“What’s this bitch’s number?”
“I don’t know, the number was blocked and I didn’t recognize her voice so it wasn’t one of the others playing a joke.”
I don’t know why the chick in the hospital ran across my mind but she did. The only problem was she was supposed to have amnesia for one and also where the fuck would she get my wife’s number? There was one other person it could be but that was fucked up thinking on my part. Still it bore thinking about after I’d gotten her calmed down.
I didn’t say anything to Kat about my suspicions but I did relax enough to let her lay on my chest without throwing her the fuck off. I keep forgetting how young she is, and how quickly everything had happened between us. I know none of that was an excuse for her doubting me but what the hell else am I supposed to think? We’d met, fucked, got married, and had a baby in a year. Should she have known better? Yes, but she wasn’t me, she was a female and I’d be fucked if I know how their minds worked. My Angel is spoilt as fuck because I can’t stay mad at her for long no matter how crazy she makes me. So I gave in and let her hug me and tried my best not to bite my kid’s mother’s head off for being stupid. I’ll take the hit because what else am I going to do? This is my Kat when she hurts I hurt, that fucking rib is more than a metaphor.
“So you didn’t recognize the voice huh, did it sound like Jennifer?”
“No I know her nasally twang it wasn’t her, this person sounded younger and she laughed when she said it.”
“What exactly did she say?” I held her close as we laid across the bed, her drama over.
“She said that you two were lovers. That you met right after you met me and you realized that you’d made a mistake but then I told you I was pregnant and you had to stay for the baby’s sake. But that’s not all, she knew about the attack. She said you told her and that you felt sorry for me and that’s why…”
“She knew about the attack?” There was a clue in there somewhere but my head was too fucked to think straight right now. I hate seeing her like this and I hate even more that someone had tried to bring discord into my house.
“I’m going to let you have this one but don’t do this shit again. Real men don’t cheat on their wives and they sure as fuck don’t cheat on their families. I thought you knew me better than that…”
“I do I do it’s just, she knew so much and she seemed so convincing.”
“I don’t give a fuck if she knew the length and circumference of my dick you’re the one I’m married to, you’re the one who’s supposed to trust me.”
“People cheat all the time Colt what was I supposed to do?”
“You should’ve told that bitch to go fuck herself I can’t believe you fell for this shit. Look at me, this is the one and only time I’m doing this with you. If there should ever come a day that I no longer want to be with you, you’ll be the first to know. Don’t start that crying shit again. You know I can’t deal with it. I’m not saying that I’m ever going to leave you I’m just saying that in case this person or anyone else like her should get their hooks into you again before you lose your damn mind and forget everything we mean to each other just know that that’s not my style.”
“Okay I trust you.”
“You couldn’t prove that shit by me. You good now?”
“Yes but don’t leave me yet I still feel raw.”
“What you should feel is foolish, that’s like the oldest trick in the book babe, divide and conquer.”
“But who would want to do something like that? It wasn’t Jennifer but could she have got someone to do it for her?”
“I suppose that’s possible but I’m thinking we’re dealing with a whole new breed of crazy on this one.”
“Really, who?”
“The chick in the hospital.”
“Don’t start Colt, she has amnesia for heavens sake. Besides, how would she know me or anything about me? You have got to stop seeing monsters around every corner.”
“Oh yeah? What the fuck you think would call a young mother and tell her the shit you were told today? If that shit ain’t monstrous I don’t know what is. Let me see your phone where is it?”
“Downstairs on the table. Why, what’re you gonna do with it?”
“Well, first I’m going to call the company and have them block all private numbers, then I’m going to see if we can get a trace on it in case this fuck calls you again.”
“Why would anyone do this? I don’t understand, it doesn’t make any sense at all. I don’t know anyone who would want to cause that kind of trouble do you?”
“I already told you who I think this is…uh, uh, uh, save it. I know you think I’m blowing smoke out my ass but I’m telling you there’s something fishy going on with that chick and this shit just adds fuel to the fire. Unlike you I like to use my brain. If this was Jennifer why would she wait this long to act? How would she have your number? Wait, when you said this person knew about what happened to you what did she say about that exactly?”
“She said that she knew how Donna and I led those guys on; how we invited them over and then when they told us that they didn’t want anything to do with us afterwards we lied and said it was rape and attempted rape. Pretty much what everyone back then were saying.”
“Did she know anything that wasn’t in the papers? Like anything that someone that wasn’t there shouldn’t know?”
“Let me think. No I don’t think so, just what I told you, but she seemed really angry about it come to think of it, like it was personal. Do you think…?”
“Okay I don’t want you to worry about it anymore alright.” I knew what I thought but I wasn’t going to argue with her about it.
“You okay now? You need me to prove to you that I’m not out fucking around on you? As much dick as you get I’m surprised you’d think I’d have anything left to give anyone else. Even when you were healing after giving birth and I couldn’t hit it I was here with you every fucking second. You can’t be that gullible babe, that’s how people walk all over you. I expected better from you.”
“I know, now that you put it that way I see how I was stupid, I didn’t think. It’s hard hearing some woman tell you all about how your husband is in love with her and not you. There isn’t much room for thinking when that’s ringing in your ear.”
“That’s no excuse babe you fucked up that’s gonna cost you a gift.”
“No you can’t I’m sorry it’ll never happen again.”
“I hope not, now how’re you gonna make it up to me?”
She went all coy vixen on me. The shy smile, the blush, and her hands on my dick, the trifecta.
