble. I guess it’s a testament to her affect on me because even with all the shit going on in my head, I wanted her. With one last k**s on her nose I eased her away.

“Funny, no, we’re going to repair the fence. I think the last snow tore down parts of it.”

“You guys have to do that today, can’t it wait?”

“Nah babe, I want to get it done before the next storm comes and f***s the whole thing up. It won’t take long with all the guys pitching in; not to worry we’ll be done in more than enough time. Mom and the ladies still in there, right?”

“Yeah, we’re having a blast. We ended up making way more than we’d planned to but hey it won’t go to waste right.”

“Okay I’ll be out here, where’s Caitie bear?”

“Sitting in her highchair fighting sleep.”

“Her grandmothers are probably making my poor kid crazy.”

“No, they’re fine. She’s keeping everyone entertained with her new words she’s such a showoff.”

“What new words?”

“Calm down, she hasn’t learned anything new, she just thinks she did. She’s babbling the way she always does when we’re cooking.”

“Oh okay, you videoing?”

“I didn’t think of that.”

“Babe, what did I say? We have to get all this shit on tape. This is part of the whole holiday thing right?”

“You’re right, I forgot, I’ll go get the camera. Don’t take too long, we don’t want to be late getting to the hospital and stuff.”

“No worries babe, we’ll be done.”

I knew what I needed to do, what I was thinking of doing. Since there was no way I was leaving the house with this shit fresh in my mind, I called Jared to pick up some supplies on his way back.

“Colt, I think electrical fencing is illegal in residential areas or some shit.”

“I give a f**k, bring it. Home Depot carries what I need. We don’t have time to run the lines so we’ll go with the solar operated one for now. It doesn’t pack the same punch but it’ll get the job done if the bitch tries cutting through it again.”

“Okay I’m on it. I hope they don’t ask me what I’m using it for.”

“If they didn’t want people using it they shouldn’t be selling the shit in my town.”

***

The guys started showing up one by one a few minutes later.

“What’s up boss?”

“I’m cool Tommy you?”

“I’m cool, Linda’s on my a*s about baking pies and shit so I’m kinda glad you called and got me out of that fuckery.”

“I hear that, Elena and her crew are in there helping Kat; ran my a*s out the house.”

“Shit smells good though, your mom making her shoofly pie?”

“Smells like it, she was supposed to be teaching Caitlin how to do it.”

“How’s my little darling doing?”

A smile broke out across my face. My crew knows how I am about my little princess. They’d only just stopped teasing me about it in the last few months.

I use any excuse to break out the pics or go on about her latest achievement. Of course every once in a while I have to kick somebody’s a*s to remind them that although I might’ve gone soft over my girls I’m still the same hard a*s.

“Her mother says she’s in there fighting sleep. So when are you and Linda gonna get started on yours?” It felt strange having a normal conversation with all this shit going on but I was only explaining that shit once so I might as well pass the time until the others got here.

“It’s all she can talk about. I think your wife lit a fire under her a*s or something. You know she wanted to finish getting her masters. I guess she figures she can do both just fine now.”

“I’m happy for you, best thing I ever did.” I ignored his disrespectful smirk when I heard the others coming around the side of the house. I’d told them to meet me out back so we could avoid nosy a*s Elena and her shit. If anyone could ferret out shit, it would be her, or she’d sic Char on our asses to figure out what we we’re up to.

“We’re just waiting on Jared to get here and then I’ll tell you guys what’s going on. Any of those nosy a*s women come out here we’re fixing the fence that’s it.”

“I don’t know boss. If they offer me some of whatever smells so damn good coming out of there I might spill my guts and I don’t even know what the f**k this is about.”

“Zack, we’ll feed your greedy a*s in a bit. Kat said they made extra; shit here they come.”