Family Bonds: Book 2 of Sista

by Blackstar1979

Family Bonds the sequel to Sista. The the Superstars and Sistas have been through a lot that have carved out bonds where there were none. Will the past rip apart the bonds that have been forged or make them stronger? Reviews are welcomed as always.

15. Chapter 15 A Stormy Celebration

Chapter 15

A Stormy Celebration

The wedding day has arrived Angel, Sophie, Paula, Janet, Evie, and Candy get their hair and make-up done by Angel's personal stylist and her assistant at Ivey Mansion. Janet asks Paula can she wear make-up too. "Yeah, only if you want us both, to sleep in the truck tonight Mark would flip." The Stylist puts lip gloss on Janet and says that's all she needed because she was very photogenic without a lot of make-up. Angel says the stylist should know considering she did make-up for celebrities.

Evie wanted to ask Angel a question in private. They walk in the den. Here goes nothing Evie thinks to herself. Roman wanted to go with her. "Angel did you mean it when you said that I could not bring Roman to the wedding? He is my mate I wouldn't make you leave Joshua behind if I were getting married."

Every time Roman was mentioned Angel couldn't fight off the image of Candy in the hospital they'd almost lost her friend. "Evie I meant it with every fiber in my being, Roman is not invited. If you try to bring him anyway he will not be able to get on the boat." Evie says she can't believe Angel is being this way. "Evie I know you don't believe what anyone says about your man." Evie says well maybe she won't come. "That is your choice you didn't have this much of a problem when we came and picked you up from when he put you out of his car on the side of the road." Evie says she will try to come. Angel hugs herself and walks out of the den.

Sophie and Paula watch as Angel comes out of the den. "Hey everything ok?" Paula asks, Angel just asks can they help her with the final fitting with her dress. When they get in Angel and Joshua's bedroom Paula sits in the make-up chair since it was the highest seat in the room that she would not have to fight out of. Sophie helped Angel into her dress. "Sophie, Evie may not be in the wedding." Sophie says that was bullshit considering she made such a fuss about being a bridesmaid. "She wants to bring Roman and I just don't want him there no matter what she believes he hurt Candy, and I don't want him trying anything because she called the cops on him. She compared this to if she was getting married and said that Josh couldn't come. I wouldn't wait until the day of, after not having a problem with it to say oh by the way now I have a problem with it."

Sophie says she is going to find out once and for all whether Evie is coming and if not Barbara was supposed to be in that spot before Evie called anyway. She tells Angel not to worry about this, she had this, and she would not let one struggle-bunny ruin her sister's big day. Angel thanks her. Sophie was pissed Evie had already guilt tripped her way back into Angel's life and now she was fucking with her wedding. Sophie rounds the corner into the living room and see's Evie leaving "You and me, we need to talk."

Evie had promised Sophie that she would be a part of the wedding. Now all she had to do was tell Roman that he could not come. "So you chose to go to another city with my ex and you aren't letting me go with you. What is this some kind of girl's night out or a fucking wedding?" Evie tells him the girl says nothing to her and about security being tight. He sighs "you know what? You're right I don't need to be there." He kisses her and smirks "I want you to go and have fun for the both of us. If they have security, they are worried about way more than me getting in. You be careful." The look of surprise on her face was priceless. "Go" She grabs her dress off the bed and sprints out of the room and out of the house. Roman watches her through the window and starts to get dressed.

Logan had rushed home the night of Joshua's party because Megan had called him and told him that Glenny was sick. It turned out that Glenny was fine he asked her why she would do something like that. He'd been half out of his mind the whole time he was riding in Bobby's car. She said she missed him and didn't want him there possibly getting a lap dance. He'd walked into Glenny's room picked up his sleeping son and left the house that night. Tonight was the wedding and he didn't trust his wife not to pull the same trick or heaven forbid taking out her anger on him not distancing himself from her family out on Glenny. She begged him to come back to the house so they could talk. He now sat in their bedroom his son was in what used to be Janet's room it was now Glenny's room. He missed his niece but understood why Mark had stopped her from living there. "Red you know what with all Glenny has been through. I was afraid we'd miss something. That was low even for you. If I was going to cheat on you it wouldn't be with some girl that would rather see my dollar bills in her panties than my face the next morning."

"Logan you were wrong to take him out of here at night and staying gone like that. I was afraid you would never come back. I know it was kind of wrong for me to call you and make it seem like there was something wrong." He says he couldn't play that game if he couldn't trust her to tell the truth. What were they doing together? "Babe I really wish you would not go, your supposed to stand by me. I've asked you to dump the stupid LEGNA account and you refused. Don't you see they are only inviting you to this wedding to get back at me."

"No Red you didn't ask me a damn thing. You demanded that I leave them high and dry after signing a contract. I am just glad after all the stuff you did came out, that they didn't fire my company. My crew isn't willing to work for free, do you know how big of a contract this is? This is steady work. I support you when you're right but Red you knew Mark might have a problem with you tagging Janet, and basically blackmailing her to keep quiet. You had to have known Jonathon would be angry that you pushed Angel down. The Angel and you thing, you apologized she was willing to give you another shot after showing up at her house unannounced and threating to fight her. When I saw you pull Angel off the running board and the look on her face I had nothing I could say. You made me look like a damn fool. If I'd called Kincaid on Angel like I threatened to do when Mark came back you could have went to jail that day." Megan blames him saying he told her to fix it. "Yes, I told you to fix it. You took that to mean stalking the woman and showing up at a party that you were no longer invited to, trapping her in a damn room, then pushing her ass over. Glenny and I are going to the wedding. Janet missed his birthday through no fault of her own and he needs to get out of the house." Megan power walks out of the room and says Glenny is not going a damn place but to bed. "Real mature Red, so let see it's almost noon so what you're saying is that you are so bent about not being invited that you are going to do just like Carla and punish him because you're mad." Megan hauls off and slaps him. He walks into Glenny's bedroom and tells him to come here. As Glenny starts toward him Megan runs in and grabs Glenny up screaming he's not going anywhere. "Megan, did you take your med today put him down you scaring him."

Megan looks at Logan, then at her baby boy dangling by his shirt she hadn't meant to scare him she was pissed at Logan for comparing her to Carla and just snapped. Glenny was tucked in on himself the best he could while suspended in air crying begging his Mimi meg not to fall him and saying he was sorry over and over. She wraps her other arm around him giving him the support that he craved when someone picked him up. His words brought her action to the forefront. Megan put him down on his bed saying "No baby boy I'm sorry for being rough with you. Take him to the wedding I'm sorry guys." She gets up and hands Glenny to Logan who hugs their son to him and tries to keep the anger out of his tone as he ask Glenny did he want to go see Janet. Tears ran down her face as she heard Glenny say please in between hiccups. She had elicited that fearful response from her own little boy.

Janet called Sophie saying that Logan had made it, and that the limos were outside. Everyone piles into the limos. Bobby had his STOP team aligned in formation after and between the limos. Chase's boat was in another town so this was going to be one hell of an operation. 12 limos and 25 federal cars rode through town and on to the highway.

Patrick had met one of the people that were following the Ivey family and Boy around. The woman was not aware of his relation to Boy. His pop had told him to call Boy, Joshua if he said something about him. He'd invited her out on her off day, they had fun she was a chatty little thing. She told him about the wedding, and that she was covering it, and how she used to be a police officer, but had been pulled in as a federal bodyguard. She joked it was like babysitting an adult saying they really didn't do anything but drive around being bored. The massive convoy starts up and he was riding with her to keep her awake. She said he wasn't supposed to be in the vehicle but her field commander would be madder if she fell asleep behind the wheel. It came time for her string of the STOP team to take their break. Patrick slipped something into the woman's drink when she went to go pee. They weren't due to take off and meet up with the rest for another 10 minutes. The woman comes back and scarfs down her meal. One of the guys teases her about being a pig. She was about to say something but he drove off. She suddenly slumped over. He switches seats with her he'd dyed his hair Jet black and put in green contacts. Someone runs up to the car door and yanks it open. He meets the guy's gaze the guy thanks him Patrick says "you're welcome." The guy asked Pat when he started working for the mother. "I've been working for her for years." That seemed to be the right answer because the guy says him too. The guy says they have brothers going after both the targets. Patrick asks "So are they going to let the Team in the wedding or do I have to break in?" the guy snaps a picture of him and "Hey what the?" the guy gets in and asks is the chick out or dead. "Out, I mean she talks a lot but why kill her?" The guy grabs her badge and sends it through a hand held machine when it comes out his picture is the image that replaced hers. The name and stats changed as well. The guy tells him to flash it, not to give it to anyone. Patrick nods they take the woman out of her car and into the ladies room leaving her there without a phone, car, or ID.

At the boat Angel goes in one direction and Joshua is ushered in the other. He turns around before her door closes and charges down the hall. Angel seems to sense him and turns around watching him. "I have something for you, a wedding gift." He pulls a jewelry box out of his pocket. She takes it, pops the long dark maroon box open and her breath catches. "It's something new. Like the line says, something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue."

Angel mouths the words with him as she looks down at the bracelet. It is a teal wideband bracelet like the ones she liked to wear. Only the trinkets that adorned this one were done in a charm bracelet style. The light catches the platinum resting on the colored leather as he put it on her wrist. The charms were a Celtic cross with a halo over it, a music note, a heart, a candid shot of both of their faces as children, and one empty for when JC is born. She looks up into his eyes "I love it babe." Sophie comes out into the hall and points for Joshua go to back down the hall. He smirks at her, says he was going and called her bossy. She says damn right and threatens to tell Candy he isn't in his room. He picks up the pace as he walks back down the hall.

Out on the covered massive deck the teal and white lights are strung along the length of the massive yacht the teal and white theme goes well with the hardwood modern carpentry of the ship with the ocean as a breathtaking natural backdrop. As people are ushered to their seat the Vitamin String Quartet plays "One Moment in Time" originally done by Whitney Houston. Joshua's grandmother on Sally's side comes and sits where the groom will be standing. Michael, Cassandra, and Bradley and his date sit with her so the first rows were clearly a representation of who was with whom. Harold and his family sat in the first row on Angel's side. Slash and Damien Rice show up as well.

The processional starts. A band plays "The Arm of the One Who Loves You" originally done by Xscape. Sophie, Paula, Janet, and Evie, walk down the aisle alongside Candy, Mark, Deon, and Vash. Deon catches Janet who almost topples over in her heels. Right before Joshua escorts Sally down the aisle as mother of the groom. Sally turns to her youngest "My baby boy is finally tying the knot I'm so happy for you." she whispers in Spanish. His smile and the excitement dancing in her all too serous son's eyes swelled her heart to bursting. The smile on her face could not have been any larger as he showed her to her seat in the front row behind him. Joshua takes his position in front and stands looking back up the aisle. The look that claimed his features as Angel walks down the aisle with Chase on her left and Jonathon on her right was mirrored in her all too expressive green eyes. Everyone stands as "Down the Aisle" originally by Fiona Joy Hawkins is played. She looked beautiful. His good luck charm looked like a true angel, in her high low style white dress with her teal guarder and the bracelet that he'd given her. She stands beside him and the music continues.

