The Soccer Mom's Bad Boy (12 page)

I swallowed hard as I felt the sick taste of defeat creep in. “Why are you doing this? Didn’t you get what you wanted?” He took a step closer; I guess he scented victory because the look on his face said he’d already won. I wish like hell I could wipe it off his face once and for all, but I had to think, couldn’t make any rash decisions here.

I was pretty sure there was no way I was gonna leave Dane, or more like he wasn’t ever gonna let that happen, but when it came to Alana there wasn’t much I wasn’t willing to give up. There has to be some way to get out of this mess.

“Joanne is...” He shrugged his shoulder as he came to a stop in front of me. When he trialed his finger down my cheek I actually had to fight back the sick in my throat. Was he insane?

“I still miss you sometimes.” I pulled myself away from his touch and called myself ten kinds of fool for even being here.

“Mark quit it. There’s nothing there, you’ve moved on and so have I.”

“Not with that Dane character you haven’t. Did you really think I’d let you move on with someone like him? Move into a better neighborhood than mine? How would that look? yeah I heard about your little house shopping, but that’s never gonna happen. Why don’t you go for that Trevor guy, he’s always had the hots for you I think.”

That’s when I knew my ex-husband was either sick in the head, or extremely delusional. Trevor was one of those player types who lived off of everyone he could get away with schmoozing.

I checked my watch and saw that way more time had passed than I’d expected. I wasn’t sure what I was going to do, but I knew that my days of cowering from this one were at an end.

“Look I have to go, this was pointless.” I turned to head back to my car but he stopped me. “I’m not playing around with this, there’s no way you’re moving on with that guy. I suggest when you get back to the house that I’m paying for you call him up and break things off or I’ll have you served with papers tomorrow.”

I slammed into my car, a mixture of fear and anger churning away in my stomach. Did most women go through this mess after a divorce? He was the one to leave, why should he have any say in what I do with my life now?

“Crap, please let Dane be late coming over.” Somehow I wasn’t sure I was going to be that lucky.

DANE

I did my usual routine of slipping through the hedge beneath her window and climbing in, but she wasn’t there. “Where the fuck?”

I stopped and listened. The house was quiet, too quiet. There was no one breathing here except me.

I felt my heart kick before I controlled that shit and eased my way out of her room and down the hall to Alana’s room. There’s no way my enemy slipped by me to get to them. Her tracker said she was here, but there was no sign of her.

The place was in total darkness, except for a soft glow that came from a nightlight in the living room. I saw why her tracer lied; her purse was lying on the chair. Fuck! It was the best I could do at the time and since she always carried that thing around with her I’d thought it would do for now until both the bracelets I was having made were ready for them.

Alana’s room was empty as well but that didn’t make me relax any. I made my way back to the bedroom and waited. My radar wasn’t screaming that she was in danger, but I didn’t let my guard all the way down.

I was there two fucking hours, no Ilene. The longer I waited, the more pissed off I became, my mind going places that were bound to get her Fubar-ed. I heard the sound of an engine outside, as I was power napping on her bed waiting for her ass to get home.

I came wide-awake and slid off the bed, positioning myself behind the door with my gun drawn. If anyone except Alana came into this room with her, they were gonna catch lead, fuck the paperwork.

She came into the room with a heavy sigh that sounded like she was tired to the depths of her soul, before dropping her light jacket on a chair and kicking her shoes off.

“Where the fuck have you been?”

“Eeeeeeiiiooouuu.” She jumped a mile in the air before she turned wide frightened eyes on me. She looked so fucking beaten that my anger died a quick death.

“What happened? who fucked with you?” I took her face in my hands so that I could study her eyes; her eyes never lie to me. Whatever anger had grown inside of me in the time I’d been here waiting was long gone.

“It’s not, I...” She broke down in fucking tears and had my guts twisting in the wind. My fighting gene kicked in and I geared up mentally for battle. It didn’t matter what it was, someone or something had made her cry. That thing was gonna pay for this shit.

I took a deep breath and pulled her into my chest, giving her a few extra seconds to get herself together. I can’t do anything else until I know what the hell is going on.

When it sounded like she was winding down I pushed her head back and dried her tears with my fingertips. “Talk.”

