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“I’m sorry.” Parker told Sebastian that he was as well. “You’ve taken care that myself and my sister are safe, haven’t you? I don’t want to be cold, but that’s all I can think about is how my sister isn’t going to have a good life because of the things that you’ve decided about me.”
“It’s all done now. No one will come after you or your little family. That would include your sister—who is not your sister, by the way.” Sebastian told him that he knew that as well. “There is some paperwork on the two of you that I’ve had researched in full. Also, on the woman who claims to be your mother. She isn’t in the event you didn’t know that.”
“I’m aware of her deceit. Also, that of her brothers.” Parker leaned back on the chair again and nodded. “She’s going to prison. Her and the other two for their partnership in killing off my grandfather.”
“I’m going to tell you something. Something that I’ve done for you, young man. They’ll never make it to prison. Before you get upset with me for telling you that, I’d like to tell you what I’ve found out that no one else will be able to. The woman of the couple that she killed when she took you was my family. My cousin Veto and his wife Carolyn Roman.” Toby looked at Sebastian, surprised. “Yes, I can see by the look on your face that you’d not known that part. I hadn’t either until I sent someone out to find your biological family. It was my intention to introduce you to your long-lost family today when I got news of how you were related to me. Veto, he knew that the child that his wife carried wasn’t his either. But it made no difference to him. He would have raised you to be his son, and no one would have questioned him about it. Berkely raped Carolyn just after she and Veto got engaged. That, as they say, changed the entire course of the river that I was willing to let flow on. Then Heather came along and decided to tear our family up even more. When she murdered them for no other reason than greed. And today, before you leave here, if not already, she will understand what it is to mess with someone with my connections. I might well have let the men go, but they, too, had a hand in her killing them as well. My cousin and his wife they were only in their twenties, their entire lives ahead of them, when she decided to kill them and then kidnap you.”
Sebastian sat down on the chair that was behind him. Parker sat up and reached for his hand. Once he had it in his own, he smiled at Sebastian, continuing his story about what it was he had found out.
“Carolyn was my godchild. Her father was my father’s partner in crime, so to speak, when they were children. Carolyn was their only child, and it broke both her parents when they found her body. She had murdered them in such a way that it was difficult to understand that she was a person, much less a new mother. Even if Veto had not been related to me, I would have done the same thing because of her relationship to me.” Parker eyed them both. “Are you upset with me?”
“No.” Sebastian got up to pace, and when he stopped suddenly and turned to Parker, it startled them both. “You did this because you wanted me to be out of harm’s way. Or have an alibi when they were killed. Which is it?”
“Both. If you remember, you were supposed to meet her this morning at the jail.” Sebastian said that he had forgotten. “Yes, I thought you might have. I knew what her plans were from the start: to get you to come to the jail to bail her out. I wasn’t sure you’d do it. Mother/son relationships can be tricky. But when I called you to tell you that I was going to be here this morning and it would be the only time we could meet, it was to get you here and to both give you an alibi as well as out of harm’s way. Her brothers are going to be killed as well. I didn’t want anything to happen to you or your lovely wife.”
“So we’re related. I’m not sure how to take that. I mean, you did have my wife and child killed when I turned you down coming to work for you.” He told him that he’d not done that. “You’re going to tell me that Heather had something to do with that as well, aren’t you? After all the things that I’m finding out about her, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least bit that she did it.” Parker said that the police would go over her involvement in his wife’s death when they leave here. “I never thought that I would have a family around when I was a child. Now it seems as if they’re coming around all over the place.”
“Yes, we are a large family. And they are your family, too.” He nodded, and the room was suddenly filled with men and women welcoming the two of them to the family. “I wanted them to get to know you in a way that I cannot. These are my closest relatives, and they know the story behind what happened all those years ago. If you are ever in need of anything at all, you are only to call one of them, and they’ll make it happen.”
Toby wasn’t sure that she liked this. First of all, all the people. She didn’t get along well with people in the first place. To have as many as thirty just there was almost too much. Staying where she was, she thought that she could get a handle on things much better, right up until Parker’s mother came to sit beside her.
“My mother doesn’t speak English well. She told me all my life that she thought it was a guttural language.” Parker laughed. “But she has since changed her mind. Anyway, she would like to meet your and Sebastian’s son. I’m to understand that he is here getting a checkup?”
“He is. My grandfather and he are in the cafeteria. I can call him if you want.” Parker said that would be good. After calling her grandda and telling him what was going on, he said he’d join them in the room. “There are police here too. Are they here to confirm things the way you want them?”
“Yes. The staff, too. I don’t want anything to happen to my new family.” She thanked him. “What is your opinion of Heather and her brothers? I want you to be honest with me, young lady.” She said that she wished she’d thought of having them taken care of. That had Parker laughing as hard as she’d ever heard anyone laughing. “Thank you for your honesty. I have a feeling that you would have been anyway if I’d not asked. But this is beautiful. Thank you.”
They talked for a bit more. And when Kelly was brought into the room, Grandma Ramon held him for a few minutes, fussing over his little man’s clothing of jeans and a small tee shirt, Parker told her until he was laid in the sick man’s lap.
