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.

23. Chapter 23 Lines Drawn

Chapter 23

Lines drawn

Rapture leaves his club he'd hired a manager to take over nights he'd earned the right to go home at night. He hadn't heard from Cass since their date and that was two days ago. He didn't want to seem too into her in case she wasn't that into him. He thought she was, by the way he had her clawing the shit out of his back that night at his pad. There was only one way to tell, he'd man up and check out the situation. She wasn't one of his subs or no shit that wasn't the vibe they had. Checking his watch he looks at the time it was going on midnight when he reached his condo. Shrugging he calls her phone. When a male answers his first instinct told him that maybe their time was a break from her normal guy. Clearing his throat he asks to speak to her. The guy asked in a harsh tone who was calling. "Tell her it's Rap." When he hears her say give her the phone he didn't know if this was it, was he supposed to take the hint or what?

Cassandra was more awake and had been chatting with Bradley well to be truthful she listened more to him talk. His voice filling her head and keeping the paranoia at bay about what could be happening. The doctor didn't return today and take off the bandages from her eyes. Thanks to her mom switching her and her father into this network she wasn't on any generic drugs like when she was in CO. Even when she lived here the last time when she married Chadwick his job's med plan was under Memorial and the two hospitals where like night and day. The advertisement for Granville Memorial South would have you think they had a super rating. But, once you were admitted you found out the truth or at least she did. If you weren't one of the doctor's favorite you got a lot of talk about good dieting no matter what you went in for. Broken wrist from swinging and missing Chad but hitting the wall in one of their fights, the doctor had told her if she weighed less she would have had more balance. The diet they put her on made her sick she didn't get better until after she refused to take the supplement. They put her on generic drugs when she had a visible allergic reaction to it they took her off it and gave her a Motrin then released her ass back to Chad. Her phone rings Joshua had got it replaced for her. Her original phone had snapped in two in the crash. Bradley answered sounding pissed off, when he said it was Rap she wanted to talk to him. Holding out her unbroken hand to where Brad's voice was she says "Give me the phone." Brad puts the phone to her ear and asked did the guy have a truck. "Brad he's 6 foot 7 anything else would make him look like he's climbing out a clown car. Hi Rapture." the phone is snatched from her ear. "Brad cut it out" Bradley starts asking Rap questions. She just knew Rap was going to hang up Bradly was ruining her relationship.

"So Rapture is it? What kind of truck do you drive? What the hell kind of name is Rapture? Where you in Grandville South yesterday morning? You answer my questions I'll answer yours."

He'd play along just to see what this was about. Aside from asking what the origin of his name is, those weren't normal questions. "Yeah my name is Rapture. I drive an Expedition. As far as what kind of name it is why the hell you want to know. I don't play for your team boy. I was doing my job not in G South? Why the hell you asking me where I was yesterday? I really don't like the one light integration routine." The guy got quiet then floored Rap with the news. That explained why she hadn't called. It also pissed Rap off that some guy had trashed her ride with her in it. The guy puts him on hold. When she came on the line she sounded upset. "Hey Cassy it's going to be okay."

Bradley looks over when Cass stops asking for the phone or telling him to stop it. She had her good hand on her chest and was wincing. When he sees tears rolling from under her bandages he didn't want her upset, crying with cracked ribs no matter the pain med dosage had to be hurting her. He also didn't want to be thrown out of here for upsetting her. He puts his hand on hers and pats it. Then speaks into the phone. The guy didn't drive a F350. "Look dude I'm her brother. No not the one that owns the Davenport. I'm her older brother Brad. I asked you those question because someone tried to use my sister as a fucking battering ram. She in the hospital has been since the 27th it's now 12:40am the 29th and no one knows shit but that it was a big ass f350 that smashed into my parent's car in Grandville South with my sister inside. When you called this early I got suspicious that whoever did this was trying to contact her. Hold on" He mutes the phone. "Hey Cass Please stop crying I know this is a lot of shit to take on, and my attitude isn't making it any better he wants to talk you." She shudders and winces Brad takes a cool towel and wipes off her cheeks. He would have done it with the pads of his thumbs but she had bruising on her face and he just figured the towel was cleaner. He'd read about the salt in your skin coming in contact with a bruise making it stay longer or sealing up wrong. He wasn't taking any chances. After she calms down he takes it off mute asks the guy was he still there and put the phone up to her ear. She holds it and Bradley says in a lower tone that he'd give her some privacy but he wouldn't be far.

Hearing Rapture's baritone drawl say her name as only he did no one called her Cassy but him. He'd did it first at his place during sex. Only then he'd groaned it because she was driving him crazy. He'd for sure paid her back in full she'd had sex lots of times but he filled her and made her feel every inch of him on every stroke. Her thoughts made a smile creep on to her face then a thought hit her with the sting of the bruising. As if she didn't have enough issues she didn't know what she looked like right now. They talk as she tries her best not to think about what ifs that seemed to stand in the forefront of her mind. When Rap asked when visiting hours started a what-if popped up strong and stole her speech. What if he saw her and his interest faded? She didn't think he was the shallow type but who knew? "I'll have to ask my brother the times when he comes back in." They talk for a little more time and she noticed herself starting to fade and tells him she had to go because if she stayed on the phone she ran the risk of falling asleep on him. Her ex-husband would take offence to that one no matter where she was or how potent the drugs were. She couldn't remember if she said the latter part of her statement or if she just thought it. What Rap says shocks her.

Rap had noticed her hesitance at giving him a time he could come see her. She worried that he would be mad at her for letting her medicine take her under while on the phone. Hell the fact that she was able to talk at all was a plus in his book. That damn Ex of hers, the shit she had let slip tonight gave him a real picture of the trash she married. He knew she wouldn't have said the things she said if it weren't for the drugs kicking in. "Cassy don't you worry about falling asleep on me. You don't have to say nothing get comfortable as you can. I can't hold you right now, but I'll talk to you and you just try to rest. Call me selfish I'd rather you dream of me, than any of the other stuff warring for control in your mind right now." She admitted that she didn't know how she looked. "Cassy you know what you look like to me?" She mumbles what he could hear the sluggish way her words were coming. "You will always look the same to me. I see the red come into your cheeks when you smile. The twinkle in your eye when you're about to say something dirty. The hooded expression I put on your face when I made you cum. The cheesy grin you do when you threaten me about talking shit about your iced coffee. The serious nonsense look you do when you're on the phone with your boss. To me as long as you're alive and keep being yourself you'll always be beautiful." She called him cute. "Now I know your sleep deprived" He chuckles and just speaks to her until he hears her slight snoring he then disconnects the call, gets up, showers getting the smell of the club off him, and goes to bed.

It's Monday the 29th Amy rides with Chase to his private hanger he'd hired one of his pilots to take her she would be flying in the jet they had went to Vegas in. She'd got in and after takeoff she went back to the bedroom. Upon landing she calls Nicole and then Chase to let them know she had arrived safely. Walking in the building her mind warred with the fears that had mounted during the trip. The woman at the reception desks greeted her and took her through intake. Her new doctor came and they walked around the grounds with Lena Jackson MD. Explaining that since Amy was paying for this service unlike when doctors had someone placed here, some of the rules that worried her the most did not apply. She would be allowed to visit with her child in a week and she could call her during the week after her therapy was over for the day. When she asked could one other person visit, the woman asked was it someone that would provide a help to her or supply her. Amy says he was one of the reasons she was doing this. Lena stops and says if Amy wasn't doing this for herself it wouldn't work. Amy tells the doctor why she was here. Lena tells her that if she believed the person had her best interest at heart after a federal scan he would be given a pass if there were no previous drug history. Amy says she couldn't see him doing drugs. The doctor asks her how visible her habit is. Amy stops talking. The doctor asks did she make her think or was she irritated? Amy tells her that the person she is thinking of would have told her had he had such an issue. The doctor points out that Amy did not answer the question but judging purely by her response and her tone she felt defensive which pointed more to irritation. Amy goes to apologize Lena stops her and tells her she didn't need to try to pacify her with empty apology. It was okay if she was irritated but she would rather Amy say it instead of cover it or hold back. They walk and talk some more and Amy tells Lena she stopped speaking because as much as she knew about her friend she hadn't told him at the beginning of her problem and Lena's comment just made her second guess him and it made her angry at herself not at her.

Later that day Dr. Sandra Middlebrooks comes to Cassandra's room. Sandra says she is going to be Cassandra's doctor until Dr. Sheldon returns. Sally mentions that she was Angel's doctor. "That is correct ma'am. I have come to remove the bandages there wasn't any scar tissue on her work ups. Cassandra I have a question. Can you see that the light is on in this room?" Cass says yes. Sandra waves for Michael to turn off the light. Cass notes the change. Middlebrooks take off the bandages.

