They reckon he’ll be out of surgery soon, and his head was bleeding due to the fact he smashed it of the road when he was thrown. No news from Scott yet, but I have seen Hailey, she has a broken arm and leg as well as some 1st degree burns. Connor has some scrapes and bruises but is otherwise fine, he’s sitting in the waiting room, waiting for news on Nathan. Dwayne has been in. He was at his mother’s house when the bomb went off.
He is currently going over footage to see who was in the building and to see if he can see who planted the bomb.
It’s been four hours since Nathan was brought in. He’s out of surgery, but I haven’t been able to see him. His family went in and haven’t come out yet.
“Sophia, are you okay?” I look up when I hear my name being called. Damn does he not go home?
“Hi Dr Forsyth, I’m fine, it’s Nathan, he’s been injured.” He looks around the room.
“Sophia, you don’t look well, you’re pale, come on, tell me what happened?” He sits down beside me, and I tell him everything what happened. He stands suddenly.
“You’re coming with me, we should check on you and your baby, you don’t want me to tell Nathan you’re refusing me do you?” I laugh and follow him to the private room.
“So, you’re what, 9 weeks now is that right?” I nod. Okay, you know the drill. I do the usual and prepare to be violated.
I hear the heartbeat and I’m crying again. I’m so happy to hear the heartbeat.
“Everything looks okay Sophia. When was the last time you ate?” I honestly don’t remember.
“I don’t know, I over did it today.” He shakes his head in disapproval.
“You need to take better care of yourself, not just for you but for your baby too.” I nod knowing that it’s true I haven’t really been taking care of myself, this situation with Mullah has me on edge and turning me into a raging bitch on occasions.
“I know, I will, I promise.” He looks relieved.
“Okay, go ahead and get dressed. I’ll find out if you can see Nathan yet, if not get some food.”
I got some food as his family was still with him. I make it back upstairs and get to his door just as his family are coming outside. A lady I’m presuming is his sister comes straight for me
“I know you got pregnant on purpose, you just want his money.” I can’t help it, after the day I’ve had, I laugh so hard I have tears streaming down my face, and she doesn’t seem to appreciate me laughing in her face.
“What do you find so funny? How do we even know it’s his?” I stop laughing; I step up to her.
“You don’t know me but as for wanting Nathan’s money let me tell you something, I own my own house as well as being a co-owner of an intelligence company. I have over 2 million dollars in my bank account, not that it is any of your god damn fucking business, now as for the notion that my child isn’t Nathan’s, I’m happy to take any DNA test once he’s born.” Great now I’m calling my baby a boy. Damn Nathan!
“Now she has answered your pathetic questions, get the fuck out of my room and get the hell away from me.” We all turn at the voice, Nathan is standing in the door way, I was so pre-occupied with his sister I didn’t see him come. I can see the shock on his sister’s face.
“Nathan, you don’t mean that.” Kitty asks him, she sounds surprised. She also looks like she is about to cry.
I have had enough of the drama, I barge my way through them and into his room. I help him back to his bed, he shouldn’t be up and about.
“Yes I do mean that, she just insulted the mother of my child.” Nathan says to his mom. While his sister looks like she ate something sour.
“Just go, I’ll talk to you later.” They all leave. Kitty stays and walks over to me and gives me a hug.
“I’m sorry for the way Kat spoke to you, she was just scared. I’ll leave you two to it, and I’ll be back in the morning.” She kisses Nathan’s cheek and leaves.
“Babe, what’s got you so wired today?” He says with such a concerned look on his face. I climb onto his bed on his good side and curl into him and cry. He wraps his arm around me.
“Baby, what’s wrong?”
“Winter’s gone and I don’t think she’s ever coming back, because that asshole hurt her, and I watched you get thrown into the road, I don’t even know what the doctor said. Then your sister calls me a slut.” I say really fast he chuckles.
“My sister is a bitch, I’m sorry she spoke to you like that, but you did a good job standing up to her. I’m fine baby, it’s only a little scratch, and what’s wrong with Winter?” I sigh.
