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"Not before we come up with some kind of idea as to what the hell we're dealing with here."
"Let's get to it then this shit is leaving a bad taste in my mouth." Maurice dropped back into his seat.
Half an hour later while we were buried in ugliness Ashley started tossing and turning on the screen. I hit the off switch.
"Be right back guys." She was sitting up by the time I got there looking rumpled and just a little lost.
"Hey babygirl had a nice nap?"
"Uh huh, I'm hungry." She rubbed her eyes like a toddler. Shit, how the hell had I let time get away from me? I hadn't made her anything; thankfully mom had prepared meals and stocked the freezer.
"What'll it be love, we have..."
"Pizza."
"You want pizza?" She gave me the biggest grin and I was reminded that the tyrant had forbidden her fast food, so pizza, although not ideal while she was recovering would be a treat for her, there's no way I was going to deny her.
"Pizza it is, what do you want on it?"
Her face scrunched up as though she didn't quite know how to answer.
"How about everything?" I ruffled her hair.
"Okay sounds good."
I lifted the phone and placed an order for five extra-large pies, which made her eyes pop out of her head, which in turn made me grin.
"Five pizzas?" She squealed after I hung up.
"My security team is downstairs."
"Is something wrong?" Instant fear. Will there ever be a time when she didn't show fear? When her first instinct wasn't danger? I know it's too soon, we've only just begun although it feels like we've known each other a lifetime. I hate every moment of insecurity she feels, it's like a stake through the heart.
Sitting next to her on the bed I brought her head to my shoulder while my hand went to her flat stomach where my son or daughter laid; an innocent just as she'd been.
I needed to make our world just a little safer for my child and I needed most of all to erase that fear and apprehension from my loves' eyes.
"There's nothing wrong, they're just going over the stuff we found earlier that’s all.
"Did you figure it out yet?"
"Not quite baby but we'll get it eventually."
"Maybe..." Her body trembled slightly as she broke off what she'd been about to say.
"Maybe what hon?" I kissed her softly in reassurance. She shrugged before answering me under her breath. "Perhaps my father might know something, I mean he knew them right, he must know what they were planning to do with me."
"I'm way ahead of you babe, we're going to question your father later but we need more first." I still wasn't telling her about the younger kids who'd been abducted. First because we needed concrete evidence that the two fuckers were involved though everything pointed to that fact already, and most importantly, I wasn't sure how she'd react to the news and with her pregnancy so new and already threatened I didn't want to take the chance.
"I don't want you thinking about this anymore for today okay, you just rest."
"But you said I could help."
"And you have love, and tomorrow I'll think of something else you can do to help, but no more today."
There's no way I'm going to have her in a room full of men, not while she was looking all vulnerable and sweet and...fuck I'm an ass. I didn't want anyone else near her, wasn't willing to share her just yet if ever and I didn't want to leave her up here on the computer where she might run across something by mistake.
I couldn't distract her the best way I knew how, not with a roomful of men downstairs waiting for me, neither was I too thrilled about leaving her up here awake.
