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If Thatcher wasn’t unstable and emotionally void, I’d shove him off my fucking porch.But seeing as he was likely to put his gun in my mouth and make me choke on it, I didn’t.
“Don’t call her a cunt,” I said, trying to control my anger.“She’s Sarah’s aunt.Sarah adores her.She misses her.I don’t want her here, but if I want my daughter to be happy, I have to let Oakley come here when I go out of town.”
“And you want me to believe your dick doesn’t get hard when she enters a room?Because mine is from the brief five seconds I got to see her.”
Fucking hell.Did he have to keep talking about her?I knew what she looked like.We all did.She’d been in our lives since Wells had brought her into it eleven years ago.He needed to focus.This wasn’t a regular work trip.There was real shit we had to deal with.The dangerous kind that I normally didn’t get a front row seat to.Not the way Thatcher, King, and Storm did.
“My dick stopped responding to her years ago,” I lied.
“Of course it did,” he drawled.“Whatever shit you tell yourself, no one else believes it.At least not when it comes to her.”
“Can we please stop talking about Oakley?”I bit out.
He crossed his arms over his chest.“Miltos have moved into our turf with their laced shit.Crack that’s causing hallucinations and cannibalistic behavior.We need it shut down and moved out.The Feds are only in our pockets if we keep the rest out.Especially bad press, like this is causing.Boss wants them out.He said he’d send backup if we needed it.To start, Levi mentioned you going in and breaking into all their servers, phones, et cetera, and freezing them out.We infiltrate that way first, and then we use brutality.”
Fuck.This was bad.If Blaise Hughes, the boss, was now offering his main hit men and Levi Shephard had stepped in, then things weren’t good.It had been a while since we’d had issues in Georgia.At least of this magnitude.Typically, it was the Southern Florida area that had the most bloodshed.
“Where am I wanted then?Do I go to the mountain and break into their security?Because I thought I was supposed to head back to Vegas today.”The mountain was a hidden location the family kept with the main computer equipment used to do the more intense cyber work.
Thatcher motioned toward the black Cadillac Escalade he was driving.“You’re going with me.Our dads are waiting on us at the Atlanta house.The plan is being put in place now.”
I glanced back at the house.“How long are we going to be gone?”
“A week, maybe more.Depends on if things get interesting or not.”
Only Thatcher would think this could be interesting.Deadly, yes.Not the kind of interesting I enjoyed.Unlike him.
“Thanksgiving is in eight days.”Even as I said the words, I knew it didn’t matter.Not in our world.
The family came before all else.Holidays didn’t rank.
Thatcher just stared at me as if I hadn’t spoken.
“I’ll go tell Oakley it could be longer,” I finally said.
He nodded.“Yeah, you do that.I’ll wait in the vehicle.”
I pointed at Oakley’s car.“If you could unload all the shit in her car first, then it would make things faster.”
He didn’t reply, but headed in that direction.Sighing, I turned and walked back into the house.Explaining that I might miss Thanksgiving was going to be hard.Sarah needed me this year.Especially this year.
The laughter in the kitchen was mingled with the Christmas music playing.Sarah was stirring a bowl of something while Oakley stood behind her, singing along loudly in her ear.Belladonna was on the floor, chewing on some toy I hadn’t seen before.
All three looked up at me and stopped what they were doing.Oakley’s smile fell.
“Is everything okay?”she asked, picking up on my mood without me saying a word.
I dropped my gaze to Sarah.“Can I talk to Oakley for a minute?”I asked her.
She shrugged, then glanced up at me.“Sure.That’ll stop the torture she was doing to my ears.”
Oakley tickled her, making her giggle.“My singing isn’t torture,” she teased, then wiped her hands on the Rudolph apron she was wearing before heading toward me.
I nodded my head to the doorway, then left the room, hoping she was following me.When I heard her footsteps on the hardwood, I continued to the living room.I didn’t want to chance Sarah overhearing anything that she didn’t need to.
Finally stopping, I turned around to see Oakley looking concerned.She even looked stunning when she was worried.Not that I cared.I was just a man, and it was hard not to notice all the small details with her.Which was not the reason I needed to speak to her.
Focus, dammit.