Cass squeezes her eyes shut against the brightness coming in from the window. Middlebrooks instructs her whenever she's ready to slowly open her eyes. Cass does so and the first Image that greets her is her dad smiling at her. She can see him. "Daddy I can see" Her dad steps closer and hugs her. Thinking about the parts of her conversation she had with Rap that she could remember, she asks her mom for a mirror. Her mom pulls her compact out and lifts it so she could see herself and tells her that the swelling had gone down a lot. Cass waved off the comment. Her eyes were dark rimmed with bruising. Her forehead looked like someone tried to play tic-tac-toe. Her lips where bruised and her cheeks had cuts on them all in different stages of healing. Middlebrooks tells her that the cream they were using would fade the scaring. The doctor puts eye drops in her eyes and tells her to wait on putting her glasses back on. "That's no problem my glasses are a part of the windshield right now." Sandra asked was this memory or something told to her. "Not sure, I do remember driving up to the gate. Everything else gets foggy after that."

Mark speaks to his newly hired director for his school when the conversation ends he sits back in his den at home. Megan's number crosses his read out. He'd held back from saying anything to her. It pissed him off that she had fucked up so bad. Then to lie to him about it his trust in his sister was just not there anymore. Every time he replayed Jonathon's words about kin he would be closer to calling her but then all the shit that she had done to his girl and tried to cause would swallow whole any thought of speaking to her. Now she was calling him. He'd sent her a fucking text telling her that Logan and Glenny were safe. That night after getting Logan to the ranch.

Paula pokes her head in and says she the twins and Janet are going to the store did he need anything. "No you girls be careful and have fun." She walks in and kisses him. "What was that for not that I'm complaining?" She says he looked like he needed it. "Megan is calling my ass again." Mark pinches the bridge of his nose looking down at his desk. Paula just stopped moving he looks up and the anger in his wife's eyes and the snarl on her lips reflected the thoughts that were running a race through his head. "I'm going to talk to her I don't give a shit if she ever speaks to me again, she has diluted everything she has done playing the poor me routine. She telling anyone that will listen the fact that I won't talk to her is based purely on her crashing the party and her behavior towards Angel." Paula asks who she is lying to now. "My uncle, I told Jonathon at the Christmas party he'd went into his she's your kin tap dance and I told him what Megan left out. It's nearing Mania again and I got a call from Mikki James saying the same shit. She's talking to my fucking coworkers about family shit. Leaving out all the shit she has done or tried to do." Mark shakes his head when Megan's number scrolls across his phone again. "I'm going to take this, but like I said woman you and the girls have fun but be careful." He watches his wife walk out of the den then presses talk. "Yeah what?" Megan asked where Logan and Glenny where she says all he said in his text was that they were safe. "They are safe from your cheating ass. Oh you're quiet now. I guess the cat done got your tongue. Why Glenn? You managed to fuck up the only thing good you had going for yourself. You really think Logan want to be anywhere near you right now. At IHOP you yelled to the top of your lungs that I was dead to you. After I dropped your damn purse in your lap and was driving off to prevent myself from doing you bodily harm for hitting me with the same chain you hit my child with. Why the fuck you telling people I work with or anyone you think will listen that I'm not talking to you merely because of the party?" Megan says the only reason he was pissed at her was because he loved Angel more than her. "What the hell? Megan in the grand scheme of things Angel don't have shit to do with the reason I'm pissed at your ass. Since you want to rehash this shit fine. You lied to my face through omission because you thought you knew what I would see on the camera. Little one if the only reason I was pissed was because you seem to get along with your own kin like gunpowder and fire. I wouldn't have invited you two to anything together and with her having an order out on you she wouldn't have been upset to stay her distance. If she was the only factor I would be able to move around that. This I can't. You know how I feel about liars. If that wasn't bad enough you kept school shit away from me about my child. You changed your last name but hey with the stunt you pulled you may be Megan Callaway once more. No matter what your name is you had Janet's school fooled thinking you were her mother. When she corrected you. You got pissed and dragged my daughter to the car like a rag doll. You the person I trusted that would keep my girl safe. You had to know you were going too far or you wouldn't have blackmailed her into silence. Tried your hardest to make me out to be someone to fear in my own girl's eyes. Why because you were mad. Well Meg I'm not mad I fucking pissed that you call me brother but you beat on my child then when you admit it and I react you try to push me and my girl apart. Truthfully if you had of done what you said you did. I wouldn't be happy about you swatting her. I would have still let you see her she would not have lived with you no more but after a time I would have cooled down. Finding out all the shit you've done and then to top it off you try to turn Janet against me and taint her faith in me and Paula." Megan sighs and says she was mad and wasn't thinking clearly and she is sorry. Mark's anger was steadily building. "You're sorry, you didn't see the look in my child's eyes you didn't have to watch her retreat like I was going to beat the shit out of her, because you told her I was coming for her hide. You never did find out why she ditched considering you know how she feels about school and learning new things, you never took the time to find out why she was willing to risk failure which is one of her biggest fears. You tell her to drop her britches in front of her male cousin and wonder why she didn't want to. No preteen says hey adult that I must depend on, can you give me the numbers to some cops, for nothing." Megan says Janet asked her for the Kincaids numbers and she told her to stop with the dramatic shit." Mark took a breath and another trying to reign in his tongue and his temper. His head was pounding. "I know I fucked up by trusting Racheal but I would have never, not in a million years thought I fucked up by trusting you." Megan asks how she could fix this. "That's just it, you can't. I don't know what the hell is wrong with you and I'm damn tired of trying to figure it out." Megan says what's wrong is that he can throw her away like trash. She says so he is only mad at her and keeping Janet out of a grade A school because she swatted her rear? "You can't be this damn stupid." Mark recaps why he is angry at her. Including why Janet ditched school. Megan says she wishes she would never said anything. "I'm glad you did. At least I was able to find out what was going on with my child." She tells him a lot of good it did her but he'd pay for it when Janet… Mark warned Megan he knew she was lashing out, but some things you couldn't take back "Stop talking right now before you…" She kept talking It was like a switch went off in his head at her next words. Megan says without her professional guidance, all his girls would end up turning tricks to survive. "My girls are better off without your, child abusing, lying, manipulative, adulterous ass. Don't ever call on me for shit as far as my, wife, my girls and I are concerned Megan who?" she asks so was he saying he still isn't going to talk to her. "GO FUCK YOURSELF" Mark hits end he was washing his hands of the shit before it ate him alive.

Megan watches as her phone goes black with everything said she'd just kept talking. When Mark warned her to shut up her mouth kept moving and it was like she couldn't stop. Her feelings and all the emotions in her head fueled the hateful shit she was saying. She knew he meant it he wasn't going to talk her anymore. Why should he you just told him his children were going to be whores? She'd just single handily fucked her relationship with her brother. Logan wasn't talking to her either. Logan's going to leave you and then where will you be? "SHUT UP" Megan screams at her inner voice as she grabs her hair. "I need to get out of here. I'm talking to myself. Oh shit I'm doing it again." Megan needed to talk to someone she'd call Glenn. It was partly his fault if he hadn't of come over they wouldn't have been fucking and got caught. Then Logan wouldn't have told Mark, and he wouldn't have pissed her off to the point of. She couldn't believe she'd said that, Mark was a great dad, and if she was truthful with herself she'd never admit it aloud, but Paula was good for Mark and Janet. Mark, Logan and her shrink had told her on multiple times to cool it. She hadn't listened. Well now that you've effectively pushed everyone way your goal of alone has been reached. What are you going to do now? Megan marched around the house arguing with herself until she gets in her car and drive towards Glenn's place.

Wendell wakes looking up at the noon sky he hurt all over. Rolling to his side he sees that he was in his back yard. Fuck he had to go to work. He hoped the thugs didn't break anything like his fucking legs or nothing. He looks down at himself and on his bare chest laid the needle he'd prepared for Amy or one of them, she'd taken one, the other he had in his breast pocket. The thugs told him that if he ever came near Amy again he would never work in the medical profession again. Chase's band of thugs jumped him first that old fucker had balls. He'd fix the geriatric bastard if it weren't for the thugs Chase wouldn't have had a chance against him in a one on one. He'd been attacked by Chase Ivey but couldn't do shit with the information. Not if he wanted to stay in his job, without his job he would be cut off from the drugs that supplied his lifestyle. No regular nurse male or female could afford half the cars in his fleet. He moves his arm well that was one thing that still worked. The bruises he could cover. He does an internal check though it hurt like hell he could move all his limbs. The pain he could deal with. His phone rang his older brother was calling him. He tells Chadwick that he had to get to work but he would meet him afterwards. Getting to his feet he walks in his back door one of his girls gasped at his appearance. Who was he kidding the bitch didn't love him she lived in the house to be closer to the drugs. He tested the theory and she had failed the first night he'd come home without her drug of choice she'd hid from him. He remembers when Amy had moved in. She had been treated at his hospital and he'd turned on the charm. By the end of his shift she was living in his house. The drugs took a few days but he knew he could get her. When he found out how she wasn't just a beat up whore or anything that she owned a business he charged her and hell she paid him regularly anything he asked, and even thanked him for giving her sleep. She had even jokingly called him Mr. Sandman. That had been their private joke.

