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  They learned just how depraved the Chief had become. His wife is finally talking about all the abuse she has gone through at his hands. They may have lived together and been married, but they had not been intimate since their daughter was born eighteen years ago. She hated the man, and feared him. He would tell her she wasn't attractive and a whole bunch of hateful things to cover up the fact that he was a sexual deviant. Only an animal would destroy someone so dear to them as the mother of their own child.

  The secretary came forward and explained further why he could not be with his wife. It turns out that the chief likes the rough stuff and I am not talking what James does. I am talking beating and choking. Shit that can turn south and kill someone easily. He took women Babikov gave him and raped and killed them as he planned on doing to Emma.

  Apparently Alexander Babikov found out about his cruelty and offered him a deal for helping him gather young women. He would give him as many virgins as he needed. Why he needed virgins? We may never know. James is taking it hard. He blames himself for not seeing through the lies. He's not superman, I tell him often. We all feel horrible that we were not able to save the other women he had killed. We are only human though.

  The bouncer who drugged Emma was picked up and questioned and of course wouldn't talk. Hope went in and read his thoughts and repeated them back to him. He was so scared he confessed to the entire thing and even gave a description of Babikov as the ring leader.

  Faith and I have just been happy to sit back and watch from the sidelines. Faith makes me work out with her in the mornings until we are both dirty and then I dirty her up some more before we get clean. We have fallen into a easy rhythm and I love it. Tonight James and I are taking the girls out and proposing to them. We bought the rings last night and I can't wait to slide it onto her finger.

  We decided to all live here. James is moving his stuff in this weekend and then we are taking the girls to D.C to pick up the rest of their stuff or as much as we can. They are excited to move out here.

  We hired them both, they have some very useful talents that can help us in investigations. James can't wait until Hope is no longer carrying a gun. I can't blame him. Hope and Faith are just happy to use their gifts to help others and not have to hide them.

  Forest has not let Emma out of his sight. Not that I blame him. They will find their way and we will be behind them whenever they need us there. I still wake up in a sweat from seeing Forest on the ground. I came so close to losing him. Gage now has a streak of gray through his hair from saving Forest. We nearly lost him also. I was busy walking through fire, but from what Talon says, Gage's heart stopped for a few seconds and when it started again the gray streak was there.

  I push off from the wall and away from the memories as I finish dressing and throw on my suit jacket. We made reservations at Mon Chalet. A very expensive french restaurant. I don't care where we go as long as I don't have eat snails. That shit is just wrong.

  I am nervous as hell. My hands are shaking. My hands never shake. I walk over to the dresser and pull the small box out from under my underwear. I thought it would be the best place to hide it. I put it in my pocket and walk out into the living room.

  James is pacing and looking as nervous as I am. I walk over and slap him on the back. I lead him over to the bar and pour a couple of shots to take the edge off. He grunts when I hand him his. He throws it back with a slight grimace. I used the strong stuff. One fifty one rum. It will put hair on your chest or in our case it gives us liquid courage, but not enough to impair our ability to drive.

  The ladies walk in. They are wearing identical dresses. One is black and one is white. Sexy as hell, form fitting and a slit up the side. They top it off with stiletto heels. Their long legs look obscenely sexy. My dick is hard and eager for attention.

  Faith walks over to me in her white dress and kisses me softly.

  “Fuck, these dresses need to come with a warning labels for us men.” James says and I start laughing.

  “Yeah, like “how many asses are we going to beat for looking at what is ours” or something like that.” I start laughing when James pales.

  “Maybe you should change baby.” He actually starts to usher her out of the room.

  “No time brother. We will just have to try to control ourselves.” I grab the keys to the SUV we bought for the girls to get around town in. James and I have gotten to drive it only once so I am looking forward to checking it out.

  I take my time driving us to the restaurant. James and Hope are making out like teenagers in the backseat. It will be my turn on the way home. I plan on making her so wet that when I get her home I can easily slide inside of her. I nearly growl at the thought. If she is wearing the bra and pantie set I bought her, I am going to be one happy man. I groan to myself and try to concentrate on what I am doing so that I can walk into the restaurant without embarrassing myself.

