Total pages in book: 90
Estimated words: 81977 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 410(@200wpm)___ 328(@250wpm)___ 273(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81977 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 410(@200wpm)___ 328(@250wpm)___ 273(@300wpm)
"Gideon, why haven't you been going to work? I'll be fine here by myself if you need to go into the office I'm not a baby you know."
I think I've heard that same refrain at least ten times in two days. I've given up trying to explain to her. Somehow she seems to have been stripped of her fears. Either that or she really trusted me to have the necessary things in place to keep her from harm.
But there's no way that I'm letting her out of my sight right now. The senator has been combing the city in search of something. I have no doubt it's the whereabouts of my wife; apparently her father had one ounce of decency left in him since he hadn't divulged her whereabouts or it seems who she'd married.
It wouldn't take him long to figure that out though, all he had to do was come across the publication with the marriage announcement. There was no telling if Cliff had told the other man that her new husband was onto him and his schemes.
I'm quite sure if he'd given him my name he would've already been looking in my direction, but so far the reports suggested he was walking blind. It's not like he could be hidden, he's a well known figure so wherever he went and whatever inquiries he made would be noted no doubt so he'd have to be circumspect. It remained to be seen if the good doctor was going to join him.
"Come here." I pushed back my chair from the breakfast table where I'd been going over the latest finds from my guys on the missing children. She climbed into my lap and rested her head on my shoulder, so sweet. I went back to what I was doing while she stole strips of turkey bacon from my plate.
She was in one of her cooking moods today, which I wasn't too thrilled about since she was still in a cast; but the girl could be stubborn as all hell.
"Well?" She butted my chin softly with the top of her head like a little kitten making me laugh. She always makes me smile, in fact I don't think I've been this relaxed and at peace in my life until she came into it, which is a fucking wonder with all this shit going on around us.
But somehow when I’m alone with her like this nothing else seems to matter, she makes me feel like a carefree man just enjoying his wife, that's when she wasn't bugging me to get her way that is.
"Drop it Blossom, I'm staying home until you're back on your feet at least. Why don't you go do your lessons so you can send them in today, aren't they due soon?"
"They're done already."
"What, when?" Was she lying to me? I doubt it, for someone who's led such a horrible life she was amazingly honest and open; and so full of love. It amazes me every time that she survived that shit and remained the person that she is.
"I did them all the first day."
"Nerd." I nuzzled her head when I got an elbow to the ribs for my insult.
"It's almost time to go for your checkup I think another day or two." Her body tensed against mine.
"Is he gone?" I knew whom she was referring to and my heart hurt, she was still afraid of her monster. So what was all that talk about me leaving her then if she was still so afraid?
"No baby he's still here but my guys are on him every second he won't get near you ever I promise."
"Would you kill him...if he came after me, would you have to kill him?" Her little body shook as she sat up to look at me.
"Yes." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath before relaxing back into my arms.
"Did we find the others?" I guess that's that, no questions no discouragement she just wanted to know the facts. Maybe it gave her a sense of security knowing that I would go the distance to protect her.
I'm sure she had a pretty good understanding by now of what kind of man the senator was; maybe she knew that his kind could only be stopped one way. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that yet, I would love to see him pay for his crimes before the whole world, fucking bastard.
"That's what I'm reading now, we've found some of them and my guys tell me they've got the bead on others, we'll find them all baby don't fear; even if it takes years I'll never stop looking." I didn't tell her that it was going to take mercenary acts to rescue some of the young girls and boys who'd been sold into sexual slavery. There was one report of a young brother and sister who'd been sold to a husband and wife.