He moves into his bathroom and looks at his reflection. Black eyes, busted lip, a swollen scar ran the length of his cheek into his beard. He looked at the many places he'd been kicked and punched on his torso, hell he'd thought the thugs were going to break his ass in half. Stepping into his massive shower he made one of the girls wash him up. She was good so he gave her what she lived with him for. One of the girls wanted in on the free drugs and said she could cover the bruises on his face and neck. Looking at his expensive watch he says "do it good enough by 2 and I'll give you a little extra." Pebbles knew make-up she had covered a lot of shit on her own face. He sat on the tub chair and watched as layer after layer was applied to his skin hell he looked like he'd got a tan instead of been jumped by a bunch of rough necks. He raises a hand when she went to cover the crisscross in his eyebrow. "No that was me." He'd had the scar in his right brow since high school. He'd fought a dude on the football field when he and Chadwick had been messing with Candy and pulled her jeans down. Hell the guy had come out of nowhere and went toe to toe with him and his big bro. His bro had said it was his brother in law. Wendell had never met his brother's first wife's family. His second wife had been a model and she had disappeared on his ass. His bro had moved back into the Denton home in Glenview Texas. Heading to work in another one of his cars he wondered if Amy had taken the dosage if so she would have slept right through any wake-up call.

Getting to his office he was the head RN in the trauma ward at Shelden Medical Center. He checked the local rehab facilities and Amy's name wasn't on the list of new arrivals. He checked under her original last name before marriage still nothing. By the middle of his shift he was in a foul mood. The muscle relaxers he'd taken were wearing off. By the end of his shift he knew that some of the makeup was coming off. He hit the bathroom in his office and wipes the shit off. His phone rings he answers it Chadwick had really been calling him. "Bro meet me at my crib you'll find out why when you see me. On his way to meet up with Chad he drives slowly by Amy's place, and knew she wasn't there he put his foot to the floor when he saw the two thugs that jumped him out in the yard. Wendell didn't ease up on the gas until he pulled into his garage.

Walking into his house he sets at his mini bar and slams a few shots of vodka. He checks out his other phone as he walks in his home office. One of his girls didn't show up where he sent her. A guy that was going to help him into a bigger market had sent him the message that his "payment" never showed up. Wendell runs a hand over his face it still stung to the touch. One of the girls that lived with him pokes her head in and says his brother is at the front door. Wendell gets up and tells the girl to show him back. He sits back down in his desk chair.

Chadwick was always impressed with his younger brother's life. Women lived here and didn't fight, but they all catered to him. His bro had guys living here too but they were muscle heads. He knew his brother had a good job but this house just didn't match up with what Wendell should be pulling in. He walks in and sees his bro. "What the fuck happened to you? You, look like shit." Chad walks towards the desk. Wendell tells him that a man had him jumped he spoke of Amy as a girlfriend and how he didn't know how but he would get back at the bitch and the old man that wronged him. He then asked what he needed. "Well it looks like we both are having relationship problems. You know my ex right? Well my second wife as you know disappeared. I tried to get Cass to talk to me and she is playing hard to get."

Wendell laughs and ask "how difficult could it be to catch Cassandra she was huge just harpoon her ass and…"

Chad was across the room and pinning Wendell against the wall by the throat in seconds flat as he growls "look that's not for you to say. She was my wife and I want her back." He lets go when his brother's eyes start to hood.

Wendell holds his hands to his throat. As he tries to figure out what the hell just happened. When he regains his breath he tells his brother if he ever touched him again like that he'd be flower food. Chadwick wasn't as big as Wendell but his older brother could really use his lower center of gravity to his advantage. Wendell says "I was out of line. I'm kind of pissed off at the opposite sex right now. Can you blame me?"

Chad apologizes and says he kind of did some shit he shouldn't have and now he didn't know how to get a minute, which is all he would need with Cass to convince her to come back. Over the phone wasn't doing it, he had to do it in person. She wasn't at the hospital they used when they were together. He'd hacked her phone, and her computer, and found out that she had a better job than working at the local CO TV station. He just hoped he hadn't crushed her with his stunt to get her admitted into Grandville Memorial. Wendell asks him why he came to him. "Well I was thinking how much do you have to make to be put in the network as a single female? Maybe she hit that mark with this new job and switched networks on me. Other than that I don't even want to think of if I hit her too hard and killed her. I just wanted her as a captive audience. We're not married anymore so it's not even like I could collect on her life insurance." Chadwick starts smacking himself in the forehead "Stupid Plan" Wendell points out that his current wife Amber is still breathing so he couldn't marry Cassandra again right now anyway, not until Amber pops up. "I can't go down for both the cops are already looking at me strange for Amber's disappearance." Wendell asked did he have anything to do with Amber's vanishing act. "What do you think?"

"I don't know you just admitted that you could have possibly whacked your ex trying to catch her attention. You were also stalking her to know where she was when you crashed into her. Did she see you? If so, you had better hope you did finish the job." Chad says he did not kill Amber she ran off one night and he can't find her so he reported her missing. "Okay I believe you let me check maybe Cass is in our system. I thought I saw that goofy looking big brother of hers today he was in the parking lot." Wendell calls one of the admitting staff that worked under him in more ways than one, and told her to run a name and see if the person was in the network, he hit end and says "Well Chad today's your lucky day Cassandra Marybeth Davenport is at Shelden Medical Center." Chad asks when he went to work could he get him in to visit her. "I'm not even supposed to be on that floor. But this is the room number." Wendell writes it down and hands it to him. Chadwick tells him that if there was anything he could do to help his little bro all he had to do was ask. "I'm putting it on the shelf for later but it won't stay for long."

Logan and Glenny stops by his home. Glenny had fun with his cousin Kincaid's kid but had trouble sleeping because Logan hadn't thought to grab the toy he slept with. He'd checked his remote access and Megan wasn't home. He looks down when Glenny puts his hand in the strap that usually held his hammer as they walk in. His son was weary about walking into what was supposed to be his own home. "its okay squirt, go grab your stuffed crocodile, and I'll get you and I some clothing." Logan walked into his bedroom, sighs, and moves to his dresser grabbing clothes. The thought that Megan was off with Glenn slammed into his head, and it just made him grab more of his shit. After this before he headed back to the Ranch he was going to Grandville to work on the Davenport the physical exhaustion did him good at night. He'd finished LEGNA Grandville yesterday with his original crew. He turns around at a sound and Glenny was standing just inside the doorway, he walks over and put the stuff animal up to him. With the arms out like it was going to hug him. Logan picks up his son and hugs him along with croc.

Glenny comes in the bedroom with his Uncle Logan and put his stuffed Croc out for his uncle to hug it. His uncle picks him up and hugs him. His Uncle was big but Glenny didn't have to worry about him falling him. His croc was like his uncle strong. Glenny giggled when his uncle ruffles his hair this was usually the sign that he was going to set him on his feet. His uncle Logan set him down. They head into his room it used to be Janet's room now it was his, he wished he could give it back him missed his Janet. They take his Iron Man bag and put his clothes into it and he tries to put it on, and tips over. His uncle laughs and picks him and the bag up and they go to the truck. He gets in his car seat and they drive away.

Logan Connor: So you won't think no one broke in. I went by the house and grabbed some clothes for me and Glenny.

Megan Connor: (Crying emoticon) Can we talk please I know you're mad but I am sorry Logan. I've fucked up so much. I know you spoke to Mark he hates me now as much as you do. I still love you.

Logan Conner: DRIVING

Megan knew it was an auto response he'd built. She didn't dare text a response. Going to Glenn's place was a mistake. He was sober now and admitted after her pushing him that he'd imagined she was someone else. She'd got mad and asked him who. He told her she didn't need to know that it didn't matter. She'd slapped him and asked him who if not her, why wasn't she good enough. He told her it didn't matter and not to hit him anymore and accused her of acting like his crazy ass wife. She'd pulled his tiger's tail and her inner voice jumped up and waved her arms and told her to shut up. Her attitude pushed her inner voice to the side as she screamed at him "I fucking went to bat for you against Angel." He yelled at her who asked her. Saying she really didn't help him and Angel's relationship. "What relationship? Why are you so pissed we agreed that you were done with that shitty choice in women. Remember I was proven right she kneed you in the nuts. She didn't want you she couldn't get Mark and you were a consolation prize." He reared back then swings at the wall behind her head busting the drywall. Megan flinches at his nearness. "Gee bro punching shit going to put yourself out of Mania again, maybe Vince will fire your ass this time?" His next words made her see red. He tells her that when he was fucking her, and playing with her hair, he imagined she was Angel, was she happy now. "Ahhhhhhhhhhh You're lying." He said no he was pathetic not a lair, because he'd let what could have been the love of his life get away. "Oh my god you're serious" He says yeah he knew how it sounded the woman that haunted his dreams was not only married but about to have someone else's child. "So you figured you'd come and fuck up my marriage since all you would get from her is another knee to the groin." He revealed he was drunk on Christmas Eve sobered up enough to drive over to her place by Christmas afternoon, because Angel should have had the kid by then, but no one was talking to him that was talking to her and Mark and her brother had threatened his life if he so much as messaged her. Megan laughs in his face as her anger rose "So you used me." He nods and says he's sorry but she used him too. "Not like that, I wasn't thinking you were anyone but you." Tears rolled down her cheeks her voice cracks "Why her? I'm taller and older than her." He reaches out towards her then drops his hand. He repeated that he was sorry. She'd stormed away and sat in her car with no real location in mind. Now she had just got a text from her husband that he was at their home and had left again. If she hadn't of went to Glenn's, she could have seen her son and her husband. Oh her inner voice was having a field day with this. She pictured the little bitch up there skipping around in her head taunting her. Glenn walks out she peels away from his house and just starts driving. Hearing I'm sorry from Glenn just pissed her off more. How could she be so stupid? Her phone buzzes he was texting her. At a red light she read his and sends him one.

