Kade (NSC Industries) (25 page)

She grabbed hold of my hips, her fingers digging in
severely as she started to pull out then slam back in. “That’s it baby, like
that.”

She licked her lips as she held my eyes. My neck was
killing but I knew she needed to see me and as she reared up then reached round
and took my cock in her hand, an intense judder ripped through my body and I came
immediately, my balls tightening almost painfully as the shock of my climax
tormented them and my thighs trembled so violently I collapsed and took us both
flat to the bed.

She gasped then choked out a loud feral groan as she
joined me and came hard and forcefully, her fingers digging deeper into my
flesh as she shook fiercely above me.

“Holy fucking hell!” She exclaimed as she pulled out of
me slowly and wrapped herself over my back and brought her arms around my neck
so she could hold me.

I slipped around under her until I was facing her and
pulled her close into my side as I placed a tender kiss on her forehead.

“I didn’t hurt you?” she asked apprehensively as she
peered up at me.

I quirked a brow and smirked at her, “Do I look like you
hurt me?”

She smiled then grumbled when she shifted on the bed and found
the evidence of our love-making. “That’s your side of the bed,” she giggled as
she turned over and claimed the clean edge of the bed.

I laughed loudly and snuggled in behind her, “Ahh, who
gives a shit. So long as you’re here with me; I can sleep on a bit of cum.”

She snickered loudly and reached round to slap my thigh,
“You dirty bastard. Go to sleep.”

“Are you always this romantic after sex?” I asked as she
pushed the arm away that I was trying to snake around her waist.

“I don’t cuddle. Deal with it.”

I chuckled lightly then sighed as I turned over.

She didn’t see my cheesy grin later that night when I
felt her shift in her sleep and her arm meandered around my waist as she
nuzzled against my back.

“Okay, how long will it take to break through?” I asked
Kade as he ran a program that would let me into Liam’s files again.

“Ten minutes, no longer.”

I nodded and rolled my neck, “Are you hungry?”

He smirked and flicked his eyes over my body, “Always,
sweetheart.”

I tutted and slapped his arm, “Hey, this girl is sore.
Give her a break.”

“Can I ask you something?” I probed as we waited for the
software to run its course.

He nodded and smiled in encouragement as he tapped his
knee and I slid across. “You don’t have to answer but, well it’s been something
I’ve been fighting with.”

“Go on.” He urged as he took my hand in his and started
to trace along the edge of my fingers.

“Why… why did you pursue Ava when you knew she was with
Mason?”

He sighed and looked to his lap with a troubled
expression, “Because I fell in love. It was that simple really. Yes, I was
selfish and greedy. I knew she was with Mason but there was something there the
night when I first saw her.”

He pulled in a heavy breath and narrowed his eyes as he
thought back, “Ava… Ava went through some bad shit and Mason wasn’t there for
her. She came to stay at mine and to be honest, I was mesmerised by her. She
was so beautiful to me; I had never witnessed anything like her.”

I nodded, pleased that he could feel open with me enough
to voice his feelings as well as his story.

“I watched her that night as she swam naked in our pool.
Kerrie, my wife at the time, and I were on the verge of separation and Ava
intrigued me. There’s no excuse I can give you, no reason for our, or my
behaviour other than I had fallen in love with her. I needed her; it was like
she controlled everything I did. I couldn’t pull away from her and in her
defence; she did push me away as hard as she could.”

I nodded and sighed, “And now?”

He smiled tenderly as he cupped my chin and brought my
mouth to his for a chaste kiss. “And now I know the meaning of pure beauty. Not
just to the eyes but to the soul. Now, Ava feels, as harsh at it sounds, a fill
in, a substitute until God granted me you.”

I rolled my lips and nudged him with my elbow, “You
cheesy bastard.”

He chuckled and gestured with his chin to the laptop when
it pinged and a boatload of files opened on screen. We both leaned in as I
started to open them and hunt for anything that would give me a clue on Will’s
Mother’s whereabouts.

Kade sniffed loudly then pulled the laptop from my knee
before he started to rapidly hit numerous keys with a deep frown on his face.

