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  All in all it was a comfy home, a place where I'd always felt safe and loved until lately. No Maddy you're not gonna think about that today, just put one foot in front of the other. He’d made love to you hadn’t he? That has to mean something. I walked through the living room past the fireplace that was almost as tall as me and headed for the noise in the kitchen.

  The smell of food didn't make me run in the opposite direction in fact my stomach growled in hunger and my face heated up at the sound. He was standing at the stove his naked back turned to me, his jeans riding low on his hips and I felt that throbbing pressure between my thighs, the way I always have when checking out my man. He was just so, so perfect it made my heart twist. I stood in the doorway just taking him in as he moved with grace from the stove to the fridge and back again.

  I felt her the moment she came into the room, I knew why she was just standing there saying nothing; probably expecting me to lose my fucking mind again. Without turning from the omelet I was making I lifted my left arm. "Come." She hurried across the room to my side, her little body fitting into my side as I lowered my arm around her. Kissing her hair I gave her a soft squeeze.

  "How'd you sleep baby girl?" She seemed too choked up to speak so my answer was just a tight squeeze around my waist. "Up." She lifted her head and I took her mouth tongue and all, it was a kiss of rebirth I guess. Nothing to do with sex though I'd like nothing better than to hustle her sweet ass back to bed and stay there for the rest of the day. I had a lot of build up to work off after all, but later. Right now I needed to reconnect with her, to repair that bond that had been damaged.

  I still won't share my suspicions with her right now so I didn't say anything about why I'd had this sudden turn around but I could at least show her.

  "Go set the table baby breakfast is almost ready." She stood on her toes her eyes wary and hopeful at the same time as she held her lips up for my kiss. I pecked her teasingly the way I used to, my hand going to her ass for a squeeze. I felt the tension leave her as she turned away to get plates and cutlery. When she headed for the coffee pot I waylaid her.

  "Ah ah ah ah, down." I showed her the little teapot I had steeping tea for her, at least I knew that much.

  "No coffee babe I made you tea." She pouted prettily at me but did as she was told after pouring me a cup of coffee and bringing it to me. She hesitated after putting the cup down and I braced myself for it. If she'd treated me the way I had her and then got up one day acting like nothing happened I'd be all in her ass. She had every right to feel the way she did, to be angry; if someone had really drugged her then she'd been doubly abused. First by them and then by her husband not trusting her. Fuck.

  "I missed you Dominic."

  Shit, even worse: no recriminations, no screaming, just a softly spoken admission. I plated the omelet and turned off the stove before turning to her.

  "Come 'ere." I folded her into my arms inhaling her warm scent, strawberries and cream with a heavy dose of just Maddy.

  "I missed you too baby girl."

  "Don't leave me again okay?"

  "Never." I rocked her in my arms, my chin resting atop her head as my heart finally settled into place for the first time in a long time.

  Chapter 10

  For the next few days I was on pins and needles as I waited for Garrett to get back to me with the results. I never discussed my suspicions with Madelyn instead we worked on patching our lives back together to some semblance of what it used to be. In some ways it seemed even better now than it had been, we were closer somehow and I'd always thought we couldn't get any closer than we were. I guess one of the reasons for that was the baby we were both very excited about him or her. I'd already started on a crib out in my workshop, which she oohed and aahed over when I showed it to her.

  I didn't go too far from her those first few days and she couldn't stand to have me out of her sight. We were like two shell-shocked victims of trauma and the dissolution of our union very well might've been traumatic for us both. Whenever I thought that someone had purposely set out to harm her, to tear us apart I wanted to go into battle, it was hell keeping a tight rein on my emotions. We spent a lot of time fucking, it’s as though we were trying to fit all the missed sex into each day as it came. As soon as she was over her morning sickness in the morning it was on. Like now!

  I’d just finished cleaning her up after yet another bout of retching. I’ve become am expert at this shit. I wake up a little before her and get her ginger ale and crackers set up next to the bed. Then I wait for her to roll over and scrunch up her face before running for the john. My cock is usually hard as a pike at this point but I don’t touch her, not yet, there’s a routine to this thing. While my kid makes her ill I hold her hair and then clean her up.

  Today I’ve decided to kill two birds with one stone. “Come on babe in the shower with you.” I helped her in after setting the water temperature and got in behind her. Taking the soap in my hands I lathered them well before running my hands over her body starting at her feet. She stood still while I smoothed the sweet smelling suds up her thighs to her pussy. “Open.” She spread her legs so I could wash her clean for my mouth.

  When I had had my fun I rinsed her off, and kneeling at her feet pulled her forward so I could impale her on my tongue. She grabbed my hair as I sucked her hard swallowing her juices as they released onto my tongue. I had to stroke my own cock for some much needed relief as she made fuck me noises and begged me in her sweet voice to take her.

  “Please Dom, don’t make me wait.” I nipped her thigh to get her to behave. I wanted to take my time, last night I’d fucked her hard and deep, this morning I wanted to take my time with her, enjoy her to the fullest. I guess she had other ideas because she pushed my head away from her pussy and toppled me off balance. Before I could right myself she straddled me and impaled herself on my jutting cock right there on the shower floor.

