by Lila Fox
“How are you doing?”
“Good. David, why are you here?”
He set her away from him. “Travis needed my expertise.”
Travis came and wrapped an arm around her waist. She smiled up at Travis when he snorted.
“So, you work here all the time?” she asked.
“Yeah. I really like it so far.”
“He has been an asset to the team,” Travis said.
David grinned at him. “Look at you being all sweet.”
Nia laughed when Travis grunted out a swear word.
“Are you headed out, sweetling?”
She grinned at David. “Yes. I know you’re not out in the public like you were, but you still need to watch it.”
Both men chuckled.
“I promise. I don’t trust anyone. Not even little old ladies.”
She nodded. “Good. I hope I get to see you again.”
“I’ll be around,” David said before he waved and walked off.
“Come on, sweetheart. I’ll take you back to our place.”
Nia saw the look on the secretary’s face and fought not to flinch at the hatred. This was definitely something she needed to talk to Aleena about.
She felt the stares they got as they walked down the hallway toward the elevators. It was disconcerting and a little funny that Travis didn’t seem to realize the attention they were getting. Or he just didn’t care. She guessed it could be a bit of both.
He pulled her into his arms when they got through the door and kissed her like he hadn’t just made love to her in his office.
“I’ll see you in a few hours, baby.”
“Okay.”
After he left, her thoughts ping-ponged between the secretary and the other women the receptionist had told her tried to get him all the time. She was anxious and didn’t know what to do about it.
Maybe Aleena would have some ideas for keeping Travis happy, so he wouldn’t want to go to another woman. She’d been so excited to visit Travis but came away anxious and with a headache building in her temples.
Nia worked her way toward her bathroom and started a bath.
It was the only thing besides Travis that would make her feel better at that moment. When she was relaxed, she would call Aleena. If she tried to at that moment, Aleena would be able to tell how badly the day had affected her, and then she’d tell her daddy, who would tell Travis.
She didn’t want him to worry about it. He couldn’t really do anything about it besides talking to Madelyn, but she didn’t think it would make a difference. He could fire the secretary, and Nia would never suggest that.
She’d take it day by day. It was the only thing she could do.
****
“This is Travis.”
“Sir, it’s Stanley. I tried calling earlier, but I got no answer. I picked up a dark-colored older SUV following us. I wouldn’t have thought anything about it because the traffic was horrible, but I’d seen it this morning and across the street.”
“Did you get a license plate?”
“No, sir. They kept a few cars in between us.”
“How many men?”
“Hard to tell. I know there were definitely three, but the windows were darkened, so there could have been more. I made sure she was in the building before I left.”
“Okay. I’m glad you’re being diligent and protective of her.”
“She’s a very special girl. It’s easy to care for her.”
“You’re right about that. Keep your eyes out. I think it might be her brother. He’s a danger to her. I’m hoping I can talk her out of going out until we find these guys.”
“Goodbye, sir.”
Travis sat back and sighed. Security was his business, and all he could think to do was strap her to him so he would know she was safe.
“Fuck,” he cursed and went back to work, more anxious than usual to get home to her.
He didn’t catch the shadow that moved away from the door.
Chapter Thirteen
Travis walked into his condo a few hours earlier than expected. He couldn’t get anything done because he worried about Nia. He brought home some work and would get to it after he saw her.
“Nia!”
He didn’t hear anything and rapidly looked in some of the rooms she used on the way to the master suite.
His breath caught in his chest at the sight of her spread out on their bedspread. She was asleep and naked except for the throw blanket she had wrapped around her upper torso, leaving her bottom half bare. Just the way he liked her. One of her knees were bent, opening her thighs enough he could see her pink cunt.
He stripped his clothes in the bathroom and quickly showered before making his way to the bed, where his heart and soul lay sleeping. He could admit it to himself, at least. She’d turned his life upside down, and he didn’t mind at all.
The thought of giving up any control to another person would piss him off. He was alpha, and he liked to be in charge. He was good at it had made him a lot of money. But with her, she already controlled his heart and the way he saw the future.
He opened the nightstand and got out the lube and a condom.
The feelings rushing through him couldn’t be explained. He just knew he had to take her in the most intimate way possible. After he lay down beside her, he started kissing her shoulder. He worked his way slowly down her vertebra, trying not to miss anything.
“Mmmm.”
He smiled. “There you are. I wondered when you were going to wake up and join me.”
She tried to turn over and whimpered when he kept her on her stomach. “I want to touch your bottom, baby. Would you like that?”
He felt her stiffen for a moment and then relax and nod.
“You’re a good girl, giving daddy whatever he wants.”
“Yes. Always, daddy.”
