Rebound: Passion Book 2

by Silver, Jordan

  Each day I woke up with a new purpose and it was all about her, how to make her happy, how to make her life better. Lifting my head I pushed her hair back so I could look into her face. “I love you baby.” That infectious smile broke out across her face as she pulled me down for a kiss. “ I love you too.” It wasn’t the first time she’d admitted it but each time she said the words something hot and sweet ran through me.

  “I think I came too deep in you last night baby, but don’t worry. I’ll take care of you.” I’m nineteen and kids are the last fucking things on my mind but in that moment if it were true, if it was a done deal, I had no problem with it. The thought that I had or could even now be breeding her had me speeding up my thrust and grind. She was wetter than she’d ever been and that was saying a lot because my girl juices like a ripe fruit. I think she liked the idea of me planting one in her. Who knew the thought of breeding my girl would be so fucking sexy?

  I followed her to the diner because there was something I needed to talk to her dad about. She was looking hot as hell in white shorts and a pink halter top thing that showed off her belly button and that piercing that drives me nuts. Not sure about the rest of the general public enjoying the view though. She was looking like a teenager again, hair blowing in the wind and a nice tan from all the time spent by the pool. There was a healthy glow to her that hadn’t been there before and her eyes shone with a new light. I wasn’t feeling too bad myself these days and my walk was a lot lighter than it had been before she came along. All in all Kadyn and I were proving to be very good for each other. And to think just a few short months ago I was ready to throw it all in.

  “Grab a seat at the counter baby I need to talk to your dad a minute. Follow me to the back Stan?” We headed to his office in back and closed the door. “Hey I meant to tell you guys, Dan has been asking after Kadyn.”

  “What the hell does he want?” I’d almost forgotten the guy’s existence to tell you the truth and since she’d pleaded with me not to tell her dad he could have no idea that even mentioning the prick’s name was like waving a red flag at a bull.

  “I’m not sure, he’s been in here a couple times asking where she is. I wasn’t too sure if I should tell him where she was, but I always forget to tell her when I come over.” He gave me a look like I was playing the jealous boyfriend and he found that shit amusing. If only he knew.

  “Thanks for telling me but he doesn’t need to know where she is it’s none of his business.” What the fuck? I shook it off and got down to what I was there for, I’ll deal with his ass later if he persisted with his shit. Reaching into my pocket I pulled out the box I’d been hiding there and opened it. “I’m giving this to Kadyn this weekend while we’re away.”

  This was a marquis cut four-carat diamond set in platinum. I could see from his dropped jaw reaction that he was both surprised and pleased. “Wow, just…that’s some rock son.”

  “Only the best for my girl; I’m not asking for your blessing or anything that corny but I wanted you to know. So you’re good?”

  “I thought you weren’t asking for my blessing?” He grinned at me from his place behind his desk.

  “Just making sure you’re cool, that you know she’s in good hands. There’s a difference between dating her and tying her down for life.”

  “As long as she’s happy…speaking of which, whatever happened with that other thing?” he didn’t have to spell it out for me to know what he was talking about. “We’re not discussing that remember? I have it all under control. All you need to know is that she’s going to be fine. We’re gonna go off to school and start a new life together and as long as I live no harm will ever come to her.”

  He was quiet for a minute as though struggling with whether or not to let it go but there was really nothing he could do about it. I had no intention on sharing anything that my brother and I were doing. One, because too many people knowing shit always leaves room for shit to get leaked. And two, if this shit went south the less people involved the better. “You make sure you don’t get yourself in any trouble son. My daughter seems very happy these days and I know it’s all thanks to you. I’d like to see her stay that way and having you behind bars won’t do that.”

  “Trust me Stan I’ll never do anything that would take me away from her so have no worries. Besides who said I was doing anything anyway? I’m just interested in making sure she’s safe and happy, covering her tracks so to speak.” He didn’t look like he believed me and that was fine, I never thought he was a stupid man and didn’t expect him to become one now. As long as he didn’t pressure me to answer any questions, which I wouldn’t do anyway, we were fine.

  “Can I ask you something son?”

  “What’s that?”

  “Why my daughter? I know your family, know a little bit about you too; you could have anyone around here why a young girl with so much hanging over her head?”

  “I thought I told you that already, my heart knows her, she belongs to me.” He shook his head at me as he stood from his seat and walked around his desk. “Thanks, for doing something that I couldn’t.”

  “Don’t think of it like that Stan, we just came at it from two different angles. Your hands were tied because the law knew about you, they don’t know about me, and my resources. Besides it’s not about who does what as long as we get it done. You still coming up with us right?”

  “Yeah I’ve already taken care of things here. I can’t believe my little girl is going off to college, that’s the only thing that was bothering me once we got her away from him. I hated the idea of her putting her life on hold but she was too scared.”

  “Well now she isn’t, we’re not gonna let him win.” I clapped his shoulder as we headed out of his office.