“I don’t want to hold him too long. The chemicals they give me, I don’t want him to breathe them in. But he is a handsome little man, isn’t he?” Toby agreed. “Oh my, to be able to see him growing up. I’ve been keeping an eye on Sebastian since the day I asked him to work for me. I made a mistake in letting him believe that I had killed his wife. I should have come clean the moment it happened. But I was just finding out that I was at the end of my life, and I—well, I guess you could say I got distracted somewhat. But the police, they have all the information that he’ll need or want on how it happened.”
“Can you tell me? So that I can be prepared for his questions when they come?” Parker told her what he’d found out after handing Kelly back to her. “So she gets it in her head that no woman is good enough for her son because she wants him to only have her to worry about. That’s the stupidest reason I’ve ever heard for killing a woman and her child. She’s a sick fuck if you ask me.”
“Oh, but you don’t know the half of it. She has murdered for a good deal less than that. Money was always the biggest factor in her dealings. I’ve never met nor heard of a person like her. Her death will come as no surprise to many people, but the fact as to how it is told that she dies will make others know she got just what she deserved.” She asked Parker how she was to die. “I can’t tell you that. But I want you to be as surprised as the rest of the world will be. If that’s all right with you. She was a monster, as you know. Her death and that of her brothers will go down as the most justified deaths of all time. Trust me when I tell you, she will suffer badly for her part in Sebastian’s life. And that of little Daisy. Will you be bringing her home to live with you?”
“I don’t know. I mean, we never got that far about discussing her living arrangements.” She eyed him with a cocked brow. “You took care that she has money in her accounts, haven’t you? You know Caleb’s mother, too, if I don’t miss my bet.”
“Formidable woman, that one. Yes, I knew her. The world lost a great champion when she passed away. While I’d like to tell you we were good friends, we more tolerated each other. She knew of Sebastian and my—let’s call it hold over him. She found me one night in less than good circumstances, and I ended up owing her. Not to hear her say it, but I did. So when she came to me about little Daisy and her family, she, well, she put me in the direction of finding out that Sebastian was a part of my family. And before you ask, if you were, yes, I took care that Howard Berkely hurt no more women.” Toby was surprised by that. And told Parker that. “Good. I like it when I can get something ahead of you. You’re going to go far, I think, my dear, and I shall miss it.”
“I’ll keep you informed.” They were both laughing when Sebastian brought her a large platter of food. As she was feeding herself some of the more delicate items on the plate, Parker told Sebastian what he’d done to help the world out with Berkley. When Sebastian started taking notes, she knew that he was going to take it all to Caleb. Toby thought that everyone would be happy about that information, too.
~*~
Exhaustion hadn’t been as hard on him as it had been for the last several days. They were both working hard, getting things lined up and straightened out with their individual wealth. Settling up affairs about the house and joint accounts. Toby had a great deal more than he did, but it didn’t bother either of them, so they just combined everything and took care of the bills together. Like a real family would do, he supposed.
“What do you know about investments?” He told Toby that he had been doing them since he’d been in grade school that his grannie had taught him. “Good. You can take over for the guy I used to use. He’s retired now, and I don’t want to have to mess with it if I don’t have to. Unless you’d rather not.”
“No, that’s wonderful. I can do it easy. A few hours a day, and then I can have the rest of the day to hang out with family.” When Toby went into the bathroom, he stripped down to his boxers and sat on the side of the bed. He could have fallen asleep right then, but he heard the door open behind him. Without turning, he spoke to her. “I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to get over being this tired for another thirty years. Even my hair feels exhausted.”
She didn’t say anything, and he turned just enough to see her standing in front of the bathroom door. Turning fully to see if she really was naked, his cock stretched like it was going to track her. As she shimmied, he had no other word for how she moved across the room toward him. He watched as she sat down between his legs and pulled his boxers down.
“Are you too tired for me to do this to you, Sebastian?” She took the tip of his cock into her mouth and licked his crown. He realized then that he wasn’t nearly as tired as he had thought that he was and put his hand on the top of her head. “No, don’t touch me. I’m going to do things to you that will have your eyes rolling to the back of your head and your cock filling my mouth. I also want you to come all over me. Would you like that?”
He nodded, not even sure what he was agreeing to. His mind was so centered around her being where she was. When she took his cock from his boxers, he nearly cried out when his tightly filled balls got a little pinch from her pulling the boxers down his hips. Pulling them free of his body with her help, Sebastian was sure that she had been planning this for a while. She seemed to have all her moves worked out in order to give him the most pleasure he’d ever had during sex.
She cupped his balls in her hands as she sucked on his cock. The motion of her head going up and down, like he was fucking her had him dizzy with pleasure. Each time she gave this balls a small tug, he felt the climax that was coming over him back off. Even gripping the side of the bed, tearing at the sheets beneath him, Sebastian couldn’t keep up with her movements. She was, he thought, trying her best to kill him.
Her body was slick with sweat. His was, as well. The need to come was hurting him in ways that he’d never felt before. Each time she moved her mouth over his cock, he knew a whole new meaning to the phrase sucked him dry.