  We have had the whole thing planned out. We even came to the restaurant yesterday and paid extra for them to do a little extra something for dessert. The girls are in for a surprise. I can hardly wait. She is everything I ever wanted and I want tonight to be perfect.

  We sit down and enjoy our meal. James and I had the food already selected so it was just a matter of enjoying the meal. We eat and talk. We laugh when we talk about the awkward encounters we have had lately. James walked in on Faith and I having sex in the living room. Faith walking in on James spanking Hope. That one nearly blew up until Hope explained how much she enjoys it.

  We are still laughing softly when the cake shows up. They set it on the table and the girls both gasp. Marry Me is written in white across the chocolate cake. I drop to my knee and pull the box out of my pocket. I flip open the lid and take her hand.

  “Faith, you are the perfect calm to my fire, the soft whisper of sanity to my chaotic world. Not only could I not live without you I wouldn't want to. You make me whole. Please do me the honor of marrying me.” She nods her head as tears roll down her cheeks.

  “Yes.” She finally manages to get out. I slide the ring onto her finger as everyone around us claps and yells congratulations. I am beaming when I glance over at James and he has the same look of happiness. Faith and Hope huddle together to show each other their rings. They are nearly identical. One has pink diamonds around the center stone and the other has blue. Faith's favorite color is pink and Hope's is blue.

  We leave the restaurant and I hand the keys to James. I pull Faith into the backseat. As soon as the car starts moving, I take her mouth. She tastes so fucking good. I run my fingers over her nipples until she whimpers and squirms in her seat. This how I plan to spend the trip home.

  Chapter 14.

  I have her hands cuffed to the bed. Her legs are wrapped around me as I thrust into her moist and tight as fuck pussy. Her body is pink and covered with sweat as we grunt and moan our way to bliss. I lean in and bite her nipple which makes her pussy tighten. Fuck yeah, she is close. I pick up the pace until I am slamming into her repeatedly.

  “Please may I cum?” She asks like a good girl. Always a good girl. I take both of her nipples and pinch hard.

  “Cum.” I shout as I pull on them. She cries out as her pussy walls close in around my cock. Fuck. Every damn time she cums I follow. Why? Who knows. I have tried to stop myself time and again. Every damn time her pussy contracts and spasms, it sends me over.

  Like always, my balls draw up and I feel the cum rising to the tip of my cock. I growl as I spew cum into her in spurts. I rotate me hips to draw out both of our pleasures. Fuck, it is so good. So damn good with her. I never imagined I would find this. I am a lucky bastard.

  In the restaurant earlier I wanted to give her soft beautiful words and all I could get out was a grunt and possibly a wheeze. I felt like an ass there on my knees and unable to find my voice. Thank fuck, she took pity on me.

  “You really want to marry me?” She asked. She didn't even look at the ring, just kept her eyes on me.

  “Fuck yeah.” I said
and that was it.

  “Yes.” She said in a whisper. I whooped loudly and jumped up taking her in my arms and laying one on her. I didn't care that we were in the middle of a fancy place. Her yes is all I could hear as I kissed her over and over before Dagger cleared his throat. I pulled back and smiled at how flushed my woman was.

  It was a beautiful moment that did not get ruined by my lack of verbal skills. All because of this beautiful woman beneath me. I now know what passionate love feels like. I now know what it feels like to give one your very heart and soul.

  I lean down and kiss her until I am thrusting into her again only this time I am going slowly. I want to savor her. I start to grind up into her, when my phone starts to ring. If it is Dagger wanting to see if we want ice cream again I am kicking his ass.

  I growl as I pull out of her. Fuck. I am killing whoever that is. Hope whimpers.

  “I know baby. I will take care of you after I kill whoever is on the phone.” I kiss her softly. The phone stops ringing as I stand. Still I walk over to my pants and pulled my phone out. It was Talon. It starts ringing again in my hand.