  I went back out to her and kissed her bye. “Be good baby okay, I’ll see you in a couple hours.” With one last kiss and a rub on her ass I headed for the door. “You and me are gonna have a chat later about that get up.” I threw the words over my shoulder and where as before she would’ve shied away from confrontation this time she blew me a sassy kiss and grinned. That’s my fucking girl.

  I needed everything to be perfect for the upcoming weekend. I’d decided to give her her ring while we were away. I was still trying to figure out the whole wedding thing, I knew fuck all about that stuff. I couldn’t ask Josh because his shit wasn’t exactly conventional and I wanted Kadyn to have a girly type thing because somehow I knew she would want that. I also wanted her mother to be here so there was a lot that needed to be done in a short space of time. School was only a few short months away and I wanted the deed done before we left Sea Crest. Since I’m a male and a Steele at that there’s a safe bet that I’d muck shit up, so that’s what I was about to go hit mom up for now. I’m sure she would be only too happy to help.

  I headed to the computer store first. Kadyn had left everything when she ran, afraid that he’d use that stuff to find her somehow. The phone she had now was an old throwaway type thing, which she thought might be safer. I’m not quite sure what happened there or why she decided it was too dangerous to use it to call her mom. I got her all the latest shit and made the sales guy very happy, I’ll leave the cases and other doodads to her and her girls since I know both Carrie and Nessa have some fancy shit that they wrap their stuff in.

  I left the mall and headed for home my excitement growing the closer I got. I was about to change my life in a big way. I’m sure my family knew I was headed in this direction, but they had no idea how soon that would be. I wasn’t worried about them thinking that it was too soon, or that we hadn’t known each other long enough, mom and dad knew the deal. I was truly amazed though at the turn my life had taken. It was the best fucking rebound in history.

  I barely got the words wedding out of my mouth when I got in the house before the screaming started and I was pushed aside, while mom and her crew took over. “Just make sure that she gets her colors and all that other happy shit. Don’t say anything about this until after I gi
ve her the ring okay.” I showed her the ring and she did that thing that I guess all women do. The tears began and then the three of them were cooing and telling me what a great job I’d done. “Okay give it back.” I wiped off their fingerprints and headed out of the kitchen where they were busy making one of their gastronomical messes. This was a good thing because that means I’d get the time I need alone with Josh to do what I needed to.

  If I was going to pull this off then I had to move, I wanted him over and done with. “Are we ready bro?” he was already in my room doing his thing on the computer. We had yet to get into Bruno’s laptop, which I was beginning to get a very bad feeling about. I had no idea what the creep had on there but it was a good bet that it was going to be bad. I just hoped it had nothing to do with Kadyn’s whereabouts.

  His money had gone without a trace and we did it in such a way that he couldn’t get the insurance for it because there was no way he could prove that it wasn’t him that took it. If that wasn’t bad enough I kept emailing him stills from his house so he knew someone had infiltrated his space at the very least. Next came the cryptic notes about knowing what he was. Basically I was feeding his growing paranoia my main objective to drive him out of his sick fucking mind. The predator had become the prey and he wasn’t handling it too well.

  I had no idea how he coped outside his house, I didn’t think to put eyes on his car and shit but I had him covered enough to feel comfortable that I knew what he was up to. Inside behind closed doors he was a mess. The formidable figure that had first filled the screen when we started a few weeks ago was fast becoming a slouch. He was unkempt and harried which I’m sure others had to be noticing as well, and that was part of my plan. I wanted to break him down little by little, to make the world around him see his true colors.

  Josh did his magic with the keys and then sat back with a grin. “Voila.”

  “Thank fuck, you only took forever.” I tried to make light of the situation but my heart was sick with fear. What was I going to see on that screen? What had he been trying so hard to keep hidden?

  At first there wasn’t really much to cause suspicion. There were what looked like work records and shit like that and I was starting to relax, believing that he’d had it so well secured because he kept vital information that had to do with his high clearance job. Then Joshua got all excited and started tapping away at keys and the bottom fell the fuck out.

  “Motherfucker.” Sick, that’s what I felt as I scrolled through the screen, no it wasn’t Kadyn on the screen, but what it was was somehow worst. Children, dozens of them in the most compromising positions that no child should ever be subjected to. The tension in the room was palpable, I didn’t even look at Josh next to me, my head was actually spinning and I felt the bile in my throat threatening to choke me. “Where’s dad?”

  “Office.” It was the only word my brother could get out and I didn’t blame him. Was this what he’d had in store for her? it seemed so farfetched, so distant somehow, unconnected. He couldn’t have been planning anything like this for my Kitten. For one she was years older that the kids on the screen. But he’d started when she was younger. Still shouldn’t he have lost interest after she grew up, isn’t that what the experts said? Or was this bastard into more than one vice? Obviously he was because what I was looking at here told a whole other story. This was separate, had to be. I was grabbing at straws because I didn’t know what to think.