Sally light's the Davenport Candle and hands it to Joshua. Bobby lights the Ivey candle then takes it and lights Jonathon's McBride candle. Angel tears up as she takes it from her father. The couple lights the unity candle and step back in place. Everyone reclaims their seat. When the pastor asks the question did anyone have any objections to this union someone clears their throat, Joshua and Angel both glare over their shoulder. The pastor tells Joshua he may now kiss his bride. Joshua didn't have to be told twice, as he steps closer, dips her, and kisses her deeply, with her holding on to his shoulders as to not tip over in the heels she was wearing that brought her 4 inches shy of his 5'10. As he brings her back up, he whispers hoarsely "I love you Mrs. Davenport." Both of their attention is drawn to Slash getting up. Angel smiles Joshua looks dumbfounded.

Slash gets up and tells the band to move or play along. Everyone is shocked as he walks up on the platform, grabs his guitar with his top hat in place, and says into the microphone "Davenport this is for you from your wife." Slash starts shredding then starts the "Wedding March" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream", but in a rock guitar battle style as the band echo's him. Sophie points back up the aisle and Angel and Joshua lead the way back up the aisle as Slash shreds in his heavy metal. The crowd starts clapping never having heard and ending to a wedding played by a rock and roll personality.

The reception is set up while the bride and groom are in their cabin. Paula stands watching to see when they go inside, and then turns around and gives Sophie a thumbs up. The crew moves and positions things. Chase walks to a control panel and hits the button to pull the roof back into place. Slowly the setting sunlight is closed out by the high roof that silently slides into place, like that of a football dome, meeting in the middle and relighting the room with a soft more even glow. Angel and Joshua renter the main space and are surprised at how fast the scenery had changed. At Angel's confused look Chase walks over and says he didn't want her catching a cold. He goes on to say this little feature was one of the reasons he wanted to do this on his boat. She could have the sea, but wouldn't have to freeze all night. She hugs him and thanks him.

They go up and sit at the first table. Angel and Joshua soon walk out on to the dance floor for their first official dance as man and wife. Jonathon reaches for a microphone as one of his bands, sets up on the band stand. "Angela mi baby girl" he says in Irish. He meets her gaze as he finishes in English "I wante6 d to sing this for you and my new son's first dance." They thank him "I hope you will still be thanking me when I'm done." he smirks at Gloria. She says he'll do fine. They had practiced hard from the first time he'd tried it.

Jonathon cues the band, leans into the microphone and starts to sing "I Loved her First" by Heartland in his mildly accented baritone. As Jonathon watches his girl and his newest kin dance the nerves abate and his tone levels out.

Angel had heard her father was going to sing but she had no idea he was going to sing this song. She held on to Joshua as her father's words met her ears and washed over her. At a certain point in the song Joshua holds her that much closer. Angel had heard the slight warning, only her father could find a song like this. "Did you like my little surprise? I hoped that I could keep it a secret until today. When Candy told me that my father had arranged for Slash to give you a guitar I thought he and the quartet would be a decent surprise since Slash was staying for the wedding. You must have made one hell of an impression on him. Mr. Davenport"

"Well Mrs. Davenport, I would have to say I was totally surprised that Slash made another appearance. Slash and the VSQ rocked my wedding not many guitarist can say that. As far as a great first impression, I would have to count that as luck. I'm the luckiest man in the world right now. I have my good luck charm of a wife, in my arms." At the close of the song everyone claps and Jonathon takes a bow.

Soon the band plays Sally's favorite aria. She smiles at her son. As they dance she says "I was worried what we were in for as far as musical pieces, there for a moment, when your guitar hero played the end of the wedding. That was nice of Angel, was it a surprise or did you know?" Joshua says it was totally a surprise with a big cheesy smile on his face. "Joshua I'm so thankful that we were able to come. Michael and I haven't missed the effort you and your siblings have put into getting along. I'm so very proud of you all. My mother who didn't like Michael seems to like Angela. Joshua tells her his nana might as well, because his Angel was undeniably here to stay, but it was nice to know she approved none the less. "I might as well also tell you as long as my new daughter keeps putting that goofy grin on your face, she's alright in my book."

Next Angel and Jonathon dances to "You Raise Me Up" by the group Celtic Woman. Angel looks up at her father. His glasses didn't block out the look of love and adoration on his face. They glide across the dance floor. "Thank you, dad for everything. Maybe you're on the wrong side of the microphone. You sounded really good." She grins up at him.

Jonathon looks down at his girl, grins "You might be a bit too biased. If it weren't for Gloria I would have not done it at all, she helped in a tremendous way." Angel asks how so. "Getting a band to play so I did not sound like I was mocking them was her idea, me racing the track sounded horrible. I can hardly believe that the little bundle of redhead that used to bound towards me down the hall is the same young woman that... That I hold now. You will always be my baby girl. When you first told me of you and Joshua's intention to wed, it felt like I was losing you." She tells him that he wasn't losing her. "Let me finish, I have seen the way you interact with him, the way he puts a smile in your eyes. I couldn't hope for a better person to call son. He treats you well, and shows his love for you. That's all I ever wanted for you, in that respect."

The large boat was coming back to port because of a storm that had been spotted. Paula gets up from the table. Chase must have this place's heat set on hell, she thinks to herself. She was hot and her dress was starting to stick to her. With every one dancing around it just made it that much hotter. She walks out into the cool breeze coming off the ocean. Something caught her attention and she walks towards the other side of the deck. The wind was whipping her hair viciously on this side, she watches the storm that Chase was racing back to shore. The movement of the large ship had picked up speed.

Target 2 walked into his area, she looks at his face as he put his hand on her shoulder. She then looks at his hand when she undoubtedly felt the stick he'd given her, with the needle he had on hm. Her eyes roll to the back of her head and she slumps forward into him the last thing that left her mouth is the word fuck. He snaps his fingers and Patrick comes and helps him put the unconscious woman in a large box that had held one of the rather large decorations. When the boat meets the marina his field commander comes out of the party and gives him the order he was waiting for. They start removing the gifts putting them in trucks to be taken to Ivey Mansion. The bride had not come out but he had Target 2. The man named Patrick was supposed to be on his side, said something about that not being the right woman. He tells Patrick to either help or go to prison for the fed he knocked out. Pat gets mad and says he'll help but he doesn't have to like it. Target 2 is moved into a truck for transit. The agent walks around to the driver's side and says to the man that he was supposed to drive this vehicle. The man goes to argue until he pulls rank, the younger agent gets out of the truck, and he gets in, and drives away disabling the tracker.

Patrick didn't like that he had got himself into this kind of a pickle. The guy had left him here but the plan was to grab Boy's woman not the blonde. He thought he had made a friend but he guessed not. His pap was going to be mad at him. He had to fix this he had to get Boy's woman and quick. The tall guy that had come with the blond comes out of the party he asked him had he seen where his wife went and gave the blond woman's description. "No sir, but I'll keep a look out for her." the man looks at him for a beat then nods and walks away.

Candy comes out "Hey, Mark we're about to cut the cake are you coming?" Mark turns around and says he is looking for Paula and he'll be in when he finds her. "Okay I'll take the second floor she may of went to the bathroom on the lower floor she was fanning herself it's kind of hot in there compared to out here." He nods and keeps walking. She wonders did he think to call Paula's phone and calls her, the phone instantly clicks to voicemail.

That didn't seem normal. Candy walks down the corridor to find the next set of doors that would lead to the lower floor. She walks past one of the agents something was different about him before she can scream Roman grabs her and covers her mouth pushing her into a door. He was wearing his Shield costume the outfit looked almost like the STOP team uniform only the word STOP wasn't across the chest plate. His gaze is angry fire as he glares at her while pinning her to the door with his hand clamped over her mouth. She narrows her eyes and pushes at his chest and pulls at his arm to release her mouth. She manages to get out a scream.

Roman lowered his hand to her throat and watches her glare turn to panic as her blue eyes widen. She starts to shake, as she begs with her eyes for breath while slapping at his face. He leans in and whispers "You told on me, I should snap your neck. You could have killed my career." Footsteps are heard he opens the door pushes her inside and rushes in closing the door behind him. They were in a bedroom how fitting, she had run across the room. She says he shouldn't be this mad he got away with it free and fucking clear. He'd proved who was more valuable to society. "I greased the right palm, that's why I am still on the outside. Come here Candy I missed you." She shakes her head no. "You have to clear something up for me. Did you really think of what I did as rape or were you protecting your relationship? You knew, I wouldn't hurt you, we'd played that game many times before."

Candy touches her neck where he just tried to choke her out against a door. "Roman, I didn't want that. You took me against my will. That's rape." He says he kissed her, and they had sex that wasn't rape. Anger lit her tone "You took my breath to the point I passed out, that's not a kiss. You forced yourself into me, and hurt me, and I had no choice in the matter. I have a question for you." It had been running around in her head from the time he left her on her bathroom floor. He walks closer she puts the bed and a few feet in between them. "Why did you come back at all? You left me on the floor of the Davenport. Why the hell did you feel the need to come back?" He tells her he missed her and seeing her at Mania made him want her again. "That's where you messed up, you didn't want me. You wanted the stupid ass younger teenage girl that used to let you do any and everything to her." Roman jumps up on the bed she looks up at him, she would fight him she couldn't let what happened at her house happen here.

Candy stances for a fight, he smirks rising an eyebrow. "You want to fight me, is that your little power ranger martial arts pose? Your guitarist, teach you that? Did he tell you I trapped his little ass in your bedroom and in the basement until I got tired?" She looked angry enough to attack him. He hops up and down on the bed "Come on, I'll make you a deal. If you can get pass me, I'll let you go. If not you'll be mine forever." She shakes her head no. "Your choice, make the right choice, and I won't have to punish you." He jumps down and instead of jumping towards her, he jumped in her way as she tried to run for the door. He grabs her by her hair she swings wildly, and starts screaming again for him to let go. He slings her into the bed, she hit it and rolls over to the other side, landing on her feet holding her head. He stands by the door. "One way out and that is through me. Candy Bar I want to taste you. I want you in that bed under me. I didn't think this was necessary and it may still not work I brought a friend" he pulls a gun. "Get in the bed Candy Bar you know I have fantasies that aren't exactly vanilla."

Swallowing hard Candy watches the gun. Roman, she could try to fight, a bullet would give him all he wanted, her quiet, and he wouldn't even have to worry about the task of waking her up. She didn't want to die, not anymore, she didn't want him either, but letting him into her home had started this. "You don't need to shoot me." She walks to the bed.

Roman watched her as he stood by the door. She was giving herself to him his blonde had returned. "Take off the shoes and lay back on the bed." his blonde complies. He walks closer to the bed and sees tears in her eyes. "Stop crying" She wipes her eyes but the tears still flowed down her cheeks. He takes handcuffs off his belt with one hand and throws them to her. "Put them on" She begs him not to make her do this. He points the gun higher at her chest. Her eyes follow its movement. "Put them on, last chance." She complies. He pulls a ball gag out of his pocket holds it up like a prize "Look what else I brought; since I won't be kissing you, I'd rather just plug that hole. Open your mouth." when she opens her mouth he wanted to put more than the rubber ball in, but settled for the gag. He runs the gun up the side of her face making her shiver at the feel of the cold steel. "You won't tell on me this time will you? Just shake that beautiful blonde head no." He noticed the hesitation before she shook her head, which made him angry. "You're planning to tell on me again aren't you?" he yells her quick shake of her head no calmed him. He gets on top of her still clothed and grinds against her relishing the feel of his blonde beneath him.

