Author Notes: Here is another chapter it didn't end where I wanted it to but due to time factor and something else that I am trying to work out I decided to break this ride home into most likely four chapters. Two for each car but that will depend on how the writing goes tomorrow. It might only be two or three Chapters. But I thought being some one has been reviewing so nicely for me and asking for more that I would give you what I have. Also I must be going blind as I am getting reviews about typos. I am not seeing more then one or two as is the one checking it for me and even my spell checker isn't. Though grammar is not my friend and never has been either. Also I write as I talk. So if there are typos sorry but I write at night after being up all day and am working on getting out as much as I can every night. So please forgive me, as writing is my passion but my family is my life. Please Read and Review because I love you guys for reading and love the reviews to help me know if it any good.

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Cat Lea Takersdarkone

Four

" Glen who is behind the wheel of Mark truck smiles over at Jesse who told him to head South down Mannheim Road back past the Allstate Arena and over to Higgins Road which is only about a mile away. She then tells Glen that he should take a right, then stay on Higgins Road, till she directed him else where when the time comes, then they would go into the side streets to her and Stevie house. As they drive pass the Allstate Arena the last of theWWE trucks were starting to pull out to head toward their next destination. Glen reaches out and takes Jesse hand. She slides over closer to him and holds his hand back. Glen glances in the mirror making sure that Mark is behind him in Stevie Bird. Jesse looks back over her shoulder to see if she can see Stevie and frowns cause it looks like she has her eyes closed.."

She will be all right with Mark he will get her home safely though he is worried about her having a concussion. Thinks he should have made her go to the hospital to be checked over.

I am betting she does too. Not Glen that it is her first unfortunately or most likely her last in less she can change her luck around. But truth is I doubted if he could have made her go to the hospital she hates them and has to be dying to go. Shit if you guys hadn't been there her and I, but mostly her she would have been in a shit more of trouble.

Well glad we were there then and Jesse, he a good guy, Mark is. He hates to ever see a lady being hit makes the protector in him come out. He never hit a woman in his life like that punk.

Is he Glen? Is he really a nice guy? And trouble is right now I think she needs a protector more then she is even letting on to me about. But not one for just one night either though I guess I should be glad she let Mark in for the night.

You never know what will happen Jesse, I know Mark and he taken with her and it not just the protecting thing either. I think he really likes her a lot. Hell I like her a lot but in a different way.

" Glen looks at her and smiles. Jesse smiles a little and shakes her head thinking about what Glen has said. "

Stevie is taken with him too Glen cause when he took her hand while we were heading to the car normally she would have pulled away. She not one for letting people touch her. Hell she was nervous just shaking you two hands. Though with the size of you two so was I. But then she also held his hand tightly sitting on her car too. So I say for some reason she is taken with Tex too. But I can understand that because I am kind of like taken with you, my very tall Southern friend.

" Glen smile a wide grin at Jesse who smiles back just as widely winks up at him and blushing a little. "

Well the way I see that then that a good thing, for all of us.

Yeah My Southern Gentleman why is that?

Well give us more of a reason to maybe hang around Chicago for a few days before heading back to Texas. .

Oh really are you thinking about doing that?

Maybe guess it would depend on Mark and if you would have any time to spend with me and if Stevie has any to spend with Mark?

Well I can't answer for Stevie but I do know she will just be home like always all week. She doesn't have a buying trip this week and truth is that is about the only time she leaves the house. Though with Stevie, after all of this trouble I'm not sure if any one can get her out for a while again. And you are very lucky My Southern Gentleman because I don't have anything I can't do from my computer right now. So I will have time for you if you are serious about sticking around Chicago some.

Well then I guess I will have to talk to Mark and see what he is planning.

All right and maybe I can talk to Stevie.

And then Mark and I just have to find a hotel cause with the hour it is now there no sense checking into the room that we where supposed to last night. In less the room is open for a few more days. Then it might be worth it.

Why don't you both stay with Stevie and me. There like four other bedrooms and it the least we could do. And then hell maybe Stevie and I could show you and Mark a little of Chicago. If we can get Stevie out of the house that is we could show you around Chicago. She a big Chicago nut really knows where everything is.

That sweet Jesse but we wouldn't want you two to feel put out.

We wouldn't and hell after all you and Mark did for us that the least we can do. And even if you don't decide to stay at least crash for a few hours at our place so that you can get some rest before heading out.

That sounds good but maybe we should check with Stevie and Mark first.

All right Glen we will but I bet it will be fine with Stevie. Just stay out of her office because that the one place she goes nuts about. But then with all the shit she has in there and can go in an pick anything up from where it at I guess she got it organized,

Sure. We will talk to them and if we stay I promise to stay out of her office.