She did that female shit like she was trying to decided whether she should tell me or not, like she had a fucking choice.

“Ilene, tell me what the fuck happened, don’t make me have to start guessing because that shit would only get everyone you know fucked up. Better you pinpoint that shit to the one responsible, now who made you cry?”

She gave me the disjointed version of what had happened since I dropped her off. With each word my blood boiled, but I didn’t let on to her. I’ll deal with the fact that she went out to meet that fuck after everything that I’d told her later. For now I had to deal with his shit once and for all.

“Stay here, don’t answer the phone and don’t leave this fucking house for any reason.” I kissed her hard and ignored her cries of ‘where are you going?’ Where the fuck did she think after telling me that shit?

***

I parked away from the house and kept to the shadows as I made my approach. My hand on the hood of his car showed that it was still warm. His slag’s ride was there as well, but that didn’t give me pause. I just might smack the shit out of her too for fucking with my girl.

It was child’s play breaking the lock and disarming the alarm. I wasn’t familiar with the layout of the place so I had to move with caution. I didn’t want them alerted to my presence until I was standing over them.

There was only one form in the bed and close inspection showed it was hers. A quick study of the nightstand explained why she didn’t even flinch when my shadow fell over her. Sleeping aids, perfect.

I didn’t try to be quiet any longer as I walked into the bathroom where the sound of running water came from.

He stood over the sink with a razor in hand. “Wha...?” I didn’t let him finish the word, but grabbed the little fuck up by his scrawny neck.

With my hand tight around his throat I pulled him out of the room. He kicked and squealed to no avail; she was out. Not that I gave a good damn, I was pissed enough to shoot her ass too.

I dragged him down the stairs and out the door into the night. I made my way back to the car and threw him inside. “Give me your hands.”

“No, what do you think...?” A punch to the mouth shut him the fuck up. I let him wipe the blood away before cuffing his hands behind his back and walking around to the driver’s side.

“We’re gonna take a little ride Marky boy. You’re not gonna speak, you’re gonna listen until I’ve had my say. If I don’t like what you have to say at the end of it your existence as you know it will come to a swift end.”

I drove to a place I’d scoped out when I first got here. You never know when you were gonna need a deserted building and in my line of work, shit like that could come in handy.

“What’s this place, why are we here?” I should’ve gagged his ass, but my glare worked just as well. I almost expected soiled drawers when I dragged him out of the passenger seat.

The place was dark and damp, with cobwebs hanging like moss from a tree in the Louisiana bayou. The sound of rats scurrying across the rotted floor had the asshole stepping into my side.

“What the fuck, grow a pair.” I pushed him away from me and led him deeper into the room. I could smell the fear in his sweat.

“I’ll be right back, I’m right outside the door. If you make a sound or try to escape I will shoot your ass no fucking joke.” I had to grab some shit from my trunk to do what I had to do.

It’s a good thing I’m always prepared. I wasn’t expecting to do this shit tonight, but after this, after the shit he’d said to her tonight, I was ending their interaction once and for all.

On my return he was cowering in a corner and I tried not to let my scorn show. I dropped my bag of goodies at his feet and jacked him up again.

“You fucked with my woman you piece a shit?” I could see from his reaction that he’d measured me by his own merit. Not even close.

He opened his mouth until I pointed my finger in his face. “Not one fucking word or I’ll plug you. Like I said, you fucked with my girl that’s a big fucking no-no. What ever you two had is dead, she’s no longer any of your concern. As to Alana, you gave up all rights to her when you fucked her mother over for a piece of ass. I know most people don’t see shit that way, but your unlucky ass is stuck with me.

They’re mine now both of them.” I kicked the bag that was between us. “In there are adoption papers, you’re going to sign them. If or when she asks to see you in the future that would be her choice. Personally, I’m going to make it my job to see that she forgets you because you don’t deserve her.

I hope that pill popping twit you threw them over for is worth it.”

I let him go and stepped back. I wasn’t going to waste my time putting hands on him unless he forced my hand. The boy was weak, and not worth the effort. “Now you may speak.”

“How do you plan to do all this? There’re laws here you know, you can’t just go around threatening people. My daughter is still my daughter even though I’m not with her mother.”