Bro Glenn: Megan slow your ass down. I said I'm sorry.

Glenn felt like shit he wasn't going to tell Megan it was enough that he'd even thought about it. She just kept pushing him when she slapped him it reminded him of Carla another bad choice in women his first wife. FUCK! Mark now knew, this was not going to get him invited to anything soon. His bro was still pissed about the Kathy thing. He chilled out had told himself a million times that he was done chasing Angel after she kneed him at Mark's reception, and he left he'd tried his best to stay mad at her, but then he'd just nosedived she wouldn't have defended herself if he hadn't grabbed her. Depression and loneliness lead him right to Katherine. Seeing Angel at Mark's the day Megan flipped out about the invite made him think if he couldn't be Angel's man, he was gonna play the part of friend. He knew he was lying to himself, seeing Angel and Band troll at The Rave Den the night someone had kidnapped her brought all the shit back. He poured his heart onto the table to her, and the minute Band troll got there what happened, she knocked Logan out of his seat to get to who not him, but Band troll. He should have saw that they were at Mark's and drove off on Thanksgiving. When he first started messing with Angel Mark told him if he was serious then he should let Carla go and come correct to Angel. He'd been prepared to do just that but Megan had told Angel before it was even official. He'd had a chance, she had gave him a second chance but Dave and some text messages caused him to lose his shit and scare Angel right into Band troll's arms. Now Megan was pissed and a thought hit him Meg had a knack for misplaced rage. Glenn had to find her he sends her a text apologizing. After a few minutes of radio silence he gets a text that makes him grab his jacket and run for his truck.

MEG: You aren't sorry yet but you will be. I am the original not HER.

Bro Glenn: She has a restraining order out on you. When's enough, enough? Right now you're pissed at me do you want to end up in jail? She's pregnant and of your own bloodline it's not her fault that I'm a sick fuck. I'm sorry that, I hurt you the only person that was on my side.

MEG: It's just a piece of paper bro just a piece of paper. Everyone says it's not her you're the only one that is brave enough to admit it's her. She's pregnant way to turn the knife. While your slice me up. Well if she hasn't had it yet too bad. Because of you my son is far away with my husband that isn't coming BACK. Spare me the she's a part of the bloodline crap. I spoke to Mark my blood big Brother and he told me to go FUCK myself. The only reason she looks like me. Not the other way around. I'm older and I don't care what anyone says I look more like my mother than she ever will. I'm more McBride than she will ever be. I should have ran her ass over when I had the chance at Paula's bar. Hate me all you want Mark does already so you'll have to get in line behind my bloodline. When I'm done you all will finally have a reason. (Brokenhearted Emoticon)

Cold dread chilled Glenn's blood as he drove around looking for that damn Blue Dodge Stealth. He had pushed her too far she'd been on the edge and he'd pushed her over. He calls Logan no answer. He calls Mark the phone rejected his call. He texted Mark the damn thing bounced back saying his message couldn't be delivered. He'd started this shit storm he had to find a way to stop it. He texted Logan's work phone. The message stuck it didn't get returned. Now he prayed that Logan read it.

Logan was at the Davenport he'd asked Candy could Glenny chill with her and Nikki while he put up the gating Joshua had ordered for the back of the club. She'd said sure. He called Bradley and asked could he use some hours. Bradley said only until dark because he had to be at the hospital with Cass or his parents would not go home at night. Logan told him that was cool because he didn't work past sundown on jobs like this because of the way they had to set it up. They had to set it with the beams or the whole structure could be taken out and he for one didn't want to have to replace with his own money 40 square feet of reinforced titanium and steel. Bradley showed up ready to learn anything he hadn't already mastered. Logan left verbal commands to the crew to Bradley, he wasn't in a chatty mood. Bradley showed that he just might have what it took to lead one of Logan's crews. Logan gets s a text message on his work phone. Maybe the cement mixer had went out again that seemed to be his luck here lately. If it wasn't his personal life, his work life traded places and gave him shit. Work shit, he could deal with if something was broken pay the right people to fix it or buy new. When he reads the text message he almost fell off the damn ladder catching himself before he made a Logan sized hole in Joshua's roof connecting the cameras, he quickly scrambles down and read it again. It didn't change.

Sender not logged: Logan I think Megan is going to try to hurt Angel. I can't find her but please, please get Angel out of harm's way. G Jacobs

Logan called Glenn "START TALKING NOW" Bradley waved for the few guys that were staring him in the mouth to come on and give him some respect. Logan gets in his truck. Glenn might as well have knocked him out again, because all the air left his body along with his color when Glenn told him all of it and ended with the text message that had him trying to find a little blue sports car somewhere between Dallas and Grandville South. "You knew Megan before I did. I know it takes two to tangle but you knew how she is, and you fucking pointed her at someone you claim to love. Now it's my job to get to her before she hurts someone that you're obsessed with. Or before one of her own family gets put away for putting her in the ground. THANKS you piece of shit for not a fucking thing. GO to HELL do the world a big one and put a bullet right through your fucking brain. So help me if I ever see you I might do it for you." After nearly breaking his work phone ending the call Logan rolls down the window he needed air. Even if Megan was doing 80 she still had to get here. He felt like he was going to throw up. Bringing his breathing back under control he yells at Bradley "DAVENPORT" Brad turns around and comes jogging to the truck. "You got this. I got to go. Where's Angel?" Bradley says he thinks his bro is with her shopping for decoration at Party Farm for the New Year's Eve party since they weren't due to come through the wall yet, then heading home why? "If you talk to him before I do tell Joshua not Angel to call me, it's very important I got to go."

Bradley watches as he usually mild mannered laid back new boss speeds out of the parking lot. He looks at the crew. "Okay guys am I counting this staring contest as one of your breaks? Let's get this gate up. So we can go home." Bradley texts Joshua

Brad: Text me back if you not driving.

Joshua: What's up I'm stuck at the PARTY FARM. Angel may not be attending the party but if I have to walk back down this middle aisle again I'm going to cry.

Brad: Logan just almost took a trip through your roof, then when he gets on the ground he blows up at someone on his black phone. He just sped off out of here like his ass was on fire. He wanted me to tell you to call him but not Angel. Somehow I don't think it has shit to do with The Davenport. I know wigged out when I see it and trust me bro he was wigged.

Joshua: I think I just saw Logan's truck pull into the parking lot.

Paula comes home Mark had his music going which is why he may have missed her, I'm on my way text. She turns the audio out speaker down in the girl's room and goes and puts Katie in her swing. Rosa was tuckered out in her car seat so she puts her in her crib. Rosa was her car baby, Katie wanted to see everything, put Rosa in the car and before you got out of the gate she was sleep. Janet walks in and starts jumping around with Mark. He grabs her and tickles her accusing her of messing up his count. He asks her when she got back and who got her the shorts saying they're too short and her shirt needed to be donated. Paula walks in to ask Mark to help with the rest of the bags Janet looks down at her outfit then says she got the outfit from Nikki and the shorts were longer than her school shorts. As she stands straight and puts her fingertips down and the cloth went past her middle finger tip putting it just below mid knee. She moves around saying the shirt didn't even cling. Mark says never mind. Janet asks to be excused he says fine and turns off the music. Paula tells Janet to walk Pain and Panic. Janet says yes ma'am and runs in her room.

Shortly Janet comes back out of her room in an Ed Hardy blue jeans outfit she got from Angel. "Honey I think you'd melt if you went outside that shirt was bought in New York for winter. I know it is December but is 77 degrees outside." Janet sighs and goes back in her room. Paula meets Mark's gaze as he walks out into the hall. Paula put her hand on his chest. "UH uh if you keep at her she'll be wearing her vacation ski outfit. What's wrong Mark you are usually the last to say something about her attire. If it was too thin or short I would have chucked it in the donations pile myself. Half the clothes she took from her room at Megan's she out grown. Nikki bought her that outfit for Christmas and you just verbally made it seem like it was a little bitty mini dress instead of a short and top set that covers her tall frame well." Mark sighs and asks Paula to come into the den. "How about we go get the stuff out of the truck, and you can tell me what has you strung tighter than a banjo string?"