He bends down and sniffs her, planting his face in her now messed up hair. The door opens and time sped up in 2 seconds as Roman turns to point at the intruder. Candy hears Janet scream and wraps the chain of her cuffed hands around Roman's neck and pulls back, he fires. Though she tried to scream for Janet to run the gag blocked the sound. Roman turns back to her so she wouldn't be choking him anymore, his eyes were excited and wild. He pinches her nose closed with his free hand. Candy tries to breath around the gag everything was happening too fast. Had he shot Janet or had she escaped? Her world was fading he had went back to depriving her of air, he wasn't kissing her this time, it was more dispassionate this way. He hadn't shot her what was he going to do? That thought crossed her air deprived brain, as she passes out?"

Roman watches her eyelids flutter and her cheeks puff as his blond passes out. He didn't need any more interruptions he gets up and locks the damn door, putting the dresser behind it. Mark's little brat had got away. He'd deal with that later, might as well have fun now. He makes quick work of ripping the dress in half further retraining her arms in the dress like he'd done Evie. He wondered would Evie care if he did this, as long as no public came out of it he doubted she would notice. There inlaid the problem, he was on a boat that he wasn't supposed to be on, with a now half naked unconscious guest of a wedding that was very public. He couldn't even shoot his way out he'd unloaded the other nine shots at the range. The gun had been an afterthought he should have packed more ammo.

Janet had run as fast as she could the wrestler had shot at her, all she could think was she had to get her dad. Candy was in real trouble and she could be too since she saw them. She sees her dad, runs to him hugging him talking a mile a minute "He shot at me, and she's in there with him." Janet went from trembling to crying out of fear. Her dad asks who, as alarm and anger crosses his face. "The shield Leader he, he has Candy in the bedroom we got dressed in before the wedding. He aimed his gun at me and she tried to stop him which is probably why he missed me. Daddy we have to get her out of there."

Mark tells her to go in the reception and get her uncle Harold. He wanted her out of harm's way. He already couldn't find his wife this day was turning into a big pile of steaming hot shit. None of the crew had seen Paula. None of the agents saw her either. How in the fuck did his 8 month pregnant wife wearing a white and teal dress get pass such trained agents, and disappear into thin fucking air. Shortly before he came out on the deck Candy had just given a speech about how Angel and Joshua were her favorite couple and gave them her gift, a 5 foot bust of then done in white clay. Now she was in one of the bedrooms with one of his coworkers that shot a gun at his daughter. Mark is beyond pissed as he moves aggressively towards where the girls had changed into their dresses before the wedding.

Harold and Bobby are talking while about to head out of the party to speak to their agents about finding Mark, Paula, Candy, and now Janet, when Janet charges into to the room. She almost runs into Harold as she tells him about Candy and that her dad hadn't found her momma yet. Harold orders Bobby to keep everyone in here he also asks for Bobby's agent sheet. Bobby pulls it out and hands it to him. Janet finds Logan and Glenny and sits with them.

Voices are heard fear is washing through her what happened, is the foremost thought in her head. Where is she? She knows she is moving but couldn't move she tried again and still nothing. An image of the man touching her arm runs through her head he had something else, a needle. Oh no what had he given her? Her baby hadn't moved since she had awakened in this dark moving prison. Someone is talking again she tries to listen the voices didn't sound familiar, she smelled dirt and wood. Where the fuck is she? Her head hurt she wasn't moving anymore oh god. Rubbing is heard. Its dark outside how long had she been out? Someone had partly removed the lid of her prison. Oh god where was she going? She tries to speak, to scream to be let free, but her mouth was covered. All she could do is watch the figures move. One of them spoke and made her shiver he sounded familiar. Cold dread coated her senses when she recognized the voice. He was the man that robbed her bar. A flashlight is shined into her face blocking out her view of the night sky. "Well, well, it looks like the cargo is awake what now? We really should stops meeting like this." The cargo oh shit she wanted to know and she didn't want to know what he meant at the same time. He reaches in and pats her stomach. She flinched and tries to get free again. "Calm down bitch if you hurt the kid we really won't need you." Suddenly a dark sorrow seems to swallow her she couldn't stop crying they were going to take her baby and there was nothing she could do to stop them. The young punk that had robbed her bar put something with a pungent smell over her nose and she passes out.

The man takes the tape off the unconscious target two's mouth. He remembers the blond from when he robbed her bar. Small world he thought to himself, as he helps another man that worked for The Mother take the woman out of the large crate they had put her in. Clay dust clung to the woman's dress but the wooden crate was the largest gift box they had access to. The new doctor told them to take the wrist and ankle restraints off her until they got her in the house they were using. He blindfolds her just in case she wakes up again before they get her in the house.

Roman gets on the bed and inside Candy slapping her face until she is staring at him. He says "This may very well be our last coupling, but if they take me they'll have to take to you too." Her body surrounding him made him shiver she was extremely tight, always had been. With no preamble he starts moving with powerful thrusts and grunting his love for her. His blond his Candy Bar, as he explodes within her he thanks her and kisses her gagged mouth. Her expression didn't change just a blank stare with tears running down her cheeks. With his first few thrust she had been screaming behind the gag and moving around but she had just stopped. Breathing heavily into her face watching his breath move her tendrils of golden hair he pants while removing the gag from her mouth "Candy Bar. You do this to me." he huffed in her face and kissed her roughly.

When he woke her she wasn't surprised to find him inside of her, it hurt so much after a time she just didn't have the energy to fight him, and screaming was taking more of her air than she could spare. It was like with her father they were both much bigger men than she, and stronger. She lay there under him while he growled and grunted his empty claims of love. She finds her secret place in her head. She is brought out of her self-induced protective trance by him taking the gag out of her mouth, he still laid on top of her crushing her damn hands between them. Her hands and arms felt numb she wished she was numb in other places that were in more pain than she even remembered. If she lived she would have to get checked out again. He was talking to her. He rubbed a thumb under her eye probably catching the make-up her tears had taken down the side of her face. He tells her to tell him she loved him. "Why?" She says on a cough. She hated him more than she thought she could hate another living creature. He tells her because he may very well be the last person inside of her if things go south. Her mind was working a mile a minute she really didn't want to die not here, not with him. "Girl you shot?" He blamed her for making him miss and said she was probably on her way back with Taker and a team of security. Janet wasn't injured Candy had at least saved a life. Now to try to save her own, she didn't know if he was pressing her into the mattress on purpose as a sign of his control over her or what, but it hurt and she was having trouble catching her breath. "You're heavy" He pulls out of her rolling to her side she takes in heaping amounts of air.

That must have been that look on her face. He'd been squishing her little ass into the firm mattress, and having a gag in her mouth probably didn't help. He'd been rough with her. He'd meant what he told her. He loved his blond she was what made him do this shit. When she stopped struggling under him and was still awake he knew he'd won her submission. The tears were probably her confusion over their relationship. "If you're worried about me leaving you again, like I foolishly did before at you friend's bar don't, because Candy Bar, I am going to prove to you that I love you. We can have as many kids as you want." She looks over at him pulling and tugging on her dress. He grabs the gun she couldn't know it was empty, but her next words floored him. He starts undoing the dress around the cuffs.

Candy knew she was playing with fire but she had to try anything she could. So she went with lying he'd lied to her all while raping her telling her he loved her. "We have to get out of here first. I don't know about you babe but I want to live to raise said children." He asks her about her band member. "I see that you are willing to give me kids." That part was so close to making her cry she bit the inside of her lip. She hoped her birth control caught all of his nasty little soldiers. She had to focus on the farce at hand. When he puts the gun down and starts undoing the dress that was trapped around her arms and hands she could hardly believe he was going to free her. "If we are going to make this work you have to let me put something on." He pauses and eyes her. She meets his gaze "Clothing will get us out of here faster than you walking with a half-naked chick down the hall at gun point. If they see a gun we're both toast."

He fingers the cloth of her underwear he'd ripped away. He gets up and takes a picture of her with his phone. "What the fuck did you do that for? You won, you'll get to see as much of me as you want why the picture? " Anger laced her tone. He tells her just in case she planned on running he would send it to the highest bidder. "You don't trust me wow that's a switch? Not a great way to start this fucked up relationship." He tells her he likes the more adult edgy her. She wished she had an edge of a sharp knife to stick into his heart. Relishing such a dark fantasy she closes her eyes opens them and gazes up at him lifting her still cuffed hands. "Are you going to take these off?" he asks her where she is going to find clothing. "This is our dressing room, I can put the outfit I came in back on." He says their relationship isn't fucked up as he unlocks the cuffs. She rubs her wrist. "You don't think today was extreme enough to be fucked up?" He says he sees her point and smiles at her. She once was in loved with that smile. Now all she wanted was to bust his teeth in, and watch him choke out on them. He asks her to say she loved him. Picturing her standing over his unmoving body she looks up at him and says "I love you Roman."

Roman almost creamed himself, she had that just fucked smile on her face from when they were younger. He'd thought she was playing with him. His blond wasn't that good at playing head games, she felt something for him he could see it in her gaze. She said he'd won that he would see her anytime he wanted. He still wasn't going to erase the picture until they got back to his place. Shit he had forgot he didn't live here. He looks sheepishly at her "Can we go back to your place?" She says sure. He watches her as she winces getting to her feet and limps to the closet. Holding on to the door knob she seems to be very much in pain. "Maybe next time we can use a safe word. I'm sorry I hurt you." Something flashes briefly in her gaze when she turns to him.

Was he fucking serious? Before her brain can make it sound better she blurted out. "You took me like I was a damn wild animal. A safe word would not have been effective I couldn't speak. Making me pass out also leaves no room for a safe word." He says he did that for the wrong reason this time, but since they were going to be together he would back off on the cutting off her air. He asked her could he help her get dressed. She wanted this distance as long as she could have it. "No I got it." she opens the closet and steps in. He walks over making sure it was just a closet. She hated that he was so close. Satisfied that she wasn't going to be leaving the room via the closet, he walks back and sits on the bed. Her pants were going to be a bitch because she would have to lift her legs. Her balance was off she knew this to be true. There is a knock on the door. Roman runs into the closet with her closing the door behind him.

"Fuck I left the gun out there?" He gropes around for her. She hadn't said anything "Candy Bar did you hear me?" He reaches around trying to find her. The person was making short work of his barricade they would be in the room soon. "Candy where are you?" He bumps into her back she is shaking. Running a hand up and down her arm he says in her ear. "If anyone should be scared it's me at the very least you belong here." She tells him not anymore she belonged to him. Her tone made him want to take her to the floor. He thinks about something Candy had passed him in his Shield costume because he looked like one of them. He gets an idea it would look like he was saving her. He bends down and whispers in her ear as the door to the room is busted open knocking over the dresser. "Last time babe I promise." He quickly puts a hand over her mouth and nose with his other one around her middle lifting her off the floor. He can feel her shaking and whispers he's sorry.