“What would you like me to do sir?” Fuck, she hasn’t called me that in a while. Please Caitie bear stay down for at least two hours.
“You can start by taking me into your mouth and getting me hard. Then I want you to ride my cock with your tight ass. Afterwards, we’ll see if that’s enough.”
“What if the baby wakes up?”
“We’ll play it by ear now get to work. Wait I thought the mothers were coming by today?”
“Rain check they had something to do today.”
“Okay cool now, you can get to work.”
I pushed her head down to my cock as I pulled down my zipper and she did the rest. Fishing me out and teasing my cock head with her tongue. I guided her head up and down until my dick was hard as a pike. Pulling her off and up I sat her on my cock going straight up into her ass without lube; that was her punishment for doubting her man without cause.
“Fuck that feels amazing, I love fucking your ass. Is this what you wanted huh? This why you got me home with that bullshit?”
She rode my cock with her ass while I sucked the milk from her tits and it wasn’t long before I was shooting off inside her. My fingers on her clit soon had her following with a scream as she came all over my groin. A firm slap on her ass had her easing off my dick so we could go clean up before the baby woke up from her nap.
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 fuck 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 fucking 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.”
“Asshole; 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 fuck 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 ass 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 fuck, 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 fucking 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 fuck 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 fuck it and make sure my girls had the best first Xmas together ever. I decided to go with fuck it. Unless something else went to shit between now and then, I was going to stay focused on what was important.
My Angel was still feeling a little needy after dinner so I sat on the couch with both of them on my lap. The little one was talking to the fire and eating my shirtsleeve and her mother was sniffing my neck. Fuck me, I’m an old married man. I felt like a Norman Rockwell painting but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. There was nothing I’d rather be doing. Truth is, I couldn’t remember my life before them. And to think I almost wrote her off when we first met; my girl surprises me everyday. I think she’s freakier than even me and that’s saying a lot.
KAT
Colt is really good at easing my fears but he’s a guy he doesn’t understand how it feels to feel like your whole life is being threatened. His answer to everything is fuck it. I wish I could be that brave. He says I insulted him, only Colt would look at it like that but that’s what I love about him. He just always tells it like it is. This girl in the hospital is bothering me too but for a different reason. Here I have so much and she has nothing. Because of me she’s lost her memory and will probably end up spending Xmas alone. I’m sure her family is out there somewhere looking for her and that breaks my heart. She seemed so young too, like my age maybe and that just made it harder. My life has been so full and perfect for the past two years that sometimes I stay awake at night just staring at Colton as he sleeps. Wondering how I got so lucky. Yes he’s gruff and opinionated, and he likes to tell me what to do but I love it. I love the way he’s crazy about our daughter, how that little girl has him so completely wrapped around her little finger that he’d go above and beyond just to make her smile. I can’t believe I even doubted him for a minute but I had no answers as to why someone would want to make up something like that unless they wanted to hurt me. I can’t think of a single soul who would want to do that. Since moving here and marrying Colt, I’ve only been around his friends and family an
d I know none of them would do such a thing because Colt would kill them. There were no ex girlfriends in the picture except for Jennifer and she was locked away somewhere where she couldn’t be a damn menace. Colt said he was going to make sure she never got out, not while his daughter could be a target but I’m pretty sure he couldn’t do that. Then again this is Colt we’re talking about here so maybe I’d hold judgment on that one. Not since that James guy that went and burned himself to death have we had any kind of trouble, Colt sees to that. It might be weak to admit but I love that he stands in front of me, that he wants to take care of everything or as he puts it, ‘ Your job is to look after the kid when I’m not here and make sure she eats and sleeps when she needs to. Other than that, what the fuck else do you need to be worrying about? That’s my job.’ That’s my caveman.
He seems to have put the whole phone call incident behind him but I can’t. When the person first called she’d caught me off guard. Colt was right, I didn’t stop to think, her words just threw me and I went into a downward spiral. The thought of my beautiful husband in love with someone else almost killed me. To lose his love would be the worst thing in my world. There’s no way I could ever survive without him crazy as he is.
I laid awake all that night wracking my brain trying to figure it out but I kept hitting a wall. There just wasn’t anyone I could think of who would want to hurt me. I didn’t leave any friends back in Phoenix, no enemies either except maybe for a few people who were pissed that the police had gotten involved in the whole sordid mess back there. But I couldn’t imagine any of them hating me that much, and besides how would they have got my number? No one knew where I was. Donna had been my only real friend, the only one close enough to know about Greenville. No this had to be someone who knew Colt and wanted him. The thought made my stomach hurt. It’s silly I know but I don’t want other women even looking at my husband. All that stuff he said earlier I know for a fact if the tables were turned he’d have jacked me up before I could talk some sense into him, hah. Once on our honeymoon, some guy was checking me out on one of our few trips into town and Colt went ape shit. I thought he was going to beat the poor guy to death and all he did was whistle at me when Colt had gone to the bar to order our drinks. It’s remembering things like that that helped me put the phone call behind me. Or the way he is with Caitlin, I know Colt would never hurt his daughter in a million years. He was right too; he’s never given me reason to doubt him or his love for me. If anything, he’s overly attentive. Why couldn’t I have remembered any of that earlier? Damn. I’m going to have to make it up to him. The blowjob and hot sex wasn’t nearly enough. He was hard enough to shop for as it was now. I have to come up with something else.
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