“That’s all you’ve got?” he flinched when I bent over to get what I needed from the bag and I shook my head in disgust.

I held up the papers in his face and watched him swallow and turn white. “Where did you get that?”

“That’s not important right now. What matters is what I will do with this if you don’t do everything I just said. If you see my wife on the street you fucking head in the opposite direction. If you even breathe on her again in this lifetime, I will make it so that you eat out of a tube for the rest of your life, and that’s after I use these to destroy you, you thieving fuck. I’m gonna let what you’ve done so far slide, because you’ve already lost a lot. But you do not want to fuck with me.”

I released his arms and passed him a pen and the papers to sign. He didn’t even try to fight me on this, which made me hate him even more. If some fuck had tried to take my seed I would find a way to end the fucker.

I read the signature to make sure he wasn’t trying to pull a fast one on me, and then re-cuffed him.

I took the gag out of the bag and wrapped it around his face. That’s when he started fighting and I tapped him with the butt of my piece.

The idiot dropped like a stone and I left him there after chaining him to the wall. “Your mother should’ve swallowed, she would’ve got a hell of a lot more pleasure out of that nut.” Dumb ass, he could keep the rats company for tonight; that ought to send the message loud and clear that I wasn’t playing with his ass.

ILENE

I don’t think I took an easy breath until I heard him pull up outside. My mind had gone through every scenario known to man in the last little while. Though I could care less about my idiot ex, I didn’t want Dane getting into trouble on my account.

I met him at the door, my eyes going over him for any signs that he had been hurt. When I was satisfied, I broke down in tears and grabbed onto him.

“Shh, hush, I’m fine, nothing happened.” I searched his face for the truth, it was true that there wasn’t a scratch on him, but he’d been so mad when he left here, that it was hard for me to accept that nothing had transpired.

“You didn’t go see him then?” I ran my hand down his chest.

“That’s not for you to worry about. From now on you don’t think about him, you have nothing to do with him. He contacts you about anything, you pass that shit off to me, no exceptions Ilene.”

I nodded my head against him, just happy that he was safe and not yelling at me for being stupid enough to go meet Mark. I took a deep breath and released the fear that had held me in its grip.

“Are you mad?” Way to go Ilene, remind him that he has reason to be.

***

DANE

I didn’t bother answering her, just lifted her off her feet and headed for the bedroom. I’ll tell her about the adoption papers in the morning since I hadn’t even discussed it with her, and was pretty sure there would be a discussion. A short one of course, but she might want to have her say.

If she’d been watching and listening since the beginning, then she should know there’s no way I was going to leave our daughter at the mercy of that asshole.

For now I just wanted to get inside her and forget all the rest. No words were needed as we undressed each other by the light of the moon. For the first time I took my time with her, not because my heated need for her had cooled in any way, but because she was raw.

Her lips were soft under mine, her plump breasts supple under my hands as I touched her with reverence. She trembled at the whispered words of intent I uttered in her ear.

Swiping the sheet aside, I laid her back against the pillow before coming down next to her. “Open.” She opened her mouth to accept my tongue as my fingers found her heat that was already wet.

Her legs fell open, making room for me to play with her to my heart’s content. With her head in the crook of my arm and our lips feeding off each other, I let my fingers go deep until I felt that telltale tremble that let me know she was close.

“Do you want my mouth?” I nibbled on her ear as she nodded her head and turned her face into my neck.

I made my way down between her thighs, opening her up to my tongue as I took my fingers away from her heat. She writhed and moaned against my mouth, sharing her sweet nectar with me.

She wasn’t shy about taking my head where she needed it, her hands guiding me closer to her. I held her ass in my hands so that I could send my tongue deeper into her as I drank from her.

With one last nibble on her inner thigh, and with her sweet cries of release in my ear, I slid up and into her body. “Look at me.” When her eyes were clearer, I took the hand with my ring on it and brought it up to my lips and bit into it, as I pulled out of her halfway before surging back in.

I closed my eyes against the absolute pleasure and rode her until we both lost control. “I love you, I’ll always love you.” The clenching of her body and her nails digging into me was all the answer I needed.