  “What?” I growl.

  “Get to Forest's house now. He has a man pinned down with every wild animal in the area surrounding him. He tried to take Emma.” Holy fuck. I start pulling on my pants.

  “On my way.” I hang up and walk over and remove the cuffs for Hope.

  “What's happening?” She asks as she pulls on some jeans and a t-shirt. I love that she follows my lead without even knowing why.

  “Looks like someone tried to break into Forest's house. He is pinned down by every animal in the vicinity. Three guesses who would want to break into Forest's house and for what?” I end up growling the last part. She rolls her eyes.

  “She saw his face. I knew it was only a matter of time. I just wonder if he would trusts someone else to do it for him or he would want to do it himself.” That is the million dollar question. We strap on our weapons and head downstairs to let Dagger and Faith know where we are heading. We get to their bedroom door and hear Faith shout out Dagger's name, followed by her name from him. We start laughing. That shit is funny as fuck. Hope is doubled over. Fuck, too bad I don't have time to have fun with this.

  “Dagger.” I say trying hard to control the laughter.

  “What the fuck, asshole.” Dagger shouts. Hope laughs harder.

  “Alexander made his move tonight. Forest has someone pinned down. We are heading out now. I will let you know what I find out as soon as I can.” I shout through the door.

  “Please do. NOW GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE.” Oh yeah, we have pissed him off. He'll get over it.

  We get to Forest's house and it is just as chaotic as the last scene. Animals are everywhere. Forest is pacing back and forth near a prone figure. I walk over to him slowly so I don't spook him. He acts like he is about to climb the walls.

  “Forest.” I say until he looks up at me.

  “He is the one who shoved his cock in her mouth and made her lips bleed. He slapped her and kicked her.” He starts pacing as he lists the scumbags crimes. It is clear immediately that it is not Alexander Babikov. Damn, I was really hoping this was the end. I look over at Faith. She nods that she understands completely.

  “Either let the animals finish him off or let me in so I can cuff him and take him away.” A giant dog, Great Dane I think, is sitting on top of him. If it was any other time I would be on the ground rolling around laughing. I walk over to Forest. I need him to know it is his choice. Fuck my office. This is his One. I now know what that means.

  “Your call Forest. You want him dead or prison? In prison he will suffer for a long time. Other inmates hate those in for sex crimes. I can spread the word in the prison. He will get a taste of his own medicine.” I know I am a vindictive fuck but this is my family. These people picked the wrong people to fuck with.

  “Yeah, I want that.” He says with a break in his voice because his emotions are getting the best of him. I slap him on the back. He calls the dog off and I immediately put a knee in the asshole's back so he doesn't move. I call Hope over. I cuff him as she goes through his pockets.

  “Go check on Emma.” I tell Forest. He nods his head and walks away as Hope pulls out a hypodermic needle filled with something, several guns and duct tape. He planned to drug her and tape her so that she wouldn't make a sound if the drugs wore off. I curse out loud. That is why I sent Forest away. If he saw all this it might have changed his mind.

  Roberts is just pulling up in his squad car as I walk the perpetrator to the front yard. Thankfully the animals have scattered. Hope has bagged all of the evidence from his pockets. I walk him over to the police cruiser and put him in the back. He doesn't say a word as his rights are read to him. I am sure this is nothing new to him.

  As soon as Roberts pulls away I walk into Forest's house. He sitting on the couch with Emma in his lap. She looks pissed.

  “I want five minutes with that asshole.” She says. I smile at her. This girl has spunk. I like that.

  “I can arrange that.” I tell her. Forest growls.

  “You will be with me. I promised you I would never confront any of them without you.” She kisses him softly. Wow, Forest is the only one I have never seen with a woman. It is great to see. You can see the love they have for one another in their eyes. I look over at Hope and smile.

  “I can arrange for you to have five minutes alone tomorrow. Just don't kill him or I have to explain it.” Forest nods his head. I turn to leave.

  “Just remember to spread those rumors wherever he ends up.” Forest says. I don't even turn around.