"No please you promised" Candy begs under his hand that is so tight against her face. She had to get free no matter what happened she had to try. When her feet leaves the floor she quickly lifts her legs making him lean forward with her weight shifting in his grasp, he threaten to hurt her if she kicked him. She quickly pushes with her feet against the door of the closet pushing them both backwards to the floor. His chin hit the top of her head. It hurt like a son of bitch but he had let her go. The door opens and Mark stands in the light coming into the dark space of the closet. He looks at her then shifts his gaze but offers her a hand up.

Mark heard something bounce off the closet door as he forced his self into the room. Seeing the gun on the bed he grabs it and opens the closet door. Candy was lying on top of Roman, her make-up all smeared he averts his eyes from her lack of clothing. Reaching in, she takes his offered hand, and with a wince lets him pull her to her feet. She limps to the bed holding the top of her head wrapping a pillow case around her naked bottom half. Roman looked dazed as he tries to grab for her or something to pull himself up on. The amount of hate and anger that flowed through Mark at this space and time was insurmountable. Seeing red he draws Roman's gun on him and pulls the trigger. Click, click, realizing that the gun was empty did nothing for the rage that sat on Mark like an elephant. "YOU FUCKING SHOT AT MY CHILD" Mark seethed and kicked Roman so hard he cried out that he was sorry. "Not yet" Mark looks at the empty gun in his hand and then back at Roman with a sick smile on his face that held no humor. "When I'm done, you're going to wish you had one more bullet boy"

Mark starts pistil whipping Roman in the head and face. Roman grabs for air trying to defend himself but is quickly knocked out by the force of Mark's viciously frenzied attack. Mark doesn't stop he just keeps hitting the now unconscious man until an order is given from Harold to stop, the sound of guns cocking is heard. Coming out of his haze Mark looks back at the STOP team and gets to his feet breathing heavy. He asks between breaths "Did ...You… Fuck-offs find my wife?" In a calm detached tone Harold tells Mark to drop the weapon and leave the room. Thinking of how he must look standing here with a gun in hand he drops the weapon as to not get shot by the federal sniper force. "Now, I'm unarmed. Have you found Paula?"

Harold shook his head Mark walked toward him his team raised their weapons. He puts up a hand "Mark, they're not going to let you strike me. Paula's my sister and I will find her I need you to leave this room right now." Mark walks out of the room and punches the wall yelling for Harold to find her now. "I'm on it." Harold takes a breath running a hand through his hair he looks at the scene before him and tells his team. "Get this asshole out of here, before I make him disappear." They pick Roman up and carry him out of the room not waiting on a stretcher. His men knew that he was minutes from losing it. He turns around looking at Candy she had on a tank top with a pillow sham wrapped around her bottom half. She was bruised and she looked dazed. Seeing her dress in pieces on the floor he asks "Do you have any more clothing?" She nods he had to remain detached. One of his female agents walks over and hands her the pants she asked for.

Candy knew her system was on overload as she shakes and winces while putting her pants on. Pressing her lips together hard she blinks rapidly trying to stave off the fresh wave of emotion that threatened to rack her. "I. He" He asked her did she need medical attention she nods he asks was she under the Sheldon network another nod, not trusting her voice right now. He calls Bobby and tells him to allow Dr. Lucas Sheldon Jr. with two of the people on the approved short list down to his location.

Angel and Joshua had cut the cake but now waited on Candy, Mark and Paula to come take the final pictures while everyone ate. The storm was rolling in fast and Chase was livid because Bobby would not let anyone out of the room. When Luke gets up and is let out Chase starts yelling at Bobby who tells him something Chase turns around and meets Angel's gaze, he tried for a neutral expression as he waved but failed. It was in his eyes something was wrong. Angel walks toward her father. "Chase what's going on?" He clears his throat, and says her friend Candy had been attacked and that Luke was going to see to her.

Joshua heard and starts towards the door Bobby tells him he can't leave the grand room per Harold's orders. "The fuck with his order that's my friend." Bobby tells Joshua that there is more going on, and to please not make a scene because he didn't need panic. "What gives Bobby?" Bobby tells him that Paula is now missing, and one of the STOP team that was supposed to be riding in the third string never reported in, but the head count of agents were two more than what they started with. "You think April is behind it?" Bobby said he couldn't professionally make that assumption but his gut told him yes. They let Mark back in his hands were raw and his suit was messed up. Mark tells Joshua what he walked in on or barged in on. Joshua swallows hard Candy had been scared about coming for fear that Roman would crash the wedding. He'd waited until the reception. Their wedding day had been going so well. Harold and Luke was with his friend he wasn't going to let his wife out of his sight.

Patrick walks through the kitchen in a waiter outfit. He walks in and there is his brother standing with his target they looked good. Boy had on a white and teal suit and Angel had on an all-white dress with teal stuff like bracelets and things. His parents were going to be so proud of him, going by his dad's plan he would kind of be invisible to Angel since he was dressed as just a server. His pa had been a waiter, and said no one noticed the help. A big guy a little taller than Boy looked his way and then went back to drinking his beer. He had hoped that Boy wasn't so close he was mere feet away, this was going to be tricky but exciting. He walks toward her she hadn't noticed him he high-fives himself mentally. He had a concoction mixed in the fancy ice-cream thing the servers were giving to the guest to go with their cake. Damn, Boy was walking back towards Angel lucky Boy didn't know what he looked like. A little plump dark haired lady with a fake tan was staring at him. He didn't need any more attention that was for sure. Shit she was coming his way. He quickly looks at his tray he'd spike the whole thing not wanting to mess up. He starts walking closer to the first table. The heavy broad waved at him to come over he was standing in front of his brother and Angel's table. Boy takes one without looking at him. Angel looks up at him and asks was it the coffee swirl or the chocolate. Patrick had to say something and quick "the chocolate" He knew speaking was risky and his fear was confirmed when she takes a step back from the table. Boy looked at Angel then back at him. She looked about to run he kind of wished she did then he could catch her outside.

That voice, he'd changed his hair color and had more facial hair, but Angel knew that voice. She steps back from the table separating them already, but she suddenly felt cornered. Joshua looks back at her as she backs away from the table. With her eyes glued on Patrick she says "He's the one that drugged me"

It happened in an instant, Joshua turns and knocks the tray into the face of his brother, jumping and clearing the table before the man can recover, he starts punching him. Cass, who was coming to snag a dessert watches her little brother start beating the hell of the server that had ignored her. She runs over and grabs Joshua he pushes her away, and continues battering his fist into the server's face. Bradley runs over and grabs Joshua telling him to cool it, saying he didn't need to go to jail it wasn't fun. Joshua tries to swing Bradly off of him, but Bradley was holding on for dear life. He looks up at Angel and yells for her not to just stand there. Joshua yells for Bradley to let him the fuck go. Patrick punches a restrained Joshua and tries to roll under the table. Angel sees Patrick trying to reach for her under the table and dashes off of the raised platform running to into Jonathon.

Bobby tells his agent to hold the door as he runs up on the platform and helps keep Joshua on the other side of the table. "What the fuck is going on?" Joshua stops trying to get loose and says who they were letting get away. Bobby says "the hell I am" and upends the table on to Patrick. The little shit tries to keep moving Bobby steps down on the table and draws his weapon telling the fucker "Patrick Smyth if you so much as breathe hard, it will be your last." He removes the table and put his weapon on the back of the fucker's skull. "How do you like being held at gun point, not knowing if this I your last moment on earth you piece of filth?" Bobby wanted to say fuck it and put a bullet in the guy that drugged his sister. His finger just needed to depress the trigger and he would send this guy to hell.

Agent Andrew Stark didn't need his boss blowing away some un-sub at a wedding. He walks over and tells Bobby "Field Commander Hawk-Ivey I think the situation has been dealt with."

Chase knew at this moment in time Bobby wasn't acting as an agent of a sniper force he was acting as a brother that had enough. "Don't do it Robert, you just got your shied back."

His Agent was trying to remind him of whom and what he was by using his title. Chase was the person that had him moving his finger away from the trigger. Bobby looks at his father then waves for Andrew to take the guy before he changed his mind. It would be too easy to do just that. He watches as Andrew grabs the guy up on his feet searches him coming away with the fake badge and walks him out of the grand room. So this guy, and the guy that attacked Angel's friend, were the two agents that threw off the count. He turns to Angel she is standing with Joshua and Jonathon with that owl-eyed expression on her face. If he showed his face again Bobby wasn't sure he would be able to let him go again. Everyone watched him the silence that stole over the room was deafening. He walks over looks at Joshua who still looked pissed. "I hope you understand that I couldn't let you kill him." Joshua nods and so does Jonathon both of them knew what he was talking about he'd made sure that Scott was found dead in another location but no one but the three of them knew that Scott was dead before he was thrown in the lake. Bobby had disposed of the tranquilizer gun Joshua had shot him with. Before local showed up Bobby cleared any trace of him and his family and left with Scott in his vehicle that was put on the crush list. It was best if Angel didn't know, and to his knowledge no one had told her. All she needed to know was that son of bitch would never touch her again. If Patrick Smyth wanted to continue breathing in and out he had better keep his filthy ass away from Bobby's family. Angel asked him what would happen to Patrick. "It's Friday so he'll be caged at the very least until Monday here in this town not in Grandville. He's going to find it hard to counter the charge of impersonating a federal agent." Sophie walks over and tells them that she had called in a favor to the DA in this district he owed her one and she was collecting.

Bradley walks over, he'd been on the other end of Joshua's fist before it wasn't fun when Joshua was 12. To imagine those same rage filled blows at 30 made him glad that Joshua didn't turn around and deck him when he grabbed ahold of him. "Joshua, I wasn't trying letting him get a lick in on you but I knew if I let you go, he would be dead by now, and you would be the one going in a cage tonight." Joshua says that a few weeks ago that would have been his first thought. "Yeah, I'm, pretty sure that my newest sister would like to not be sleeping alone on her wedding night."

Candy had met with Luke they waited for a rape kit to arrive via his med crew in this city. He spoke to her and she told him and Harold what happened, taking moments in between to collect herself. Luke wanted her to talk to Middlebrooks because of what happened last time. He was pissed that it happened at all. The kit arrives and Luke asked her if she would prefer if Middlebrooks preformed it since she is in attendance at the reception. Candy swallows and said it really didn't matter between the two of them. She appreciated why he asked but he wasn't the one that did it to her. He does it while Harold steps out of the room. He tells her that she had some tearing and that she would be sore because of her previous condition. He tells her he is going to make sure that the sample and his write up go through federal testing and that since the sample wasn't diluted between the sample and her statement she'd given to Harold there would be nowhere for Roman to go but to jail. Candy tells him how Roman said he got off the first time by greasing the right palms. "Candy to get this wiped from his record Roman would have to have more money than all the Ivey's put together. He thinks he's untouchable he should realize in lock up tonight that he's not." After he is done he gets up after she dresses and knocks on the door telling Harold it was okay to renter Harold tells Luke and Candy to go with the female agent to the limos.