Paula was right there wasn't anything wrong with the outfit. Megan's comment had struck him harder than he thought he would be damned if he was going to turn into some kind of clothing Nazi. For what was out there, his girl dressed respectfully her age, and he wasn't going to possibly tarnish that by being a dumbass. He'd let his innate paranoia and Megan's words guide his words before and all it got him for months after their little talk was, Angel treading softly around him and her hesitance about verbally accepting that they were kin. "Hold on, a certain little one just got a dose of asshole from her old man." Paula says okay and heads out to the truck. Rubbing a hand over his face he walks to his girl's door and knocks in case she was doing another quick change. "Janet" ruffling could be heard then a loud thump. The door opens as Janet hides behind it. Mark looks at what must have been the thump, she'd pulled one of the drawers out of the dresser. "Baby girl what you are doing?" Janet came out from behind the door. On anyone else, he would have thought she was being a smart ass. On his girl and by the look in her eyes he knew she was seriously about to leave the house to walk two massive dogs in a long sleeved turtle neck and black loose fit Jeans. She was already sweating. "Janet do you have a tee shirt on under that?" She says yes sir. "Take off the turtleneck before you pass out." Mark walks over and put the drawer back in and sits at her computer desk. Janet turns away from him and takes the top shirt off. Mark puts his fingers to his temples. As if she didn't have enough of her on self-image shit to deal with she was a tall female in her early teens. They talk and he apologizes for making her feel that her clothing choice wasn't appropriate. She forgives him and makes him smile when she says she had come in here and measured all her tee shirts and had a pile for the donations pile but that some of them she really liked the way they fit. She stands up and grabs the ones she liked and showed him where they stopped, asking were they still okay. They stopped below her belt line and were mostly jersey type shirts. "They're fine for now baby girl but I don't see them lasting you until next year, fair enough?" She nods and hugs him saying she had to get going before she had no iPad for not walking the dogs. "Yep I better get out there and help get the stuff in or I'll be grounded too." Janet says he doesn't have an IPad does she take his phone battery or something. Mark chuckles. "No but I'm not big on sleeping on the couch."

Janet runs and calls Pain and Panic the two giants run after her out the back door. Mark walks out and takes the bags out of Paula's hands. She asked him how his talk with Janet went. "We're ok now that her dad isn't losing his mind." She smirks and says that's still up for debate. "Smart ass" he mumbles. After they get the stuff in the house and put the huge bag of dog food in the shed Paula washes her hands and starts cooking. Mark tells her if she seasoned the meat he'll grill it. She smiles up at him and says okay deal, now what was up with his previous clothing Nazi routine. He told her about the talk with Megan. Mark spared his wife the statement about the girls, he just wasn't about to repeat that shit. Call it ill luck, call it whatever you wanted, but he wasn't putting those words into the atmosphere. Paula walks over he pulls her onto his lap she holds her hands out away from him saying she had meat on her hands. He gives her a smirk. She wiggle free and washes her hands coming back over she hugs him while sitting in his lap. Some of his tension relaxed he'd felt like two forces were trying to rip him in two. He puts his head on her chest and mumbles "Megan is never going to grow up." She tells him she knew he tried everything he could think of. He looks at her "When my father found out his sister Vikki was abusing his children he said at some point you have to take into account what is more important, he picked us over his sister. Hell back then I just was glad we didn't have to go over there anymore especially after she got arrested. After our folks died I tried to be there for Megan." Paula says he was. "When she married Logan it was like the mantel was passed, and she calmed down or so I thought. I've talked to her and yelled at her until I just can't anymore. I've gave her chance, after chance, at some point I had to pick what was best for us. I tried listening but she either lies to me, or lashes out and blames all but herself. For the past few months, I've felt pushed to the wall. Today I pushed back and don't regret it. That may make me an asshole but…"

Hearing Katie cry on the speaker Paula and Mark head into the girl's room and watch through the window as Janet ran the dogs. Paula picks up Katie and Mark checks on Rosa. She would not let her husband do this hack job on his character because of Megan. "No, Mark it makes you human, like the rest of us mortals. You've did everything you could short of trapping her ass in a rubber room. She tried her best after giving us her blessing to prevent our wedding from even happening. Everything has to be her way or she throws a tantrum. You felt pushed against the wall, because you have always been protective of the ones you care for. That's something she takes advantage of. Oh let me do all this shit, but love me an only me, big brother mine. Oh I can't have my way, well here is some illegal or just plain immoral behavior that you'll forgive me for later. I count three times where assault and battery would have been part of her charges. Megan thinks adult life is like a video game where all you have to do is push the (reset say I'm sorry button) and all is good. She's going to have it hard, because she going to do that shit to someone else that isn't too worried about how you or Logan will react, and she's not going to like the repercussions."

Angel rode with Joshua in a strained silence for a time before speaking. Looking in the review Logan and the security team was behind them. Joshua had went to get the truck they were going to take the decorations to the Davenport and put them up, and the next thing Angel knew Joshua ran back in, asked had she paid yet, she told him yes and it was like a race to see how many bags he and Logan could grab at one time. She felt like a sandwich with her husband in back of her and her cousin in front of her. She notices that Joshua was doing his imitation of a NASCAR driver. "Joshua please slow down the club will be there." After almost becoming one with a semi, Joshua slows down but he drove pass the exit that would take them to the club. It took all she could to not scream, it came out in a strangled cry. "Where are we going?" They pull onto the exit home. Joshua sat at the red light he put his hand on hers on the seat. She asks him what's going and tells him before he says nothing she recounts his flight response traits, both in the store, and on the highway. He opens his mouth then closes it, the light turns green and he jets up the hill and slows down parking in front of her dad's place. What he says next makes her blood run cold Angel had to keep it together but the balloon of her balloon exercise popped as fear for JC swarmed her. She looks around her breath was coming in short puffs. Hearing Joshua tell her that none of them had actually seem Megan initiated her verbal flight response "I… want to go home." He says but that's the first place she would think to go. "We have to tell Sophie she's there, and if Megan is that pissed there's no telling what she will try." Joshua says they can call everyone when they get inside.

Angel looks around Joshua looks at his phone and says "Even doing 90 she would still be more than an hour away. Come on babe, I'll help you in the house." Logan walks towards them and says Jonathon is on his way but Gloria is home. "Hell we have keys, but it's nice that Gloria will know we're coming." They head in the house and the security team parks in Nikki's driveway. Joshua thinks about hiding the truck but where the hell would he hide it short of taking it home that was out because he'd be damned to hell, if he was going to leave his wife's side with her crazy ass cousin threatening to do her bodily harm. Megan had already done enough shit, and there wasn't going to be any of that my bad, I'm sorry, oops shit, If the bitch tried to lay a fucking finger on his wife, cousin or no he would try to put Megan 6 feet under.

Gloria watches Jonathon's family, Joshua stood by the window his tension and an undercurrent of anger ran off him in large torrents. If she said boo he'd either throw one of the blades that he kept clicking open and closed at her or jump through the window. Logan paced. Angel sat on the sofa watching them both as she mindlessly rubs her belly. Joshua moves away from the window and to the door when he opens it. The room came to life. Jonathon walked in and all started speaking to him he greets them all. His attention first everywhere then back to his girl. When he hugged her Gloria could see her shuddering.

Logan sat then gets back up, he texted Bradley from his work phone keeping his personal open. The what-fi rumble was strong in his head. He hoped that Megan was just throwing a fit and not really on her way here. When he'd told Joshua in the parking lot, Joshua's first statement was that if Megan touched his wife he'd gut her ass. He didn't want anyone to get hurt.

Connor Construction: Bradley is the gate up?

Bradley D: We got her up and I tested the see if she will open without falling out of the ground. Success. Hey I know this is a business phone and all but did you catch up with my bro I told him you were looking for him.

Connor Construction: Good job. Tell Vash not to park there I still want to let it set overnight those beams went in quickly. I want to know if they will hold or slide and I don't need them sliding down onto his car. Yeah I caught up with him. Thanks

Joshua texts Sophie and tells her what is going on. She asks how Angel was. He looks at his wife and her father and replies.

Joshua: She's freaked but Jonathon's presence is keeping her calmer than I can right now. She wanted me to make sure you knew what was up. I texted Chase and told him what's going on, he says his team will be on the lookout for the car she drives. Logan gave me the plate number

Sophie: I'm going to stay here at Ivey Enterprises. If Angel knows I'm not home then she won't be so worried about me. I'd come over there but, me not leaving here lets dad's team stay over there with you guys. Keep me posted

Joshua: will do

Joshua walks over and sits next to his wife. After another lap around the room Logan says he had to go get Glenny. Angel asked where he was. Logan says her girl Candy had him and he wasn't trying to make a nuisance out of himself. "Candy likes Glenny or she wouldn't have said he could come over don't be surprised if he does stay the night if he has a new outfit." Logan looks concerned. "She lets him play in the clay it won't hurt him it is mostly sand based it's just a bitch to get out of clothing."

Logan sends Candy a text message he soon gets a reply saying she didn't mind that gave her an excuse to buy an outfit and pizza. Logan told her that Glenny didn't handle large slices well. Candy told him not to worry she'd cut the slice in bite sized pieces. She sends another text before he can thank her saying Nikki and she would entertain short stuff for him. He thanks her.