  “You got it.” I say as I grab Hope's hand and lead her out to the car. Talon is standing there.

  “They will try again won't they?” He asks.

  “Yeah, they will.” I don't even try to bullshit. He would know if I did. He already knows the answer.

  “Let's hope the bastard gets impatient and comes himself. That is the only way we will get this fuck.” Talon nods deep in thought.

  “I am going to stay close. I need to protect him like I should have when he we were younger.” I look at him trying to figure out what he means. He walks away before I can ask. Damn, I hate feeling like I'm missing something. Hope looks close to tears.

  I get her in the car and turn to her.

  “What is it baby?” I grab both of her hands.

  “I normally can't read a Psion unless he is projecting. Talon was projecting very loudly because he is upset. Forest was abused when he was young and Talon feels guilty that he was not there. That is all I can say. I will not go into details of what Talon was thinking. I will never betray them by telling anyone what I saw.” A tear slips down her cheek. It must have been bad. I kiss her soft lips.

  “Let's get home baby. I know you have to be as tired as I am.” She nods. I would never want her to tell people if she saw something I wanted hidden, so I will not ask her what she saw. I start the car and drive us home. I am so thankful that things have turned out the way they have.

  Epilogue

  It has been a month since I met Dagger. Not a day has gone by that I am not thankful. He is such a wonderful man. We have been very happy together and I know we always will be for the rest of our lives.

  My sister and I are waiting as patiently as we can outside of the guest bathroom. Why the guest bathroom? because the men are taking showers. It gave us enough time to prepare our surprise. I am so nervous. I keep biting my lip and Hope is twirling her hair around her finger, showing she is just as nervous as I am. The timer beeps.

  I open the door and look down at the counter. I look up and smile at Hope. She is beaming as well. The guys choose that moment to come into the hallway.

  “What are you two up to?” James asks as props his hip against the doorway. Dagger just raises an eyebrow. I shrug at Hope as I hand my gift to Dagger. He looks down at it and smiles.

  “Is this what I think it is?” James asks Hope. She nods.

  “D
oes this say what I think it says?” Dagger says. I start giggling.

  “Yes, Daddy.” He and James whoop loudly before pulling us into their arms. I nuzzle Dagger's neck.

  “You have made me the happiest man in the world.” I smile up at him as I raise up on my toes and kiss him. He groans a deepens the kiss.

  “You know this means we are getting married much sooner then you wanted. You get two months. That's it. My baby will have my name.” James says. Hope and I smirk at each other. We had been anticipating this reaction.

  “That is great. Our parents will be here in two weeks. How about then?” Hope tells him. He doesn't say a word he just scoops her up and carries her away. I know exactly where he is taking her. I giggle until I am being lifted off my feet.

  “You think you're so sly.” Dagger growls.

  “What do you mean?” I play innocent.

  “You two had this all planned out didn't you?” I squirm in his arms.

  “Maybe.”He slaps my ass and I squeak. I am laughing and smiling up at him until he stops and puts his hand on my still flat belly.

  “My baby.” He whispers. It is one of those moments in time that makes life worth living. Seeing the reverence and awe on his face is completely priceless. I put my hand over his.

  “Our baby.” He takes my mouths and feeds on mine as if he is desperate for a taste, as if he would perish without it. This is what I love most about Dagger. He cherishes me. That is all a woman could ever want in this world. We dream of finding someone who understands us and loves us unconditionally. I have found that in Dagger. I plan to show him every day how happy he makes me. I pull my shirt off as he carries me to our bedroom, where he will spend hours showing me how much he loves me. I am one lucky woman.

  Sneak Peak

  Chapter 1.

  I sit back in the corner and watch as Graham chases after his girlfriend. Though I am confused by what happened, I am extremely happy for him. He always seemed so sad and now I know why. He had been missing the love of his life. I wonder what that would feel like. To be able to trust someone with your heart or better yet, to reciprocate. I have never been able to trust anyone to get that close to me. Men scare me. If I had thought Graham was straight I never would have gotten close to him.