Demi P.O.V
"He what?" I moved my head back slightly; Dallas was scary when she was angry.
"He has a wife and an eighteen year old kid who I hate."
"He married this woman five months after mom died...wait he had a kid with this woman and she's eighteen? Are you older?"
"Yeah by like three months-"
"Three months? He just had a child with mom and he slept with another woman and had a child? I knew there was something going on with his daily business trips." Dallas hissed, slapping her hand down on the table.
"Dallas calm down...Maddie will hear."
"How do you know about this?" Dallas whispered, calming herself down.
"Nick overheard a conversation at the house, dad thought nobody was there and Nick watched him leave the house and that's when he saw dad with Emily's mom and it all went from there really." I rushed out, looking around the room for Nick.
"So dad's been lying to us this whole time?"
"Basically yeah."
"H-how has he been getting away with all of this?"
"He's a sneaky bastard...I don't know how he can fund us, Emily and her mom-"
"Dem, that's the least of our worries...eleven years? He's been married to her for eleven years and we had no idea about it...I just don't understand how and why?" Dallas sunk back into her chair, closing her eyes and rubbing her temples with her two index fingers.
"Neither do I Dal, the only way we can find out is if we ask him."
"Well what are we waiting for let's confront 'dad'." She perked up slightly, pressing her lips together.
"Dal, we can't, Nick and I have a plan, but it might get nasty."
"What happened to your face?" Dallas moved forwards, studying my poorly covered up scratch.
"I fell onto...the floor...and err hit my face on a...cabinet." I stuttered out, looking anywhere but Dallas' curious eyes.
"He hit you again didn't he?" She asked through gritted teeth, running her fingers over my cheek.
"Yes, but it's fine...Nick sorted it out." I rolled my eyes, ducking under Dallas' arm and standing up from the stool in the kitchen.
"He can't get away with this Dem." She followed suit and stood up, brushing the crumbs from the cakes we endeavoured minutes ago off her dress.
"And he's not going to Dal, trust me." I wrapped my hand around her wrist, putting her wandering mind at ease.
"What happens if this plan you have doesn't work?"
"It will, believe me." I nodded, walking out the back door of Dallas' house and into the garden, joining Nick and Maddie.
"Everything okay, how did she take it?" He pulled me into his side, pressing his lips to my forehead.
"Better than expected actually." I smiled up at him, rubbing my face into his shirt clad chest, never feeling so at ease and...safe.
"Wanna go swimming in the pool?" He bumped his hips with mine, making me stumble lightly.
"I have no bikini."
"But you have a bra and panties on right?" He winked, pulling off his jeans and shirt before running and jumping into the pool where Maddie was comfortably sat in her inflatable ring.
As he came to the surface I jumped in, landing millimetres away from him, making a smaller splash than he did.
"Nick, you got me wet." Maddie moaned crossing her arms.
"Sorry Maddie." He pecked her cheek, silencing her and causing her to blush.
I swam up behind him and jumped onto his back, angling my lips to his ear.
"Looks like she's not the only Lovato girl you've got wet." I bit his ear and wrapped my legs around his waist from the back.
"If words could kill Lovato, I'd be dead." He muttered, grabbing onto my thighs and swinging me around so I was now face to face with the man I loved.
"Keep it safe baby...there's a minor around." I whispered, pecking his lips and biting down onto his lower one.
"You are such a tease." He moaned, his big hands wrapping around my petite waist and steadying me.
"Demi!" I turned my head and saw a very frantic Dallas, waving her hands around in the air, making crosses with her arms and wagging her finger from right to left.
"I'm guessing she wants us to stop." I whispered, pressing my lips to his, using my tongue to seduce him even more, I licked across his bottom lip, making his body shiver beneath me.
I pulled away and unwrapped myself from Nick's embrace. Waiting until his eyes turned back from a shade of black lust to his normal heart stopping brown.
"That should be illegal." He swam over to me, rested his neck on the side of the pool and stared lovingly into my dilated pupils.
It was silent for mere seconds before he spoke again.
"Demi what would you say to staying at mine for a couple of nights?" He squinted his eyes as the sun poured through from behind the house.
"Why would we be staying at yours when I have a free house?"
"Your dad said he'd be back...I don't know what he could possibly do next."
"Nick-"
"Demi please, this is the only thing I can do to protect you...let me do it."
"Okay, we're staying at yours for three nights, then we go back to mine...I'm not going to live in fear of him...not when you're by my side." I smiled and rested my head on his shoulder, relishing in the feel of his hands gliding through my damp hair.
I knew that if I was with Nick I would be safe...no matter what challenges come up, we can fight them off together.
I may have been scared of my dad in the past but not anymore.
As long as I have Nick, I'll be fine...we'll both be fine.