He grinned. He loved it when she called him that. He never thought he would have gotten into a Big/little relationship. He liked kink and loved sex, but he hadn’t had time in the last several years. Now that he had Nia, he couldn’t imagine living his life without her and the type of relationship they had. He should have known he would like it when Kaleb had told him about it since he needed control, but at the time, he didn’t realize it would take Nia to open his eyes. Now, he couldn’t imagine being any other way.
“Spread your legs.”
She instantly obeyed and then sighed when his hand was slipping in between them.
“Fuck, you’re very wet.” He chuckled when he saw the blush on the side of her face he could see. “That’s a good thing, baby. It makes me feel good to know you want me.”
“I’ll always want you,” she murmured.
“Jesus, sweetheart. What you do to me,” he told her passionately against the back of her neck.
He pumped the first one and then two fingers into her tight sheath. No matter how many times he had her, she was still as tight as she was the first time.
He started sliding his finger from her cunt and pressing it into her ass. With every swipe of her cream, he got a bit deeper, and her moans got a little louder.
“That’s it. Take my whole finger.”
When his finger was as deep as it would go, her hips lifted, and she started to push back against him.
“Let’s try two.”
The feel of her hot and tight channel his cock ached a little more.
“Please.”
He grinned. “You want your daddy?”
“Yes. Please.”
“Aawww, what a good girl I have.”
He pressed a kiss to her shoulders. “I’ll be right back. Do not move.”
On the way back to the bed, after he washed his hands, he had to stop and take her in.
“I love everything about you. Do you know that?”
She looked up at him. “I feel the same way about you.”
He lay down beside her and smacked her ass. “You better. Because you’re never leaving me.”
“The only
way you’re going to get rid of me is if you don’t want me anymore.”
He smacked her ass again and grinned when she squealed. “Never happening.”
He tore open the condom wrapper and rolled it on before he grabbed the bottle. He knelt beside her hips and used one hand to part her ass cheeks. “There it is. That ass is mine, isn’t it?”
“Yes. Please, hurry.”
He squeezed the lube into her. He was filling her with most of the bottle. The last thing he wanted was to hurt her in any way. He knew she craved his touches in her ass, but so far, he’d only used his fingers. His cock was a lot bigger.
“Let’s get you propped up,” he said as he reached for a pillow. He shoved it under her hips.
He spread her legs and made a space for his body. “Now, at any time, if it gets to be too much, tell me to stop, and we’ll wait. If you absolutely hate it, I’ll pull out.”
She nodded.
He lined up his cock to her tight little hole and started to press in. “That a girl, you’re doing so well. Just a bit more, and we’re through the hard part.”
He gritted his teeth as he pushed through the ring of muscle and then stopped to let her get used to it.
She gasped and stiffened.
“No, don’t do that. I need you to relax. Can you do that for daddy?”
“Yes,” she murmured into the mattress.
“How are you doing?”
“I’m okay.”
He exhaled when she relaxed into the mattress. “Good girl.”
Travis pushed in a bit and pulled out. He did this several times until he bottomed out inside her ass.
“Look at that, baby. You took my whole cock.”
“I did?” she asked excitedly.
He chuckled. “Now comes the fun part.” He started fucking her steadily but slowly, letting her get used to his invasion.
“Can you go faster, daddy?”
“Yes, baby.”
He tightened his grip on her hips and started powering into her.
Their moans got louder and mingled together.
He knew he wouldn’t last much longer and needed to take her with him. He reached under her and started manipulating her clit. “Come for me.”
She instantly tightened, and a scream tore from her throat.
He kept up his thrusts and gritted his teeth before he shouted.
The room became quiet except for the haggard breathing as they tried to calm. He pulled out of her and she moaned.
He pressed a kiss to her shoulder. “I’m sorry, sweetheart. I’ll be right back.”
He took care of the condom and washed before grabbing another cloth and towel for her. “Here we go. Keep your legs spread.”
She tried to push his hands away, which made him smile.
“I’m cleaning you whether you like it or not. If you keep fighting me, you’ll get a few smacks on your already sore ass.”
She froze, making him smirk. “Good girl.”
He dropped onto the mattress and yanked her up into his arms, making her scream as he laughed. Cuddling her against his chest, he asked, “How are you doing?”
“Good.”
He tipped her face up and chuckled. “How can you blush when I was just in your ass?”
She ducked down.
Travis covered them with the small blanket she’d been using for her nap. He tipped her head up again and pressed his lips to hers.
He kissed her slowly, gently several times.
“Let’s rest for a bit, and then we’ll get something to eat.”
She grinned. “Chinese?” she asked hopefully.
He kissed the tip of her nose. “Anything you want.”
Chapter Fourteen
Early the next morning, Travis leaned over the bed to kiss her one more time.
“Do you plan on going anywhere today?”
She thought about it for a moment and couldn’t think of anything. “No. I don’t think so.”
“I’d rather you stay in, but if you want to go to Aleena’s, call Stanley. Don’t go down until he is in the lobby. I’ll also have someone else with him as an extra precaution. I just want to keep you safe.”