Since Harold now knew who was throwing off the agent count he told Bobby to get everyone into the limos when he gets everyone dropped off they were to have a meeting. Bobby announces to the crowd that they are free to leave the grand room but to please walk straight to the marina and get in the limos they arrived in. Mark says he was staying behind he wasn't going anywhere without his wife. Bobby gives Mark his phone and tells him to talk that over with Harold. Bobby wasn't in the right frame of mind to be arguing with anyone.

Harold tells Mark that Paula wasn't on the boat and to please go get in the limo. Harold's detached tone ticked Mark off. He accused Harold of not giving a fuck about his own sister. That was Harold's last straw he tells Mark "Don't fucking dare tell me that I don't care. If what I suspect has occurred, PJ is in danger so get your ass in the limo." Mark starts up again. "SHUT THE FUCK UP. If you can't be where you are supposed to be that won't help, it may even hurt my chance at saving PJ. I have given strict instructions to have those limos on the road in less than 20 minutes. The faster I get y'all off this ship the faster I can devote more of my time, to saving my sister. With everything going down those girls are targets so please get in the limo go back to Ivey Mansion." Mark asks if Paula could still be in this city. Saying he just didn't want to abandon her here. Harold hangs up and soon walks into the grand room he waves a pissed off Mark over to him. With not being able to trust his whole crew he had to be very careful on what he said over the air waves even on government level phones. "Mark one of the vehicles that was supposed to be taking the gifts back to the house has went offline. What my agents don't know is there are other ways to track said vehicle. It's not in this city anymore." Mark numbly nods and walks over to Logan and Janet. Harold checks the drivers against his system and has one of his more trusted agents ride with each group. The massive convoy heads back to Ivey Mansion.

In the first limo Angel sits with Joshua and Candy. Evie was mad at her for having her ride in the second limo Mistrust and fright wouldn't allow Angel to care at this point, she didn't want to be near Evie. Sophie and Cassandra wanted to leave Evie here in the town the boat was in. Angel just wanted to go home, Candy sat on the other side of Joshua with Deon on her other side. Sophie and Luke sat across from them with Jonathon, Gloria and Chase who hadn't stopped texting on his Blackberry.

Roman calls Evie from his hospital room the following morning telling her to call his lawyer. There was a federal agent waiting outside for when he was released. The hospital must have been a county hospital they wouldn't even give him any good drugs for the pain. Mark had about cracked his damn skull and all they gave him was an aspirin. The nurses were either ugly or male. He hadn't seen himself but from the tightness around his forehead he knew it was bandaged. His face felt tight. By the end of their conversation Evie was angry with him for crashing her friend's wedding only because now her friend was upset to the point that she had been downgraded to siting in the second limo. Roman listened but most of what she said meant nothing to him. He was confused Candy had told him she loved him before Mark opened the door, she had knocked them off balance and hit her head into his chin dazing him. He wondered was it just because he had his hand over her mouth and nose, he'd planned on walking out like a hero with her in his arms the way he planned on carrying her would have hid the fact that his costume didn't say STOP it said Shield. He had thought that security would come through the door so his plan would have still failed. Mark was a crazy son of a bitch to bust in a room on someone that he knows has a weapon. It was good the gun was empty because Mark would have shot him point blank with his own gun. The way the federal agents told him he had two choices and he was screwed. Rape or attempted murder of a minor relative of a federal agent, both were pretty heavy but he had to speak to his lawyer there had to be away out of this.

Bobby, Harold and the STOP team leaders meet in Bobby's home. He nor Harold wanted them in Ivey Mansion they knew one of their own were rogue and aimed to find out who it was. This meeting was also about finding Paula. Though there is a team that was instructed to be outside the Ivey home Harold watched on his close circuit camera installed on the outside of the gate if anyone of his agents left their position without permission there was going to be a problem.

They were downstairs in Bobby's war room sitting around his large black marble desk. His girlfriend a Grandville police officer brings him and his men a pot of coffee. Captain Joy Wildflower had long raven hair with copper highlights that she usually wore in a long ponytail down her back. Her trim figure was clearly female but she had muscle tone as well, at 5'6 she wasn't short but wasn't overly tall either. She was a part of the Cyber Metro Division. Her computer skills were in high demand. She'd helped Bobby on cases before. Harold had approved her interaction on a consultant basis. After setting the coffee up she moved beside Bobby at his computer and started in on the assignment he thought was a good idea and if Joy could find what he sent her after he could take away some of the heavy hitters April was using.

Something popped up in her scan. She never quiet knew what to call Bobby in front of his boss and his men. His field Commander knew they were together and his men knew why she was present as well, but she didn't want to seem unprofessional. She lead a team of geeks with police power most of them men, and she would die if he called her anything but Captain or Wildflower in front of her men. So she'd go with how she addressed her men. "Ivey I think I got something you want to look at." He turns to her screen but she hadn't missed the confused look then the understanding in his gaze. "The location or a potential location has been logged via me pinging the target's phone. There isn't lot of houses on the block that this area covers." His boss comes over and stands over her shoulder. She glances up at the look on his face. Commander Sean started putting together a plan. He said it had to work because if he failed it could cost him his sister.

Paula now lay on a hospital bed in a room with no windows. Her hands and feet are cuffed to the bed. A man with a hospital mask comes over to the edge of the bed. He stared at her his eyes were the only thing she could see on his face. "Please let me go" He shakes his head no. He motions for someone to come to him. The bar robber came into her view. He tells her to stop talking to their doctor or he would shut her up. "You can have my jewelry just let me go please." The man slapped her across the face and grabbed her by the shirt front pulling her up off the bed putting strain on her cuffed wrist, breathing in her face he then let her go, and tells her the only time she is permitted to speak is when he points to him and the man he had named the doctor asks her a question. He then asks do she understand. Him pulling her up off the bed while still cuffed hurt she nods her head. The doctor says good girl. Paula didn't know his voice and his hair and face were covered. The only thing she could tell about the guy was that he had grey eyes and light skin.

Dr. Kris Barns had joined the underground long before meeting Angela Ivey when he was fired from Sheldon and Barns center. He could no longer practice medicine legally as a cover, and was out only because the Mother wanted revenge and her underground paid him well. The Mother told him he was one of the chosen. He would get Angela as a patient in a way that it wouldn't matter what he did after he delivered the cargo safely. They had captured target two the wife of a famous wrestler her kid was worth more. "You are our guest for a while, How far along are you?" She says nothing staring at him. Kris smiled under his mask and ran his gloved hand over her stomach. He felt her flinch. "I asked you a question Paula Callaway." She just stares at his eyes. "I see the cat suddenly has your tongue. I'll tell you the answer to your question if you give the answer I want. If we can't come to a meeting of understanding I will roll the dice and remove the cargo. I thought you would want your baby to be delivered healthy. Mrs. Callaway?" She tells him the answer he already knew. "See that's wasn't so bad Good girl." She says she could pay him more money than he was getting paid to do this and how could he call himself a doctor and do stuff like this. Kris was no fool "So the family that wants your child is willing to pay nine hundred thousand dollars. They have no way of adopting a baby because of legal issues in their past. I am providing a service. If you continue to be good. I will let you live or try my best to let you live long enough to hold it before we take the cargo." She shivers as he runs his gloved hand up one side of her belly. He gets a call. "Don't go away" he says and pats her before he walks out of the room. When he returns he sees the tears in her eyes. "Is it really setting in what is happening right now?" She says her baby may be in danger of another kind she had not felt her since waking up. "Oh, well I can see if we need to do anything but if you fight me it will hurt you more than me." He cuffs her ankles in a different position with the aid of the bed. She didn't fight him and he examined her like he would any patient. She looks confused when he gets up and puts her in a more comfortable position after he's done. He pats her thigh and says "I'll go check my findings, and get you sent some food and water." her facial features changed rapidly from confusion to fear. "I can't do anything chemically harmful to you until after the cargo is delivered. The food isn't that great but it won't kill you."

Back at Ivey Mansion Angel gets up after watching Joshua sleep. She knew he had planned their honeymoon, but with all that was going on she felt leaving the area would tax the already smaller STOP team putting them at more risk. Harold had dismissed or suspended a few of them after re-running their records. He said he was looking for the rogue agent that had taken Paula off of the ship. They had found the van that was redirected, but the only thing that was there with it that said it was the van used, was Paula's teal shoes inside the huge box Candy's 5 foot ceramic bust had come in. Moving in to the kitchen she sees Janet who was in the room when Harold was speaking to everyone about Paula. He assured his newest niece that he would retrieve her momma and her baby sister. Not knowing what to say to her cousin she goes with good morning and starts looking for stuff to cook. Janet walks over and asks for a hug. Angel hugs her and the girl hugged her back, instead of instantly letting go Janet hung on to her for a beat. Angel ran her hand up and down her cousin's back. Janet had gotten taller throughout the summer and was already taller than Angel. Janet mumbled that she was afraid for her momma. Angel was afraid too but she tells Janet that Harold would make sure to save her. Angel prayed that she was telling the truth, Janet had already lost one parent. Mark came in the kitchen she meets his eyes over Janet's shoulder and firms her lips. She had no words. He looked older than his 45 years this waiting was hard for them all, but for him especially. He said nothing and walked back out of the kitchen. The look in his green eyes said way more than anything he could speak.

"Dr. Barns I don't know what you're planning but I need that child." April says from her hide out. Getting a buyer for the Undertaker's child no problem a fellow banker had outbid the original family. April had taken great pleasure in turning down the lower bid If Sophia could see how she worked now even she would have to bow down to the socialite April had become in the underground. Now that the story had hit, that the woman target 2 in April's eyes was abducted the family was threatening to withdraw their bid. April had told them not to worry her operation was flawless. They gave her until November to collect their package or they would remove their bid. Saying they had faked this pregnancy for long enough.

Sophie couldn't take much more of this crap. Angel's wedding had gone off without a hitch. The reception was a train wreck. It was getting closer to November no one knew where April Sharp was. Paula was missing and believed to have been captured by April's men. She now had a list of charities that Ivey Enterprises worked with a charity popped up two banks were recorded neither of them Sharp banking. What gave her pause was one of the doctors. Trent Shelly, his doctor title popped up in her search of The Saving Mommy Foundation. She asked Luke to come over she didn't want to stop funding to a real foundation this close to Christmas that seemed to be working towards helping abused mothers, but too many things made it seem false. It was on her mother's list of charities and not nationally known about. Sophia didn't give to charities where she would not be photographed and applauded for throwing Chase's money at it. Sophie sat in her home office tapping her pen against her desk. Luke comes in and she tells him what she found. He shrugged saying he didn't know and calls his friend putting it on speakerphone. Trent said he was a part of the charity. Everyone couldn't run a mega Medical utopia, someone had to run the clinics to help those that couldn't afford to be a part of the Sheldon Network. Luke said to his friend he was sure he did a great job and if he wouldn't mind he would like to donate to the cause. Sophie had heard Chase talking to Luke about his plan to preserve Grandville back to what it once was. She knew her man and her dad had a soft spot for this town and felt disconnected sometimes. She didn't like Trent throwing the Sheldon Network and its success in Luke's face. She'd looked up Trent he was no underdog he ran Clinics along with his own practice. No he didn't make what Luke probably made but hell not many people did all the shit Luke had done to make what he made. She could count on one hand without her thumb the amount of doctors in a senior position that would still do a 92 hour work week. Luke had the staff size to delegate but chose to work. Trent averaged 42 hours a week. Sophie believed you got out of work what you put in it.