Megan was irate Glenn's words ran through her head in an auditory illusion almost as fast as she drove. When I was fucking you and playing with your hair I was imagining you were Angel are you happy now. You used me too. Megan I'm sorry. She's pregnant and of your own bloodline it's not her fault that I'm a sick fuck. If that wasn't enough to deal with her inner voice started in on the fun throwing line after line of Mark and Logan telling her to chill out or fix it. She'd told Logan to stop helping Angel's family with projects and he had not. He turned his back on her. He kept taking her son over to play with the enemy. He took her Glenny to that bitch's wedding. If Angel had of just talked to her at the baby shower she wouldn't have put her on her ass, and there wouldn't be a restraining order. Tracy wouldn't have stopped talking to her. Mark wouldn't have drove her home. He wouldn't have been doing the quiet thing and the Janet conversation would have never happened. She hid information from Mark because she was handling the situation and as far as Janet telling him why she ditched was dumb on her part. Janet talked in circles about wanting Logan's cop relative's numbers. On the way to school after getting her doctor's release from passing out at school if she was that scared she should have said something before just thinking she was adult enough to make the choice to ditch school. Now her brother had cast her aside like trash. He'd even blocked her number on her own niece's phone. None of this shit would have happened if Angel hadn't of gave her the damn blue baby shower invite. They were cool then she had to go and ruin it. A thought hit her as she crested the hill to Angel's Grandville castle. There were cars lining her cul-de-sac. One of the cars pulled out the gate and started following her. Megan sped down the hill her eyes for a brief second latched on to a place where she could get weapons her uncle always had weapons lying around. Then she saw it Angel's big black truck parked in front of her Uncle's house. "AHHH you're everywhere." She needed a plan. She could visit her uncle he was her uncle before he was Angel's daddy. A car pulls out from the house across the street from her uncle's in front of her she hit the gas and played chicken and won the car swerved out of her way as she sped down the hill. She was tired of Angel stealing her family or turning them against her damn-it. Mark's words play over in her head. Angel don't have shit to do with the reason I'm pissed at your ass. He didn't look all that happy to see me when he called me into his den to chew me out about Angel. He was in denial. Mrs. Grandville's attitude had her entire family fooled but not her. She should have seen it coming. Remembering when she had apologized to queen Grandville. Little Miss Angel had pointed to her house and said she wasn't After Mark for anything monetary just friendship. Megan got it now Angel's plan had worked she'd moved back to Texas and stole Megan's spot in her own damn family. She drives down a side street and parks looking around she grabs her tablet selects a phone number ghosting program and sends Angel a text message. She looks in her rearview and one of the cars crossed on the main street behind her. "Fuck this" she drives off slowly so she wouldn't raise suspicion.

Meg C: Hey there I see you visiting My Uncle get away from him.

Angel's phone dinged she sees the name though it didn't match the number she had for Megan it couldn't have come from her phone or it would have been blocked. Angel puts her phone on the coffee table like it was hot to the touch. Joshua grabs it off the table reads it and tells her he's archiving it. She looks over at her husband. Then back at her father when he tells her everything is fine. "Everything isn't fine. She's texting me the last time she texted me while pissed at me. It was to say you were missing and Sophia was dead."

Megan was here she'd spotted the truck and was now trying to text Angel. She wanted Angel to leave, fuck that. Joshua remembered the text message that Megan had sent her. "No one is missing and no one is dead. She is trying to get you upset. Dad's right everything is going to be fine okay?" Angel nods but the trembling was back. Her phone dings again making her jump. He sighs closing his eyes before picking up her phone it was the same message. "Same shit." Jonathon ask for the phone he reads it and his face gave away nothing like someone just turned off the emotion in his face. He then asked how Megan was sending the messages. "It's a ghosting program you don't need a phone think of it as an email." Jonathon asked if he knew how to do it. "No but I know Bobby knows at least how to set one. You thinking of sending her a message?" Jonathon says no and leaves it at that.

Angel didn't know what the message said and Joshua had dispelled many of her fears if Megan had of done something worth telling her. She knew Joshua wouldn't hide it from her. "I have to do something or I'm going to lose it." Gloria suggest they fix something to eat saying that always calmed her when she had a lot on her mind. Her father jokes and says so that's why he was getting fat. "Dad, you aren't getting fat." He says okay he was already there as he wagged his eyebrows up and down. "Oh stop" She laughs at her dad's bad impression of Groucho Marks. Joshua helps her up and she walks into the kitchen with Gloria.

Megan walks into the Last Ride. Tracy sees her and rolls her eyes. "I'm just here to drink and apologize." Tracy walks over and folds her arms over her small chest. She says Megan used her ass and almost got her fired why the hell should she listen to her. "Because I found him, it was the least I could do." Tracy stopped moving and just stared at her. "He's in a good home and his adoptive parents said you could visit him." Tracy calls over one of the bartenders then asks can they go upstairs and talk. Megan could see Tracy trying to remain professional but she also saw the cracks in her girl's polish and says "Does this mean you'll forgive me?" Megan knew it was a shitty move but she had to play the only card she had in her deck to get her friend back. Tracy nods and waves her hand in the direction of the stairs that would take them up to the apartment that had once been Paula's place before Paula got Mark sucked in to the Angel vortex.

Tracy heads up to her home she looks around once they are inside, she felt like she was sticking a finger in the eye of Mrs. Callaway she had helped her out so much and Tracy knew Paula and Megan weren't happy with each other but Megan had just told her she found her son. Tracy remembered walking home from her job and seeing police tape. She ran towards it but she was too late seeing her home taped off broke something inside of her. The police wouldn't let her pass. She later was told by the authorities that her husband had stabbed her little Anthony and then ate his gun. Anthony Sr. died on scene her son survived but the state wouldn't release him to her. When she left Houston it was like she had to start her life over alone. Anthony Jr. was put in the system he would be 13 by now. Megan tells her about the family and how she told them what had happened and got them to agree to a meeting. Megan then pulls out a picture and tells her the family said she could have it. Her little dark haired boy stared out at her from the snapshot and Tracy crumbled.

Megan talked with her friend until Tracy asked when she found the time to do this for her. Megan lies and says she got the lead a week ago. She didn't there was no lead, the adoptive parents wanted to meet the mother because the boy needed a kidney. Megan knew the little boy's name Tracy and she, went to high school together. She knew the husband, and the child was a Jr. Not rocket science.

Tracy invites her back down to the bar because even though this was the greatest news Meg Pie could give her she still felt that having Megan in her house was not good. She hated herself for feeling this way but instinct won out as she smiled at her friend and says. "Thank you so much Meg Pie. Apology surly accepted. Now for the getting your drink." They head back down in to the bar. Down here still sent warning bells through her head, but at least she wasn't up in what used to be her boss's home. Tracy pours her friend a drink and leans on the bar. "So you and Logan doing anything for the first of the year?" What Megan said made no sense. Meg Pie was her nickname because Megan could be sweet as pie, but if you crossed her she could be a handful of hell. When she got to the part about coming here. Tracy knew her warning bells were correct. "Meg Pie no one stole your place in your family. It's like you threw in the towel. You scared the shit out of me at that party when I walked in that room, hell I wasn't the one you took down so I know Angel was freaked. That sucks about your bro. But do you honestly think hurting her is going to make it all better?" Megan accuses her of being sucked into the Angel vortex. "Megan I'm on the outside looking in, I don't know any of them really but Paula. Maybe if you explained it to me I could grasp why you're so pissed." She admits to cheating on Logan. Tracy was dumbstruck. She didn't see that one coming. Megan and Logan had been together since they met in High school. "Wait you cheated on Logan? How is that Angel's doing was it to get back at Logan? Did he cheat on you with Angel?" Megan then springs that the person she cheated with used her and imagined she was Angel. "Ok Meg Pie you were cheating on Logan and while in the act of cheating with someone that has either been with Angel or hell the guy could be a fan, used you, but you used him to cheat on your husband. I'm still not seeing where hurting Angel solves anything. I mean if she was fucking your man damn straight wait till she has the kid and go get her, but for this it's crazy. You are pissed off and ready to potentially do something irreversible to a part of your own family. Hell I wish Anthony was half as nice to me as Logan is to you. Girl face it you messed up no one but you Not Mark, Not Angel, No one but you. You're always preaching about being family. Yes you may look like your mother but Rosa Angela had a good heart and has to be turning over in her grave. She would never…" Megan slapped her and tells her don't ever talk about her mom. Tracy says with her hand to her face "Get out" when Megan spoke again Tracy felt once again like the rug was pull out from under her, Megan reveals the real reason that the adoptive parents wanted the meeting. "Give me the number Megan don't make him suffer. I'll never forgive you if you don't. You know the hell I went through" Megan pulls out a card as Tracy is reaching for it, Megan retracts her hand and tears it up, telling her she wasn't a true friend so why should she care. That was it. Tracy jumped the bar, and plowed into Megan beating the holy hell out of her screaming, and crying, it took both bartenders to pull her off. Tracy screamed "DO THE WORLD A FAVOR AND GO KILL YOURSELF. YOU HATEFUL BITCH" The head of security runs over, grabs Megan, and tosses her out the door.

Megan lands in a heap in the parking lot. The tall man looking woman that had just tossed her ass out the door told her not to come back or the cops would be called. "Fuck you" she mutters as she climbs to her feet and swipes at the blood on her face where Tracy, little skinny, used to be her friend Tracy, busted her fucking bottom lip. The Man-wen says no my lady Fuck you and goodbye she then stands in the side doorway with arms across over her chest. The bitch had to be 6 feet if she was an inch. Megan glared, but got in her car and drives away the bitch was built like a tank had just tossed her ass in to the parking lot like a rag doll. Tracy would get hers something Tracy had said made her remember seeing another truck and it wasn't her uncle's Range Rover it looked like Logan's truck. Always the super hero or was he and the bitch sleeping together?