“Okay.”
He slapped her ass and laughed when she screamed.
She looked up at him, narrowed her eyes, and then tried to throw a pillow at him. “That was so mean.”
“I’ll kiss it and make it better when I get home.”
She listened as his footsteps receded and then stretched. She flinched at the soreness, but it wasn’t bad, and it made her remember the night before. A smile crossed her face.
She was all his now, and the intimacy they shared brought them closer together.
Nia rolled out of bed and jumped into the shower. Her hands slid down her body and over her sensitive skin.
She dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and then made the bed. Then she went into the office to find a book to read when she heard a thump and the swish as the elevator door opened. The little hairs on her neck stood up.
“Where the fuck is that cunt at?” a male voice whispered from the living room.
She sucked in a startled gasp that shook from the terror racing through her when she knew that her nightmare had come to life.
Oh, God, her brother had somehow gotten into the condo. She wasn’t going to take the time to think about it and made her way behind a panel Travis had shown her. He called it a safe room. There were three of these rooms in their home. One in the office, one in the family room, and the last one in the master suite.
She made sure the door was tightly closed and locked behind her and then flipped the light switch. She looked around the room at all the gadgets he had stored in each room. He’d pointed out several of them, but she didn’t know how to use any of them.
Nia went to the cabinet, pulled out one of the guns, and loaded it. She and Travis had never discussed guns before, and she wondered if he would be shocked, mad, or impressed when she showed him that she could shoot and do it well.
Her father had taught her years ago before his illness. They had spent many Saturdays at the gun range, practicing and trying to one-up each other.
She looked around for a phone but couldn’t find anything. “Think,” she said and tried to calm her racing heart and labored breathing. There must be a way to contact the outside.
Nia started flipping on everything. She gasped when she saw inside the apartment from different angles. She hadn’t known there were hidden cameras everywhere.
She found the guys in the master bedroom, pulling everything from the drawers and the closet. There was a tall skinny guy she’d never seen before. A short guy in a black t-shirt, or it had been white once, he just never washed it. Besides her brother, another man stood in the bedroom, Marcus. He had hung around with her brother since they were in high school. He’d been a pretty decent guy back then. At the moment, he stood back and watched the others fight and destroy things.
She shivered when she got a good look at her brother. He was so far gone. He looked like he hadn’t showered in weeks, and he was thinner than she’d ever seen him.
A gasp tore from her when he went into a fit of rage and started tearing everything up. “No,” she cried and placed a hand over her mouth.
A thought took root in her head. She wondered if Travis would want her out after this. She couldn’t imagine where the idea had come from, but her insecurities that she’d tried to settle came back with a vengeance.
She went back to turning things on and cringed when she was able to hear their voices.
“When I find that fucking cunt of a sister, I’m going to carve her up.”
One of the four men chuckled. “Not before I get her. I’ve dreamed of the things I’d do to her when we found her.”
“Where the fuck is she?” Russ screamed.
“Mellow out, dude. She’s probably just hiding because we didn’t see her leave when the guy did. Remember? We were told he had a consultation to do this morning, and all
we had to do was watch for him, and he’d be out of the office for a while.”
“Then we need to tear this place apart,” Russ said with a growl.
“That’s what we’re doing, asshole,” the guy with the dirty t-shirt griped.
“No, fuckwad, you’re just lying there.”
“We’ve got all day. The dude doesn’t get home until after six,” the tall guy said and then continued with his destruction.
“What if someone finds the guy that looks after the door?” the t-shirt guy said.
“Are you sure you even killed him?” Russ asked Marcus.
“I hit him pretty hard on the head and then put him in the closet.”
“If you fucked up again, I’m going to cut you into little pieces,” Russ threatened Marcus.
Marcus stayed quiet, and Russ went back to breaking things.
She followed them as they went into one of the spare bedrooms and started in on that.
She tried not to think of Sam, praying that he was going to be okay.
After loading a few more guns, she kept up her search for a way to get a message out.
She started typing on one of the computers and got into Gmail. She quickly looked through to find his and only saw one with Travis’s name.
I’m at home. Russ is here with three men. They are destroying the place. I am in one of the safe rooms, so don’t worry about me. Get Sam help. He was hit in the head, and they put him in a closet in the lobby. Please hurry.
The minutes ticked by, and every one seemed longer than the last.
An hour went by before she saw Travis and a few other men sneak in through a door that was hidden in a closet. He’d mentioned it before but had never shown it to her.
Her heart palpitated in her chest as they quietly moved through the condo. Three of the assholes were still talking and breaking things in the office, just on the other side of the wall from her. She looked for Russ and saw him back in the master suite.
She knew Travis and the others could hear them because they weren’t trying to be quiet, thinking he wouldn’t be home for several more hours.
Travis stood in the doorway and trained his gun on the men.