  “We can’t wait for dad to come home we have to take care of this now. Do you think…?” I couldn’t get the words out of my mouth. Even with the shit that had happened to Carrie right here in front of me, I don’t think I’d ever seen such evil as this. It left me cold and numb inside. I had to move now though, couldn’t afford to waste any more time. I had no idea if the children gagged and bound on the screen were in danger at the moment or if they were already gone, but I knew we couldn’t wait.

  “What’s the name of that town again? we have to call the police.” My mind wouldn’t work, I couldn’t see past the anger that was beginning to burn under my skin. I wanted to get on a plane and hunt him down myself, more than anything I wanted to be the one to bring him down but those children, fuck. Whatever plans I’d had for him would have to be given up, this shit had taken it to a whole new level.

  We found the name of the town and hashed out a plan. We needed to have everything in order because I still didn’t want Kadyn involved. I thought about calling James since I was in way over my head here but squashed that idea. It was my problem and I would deal with it. I wanted to bring this fucker down myself yes, but not at the expense of innocent babies. I had thought all along that she was his only victim, why hadn’t I realized that someone as sick as that just might be into other evil shit?

  For the next half hour we hashed out a plan, I had to fight my natural instinct to run and get her but she was safe with her dad, these kids might not be. It was a sick feeling to think that if we didn’t do this right more children might get hurt. The cops in that town had already proven that they didn’t know shit; either that or they were blinded by his stellar public persona. We decided to hit up the FBI. James has assured me in the beginning that there was no way for anyone to trace the eyes and ears he had planted back to me that’s even if they were found. I’ll deal with retracting them later but I couldn’t sit on this new information, not even if it meant detection.

  In the end we made an anonymous call and claimed that he’d brought his laptop in for repairs and we’d seen some questionable material. It was all we could do for now and sit back and wait for the results. If they didn’t move fast enough then I’d send James to take care of it. Josh found a way to send some of the pics from the laptop into the bureau making sure to cover our asses so that they’d never know it was from us. We wiped anything that had to do with Kadyn from the laptop and went back through the PC to make sure there was no trace of her there. I knew from our conversations that she was more interested in getting him out of her life for good than in making him pay for what he’d done to her and so there was no danger of damaging any future case. I’d battled with whether or not she would need that closure but her reaction at the mere mention of his name was enough to convince me that she had no need to go there. Plus I think she’d lost all faith in the justice system and who could blame her. He’d find it hard to wriggle his slimy way out of this though if the feds did their jobs.

  “Are we done? I have to go get her.” The image of those young girls was burnt into my corneas and I couldn’t help putting her face in their place. I needed to hold her, to feel her soft skin under my hands, the beat of her heart, to reassure myself that she was okay, though I knew that she was.

  “Go, there’s nothing more for us to do for now. I’ll keep my eyes on his place and see if anything happens there. The law moves slowly sometimes. You do know that if they don’t deal with this shit we’ll have to right?” I knew he was going to say that because I’d been thinking the same thing myself. As much as I would hate to leave her at a time like this I would get on a plane and go hunt the fucker down myself if need be.

  “Yeah I know.” I left the room and the house with my thoughts in a jumble. If the feds did their job this should be over in a matter of days. That’s what I’d been after all along but not like this, I’d wanted to keep her out of whatever was going to happen but again not like this. Not at the expense of others. I couldn’t allow myself to think of what may or may not have happened to the children captured in those pictures. I felt a deep sense of anger and I guess betrayal at the system. How could we as a society let such things happen? They had this guy in their sights because she’d done the right thing when she’d made a complaint almost three years ago. What might’ve happened had they followed up? Obviously the asshole was a criminal as was proven by the deviant shit found on his hard-drive, so why hadn’t they done their fucking jobs? What if he’d killed or hurt someone else’s kid in the meantime?

  I’m not sure where I’d thought his obsession w
as heading, I never allowed myself to think of the sexual connotations because that would’ve just made me lose my shit. But now faced with the reality there was no hiding from it and the fear in my gut was almost crippling. It was stupid to think of what ifs but that’s all that kept playing through my mind. What if he’d got to her? what if we’d never met? That thought most of all left me cold.

  To think of life without her in it was almost more than I could bear. I imagined her being subjected to his sick advances and the fear turned to anger. Pounding the steering wheel wasn’t going to achieve anything but breaking my hand so I tried to calm myself as I approached the diner. Just get her and go home Matt. That was always my answer whenever I felt any threat to her, to shut us away in our room where I was sure no one and nothing could get to her to cause her harm. Will I always have this feeling, will I spend the rest of my life feeling that need to protect her always? I don’t know the answer to that, but I do know that right at this moment the need was strong in me. I’ll have to learn how to not let it become a problem. We can’t live in a bubble, though that shit was sounding better and better everyday. There are some sick fucking people in the world.

  Chapter 26

  I certainly didn’t need what I drove up on when I got to the diner. At first I wasn’t quite sure what I was seeing when I pulled up. There was a female and a male standing close together outside, but I knew it was Kadyn from her clothes. She didn’t look exactly terrified but I know her body language and she was scared. I was out the car and moving before it had come to a complete stop.