  “Shit Maddy, careful.”

  “You be careful, I’m horny. Now move.”

  “Yes ma’am.” I dug my hands into her hips as I helped her on and off my cock at a rapid speed since she seemed to be in a race to the finish. Her pussy was hot and tight and fuck, if she kept squeezing my dick I wasn’t going to last long. She was slamming herself down hard on my meat and I was worried that she might hurt herself. She seemed to be in a sort of frenzy as she nipped into my flesh with her teeth.

  “Maddy stop.” I tried curtailing her wild movements with my hands on her waist but she wasn’t even paying me any mind. When she started keening and crying I knew she was in trouble, fuck she was in heat. I lifted her off my cock and almost took my life in my hands as she started scratching at me. “Hush.” I put her on her knees tight there under the warm flow of water and kneeling behind her drove into her hard and deep. She bucked and came but still her body cried out for more.

  I fucked her like I hadn’t in way too long as she pushed back against me taking me all the way in as I fingered her ass to help her get off. I’ve never seen her this wild before and we’ve been plenty wild in the past. The more she came the hungrier she seemed to get. My knees were starting to give out after thirty minutes of hard pounding so I lifted her in my arms still locked around my cock and headed for the bed. I didn’t stop to dry us off she couldn’t wait. Dropping her on the bed I pulled her hips back into me as I plowed into her even harder than before. I guess that was the answer because she shredded the sheets and howled as her body shook and shuddered.

  When she was coming down I pulled out I turned her onto her back driving back into her. I wanted to take her this way so I could see her face when I emptied my nuts in her. “I love you sweet Madelyn.” Her eyes crossed and just like that she was coming again. When she bit into my neck and hugged me tight I went over the edge, spewing what felt like a gallon of sperm inside her.

  When the call finally came through confirming my suspicions I had to take a minute to find my control. For some strange reason I ran out of my office after hanging up the phon
e and ran through the house in search of her. Realistically I knew she was no longer in danger but in that moment I needed to see her, to touch her and reassure myself that she was safe and whole.

  She was understandably surprised when I grabbed her up from the desk where she'd been sitting writing away at her computer.

  "Dominic what?"

  "Don't talk baby just let me hold you; fuck baby."

  Knowing that I held my whole world in my arms, that they were both fine, is the only thing that helped me hold onto my sanity then. I beat back the rage that was trying to climb up from my gut. I knew when it was unleashed it would destroy everything in its path but not yet. First I had to right a wrong, no matter what they had done I'd done worse. I'd doubted her, scorned her, put her away. Fuck fuck fuck. It was my most humbling experience to date.

  "Please forgive me Maddy, I'm so fucking sorry I didn't know." She was now the one comforting me as she tried to make sense of my words, her little hands running up and down my back soothingly.

  "It's okay Dominic whatever it is it's okay I love you." And that just made me feel ten times worse. How could I have had so little faith in her when she has so much in me? She had no way of knowing it but with every stroke of her hand she was driving the nail deeper into her friends' coffins. They are so fucked, right after I stop kicking my own ass for being a piss poor husband. Her dad has every right to come after me with his gun. I had sworn to protect her and in the end I had been her worst nightmare. Way to go Hearst you fuck.

  I sat her in the chair as I tried to get my thoughts together. Pacing back and forth in front of her my mind went in a thousand directions at once. I needed to piece the shit together somehow because someone was going to pay for this shit but it was more important to me to get the guilty party than to just go off half cocked like I'd done before and fuck with the wrong person.

  "I need you to tell me everything you remember about that night baby."

  I saw her tense, she didn't even need to ask me what night I was referring to, she already knew, and I could see it was the last thing she wanted to talk about.

  "It's very important baby." She turned fearful eyes up to me and I could see the tears already gathering. Kneeling beside her I placed one hand over her stomach and took one of hers with the other.

  "I promise you I'm not going to get mad at you, look at me, I'm not mad at you okay just answer the question for me." I kissed her forehead gently and felt her take a reassuring breath, sort of like she was gathering her strength to face a battle.

  "Um, I think Brenda called me earlier in the day and asked me if I wanted to go into town for a night out. I turned her down because I knew you wouldn't approve. Then a little later Simon called and said Brenda was hounding him to go hang out and that we should go to get her off our backs or something like that. I hadn't seen Simon since before you left and..." She paused to look at me because she knew what hearing that name now did to me. I was silently gritting my teeth and trying not to fold my fists so as not to give away my feelings.

  "Go on it's okay."

  "Well after Simon called I decided it might not be so bad to go for a little while, I didn't plan to be there for very long maybe an hour or two tops. Plus I was working on something and I was getting a little stuck so I thought a change of scenery might do me some good so I went." She fluttered her free hand nervously from her throat or her chest and back and looked everywhere but at me.

  "Then what happened?"

  "Um, I don't really remember all the details, that's the truth Dominic I swear. I just remember Brenda yelling whoo hoo or something like it when we got there and she already had a beer waiting for me. I honestly don't remember much after that first beer but I must've had more after that. Anyway, you know the rest."

  "That's it, that's all you remember?"