“She told me a week ago, the real reason she’s been acting weird. About 18 months ago, Maddie and Winter went out and Maddie ended up hooking up with someone. Any way to cut that shit out, Maddie left with the man, and Winter had no money so she started to walk home, she was pushed into an alley and raped.” He pulls me tighter to him.
“Where has she gone baby?” I tell him what happened today.
There’s a knock at the door, it’s Connor, Scott, Dwayne and Hailey. All their faces look in shock. Hailey has tears rolling onto her cheeks, and it’s Dwayne that speaks.
“Boss, other than me and Scott, at the time of the bomb you were the only other person not in the building.” Fuck. This can’t be good.
“Boss, we lost 4 of our men.” I look at Connor, he looks murderous.
“Who?” it’s Scott who answers this time.
“We lost Jamie, Andy, Drake and Liam, Tommy is touch and go at the moment and Asher has a few 1st degree burns and a concussion.” No one says anything for a while.
“He needs to be found, now. I’ve had enough, this asshole is getting away with everything. He’s after Soph, and he’s just blown up my building and killed four of my men. He gets found and soon.” The guys glance at each other. The amount of venom Nathan put into his words is really scary.
“Boss, there is something else.” What the fuck.
“We caught who planted the bomb on the security footage, Mullah Al Mohammed isn’t working alone, Boss, Selena was with him when he planted the bomb.”
“FIND THEM NOW.” Nathan screams at them. They scatter out of the room and Nathan pulls me to him once again.
“We’re going to get them baby. I promise. We won’t live in fear of when his next attack will take place.”
The police come into Nathan’s room whilst he is asleep. I see Officer Chance, and he doesn’t look surprised to see me at all.
“Miss Dallas, why am I not at all surprised to see you here? We’ve had two bombings in a week, and you have been at both crime scenes. Why am I getting the feeling you know a lot more than you let on the last time we met?” I don’t know what to say to him? That I’m being hunted by a fucking Taliban member? Who the fuck would believe that? Before I even open my mouth to answer him, the door opens. I see a man walk in like he owns the place. He’s a Fed. He walks over to the officers and speaks quietly to them; they look annoyed, but end up leaving.
“Miss Dallas, I’m Special Agent Charles. I’m with the counter terrorism department; I believe that you know who set the bomb that killed the four men this evening.” He sounds like a fucking prick; I already hate him.
“Simon, leave her the fuck alone. If you have questions ask me, but don’t fucking talk to her like she’s a fucking suspect.” At that angry tone, I turn and face Nathan. I thought he was asleep.
“You know this prick?” Nathan’s lips twitch, he’s eyes full of laughter, my heart settles, and I know that he’s going to be okay.
“Yeah babe, meet my former partner Simon Charles.” The prick sticks his hand out for me to shake. I do only for the fact Nathan is looking at me, I really don’t like this asshole.
“I just want to ask you both a few questions.” I nod, the sooner we get this over with the sooner this prick can leave.
“Miss Dallas, do you know a Mullah Al Mohammed?” I glare at the fucker.
“Yes.” He looks pissed. Good, he shouldn’t have ann
oyed me.
“And how exactly do you know him Miss Dallas?” I smile sweetly, if he was pissed off before, he’s about to blow a gasket.
“I’m sorry, I’m not at liberty to answer that question.” He looks fucking murderous.
“Miss Dallas, this is a serious crime, we are looking for the culprit, and you are hindering my investigation.” I’m losing my patience with this prick.
“Look, Agent Charles, I can’t tell you how I met Mullah Al Mohammed, but I can give you my whereabouts for today, that is what you want right? You want to know if I had anything to do with that bomb being planted in the office of the man I love, also where my brother and a good friend of mine works, right?” He has a tick in his jaw, he is so pissed right now.
“No Miss Dallas, I just wanted to know, why he would target Mr Slade’s office building, when Mr Slade has never met him.” I don’t get to answer him this time, Nathan gets there first.
“What the ever loving fuck is wrong with you? Did you ever think that maybe you asking me to look into him, to find him, is the reason why he targeted my offices? Why four of my men are dead? No of course you didn’t, because nothing is ever your fault. Now unless you have anything else to ask, you can leave.” Damn Nathan is hot when he gets pissed. Douche bag gets up and leaves, not before giving me a glare.