They had un-cuffed her hands but her feet were still cuffed to the bed. She still had no idea where she was. Paula sat in the hospital bed in what looked like maybe a basement. The walls were painted brick and there were no windows. She ate and the doctor had went to check on the result of the test he'd run on her. She hadn't seen the punk that robbed her bar anymore since he'd threatened her last. The thing that scared her most was the fact Katie Jade hadn't moved. The door opens and a woman walks in with a hospital mask on. She walks to the TV that sat on a metal TV stand.

April had been lucky that she'd told her men to strip search this target the woman's cellphone had cued the feds to go to location one. She'd had video surveillance of that location in case she couldn't use it anymore. It was one of her husband's model homes. "Your husband has sent the feds after me." The woman glared at her and tells her come a little closer and she'll smack the shit out of her. "Touching me could be your last feeling on this earth. I came to share with you." April turns on the TV a bowl is threw at her by the target. April ducks the flying dish. "Maybe the doctor has given you too much freedom by unlocking your wrists restraints to allow you to eat like a person. I brought home movies for you and this is how you repay my kindness?"

Paula had let her emotions get the better of her this bitch was why she was here. "Kindness you plan on taking my child don't fucking kid yourself. They will find you." The woman had dodged the bowl Paula had launched at her fucking head. The movement she felt calmed her Katie Jade moved she refrained from putting her hand on her stomach. The woman turns the TV on and Paula's next words get caught in her throat as the video showed Mark walking down Main Street in Grandville South. He looked like she felt, miserable. It changes to Harold and a STOP team rushing inside of a house and soon yelling clear. Harold looked half-crazy as he starts trashing the house. Two of the team members grab him and he swings on one of them and yells that she is he little sister. The guy folded to the floor like a brick after being struck. The other man shot Harold taking him down and is shot by the men in the room. The last thing Paula sees is her brother on the floor face down the agent that shot him lay beside him. The video goes black. Harry had went to a location and got killed looking for her. A well of sadness threatened to crush her as large tears escaped her eyes and ran down her cheeks. The woman tells her she'd send flowers for the fallen and walks out of the room.

The house is plunged into semidarkness when the power is cut. Harold comes too on the floor his ribs hurt like a son of a bitch. His vest had done its job and saved his life and they had found out one of the agents that were trying to double cross them. Turning his head away from the now dead agent that had shot him in the chest he looks around and Robert tells him they were being recorded but he'd disabled the camera system with help from Wildflower. "They were watching this location." Harold says as Bobby helps him to his feet. Bobby nods. They walk out of the house. Harold looks down where the bullet had hit the Ivey Cross Armor and bounced off like a pellet. Chase's product line wasn't lightweight as the Federal suit he would have been wearing, but it was way more effective. Getting in the back of the van they had come in. He takes the top layer off. One of his own men that he had trained tried to kill him today. He'd also lost his mind a little when PJ wasn't at the location. They were toying with him. Now he wondered was it a set-up, the agent died thinking he had killed his field commander. Harold's boss calls him and threatened to put him off the case. His training was the only thing that held his mouth in check. He calmly in a detached tone uses a little psychology of his own, saying he had gained Angela Ivey's trust. He goes on to say with as close as the field commander had to be to the target, to replace him now would jeopardize the strength of surveillance which could damage the mission. His boss told him to keep his shit together. "Yes sir" Harold hangs up and lays his head back on the seat of the van. It was because of his position that he got federal agents instead of local.

Angel fixed what had turned into brunch and walks back into her room Joshua was in the shower. Her husband she knew it sounded possessive but he is hers and she totally his. He walks out of the bathroom in a towel she sat the table at the end of their bed. He put on basketball shorts that hung low on his hips in that sexy way. Looking up his torso to his face she sees the bruises left by Patrick Smyth. He smirks at her and jokingly asks her what she is having, implying that all this food was for him only. She'd fixed his favorite a breakfast casserole. "If you eat all this we will have to roll you out of the house on a flatbed truck." Joshua comes to the table when he pulls out her seat as she sits he leans down and kisses her then takes his seat. They eat for a time and he says something about the honeymoon. Angel firmed her lips looking down at her plate. He reaches across the table and takes her hand his wedding band glinting in the light. She looks up meeting his gaze. "With everything going on I really would rather wait on leaving the area." She says softly. He tells her that he thought he would leave it up to her and that he felt the same way, but was opposed to making the decision for them. She lets out the breath she didn't even realize she was holding.

Truth be told, Joshua was still sore from fighting last night with his fucking brother. When Angel said that was the one that drugged her, he'd flipped out. He was fine with waiting the fact that Paula had been taken scared the shit out of him. Paula his newest cousin in his mind even pregnant would pose more of a challenge than his wife, only because of Paula's bartender biker chick demeanor. The guys must have taken her quicker than she could beat their asses. He'd heard of her bar fights they were legendary. He hadn't missed Angel's relieved sigh. "Angel I know that I said I didn't like when you hide out here, but babe I understand. Right now with everything going on staying is about the best idea. This is the only place that I think would give her pause in trying anything. I'd never forgive myself if anything happened to you."

Dr. Kris Barns pull his face mask up, and puts his surgical cap back on, as he walks back into Paula's room with results in hand. He'd argued with The Mother and lost. She had ordered him to take the child or at least start the process saying that the family was ready for their cargo. He'd found out that he may be replaced when Angela was captured. The other doctor on the underground staff had more experience. This was a fucking test he had to pass. Angel was the reason he didn't still work for the multimillion dollar Sheldon network. In his eyes she was the only target that mattered. The woman was crying again and looked more sad than mad. "Your child is in danger we are going to have to move you but to do that I have to restrain you again. If you let me I'll keep my promise. If you fight me I'll still do it, but it will hurt." She said nothing. He walks closer to the bed. When he takes the cuff on the side of the bed and holds it to clamp it to her wrist at the last possible second she grabs the mask he lets it fall away. He openhandedly slaps her hard enough to turn her face. The moment of shock was all he needed he clamps the cuff on her wrist. "So now you know what I look like." He walks to her other side "I tried to give you a reward by undoing your hands to let you eat since you didn't fight me while I examined you. Do you know me?" She shakes her head in confusion. He put his hand out but stays out of her strike zone. "Give me your hand." She keeps her hand in her lap. He knew she expected him to come closer to try to take her hand. He was no fool. Sighing he asks "Why do you wish to make this difficult? I'm going to do what I'm told, you should as well. How far do you think you will get, both your feet are cuffed and one of your hands is too." She put out her wrist. He clamps the cuff on it. "For your negative behavior you will be punished." She says this whole thing was one big punishment. He walks behind her and wrestles a blindfold on her and sticks her with a needle they needed this child sooner than later. He then releases the wheels and starts rolling her out of the room. An alarm sounds and he tries to push faster but the bed collides with the door and the sudden stop made the raised bed smack him in the chest knocking the wind out of him. As he regains his wind he stands up and is yanked into the nearest room. He tries to fight back but is pinned to the wall by the throat. Opening his eyes he wished he didn't a fist met his face sending his world into darkness.

Paula hears what sounds like a fight the alarm was earsplitting and her head was starting to hurt. What scared her more than anything that was going on in the room, was the fact that Katie Jade seemed to be kicking really hard and fast. Pain like white hot fire ran up her abdomen. She screams out in pain crying. She had lost her brother and now it seemed that she was losing her baby. Another shock of pain had her gasping for breath. She knew she was on the edge of consciousness she couldn't get enough air. She is suddenly looking up at her brother he already had a halo. Crushing sadness coupled with pain was too much as her consciousness fades her last thought is that her brother had come to take her and her baby to heaven to be with their parents.

Harold had taken another clue from Robert's girlfriend's search this location was in the basement of a clinic when Captain Wildflower found a link sent by Sophie between Sharp and this address, he'd sent Joy to the door in a pregnant suit masquerading as an abused mother to be. April wasn't here but he'd found his sister. The minute the door opened and there were people inside he'd had the location rushed from front and back. The bed had hit the door one of his agents opened. When he'd saw his half naked baby sister cuffed on the bed with a blindfold on his anger spiked higher than it had ever. He grabbed the winded man that was pushing the bed snatched him into a room and beat the holy shit out of him. It was confirmed that one of his punches had broken the fucker's neck. The man was later identified as Dr. Kris Barns. Five hours had passed it was a new day he did all his paperwork while he sat in the waiting room of the Sheldon Medical Center. Mark walked back in and sat next to him, asking him had there been any change. Harold shakes his head. Luke comes out and speaks to Mark and Harold telling them that Paula's captor's had given her a steroid mix that did not agree with her system to quicken Katie's development he said it was never approved here in the states. He continues that flushing it was difficult but they had succeeded in doing so. Harold and Mark ask in unison "Can I see her?"

"Yes you may, I would prefer it. We are going to keep her here for a while. Katie is a fighter just like her mother we are monitoring them both. My father is an internist and he says Paula's reaction to the drug was harming the baby because it was starting to attack their system. Paula is highly allergic to one of the more complex ingredients in the drug. We also have them on a med that will replenish the protein and other nutrients that were being stripped away."

As Harold collected his laptop and files. Mark walks back with Luke not being able to bear another moment without seeing his wife for himself. Hospitals had never been his favorite place especially with how fast Nina had slipped through his fingers. He walked into the room pointed out by Luke who left him at the door. Paula laid with her eyes closed in the bed her complexion paler than he'd ever seen her. He walks over and sits next to her taking her hand as he had Nina's he just hoped beyond hope that Luke had not missed anything he didn't think he could go through another loss. She stirred at his nearness when he touches her hand.

The sterile smell of hospital met her nose. She lay in yet another hospital bed. She wasn't restrained any longer but the event that had led up this point made her ask what would be the point. She came fully awake when she smelled him her mate. Opening her eyes she met Mark's gaze. Closing her eyes and feeling safe with his hand in hers she asked what happened. When he told her. Tears welled her eyes at the mention of her brother. He didn't know. The sudden punch of sadness saying the words aloud overtakes her as she cries. "Mark Harry's gone. One of his own men killed him. I wasn't there but I saw it."