  "Um, sorta, I remember feeling hot and a little disoriented so I had to sit in the corner. Yeah, I remember Simon asking if I was okay but his face kept going in and out and I think I was laughing or someone was laughing and I guess that's when I kissed Simon."

  "What do you mean guess? Before when I asked you told me you did."

  "Well that's what everyone else said that I did." Fucking lamb to the slaughter.

  "Did you fall asleep?"

  "I must've because I woke up on dad's couch."

  "Wait a minute what? Why am I now hearing this?"

  "I don't know you were so angry that day when you confronted me that you didn't let me say anything. As soon as I admitted to the kiss you shut down, shut me out." I had to pull her into my arms then because she started tearing up and rocking back and forth in her chair.

  "Ssh, ssh, it's okay baby, it's okay I was being an asshole, when we're done you can take me out back and use all those Krav Maga skills I taught you on me okay." She hugged me tighter but at least the tears had stopped.

  "How did you get on your dad's couch do you know?"

  "He said Simon dropped me off, something about me having too much but I only remembered having the one. Maybe the pregnancy made me even less tolerant I don't know, usually I can do two and a half beers before I feel like toppling over but..."

  "Do you remember anything else about the bar?" She shook her head slowly back and forth.

  "Why're you asking me all these questions you're not planning on going after Simon are you? Dominic I think it was all me, I'm sorry but when the rumor started I confronted him and he was too embarrassed to tell me but then I got the truth out of him. He said I was the one that kissed him, then he was muttering something about Brenda but I didn't understand him and I didn't follow through because I was sick to my stomach with fear. I knew if you ever got wind of it you'd kill us both. I don't think he tried anything. It was all me." She started to cry again my poor baby.

  "Baby listen to me, you weren't yourself that night it's not your fault."

  "What do you mean?" She looked at me in confusion.

  "I think you were drugged."

  "What? Simon would never do that."

  "Maybe not but somebody did."

  "I don't know Dominic it seems rather far fetched why would someone drug me? And who?"

  "That's what I'm going to find out." I didn't tell her about Garrett, not yet I had to get to the bottom of this first. I could see she was having a hard time accepting that she might've been drugged, I wouldn't have believed it myself either if I didn't have the proof.

  “You need to call the doctor and tell him you need a check up ASAP.” I could see that made her nervous but even though Garret had assured me the kid should be okay I wasn’t willing to take the chance.

  She ran to the phone and called; forty minutes later she was lying on an examination table. I had word with the doctor out of earshot to let him know what he should be looking for. He too was very reassuring about the affects on the baby but I still needed hard proof.

  When he was through with her I ran her back up the mountain, I had shit to do that couldn’t wait.

  "I have something to take care of I might be a few hours, you'll be okay here by yourself?"

  "Yes, you're coming back though right?"

  "Of course I'm coming back."

  Chapter 11

  In the last few days I’d been doing my homework while I waited for Garret. There was only one person in the surrounding areas that could’ve supplied the drug since I’m pretty sure the guilty party hadn’t ordered it online. I know this guy Jimmy Belafonte was a small time hustler who dabbled in illegals on the side along with some other shady shit. Every small town has their Jimmy it seems. The American fucking nightmare!

  I’d never had reason to pay him a visit before; our worlds didn’t collide. It would probably be better to let my father in law deal with this shit he’s the law after all. I’m sure he could find something to haul good old Jimmy off to the clinker for, but I needed more than that, I needed names. There were too many variables at play here, things that had I kept a cool head I would’ve seen didn’t add up. But now with new l
ight shining on this shit I could see the gaping holes.

  He was out back in his yard shirtless puttering around with some old pieces of pipe or some shit. He was a scraggly, pock marked douche who looked twenty years older than the twenty four I knew him to be; the typical small-town addict. I didn’t make a sound as I crept up on him but his survival instinct must’ve been high because he senses me all the same. I guess in his line of work you had to have a sixth sense.

  His first instinct on seeing me was to run as is the way with prey when a predator came into its space. But I’d been prepared for that. The gun I held trained on him ensured that he didn’t move a fucking muscle. “You know who I am?”

  “Sorta, what do you want with me man? I didn’t do anything.” His eyes shifted from side to side seeking an escape but there was none. The fucker was twitchy as shit too, looked like Jimmy likes to sample the merchandise.

  “I’m not interested in your meth lab; you sold some GHB to someone in my town in the last two and a half weeks or thereabout, who was it?”

  “I don’t know what you’re talking about man, I don’t sell anything I’m a painter.”

  “You haven’t had a painting job in over a year asshole” I saw his eyes widen at that bit of knowledge.

  “Yeah I did my homework. Now as it stands I’m not interested in your shit, that’s for the cops to deal with.” That was a fucking lie, as soon as I get what I need out of this piece a shit I’m gonna have this place swarming with uniforms. That’s if he didn’t fuck up and cause me to kill his ass.

  “I don’t know…”

  “Shut the fuck up, I want to know about the GHB, who did you sell it to? And if you fuck with me on this I will shoot so many holes in you not even your mother will recognize you. Starting with your nuts.” I lowered the gun and pointed it at his balls so he’d know I wasn’t fucking talking out my ass.