“What is it?” I asked as he started hissing forcefully
between his teeth and punch at the keys more quickly and forcefully.

“I dunno. A wall of some sorts blocking Will’s bank
account.”

I reared back and looked at him in puzzlement, “I already
have access to Will’s account. He’s in or rather; he was, in debt up to his
eyeballs.”

“No,” he said as he screwed up his face and typed more
frantically, “This is another account.”

“What?”

I leaned in but all I could see was random data spewing across
the screen with Kade’s desperate attempts to penetrate whatever it was he was
having trouble getting into.

“Fuck,” he seethed when it repeatedly displayed ‘Access
denied’.

He rubbed his forehead and tried again but eventually
slammed his fist against the chair arm. “I can’t get in, I have no idea what
sort of software is protecting it but it’s solid.”

I sighed and tipped my head in thought. Kade slowly swung
his face round to mine and I knew what he wanted before he asked for it. “No.”
I shook my head rapidly, denying him any leverage but he quirked an eyebrow at
me.

“Sweetheart, there is just you and me. I won’t, and
definitely
don’t
want to get involved with a war over a computer chip.
We run it and it gives us access, then we put it back in the ground.”

My teeth were massacring my bottom lip, pain jolting through
me when I caught them on the split that Will had given me but I sighed and
nodded. “Fine, but then we destroy it. It’s taken my family; I won’t let it
annihilate us.”

“Okay,” he agreed as he took my hand and pulled me
upright. “Let’s go fetch it and finish this shit.”

He stared in bewilderment as I reached under my vest and
pulled out my pendant. I took my knife from my boot, which Kade had grumbled at
me for carrying around the house, and dug it into the back, prising it open and
revealing a tiny blue chip which I then handed to him apprehensively.

“You had it all this time?”

I nodded and smiled guiltily. “Only my Father and I knew
where it was. He gave me this pendant for my thirteenth birthday but he didn’t
tell me what it contained until the day he gave me the combination to the
safe.”

He blew out a breath as he took it from me then dug into
his bag for an adapter. He lifted his face and held my eyes securely when he
plugged the adapter into the laptop, “Ready?”

I smiled nervously but nodded firmly. “I need to end this
bitch. She destroyed not only both of my brothers but my life. I won’t let her
take any more from me.”

He nodded and then hit ‘Enter’ on the keyboard as we both
took a deep breath.

“I’m not even sure it works.” I revealed as I watched a
series of files open almost instantly until we were staring at a bank account
in Will’s name.

We both studied it intensely and Kade ran his finger
across a sequence of outgoings that deposited thousands into another nameless
account.

“Looks like he had yet another account” I said but Kade
shook his head as he opened a new window and started to trace the account the
deposits were made into.

“No,” he answered as he peered raptly at another bank
account. “They aren’t made to an account in his name but to an Evelyn Francis.”

I frowned and inclined back so I could see the whole of
his face. He gazed back at me expectantly as my heartbeat started to flutter
dangerously. “I gather that isn’t the name of Will’s Mother?” he asked when he
saw my expression.

“Well… yes, but…”

I felt the shock began to coil my stomach as I stared at
the computer screen. “I need a visual on Evelyn just to make sure.”

He nodded, “I can do that. Give me two minutes.”

My hands started to shake as I watched him start to hack
into files that would hopefully lead us to something with an image ID. I
repeatedly swallowed back the bile as he worked, my blood pressure was reaching
an alarming rate as my brain tried to dissect what information couldn’t possibly
be real and my eyes remained fixed and unblinking with the revelation.

“Okay, there you are.” He said as he leaned back so I
could see.

“No….” My head shook with the rest of my body as my
heartbeat finally peaked and everything swam before my eyes as I looked at a
picture of Evelyn Francis.

“Wait a minute,” Kade said as he peered closer at the
image on the screen. His eyes widened when he turned to me with incredibility,
“Holy Shit, Grace.”

I nodded slowly as goose bumps erupted over my body and
my mind refused to believe what was in front of me.