Megan Connor: I saw your fucking truck parked behind Angel's so you fucking her to get back me too. Or is that why you kept hanging around because you were already fucking her. Does my uncle know? Does her husband know?

Logan Connor: What NO unlike you I am not cheating on you. Angel is married, too damn young, and not my wife. Even if we aren't bound by blood I think of her as family and I don't fuck family. That seems to be your role in our little love story. If your still here go home Megan. You got fucked over by Glenn, but sending stalker text isn't going to solve anything. You're freaking out someone that hasn't done shit to deserve it.

Megan Connor: SO you remain on her side did I push you into her arms into her bed. Because you are real tight with someone you know I can't stand. You have turned your back on me, leaving me, the only difference now, is that you haven't come home in a few days. You walked out on me and have been living under my roof ever since that damn Baby shower. I begged you to stop working for her family, and you refused. You claimed to love me. But you won't stop working for them, and going around them. WHY?

Logan knew that Joshua and Jonathon were staring at him he spoke when he texted an old habit especially when he was pissed. "She's being so damn dense, I'm trying to get her to go home she realized that I was parked here and I don't think she saw you in the window because she thinks that me and Angel are here either alone or some sordid shit."

Logan Connor: I've told you before. If it was just me, if my crew of 40 plus guys and girls and their families weren't affected I would have gave it more thought, not saying I would change my mind. I thought we had got passed this. You keep bringing this up.

She calls him he answers and walks outside for a bit of privacy. Hearing her voice sent a sting through his heart. Rubbing his chest when she stops going off on him he says. "Red you make 60 grand on a good year. My business pulls in normally the other 30 grand to let us live like we have become accustomed to. You asked why I won't disable my connection with your family over something that has nothing to do with me. No this is how I see it. You asked so shut up, and listen to me for once." She falls silent "Number one and the most important thing money for our house. Even the housing projects are worth 45 grand by themselves. I did a lot more than fix a window on you uncle's home. I did more than dig out a garden over at Candy's house. The LEGNA project that you keep demanding I quit, just break contract, and throw my name in the mud, is worth over 9 million dollars. Your brother's school is second $757,000.00. I love you or I wouldn't be so torn apart that you chose now to lose your fucking mind, and cheat on me. As for me coming around them not during business hours. This is the first time that I have been around them where Janet isn't around.

Maegan says "Okay but you even saw my new nieces. You took Glenny to her wedding and to her house for Christmas that had nothing to do with business. You and Glenny just up and leave me behind.

Logan sits on the bench outside "Red I understand Mark's decision not to let Janet come back, but having that little girl under our roof was like a real family you know? No I never wanted to be her father, but having her come in my den and just ask me something or me teaching her something about something I know. Or hell just seeing her each day and watching her grow from the pint sized kid that had to deal with the loss of a parent and having someone else to depend on me to get my ass up every morning, I miss Janet that's why I'm not willing to say fuck you all to my niece and my brother in law and get embroiled in drama that make no sense to me. When Mark came and took Janet's things he was hot, and I couldn't blame him you laid your hands on his kid, and you knew how he was going to react. Mark thinks of Janet as his last piece of Nina, to hear that you hurt her rocked the stable footing on which your kinship was built. Red you overstepped you bounds, and sent your relationship with your brother into the crapper. As for me taking Glenny I take him for two reasons, one he needs to be around other kids. You work with abused and neglected children all year, when it comes to your own charges. You beat on one and scared the shit out of both of them. You get pissed off and Red you scare me. I've walked in on you grabbing Glenny up by his shirt front, yeah you put him down, but if you hurt him it would kill me. You stopped taking your medicine I don't know when but you stopped haven't you?" She says it makes her sleepy. "Then you should have said something." She asked how he knew, she acted normal with or without it, and it was saving them money because she stopped getting the script filled in May. Her running tally of bat shit crazy activity ran through his head. "Red I believe that some of this you wouldn't have done had you still been on your meds." His voice cracked he clears his throat then recounts what both Mark and Jonathon had told him about the rest of Megan's attempts to tear Janet and Mark and even Paula's world apart with lies and manipulation. She asked him would he please come home with her tonight. He wanted her away from Angel, before she got herself killed by one of Chase's people Jonathon or Joshua. If he had to he would hide her fucking keys and lock her in the house. "Only if we can go to your doctor. You can't just stop taking that shit and think everything is fine. Red you've been taking it since you were 21 years old." She says she's not crazy. "No you you're not crazy you have Manic Bipolar Disorder but you're not crazy. Where are you I'll come get you?" She tells him she's coming. Fear lanced through him if she came here she could get herself blown away or stabbed to death. "No Red please don't come here if you love me you'll not come here. You love me right?" She says yes and starts crying. "Okay it's going to be okay." she asks does he still love her "Yeah Red I do. Now where are you?" She tells him she's near his building and complements him on his work on the LEGNA project and asked was it really worth what he said. "Yes Baby it is I'm on my way I'm coming to you okay Red?" She asked was he bringing Glenny. He would not put his son's life in danger, he had no idea what shape she would be in tonight or tomorrow. It was going to be one hell of a night, because he didn't see himself sleeping around her now that he knew she wasn't on her meds. "No he's safe and right now I don't think he would be safe with us. You don't want to hurt him right? Let him play and just be a kid okay?" She says okay. "Hold on don't hang up Red Okay?" She says she won't hang up on him. "Good gal that's my Red." He mutes the phone and walks back in the house. "Uncle Jonathon a quick word please?" Joshua walked into the kitchen as Jonathon walks over to him. "I'm going to try to get her back to the house. There's something you don't know, or I don't think you would. I don't want to go into details because time is really not on my side here. Megan is sick and I really don't know what to do. I don't want her hurt, and I'm going to try my best to keep her in Houston, if I can get her home. Is there any way you can help me. I want to drive her home myself? "Jonathon says yes. "Thank you so much. I need you to stay quiet when I unmute this call." He nods and grabs his Jacket they head out and get in Logan's truck.

Jonathon listens to Logan unmute the call and speak in a calm tone to his wife. He was gripping the steering wheel so tightly if he had to turn quickly he'd snap the thing off the panel Jonathon didn't know what the fates had in store for him or his kin so he wanted to let his son know.

Jonathon M: We are going to meet up with Megan stay there until you hear from meh not get a text but hear from meh. Can't talk now, but if you want you can call mi phone and I'll send you a text to let you know its meh.

Joshua: I know it is you what is going on

Jonathon M: Logan is talking to Megan trying to keep her calm until he can reach her.

Joshua: Dad be careful and tell Logan to do the same.

Jonathon M: Will do Boy-O you keep my daughter and my lover safe. He says Lover in Gallic

Joshua: I will just keep your eyes open dad

Over at Sheldon Medical Rapture walks into Cassandra's room. He got pissed off at the sight of what some panty waist had done to her and not even had the balls to come forward. He nods at her brother he'd just got off work from the looks of him. His work boots had fresh mud on them his shirt was dirty but he was here with his little sister. Rap respected the guy for that one. "Cassy?" She looks at him and the shock that stole over her features was replaced with something else that he couldn't read. He walks to her bedside and takes her hand biting his bottom lip at the jolt that zinged through him at merely touching her. "Hey there beautiful can I steal a kiss?" she looks down at the covers and whispers he didn't have to lie she knew what she looked like now. Her brother tells her not to say that. "Well I'd have to agree with him. I don't lie to people I care about." She lifted her face to his and seeing the tears that had irritated the bruising around her eyes tore at him. "I told you last night or this morning what I see when I look at you. There's no carpet in this room but when I touched you just now, I got a shock." He sits in the chair next the bed and they talk. Her brother walks over and sits in the windowsill on his phone. He'd put in his earbuds to give them a piece of privacy. Rapture was sure the boy wasn't going to budge from this room. He wouldn't either until he had to go to the club tomorrow night. Remembering the trip to the little store downstairs he pulls something out of his leather jacket pocket. "I bought you something, close your eyes and hold out that little hand of yours." She does and he places the necklace in her hand. "Open you're your eyes baby." She does and looks down at the dog tags in her hand. She smiles then winces "Are you okay can I get you something?"

"No. Who ever said it takes less muscles to smile never had their face busted with a windshield." Cass mumbled. He chuckles. He asked did she like the writing on the things. The first tag was the date they met. The next tag said Rap and Cassy. She read the tags again. "Yes I love them." He takes them from her hand and asks can he put them on her. "Are you trying to collar me? Did I say it right?" He looks at her brother then leans in and whispers yup in her ear. "Yup I said it right, or yup that's what you are trying to do?" He leans back his big frame taking up the stuffed chair and says both in his low drawl that sent a jolt through her making her wince from the irregular muscle movement. He looks alarmed and starts to apologize. "Stop don't apologize. I think it's cool or you know. Like you want me as part of your world. I like you Rap, I like you more than I probably should."

"Someone has been doing her research on my ass, or at least my club. I just hope you didn't run out and buy 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not that fucked up. I work there and I enjoy playing. Not going to do anything but make your eyes roll back in pleasure. You're not my sub you're my woman, and I know the difference. If you ever come to work with me I want every one of them fuckers to know you are off limits."