“Why didn’t you tell him the truth Nathan?” He sighs, and lies back down, I go and lie down with him.
“You’ve been through enough, if he knew that you were the reason Mullah blew up my building, he would tear apart your life. You don’t need that right now babe. I told you, I’ll make sure nothing will hurt you. I meant it.” I lean over and kiss his lips. This is a complete mess; Nathan has just lost his friends because of me. This asshole is taking so many lives already.
I stare up at the ceiling thinking of a way to catch this fucker, but every option I can come up with has already been done. This fucker has to have someone other than Selena helping him. How does he manage to evade us? It doesn’t make sense. The team is right; we were set up.
Chapter Twenty- Seven
Four Months Later
Nathan
It’s been four months since the bomb took the lives of my brothers. Tommy no longer works for us, he had 3rd degree burns over a lot of his body, as well as having his leg amputated. He will always have a job with us if he wants one, but he needs to come to terms with being an amputee. I’m hoping he does. He is still recovering, he’s mad at the world, he blames Sophia, and he says if it wasn’t for her, he would still be whole. Scott had to walk out of the house, he couldn’t sit there and listen to a friend have so much hatred for his sister. I tried to get him to see that Soph is a victim just as much as he is, but he’s not ready to hear it.
Asher had a few burns, he took a vacation after the funerals, and I don’t blame him. He lost his best friend in the bombing. Jamie and Asher lived together in the same apartment complex as mine, they actually lived down the hall. Asher doesn’t want to live there anymore, he decided to move out. Thankfully Sam was looking for a place to live, he had been staying at Caleb’s but wants his own place now. Asher has become silent and withdrawn. Scott told us he found Asher trying to get the guys out of the rubble. I can’t imagine what he went through. He’s due back to work tomorrow; I’ll be keeping an eye on him.
Hailey is doing okay, she has a scar on her arm from the burn, and she is seeing a counsellor, Sophia insisted. Maddie, had a freak attack over it, telling her she’s not allowed to come back to work for us, that it’s our fault she was injured. When Soph said it was actually her fault, Maddie actually slapped her across the face. She told her she hated her. I was in so much shock, how fucking dare she touch her. I waited on Soph, to hit her back, but my secret ninja is defeated, she blames herself. Hailey on the other hand had no problem in telling Maddie where to go. It was the first time I had seen the fire back in Hailey’s eyes.
Scott is a time bomb waiting to happen, he’s pissed that the woman he cares about got hurt, that his colleagues died, that this fucking monster has his sister set firmly in his sights. He is on the hunt, he doesn’t care what measures he takes, and he wants this fucker taken out. He told me what happened with Alex. I’m glad he confronted her. We checked and she moved out of state, she is currently in Georgia. As long as she’s away from Soph, we don’t give a fuck.
Winter didn’t come home after the weekend retreat, Sophia was expecting it, and she packed up her house for her. She sent the stuff Winter needs to Maui and kept the rest in storage and cried all night. Maddie still doesn’t know what happened to Winter. Me and Sophia have different opinions if she should be told or not.
Soph believes Maddie shouldn’t be told, that Winter didn’t want her to know, also for the fact that Maddie hasn’t spoken to Soph since the day in the hospital when she was slapped. I on the other hand think that she should be told, that way Sophia isn’t handling everything on her own, and my girl wouldn’t cry when she thinks of her best friend, or the reason her best friend is gone, for being fucking violated. Any man that rapes and beats a woman, needs putting down.
We’ve had one sighting of Mullah Al Mohammed and that was a month after the bombing and in Brooklyn, since then the fucker has been in the wind yet again. Selena has been keeping a low profile since then as well. We searched her apartment, but she doesn’t live there anymore. Steven got his cop friends to talk to her family and find out where she went but they haven’t heard from her since the day I fired her. I hate the not knowing, I hate wondering who or what is his next target, but knowing his end game is to kill the woman I love, it makes me want to kill the bastard slowly. Dwayne is constantly on this, now we have joined forces with Smithy International, we’re using their offices until mine are restored. Now Dwayne has Oscar working full time on finding these two fuckers.