She was ripping him apart. He hated to see her cry it was so rare she was his strength to see her sobbing. He squeezes her hand to reclaim her attention. "Harold is…"

Harold had come into the room and heard his little sister's words. She was going to get them kicked out if she didn't calm down. He speaks through the band of emotion "Right here PJ I'm here" She meets his eyes as Mark moves to the side so she could see him without trying to raise up off the bed.. He hugs his baby sister as Mark moves back letting him closer to the bed. She was his only link left to the Sean family his family. They must have shown her the footage from the first location they had taken. Harold 'rubs a constant circle on her back though her tears didn't stop her mood was shifting from the incorrigible heart breaking sobs into he didn't know. His words are pushed from him in a harsh whisper. "I thought you saw me before you passed out, when I took the blindfold off of you, you looked me in the eye." She tells him what she thought was happening and both he and Mark listened warring with the emotions that had rubbed them both raw. She finally lets him go after a time they all go quiet. Harold asked the question that had been driving him up the wall. "PJ, how did it happen?" She tells him what happened from her point of view.

Days later Mark brings Janet up to the hospital and she runs to her momma. Neither Mark nor Harold had much sleep these past few days. Mark says he is going to make a few calls then it will be time to go back to Ivey Mansion. Harold walks out of the room ahead of him no doubt to speak to the STOP team member posted near the door. Paula had met the man and she was sure that Harold had sent this man's information through his sites many times.

Angel and Joshua ride up to Sheldon Medical Angel gets out at the door nearest Luke's office and is pass-keyed through to Paula's hallway. Joshua parks and Cassandra calls him he speaks to her for a few minutes but soon tells her that he'd call her back he was going to visit his cousin. When he catches up to Angel She didn't look as excited as she had been to get here. "Hey what's wrong is everything ok?" Angel put her sunglasses on and says fine. Joshua hated the word, because he knew something wasn't "fine". From the look in his wife's eyes before she attempted to keep the outside world out, something was nowhere near fine. The agent that asks for their ID takes it slides it though his machine and lets them walk into the room. Angel seemed to relax once inside the room. As he walks with his hand on her lower back he bends down and quietly tells her that everything is okay. Joshua now knew or thought he knew what was up. Angel didn't trust the STOP team he didn't either but to go without them wasn't and option. Harold had assured them that he had found the mole.

Angel had not had to come in to direct contact with any of Harold's team except the one guy she knew and Bobby. Andrew was absent from duty today and Bobby was with Chase. Joshua driving them here wasn't so much of a problem because they were together, and she knew that Joshua wouldn't let anything happen to them, he was a great defensive driver when not pissed off. Nervous energy pulsed within her when she had to give one of them her ID. She had tried to appear unaffected but Joshua had caught on to her reaction to being stopped by the agent posted outside the door. Today was the first day since they had returned home after the wedding that she had even dared leave the house. She felt guilty that what happened to Paula happened for one at her reception and two because if it weren't for the fact that her mother tried to destroy her, they would not have been on April's list at all.

Janet put in her earbuds after saying a quick hello to Angel and Joshua she had seen them this morning. Paula watches as Angel and Joshua come into her room. "You guys just missed Mark and Harry." Angel comes closer and hugs her saying she was happy Paula and Katie were going to be okay. A shiver ran down Paula's body. Angel steps back and apologizes for this happening. "Did you plan for me to get hot and separate from the group or for one of my brother's man to be a double crossing fucking liar?" Angel said no before she could say anything thing else as Joshua rubs her shoulder. Paula says "Then don't apologize to me for something you had no part in nor can change. I should be getting out of here real soon." That brought a smile to both her cousin's faces. They soon level out and sit down next to the bed Joshua still didn't say much he kept constant contact with Angel whether it be rubbing her arm or just holding her as she sat on him. Paula noted the fading bruise on the boy's face what the hell happened at that reception after she was gone. After they leave she asked Janet, Janet tells her what happened when she went to follow her that night and how her dad came back in the room and that he had got a paper with the Texas symbol on it and gave it to Sophie who told him she doesn't do criminal. Her big girl had been shot at, Candy was at some point in danger too. Her husband had not told her any of this. When Janet told her about Joshua fighting his brother Paula thought it was Brad until Janet said otherwise. Those two had sat in here and not said anything about Joshua's bloodline showing up Paula had a good mind to call her cousins and ask them why they hadn't told her. Everyone was keeping her in the dark she was ready to get out of here.

Angel sits at her desk at home interviewing PC Programmers via vid conference for Mark's school and for Ivey Enterprises. This task was something she did in her free time. She tries not to think on why it had taken her almost a month to get to this task considering these men and women had been waiting in her office at Ivey Enterprises the same day Joshua's birth mother kidnapped her and took her to Houston. She really hadn't felt like leaving the house after making the trip to Paula's room which was why she had everything rerouted here to her home office. Paula was released the next day and had come back to the house. It was now a week before her birthday and Joshua asked her if she wanted to go to dinner. She pulls off the mic and shuts off the camera saying could they just order in. Joshua told her fine and threw a few menus on her desk. She followed him out into the hall and asked him back in and they had a discussion that really led nowhere. She explained that parties were not good no matter who they were for it seemed here lately. Joshua reminded her of her father's house warming party that was a day before her birthday. Sighing she runs her hand through her hair. "I still have to get his gift" He tells her he wanted to make her birthday special that's why he wanted to take her to dinner. It felt like he was throwing her own words back at her from when she wanted to make up for how bad his past birthdays had gone. He assured her that's not what he was saying and leaves back out of the office. She'd almost lost him trying to throw him a birthday dinner; no they were married now, she had to stop this train of thought. She had work to do, reattaching her mic and turning back on her cam she hires on three guys that seemed to be just what Mark and Sophie would need.

The second Joshua walked out of Angel's home office, he closes his eyes and leans on her door. He hoped this worked their luck with parties had been zero with the exception of his bachelor party, and even it had its moments. Their wedding was great. Their reception had been the equivalent of the fucking Titanic going under. Thinking of all the shit that went down Candy had gone back to her house the night of the wedding and had only been going to work at the club and back home. Thinking of his friend he goes to her page her profile had to come down she was half naked and looked high. Had this been her coping mechanism was she doing drugs now? He couldn't deal with someone he loved going down like that. He calls her "What the fuck is up with your profile pic on Music Nation? Candy, are you doing drugs just tell me the truth?"

Candy heard the judgmental anger in his tone. She looks at her profile pic. "I didn't post that pic I swear I thought you knew me." Candy cries. "Why in the fuck would I want to have a picture of my bruised chest all over the fucking internet?" The burns on her front had never fully healed back to her completion from the first time Roman had left her for dead at the Davenport. "Damn it, I wasn't high my eyes are red because Roman had tried to suffocate my ass. But thanks for caring enough to call cussing at me, and judging me like I had a fuckin choice. Oh actually I did this time he threaten to shoot my ass. Here is something to judge while you sit on your thrown. To prevent being shot I was the best submissive slut I could be." Candy pushes end and throws the phone on the sofa and continues deleting her accounts all while crying loud gutted sobs. Soon there is a knock on her door. Wiping her eyes and fighting hiccups she gets up and peeks out the window. Angel was standing on her doorstep. She swings her door open facing her friend "if you've come to blast me out about damaging the image of the band Joshua has already beat you to it, I don't feel like going over that again get the cliff notes from him." Angel walks forward and hugs her saying she wasn't here to do anything but be a friend. Candy felt herself, losing it again Joshua walks in. Candy pulls away glaring at Joshua "What is this some kind of intervention I told you I'm not doing drugs? I deleted all my accounts, so your image won't be tarnished."

Joshua flinches at her words and looks at his best friend she had lost weight and her eyes were puffy. He says "Look, I'm sorry. When I saw the picture it looked like you were strung out. I thought the worst that maybe you had turned to drugs to deal. You have been avoiding me, and you've clearly lost a lot of weight. I was thinking about inviting you up to the house since we hadn't spoken since the ride home from the reception. That picture was so outside of anything you had ever posted." She says she didn't post it. "I know that and I'm sorry for jumping to that conclusion it just freaked me out. I wasn't judging you this shit scared the fuck out of me, you know why and I worry about you."

Deon walks into the house drawing everyone's attention "Did you like watching my girl pose for the camera Joshua?" Candy throws up her hands and storms upstairs, her bedroom door slams. Deon tries to move up the stairs asking Candy what gives. Joshua pulled him off the step and told him that Candy didn't pose for the picture it was from the boat. The steam left Deon's gaze "Shit. The rat bastard is a photographer now?"

Candy sat in her bedroom she hated the fear that spiked whenever a car slowed down near her front door. It had been almost 2 weeks since the wedding and Roman's attack. She wasn't pregnant which was great considering that though Deon had been supportive he had not touched her sexually since the first attack. He was a very sexual person she blamed herself because her suicide attempt and recurring nightmares probably didn't make it any easier from him. If she wanted any contact she wanted it from Deon. She tried to initiate sex, but his fear of freaking her out stopped him he'd withdrew and that scared her into stopping. She hadn't tried but this was the night of their anniversary of when they started dating. Now Roman's picture was causing way more shit between the only guys that gave a fuck about her than she could deal with right now. Joshua had instantly thought she had turned to drugs to deal because they had not spoken since. She had nothing to say. Then it hit her why he'd freaked out. He feared that Bradley would relapse and hurt someone and to think she had gone or started going down that road scared him into calling her. What she thought was judgment was fear in his tone. Deon thought she posed for the pic that thought almost sent her to her knees. No, she hadn't told anyone but Harold and Luke what happened but hell Roman was sure to get out and that freaked her out. She grabs a glass and tips some black gin into the glass. It went down smooth looking in the mirror she looks at her reflection. Roman liked the hair as long as it had been or her shoulder length cut and the lighter color still turned him on. That thought turned her stomach. Pouring more of her gin into the glass she swallows it in one big gulp. She needed to feel something other than alone. Her planned anniversary was ruined. Had Roman got out already? How else would a photo on his phone be transferable onto her page? How had he hacked her pages? A quiet knock on her door makes her jump. "Hold on"

Joshua talks to Deon telling him that this weird jealousy had to stop. Deon says Candy had started pushing him away. That she hadn't been rude about it then she invited him over for their anniversary it just pissed him off that Joshua was here before he was. Joshua explains about sticking his foot in his mouth and her weird reply made him nervous about ending the conversation like that. Angel moves pass both guys When Joshua told her what Candy had said about being the best slut she could to survive and hung up she felt for her friend. Angel moves to the door and knocks.

Candy gets up and puts what was supposed to be the main ingredient in a drink Deon had come up with back in her closet, and walks to the bedroom door. Looking out she sees Angel again. "So is this round two you come to the door and the guys ambush me?" Angel says she's alone. "Well welcome to the party? I'd ask if you wanted anything to drink but all I have up here is Alcohol." Angel walks in and looks around. "If you're looking for the bottle it's in the closet. If you were Joshua I didn't feel like seeing him think I was a drunk instead of a druggy. I'm neither I swear. Have a seat. I don't hear yelling anymore so they must have cooled it on the stupid jealousy thing or Joshua knocked him out." Angel carefully sits on the makeup chair that Candy had made to go with her vanity mirror. "Angel its ceramic you're not going to break it unless you have a hammer in your back pocket."