“Is that…?” he stared at me with his mouth wide open.

I nodded in return as my expression mirrored his, “Evelyn
Francis Iona Beaumont - my Mother.”

The double doors swung back and nearly slammed me in the
face when Grace bounded through them. Each head in the department turned to investigate
the loud bang as I scurried after her, trying to catch up with her and calm her
down but she flung herself through Liam’s door.

He looked up at her, initially frowned then closed his
eyes and groaned.

“You knew, you fucking knew…”

“Calm down.” He tried but she was too fired up to back
down.

“What the fuck is going on?” she barked as she palmed his
desk and leaned towards him angrily.

“Well firstly,” He turned to me with a pointed glare “I
placed superior security on that file, so would you like to tell me how you got
through it?”

I shook my head as he narrowed his eyes on me, “Not
really no, but you know anyway so why bother to ask?”

“Oh Grace, why didn’t you tell me you had it?” He sighed
as he turned back to her with a sad expression.

She snorted loudly and pressed further towards him, “The
same reason you didn’t tell me it wasn’t my Mother who died with my Father.”

“Sit down.” He sighed and tipped his head when neither
Grace nor I bowed to his request. “Fine, don’t sit down.”

He reached into a drawer beside him and pulled out a file
then passed it to Grace. “The dental records from the two corpses recovered at
your house.”

She swallowed heavily and I shifted quickly beside her
when she opened the folder then dropped into the chair he had originally
offered. “As you are aware, the bodies you found were beaten unrecognisable.
Did you never think it funny why, Grace?”

“Well no,” she opened her hands with a slight shrug. “I
just found them both. Marcus was crying and I had more things to think about
than studying their bloody bodies.”

Liam nodded then rolled his lips, “And you never thought
it strange that Will just… disappeared?”

She snorted, “No, Will was Will. He always thought of
himself and I didn’t question the fact that he did a runner so he wouldn’t have
to take custody of me and Marcus.”

She looked down at the file then looked back at Liam and
frowned, “The female body was Will’s real Mother.”

Liam nodded and sighed, “Yes. When she discovered Will’s
whereabouts and got in touch with him, she also found out about the software
program your Father was working on. From what I can gather, she became a
liability to both your Mother and Will. You know about your Mother and Will’s
affair?”

Grace nodded and I settled into the chair beside her and
took her hand, giving it a small squeeze of support.

“Basically, Will and Iona staged her death. They presumed
that all Robert’s fortune would be passed to Will with him being the eldest.”

“But that’s the thing; surely my Mother would’ve been
next in line when anything happened to my Father?”

Liam smirked and then smiled, “You Father was far from
stupid, Grace. He found out about their affair and changed his will, that’s
when you remember all the arguments they had. They both presumed that it would
go straight to Will when something happened to them both. Hence Robert’s death
and Iona’s staged death.”

Grace sighed and held her face in her hands. I admit even
I was gobsmacked and confused with it all, so I couldn’t even begin to imagine
what was going through Grace’s head.

“But surely,” she pondered after a moments silence.
“Surely the coroner picked up on the dental records in the autopsy?”

Liam nodded but then shook his head, “Yes they would have
and that’s why I currently have a team investigating the Doctor who performed
the autopsy, but I know it’s going to lead to either a whole load of nothing or
a huge pay-out.”

Grace stood and started to pace the room agitatedly
before she paused in front of the huge window and stared out over London. “But
Will was unaware that Marcus was his son.”

Liam shrugged, “That is something I can’t figure out
either. Why Iona led him to believe all these years that Marcus was still his
brother is beyond me.”

She remained quiet and pensive as all of us delved our
imaginations and tried to find an answer.

“Because he actually was my Father’s” Grace choked out as
she palmed the window for support.

“What?” I asked, even more confused with every minute
this conversation progressed.

She turned around and the fury on her face stilled the
beat of my heart, “My Dad said on the video he left me that I wasn’t to worry
about Marcus, he wasn’t involved with all this.” She said to me and I nodded in
agreement.