The funerals were tough on all of us. Sophia blames herself, she says that if Mullah wasn’t after her, this would never have happened; I don’t know how to erase that notion from her mind. Jamie, Drake, Liam and Andy, I paid for their funerals, it was the least I could do, they died whilst working for me.
Simon has started digging around as to how Soph may know Mullah. Both Oscar and Dwayne are being extremely unhelpful. Soph says she doesn’t care if he finds out about what happened in Afghanistan, she hasn’t done anything wrong. I know that, but he is looking for a scapegoat and I won’t let him tear apart Soph’s life just so he can add another solved case to his resume. He’s all about climbing the ladder these days, he doesn’t give a fuck who he crosses.
Sophia’s pregnancy is finally noticeable; she’s just over six months along and has a neat bump. From behind you wouldn’t know, but from the front, you can see a bump. I feel so possessive. She is so fucking sexy pregnant, I may keep her that way, as long as she doesn’t kill me. I remember the day she had to buy maternity clothes for the first time.
“NATHAN.” I jump out of the shower, my heart is pounding. I run into the bedroom. She is sitting on the bed a scowl on her face.
“What? What happened?” she gives me a look that calls me a moron without her having to say a word.
“What happened? I’m fucking fat.” She looks as though she’s about to cry. I can’t handle her tears, they fucking wreck me.
“Babe, you’re not fat, you’re pregnant. It’s hardly noticeable. Unless someone was zeroed in on your stomach, no one would know. Why would you say that?” She is glaring at me.
“My zipper busted on my favourite jeans. I’m fat. I hate it.” She starts crying and I walk over to the bed and hug her.
“Baby, I don’t care if you are fat or not, but you are not fat. You are pregnant, you’re carrying my baby. I can’t put it into words what that does to me. You are beautiful.” She nods and sniffles. She sits there letting me hug her for a while.
“Okay, now get off me you’re wet. Hurry up and get dried we’re going maternity shopping.” I fucking hate shopping.
We arrive at the mall, and she si
ghs as we pass Kat’s store. They haven’t spoken since the day at the hospital, Kat was out of line. Mom and dad are over the moon they’re going to be grandparents. Mom seems to love Soph. I’m glad she has mom to talk to.
“In here Nathan, apparently this is the best place to come to get maternity clothes.” I look at the shop, Mama’s, I see men standing outside. I hope I can stay with them.
“How do you know it’s the best place to come to?” She shrugs.
“I googled it.” Then walks into the shop. I hesitate, hoping to stay outside. No such luck.
“Come on Nathan, the sooner we’re in here the sooner we can leave.” She’s right. I walk into the shop and look around, this place has everything. Soph takes my hand and starts walking around the shop, she looks through the rails, grabbing a few bits and tells me to wait as she tries them on.
“Nathan? You still there?” where else would I be?
“Yeah, babe. You okay?” I hear shuffling and the door open. She looks stunning; she is wearing this dress, it’s pink or red, and it shows off her tiny bump, she’s never looked more stunning. Before I can even say anything she walks back into the changing room.
I’ve been waiting for about twenty minutes, she’s back and forth picking clothes and trying them on. The door opens again and she’s fully dressed.
“Okay, Nathan, I’ve just got to grab a few more small bits, I will meet you outside.” She stands on her tiptoes and kisses my lips, then walks off. I head outside and wait with all the other pussy whipped fuckers.
She’s true to her word and she’s out within ten minutes. She has three bags from one shop, how on earth women can do that is beyond me. I take the bags from her and we head back to the car.
“Babe, tell me if this looks okay?” I’m trying to get paperwork done but I’ve been distracted, Sophia is constantly on my mind. I walk into our bedroom to find her dressed in some negligee. Her tits look fucking amazing, they look bigger. I can’t help myself, I walk over to her and go straight for her tits. I use my thumb against her nipple, she moans, they are super sensitive. I do the same with the other nipple, they pebble beneath my fingers. I pinch them, Sophia throws her head back. I go for her throat kissing and licking up to the base of her throat and down to her tits.
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