Angel splays her hand along the pattern on the arms of the small dainty chair. "It's nice. Um Candy I came up here and over here to check on you, not because I believed you were doing drugs, and as for the bottle I had a stash of them in my suitcase for years and I'm not a drunk. I get it. Sometimes you need a little sip of Fuck it. I didn't ask that day because we seemed to never be alone, if you want to talk about it I'm here for you?" Candy gets emotional as she sits in the middle of her bed holding the juice glass of dark liquid. They talk and Candy tells her what happened as she sips her drink. At one time she stops talking and the tears take back over. Candy puts the drink on the night stand and lays staring at the ceiling. She starts talking about Deon. The door opens both girls jolt at the instant intrusion and Deon pokes his head inside. "Hey I just wanted to come up and say happy anniversary."

Talking about it both saddened and angered her. She needed to talk about it. She thanks Angel then turns to Deon. "I love you Deon we need to talk. Will you excuse us Angel?" Angel hugs her and says sure and that she needed to get back to the house but Candy could come up in the morning so they could find an outfit for her father's party. Candy asks "um will Evie be there?" She saw Angel Holt then turn around from where she had been about to pass Deon. Angel looks at the floor and then back at her.

"No, Candy I. I wanted you girls to get along because you're both my friends but now I think it is best if you two not be anywhere near each other. The fact that he knew where the wedding was keeps running over and over in my head. I keep hoping that my dark suspicion is just that, a wrongful assessment of the events that lead to what happened…" Deon glares at her saying her flaky friend Evie was what caused this shit if it weren't for her forgiving the bitch Roman would have never been that damn close to Candy again after what happened. Angel says on a sob "I'm sorry" and runs out of the room. The front door slams.

Deon turns around when Candy tells him that was too far. "Not far enough if you ask me. You didn't see you when you asked was that bitch going to be there. She doesn't hear you scream in your fucking sleep. Fuck, Candy I almost lost you because of her." He mocks Angel "I'm sorry" He punches his hand into his fist in anger. "Shit she throws it around and that supposed to make it all better. I'm tired of this shit. She should have put that bitch back out of the limo when she found out who she was dating. Instead of letting you go off halfcocked an emotional. I got a mind to tell her to choose one you or her main bitch." She walks to him he looks down into her blue eyes. As she puts her hand on his chest over his racing heart. Every time he thought of what Roman did he wanted to find the asshole and end him.

Candy says "Deon I'm not going to ask her to choose a girl she's known since middle school or earlier over me. As for her letting me leave the limo she really had no choice in the matter. I was in freak out mode shit was still to new and raw. I've told you before and I'm telling you now, babe I love you. Joshua is like my brother so please stop with the jealously. You slapping at him verbally like we have done something doesn't just put his back up because it's not true, but you also put off this vibe like you don't trust me. Your comment that you launched at Joshua may have pissed him off, but it struck me as well. I didn't pose willingly for that picture." Candy goes to move her hand and step back.

Deon catches her wrist and apologizes saying Joshua told him and he would stop since she was right and the last thing he wanted to do was drive them apart. Realizing that he'd grabbed her pulling on her. He loosens his grasp looking down at her wrist and the markings that had not faded away. He meets her eyes. Her gaze watched him she put her other hand on the side of his face. He lets go of her. "I shouldn't be pulling and tugging on you like that. I" She drops her hands to her sides. He sees tears in her eyes. "Did I hurt you?"

Hearing the fear in his tone and the look on his face speared her. She watches as his throat works and he tells her he wants her so bad right now but he doesn't want to freak her out. "Deon you refusing to touch me is like so much torture you shatter me. You've been great I know I haven't made anything easy for you, but babe if I want anyone touching me right now it's you. I'll tell you this as far freaking me out, this distance you're putting between us in this part of our relationship is driving me insane. Please don't let Roman's actions and my stupidity end us. You looked at my wrist its ugly I know but…" Deon kissed her cutting off her words. She meets his eyes shock turns into lust as he puts his hand tentatively behind her head at her nape she reaches up grabs him around the waist.

He withdraws slightly to speak to her. "I'm afraid of scaring you. I'm wound tight and I don't want to hurt you. I almost lost you, not because of your stupidity as you put it, but because of him and I'm not blameless I was nervous about taking our relationship to the next level and almost pushed you away. Please promise me that you will tell me if anything I do is too much." She nods and rises up on tiptoe to kiss him again.

He kisses her, reaches under her shirt and unclasps her bra releasing her. He lowers his hands and steps back he hoped this worked. "Take off your top my love" he mummers in South African. Candy similes up at him, and grabs the hem of her shirt crossing her hands and pulls the material up and off. Standing before him shirtless set his blood on fire in two ways he wanted her but seeing the places where Roman had dared mark his queen angered him. She looks away. He was making her uncomfortable he didn't want to see the next look which would be her turning inward. He pulls her to him pulls her pants and underwear down it hits the floor. "Wrap your legs around my waist my love." He saw the wince as she complied. Getting an idea he walks her into the upstairs bathroom. He pats her backside and she gets down. The top bathroom had a Jacuzzi he wanted her muscles relaxed. He pours in some Cashmere Glow bubble bath from her favorite store Bath and Body Works as the hot moving water filled the huge tub and the scent that drove him wild washed over him. He signals for her to get in. She sniffs herself. "This is not for hygiene my queen. Your muscles are tense I want to remove as much discomfort as possible." She asks will he join her as she stands beside him. "I had planned on it." he smirks as she reaches up and unbuttons his classic silk shirt he takes it off and hangs it on the back the of the door. She runs her hands down his bare chest trailing down over his abs to his happy trail that disappeared in to his pants. She slides her hands into his waistband pushing his pants and underwear to the floor she strokes him. He sucks in a breath his eyelids hood completely in tune with his mate. Once they are both naked they step into the hot moving water.

It felt like heaven the hot water and the man she loves mere inches from her. He'd lost weight they both were stressed and needed this. She closes her eyes feeling his hands roam over her heated flesh. Deon mummers that she is beautiful, then asks her to look at him. She opens her eyes ignoring the anxiety that spiked at his request. A flash of Roman telling her not to close her eyes so he could gage how long to deprive her of breath before it became dangerous crossed her mind. Blinking rapidly Deon touches her face asking her was everything alright? The tone of his voice calmed her taking a shaky breath she nods. She gets up and straddles his legs and starts kissing him rubbing her hands on his chest, he put his hands at her nape pulling her deeper into the kiss. His kiss was possessive and it stole her breath but for a way different reason. These were the kisses she wanted to remember. Breaking the kiss she whispers "I want you inside of me."

Deon slowly and painstakingly positions her over his length. He touches her under the water. Watching her face, he tells her to put her hands on his shoulders. He slides into her slowly letting her adjust to him. She starts biting her lip he stops halfway. "Am I hurting you?" She shakes her head no but he can see tears in her eyes. "Candy please we can…" She rocked down impaling herself on him, her body cocooning him fully her tight folds milking him without moving. "W..ait" his breath hissed out. Staring into her half hooded eyes, she was driving him crazy, it had been too long. "If you do that again, this will be over, before we are both ready for it to end my love." His hold of his control was teetering when they climbed in the water. He slowly starts, she grips his shoulders tighter and reclaims his mouth. He sends her into orbit screaming his name. His name on her lips in such passion, sent him over the edge his band of control snapped. They made love from the tub, back to her bedroom, at one point he even took her against the door. They couldn't get enough of each other. For hours they reintroduced their bodies to each other.

The next morning Candy woke with a start, it wasn't a nightmare it was a great dream. She looks over at Deon and saw the marks she'd left on his chest and on his arms, she'd even bit him, she realized that wasn't a dream he had made love to her all over the top floor. The upstairs bathroom, her bedroom, not a surface was safe. She looks at his handsome face as he slept. She scooted out of bed and was sore but for a very preferable reason. She gets in the shower and he soon joins her washing her.

Deon wanted to do this right so after their shower he carries her back into her bedroom. She shivers at not touching him anymore as she puts on underwear and a black and purple body con dress. He dresses in his usual dark silk shirt and black jeans. As he puts on his watch he says. "I know it's technically not our anniversary anymore but happy anniversary babe. 3 years strong is nothing to sneeze at. Candy I have something for you. Have a seat please." Candy complies, sitting on the edge of her bed. He reaches into his travel bag that he'd brought with him. Walking back to her he gets on both knees in front of her. "I love you so much. These last few months have been heaven and hell. Candy Rabinenvitch you are my blood, my queen, my heart and so much more. I will love you till there is nothing left of me and there forever after. Will you please marry me?" He'd changed rings, the other one was smaller and every time he looked at its water stained box brought back the memory of snatching her near lifeless body out of the tub and all the feelings and fear of losing her forever that was Hell. His insecurities at the thought of not being able to protect her when dealing with Scott had him for weeks wondering if he was good enough for her. His self-loathing had put a barrier that he didn't know existed in their relationship, she took his mood as he was moving on without her that was Hell. He honestly blamed himself, if it weren't for his mixed signal sending ass, she would have not been lonely he would have been here to protect her. That was Hell. Watching her up on stage sing "Sweet Child O Mine" and their other goofy times spent together that was heaven. The latter part of last night and this morning that was Heaven. This ring was a Pink Colored Diamond set in between two smaller white diamonds. Looking into her blue eyes he watched tears slide down her cheeks as her sweet mouth made that unmistakable O. "I pray my love that those are tears of joy." He reaches up and cups the side of her face wiping away her tears with his thumb.

Many emotions warred for control of her actions. "Yes Deon Raphael Baza yes I'll marry you." he slides the ring on her finger and draws her to him with one hand at her nape and the other on her cheek he kisses her. His possessiveness as he claimed her lips made her melt. She also knew his parents were going to have the biggest fit, but right now in this moment she simply didn't care. He says in his native tongue over and over between kissing her senseless that she is his heart, and the reason it beats. She runs her fingers through his untamed curly dark hair pulling him deeper into their kiss. She sat on her bed and he'd pushed up her dress she stood and shimmied out of her underwear. When he filled her this time there was no hesitation just love burning in his gaze. She swore he was touching her deeper than even last night if that was possible. He wasn't too large but he for sure wasn't too small they fit like a hand in a glove. After getting her further on the bed he pinned her hands above her head with his much larger one and one arm around her waist. Her breathing picked up being trapped was freaking her out. She trembled she didn't want him to stop but she had to get her hands free. She pulled but his grip tightened. She knew if she said anything he would probably stop. They had come so far this much emotion shattered her he felt great inside of her if she could only touch him, if only he would let her hands go. She pulled again desperately. He meets her eyes and fear washed away some of the heat as he stared at her.

Deon felt when she stopped responding he looked up into her face he'd been giving her breasts attention. Swallowing hard he asks "Am I hurting you." She shakes as tears flood her eyes as she tells him to please let her hands go, that she couldn't deal. He instantly lets go and rolls so she's on top of him giving her complete control. He reaches up and wipes away her tears. "Please don't cry you shred me when you cry. I'm sorry. Maybe we need a safe word." Shaking her head no she put her hands on his chest and starts moving. His eyelids hood as she rides him he soon puts his hands on her small waist and meets her thrusts. They would talk later right now he would let her take as much of him as she wanted or dared.

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