It is Tuesday the 30th the next morning Jonathon sits in his home office. Gloria knocks and pokes her head in asking him was he hungry. "I'd love something did you want me to help you?" She smiles and says no but he could fire up that monster of an in-wall coffee machine if he liked, because she could use a cup. "That I can." Jonathon walks into the kitchen and starts his coffee, he leans on the counter just looking around at the things Logan had added to the old kitchen making it more like his Ireland home. Where the kitchen first had been adorned with wood it was now replaced with black steel and chrome and in-wall units all around, even the black Subzero refrigerator was in-wall. Thinking about last night made him on impulse walk over and stop Gloria from mixing batter and kiss her. Her eyes held question "I'm sorry for scaring you last night. I wanted Megan away from here. I love my niece, but my love for mi baby girl trumps that with no comparison." She tells him she was worried because one while he and his son and his nephew were in the living room, the next thing his son was in the kitchen, as if he were on sentinel duty. She asked what happened when he got there. "Logan persuaded her to let him drive her home in her car. I called ahead and had Ivey transit follow Logan in his truck, but I had to wait for them to get there, When I called I wanted to make sure that Megan and Logan were well on their way out of the area. Thank you for keeping my girl calm and keeping my son sane in my absence. It means a great deal to meh."

Gloria looks into her lover's eyes. "I couldn't sit back and watch your baby girl worry herself. She likes cooking and though she didn't eat much at the very least the exercise of cooking did what it does for me, it gave her thoughts another pattern to follow, instead of worrying if your niece was going to come here. John I feel as though Joshua, Angel and the young male inside of her is already my own. I wouldn't sit back and watch my own young suffer if I had them, and it was very hard keeping silent yesterday watching her torment play all over her face, and in her body language."

Jonathon lets her in on a secret that really wasn't a secret to anyone that knew his children he'd learned it about his girl and his son. "Gloria, Angel and Joshua trust you and with their trust comes their love. Now that she isn't fretting over whether I'll up and run off, or hold her responsible for the outcome of my relationship, she is more herself around us both. Joshua is protective of my girl, no matter who the person is, a trait in him that I respect greatly, and even his attitude around you is more relaxed. My girl knew what I am as far as my title as her father, but she is just now beginning to realize who I am, and what I'm about." They cook a small breakfast and head out to LEGNA Grandville the building was cleared by the inspectors and ready for set up as far as equipment and furniture.

Over at Ivey Mansion Joshua lays with Angel. Yesterday was crazy the sun woke him this morning, so he'd got up and shut the curtains. He was glad, Logan was able to get Megan back in her cage last night. He'd meant what he said to Logan, If Megan went as far as to break the order and come at his wife, he'd stop her in any way he could. He didn't give a fuck what Megan's latest episode was about, Megan's tendency to do shit then say she was sorry afterwards there was no amount of I'm sorry that would save her life, if anything happened to his wife or his child because of her antics. Angel turns over in her sleep and lays on him, he knew she was exhausted, by the time they got home last night after getting word that Logan had taken Megan in her car and were on the highway. Joshua waited until his dad got home and then he and his wife came home. When they got here Angel went to bed, he'd been too wired to sleep and said he'd wait up for Sophie. His sister had returned a little after they had. Sophie and he both had been restless, and angry, and spoke about the day's events. When Joshua came into this bedroom and saw Angel in the throes of a nightmare, he'd ran over to the bed before she threw herself out of it, luckily she collided with him not the floor, he was able to talk to her, and reassure her that she was safe, she soon calmed back down. Yesterday had sent their emotions through a meat grinder so he wasn't surprised that her subconscious wanted a turn. He drifts back off to sleep protectively wrapped around his mate.

Logan sat with Megan until she talked herself out. She'd fought with Tracy but wouldn't tell him why. Whatever it was it must have been something big, Tracy had gave Megan a black eye and a busted lip. Tracy was timid usually. She'd been through a lot of shit since high school. When he was sure Megan was asleep he couldn't sit in their bed a minute longer. Yeah she'd finally changed the sheets, but this room just didn't do it for him anymore. Last night was rough, Logan knew sleep wasn't an option as he sits in his garage. He called her doctor but got no answer. He'd fixed and cleaned every bike in his collection. He knew he needed to go to sleep, but Megan had been in a downswing last night, and not knowing when she would be in an upswing or how bad it could get without her medicine, scared him shitless. With her there was no leveling out, which was what put her Bipolar disorder in the manic category. He had to get sleep. He hadn't pulled an all-nighter since, hell since Glenny first moved in with them from being released from the hospital. He wouldn't lock her in the house but he wouldn't make it easy for her to up and leave either. He gets up from his work bench covers his bikes, takes the battery out of her car and the minivan, and hides them. Getting in his truck in the carport out back he locks the doors and lays down in the backseat of the cab. The windows with the exception of the front window were heavily tinted. Within minutes of closing his eyes sleep takes him.

Hours later, Megan wakes and jumps from the bed as if it had bit her. "Logan?" She walks into their bathroom he wasn't there. In minutes she searched the house. Grabbing her keys she dashes out to her car, put's the key in, and nothing happens. Looking around she runs to the minivan, puts in her key same deal nothing happens. Walking pass the bikes he'd neglected to fix. She sees his truck out in the carport. A smirk lights her face. If you drive his truck he'll be mad at you? "He'll live" Megan says to no one and goes in search of her copy of his remote control key to the truck. She had to find him, what if he was gone for good? No he would have taken his truck, it is his baby. She missed her baby, she was good Logan was worried that she would hurt her son. She had to prove to him that she didn't need her meds to raise her son, her mother didn't need meds to raise her or Mark. Her remote to his truck was only for emergencies. Her car wouldn't start and the Minivan wouldn't either. If he'd fixed her damn Harley she could ride it but no, he only fixed the tire on his bike and rode away. That bike was missing so maybe he just went for a ride. What if he crashed what if he's out there somewhere hurt. She loves him so much. You love him some much you hurt him, and you keep hurting him, you saw the look in his eyes last night. Megan looks at the little chain that Logan had given her so long ago, in her scuffle with Tracy one of the pieces had broken off. He'd told her she was the other half of his heart. "Tracy broke his heart." Megan starts crying while staring at the broken jewelry. She had to find him, she just had to find her Logan.

Over at the hospital Joshua called and said Angel was tired and they had a long night but he would come up and check on her later. Their parents were on their way. Bradley had went to work saying Logan had sent him a text telling him to go and make sure his latest job was still standing. Bradley promised to come back tonight. Rapture heads to his club. Cassandra closes her eyes but quickly opens them at the sound of her door easing open "Mom, Daddy?" Chadwick was in her room. He just walked in. "You"

Chad walks closer to the bed. "Don't look so surprised. I want you back Cassandra. I know you are probably still mad at me, and I get that, but I want to give us another try." She just sat there staring at him. He walks closer and she puts up a hand, saying that 5 feet away was more than close enough. He keeps walking and takes her hand. The door opens and a big ass biker looking dude comes walking in saying he left his phone charger. The next words from his mouth were who are you? "I'm her husband and you are?" Cassandra says Ex Husband, and that he was just leaving. Chadwick didn't like being dismissed, he hadn't snuck onto this floor for nothing, he wanted to talk to his wife but sometimes, you had to know when to hit the shadows the biker guy looked like he could fucking eat him, and have room for seconds. Chadwick wasn't really into someone messing up his face. He walks pass the guy looks back at Cassandra. He'd give her a chance. "You really want me gone?" She nods "Fine, I just wanted to talk to you. I see it's too late." He walks out and into one of the stairwells. He'd tried direct, now for force. He didn't want to end up looking like Wendell all beat up, heck he worked in television. He'd fought Bradley plenty of times, and even won once or twice, but Bradley was 6'2 and about 200 pounds, the guy in that room was pushing 7 feet and had to weigh close to, if not slightly over 300 pounds. His fucking hands were huge balled into fist at his sides, they looked like two cantaloupes, and from the bruising on them knuckles the guy didn't mind laying people out. He gets in his car and heads towards Pyramid.

Rapture watched Cassy she looked at her hand that her ex had been holding when he'd came back. If he didn't say what was on his mind he wouldn't know and it would drive him insane. "Cassy did you send him away on my account?" She looked up at him and told him another truth about her past with lover boy, and it made him want to go knock the boy's head into a wall, see how he liked being the weaker one in a fight for a change. She said she was glad he returned when he did, because the fucker had been harassing her before Christmas and even on Christmas. Though he wouldn't need much of a reason to pound the guy into mulch he asked "Do you think he done it?" she thought about it and says she doesn't know. "I can tell you're unnerved about that jackass visiting you. If you want me to stay I'll stay. I just didn't want to freak out your parent's like I did your brother." As if on cue Sally and Michael walk in, and Sally glares at him. Rap gets up and offers her his seat. Cassandra introduces him as her friend. The older man's blue stare didn't seem to buy it. Joshua soon walks in and is introduced as well. "So you're the brother that owns the club." The fellow club owner seemed guarded as he says he remembered seeing Rap with Cass a few nights ago.

Authors Note: Thanks to my beta readers that I am able to get more chapters out quicker. Last year has been one heck of a ride have an awesome New Year. :End Note