Hey Glen can I ask you some thing out right?

Sure Jesse what?

Instead of you and I playing this lets pretend to ask questions about each other and those two without trying to sound like we are asking them could we just do it out right and trade a little info on the two of them and each other. Because something tells me your just as protective of Mark as I am with Stevie.

" Glen smiles and nods his eyes looking over at her. She is looking back at him with a smile of her own. "

That sounds goodbecause yes I am protective of Mark and wouldn't want him hurt in any way that I could stop. He has had enough of that these last few years.

I understand that because Stevie has too. And I have a little but nothing like her. So you be totally honest with me about him and you Glen and I will be totallyhonest about Stevie and me.

Now that sounds fair Jesse and I like that you are just open about the things you want. I like that kind of how I am too.

Good then ask away about Stevie first and then I will ask about Mark. Then we can get to us but we have to make it quick because we only have a few more miles.

All right Jesse then I thinks that we need to make them important ones.

I think your right Glen.

So Jesse, have you and Stevie known each other long?

Yes Glen, we have know each other since we where kids. We went to school together when my Dad was stationed in Chicago for about two years. Back when we were like 11 years old. Well I guess I was 11 she is two years younger then me but bright as hell. So she would have been about 9. She was double promoted and was doing classes in my grade. Most the kids didn't like her cause she kicked most our asses on test and did her homework when most of us were into boys or girls instead of homework. But she and I became friends when she helped me with a project and when I realized her home life was why she worked as hard as she did on grade.

Oh. Wasn't a good one?

Hell mine was peaches and cream next to hers and my old man is a General in this mans army now. And me and my 7 brothers and sisters though he could be rough as hell. But nothing at all like her old man. No her Dad at that time was a tough ass Chicago cop. The kind you really didn't want to go up against in a dark alley. Because he used his fist to get his point across when he wanted a point made. And he was like that with his family as well as on the streets.

Wow so she a cops kid?

Sure is or was that kind of one reason she didn't want to deal with the cops this evening or this morning I should say. She doesn't like cops too much but between her Dad and her 1st ex-husband I don't blame her. What she said earlier about watching her dad beat her mother to death when she was a kid wasn't a lie. He is doing time down state in Joliet State Correction Facility in Joliet Illinois.

Wow now that got to be tough on a kid.

Tough not the word but Stevie put it away like she does every thing that goes wrong in her life. She lost her mom when she was 11 after watching her dad do it, got separated from her brother who is 3 years younger then her. She had to go live with her mother sister who pretty much is a psycho bitch. Her brother got shipped to her father brother, which turned him out a lot like his dad. He is doing time in Statesville Prison down in Southern Illinois for drug charges and murdering some one. And I moved away because my father got transferred four months later. She kind of closed off put everything into her school work till she met the love of her life. Or so she thought he was that. We stayed friends since then and I wrote or I called her all the time from where ever we got shipped with the army. Stevie and I never lost our friendship and when we where both in our twenties renewed it.

So she has been divorced twice?

Yes she has been divorced twice. She got married to the first one when she was just sixteen. Just out of high school because she graduated early. He was or I should say is a Chicago Cop and she though the best man in the world. He feed her all kind of bullshit about helping her go to college and be something. Till she married the bastard and found out he was just like her old man. The day she married him she became his property. And for a wedding present she got a black eye and a broken arm.

Damn.

Yeah Glen damn is right she doesn't have a good track record with picking guys as you can see with Johnny. She stayed with her first till she was twenty-one and couldn't take it any more and knew it was get out or end in the same fate as her mother. That is when she decided to not be a victim of any ones any more. She divorced him took the money she got in the divorce and went to college to learn to design jewelry and cut stones. She then put the money back in the bank and never touched it again.

Well good for her then sounds like she had her feet planted on the ground firmly.

Yeah it was till she met the second man of her dreams. He walked into the Jewelry store she was a stone cutter for. She was twenty-five and actually had just started her organizing people life business besides being one of the top stone cutters at her age. He forged an interest in what she did till he got what he wanted. That was a wife, he married her before her twenty-six birthday to do his bidding and be at his beck and call. Stevie has a reason to not likingthe rich and famous because her second husband was just that but she never fit in he felt. And then he decided that all she was after was his money and power. She didn't want either all she wanted was to be loved and maybe a kid or two. He started to turn physical but went off on a business trip to Japan for almost five months. Left her here almost like a prisoner in his fancy Downtown condo she couldn't do anything without him knowing about it or his permission to do it. That was about a year after they where married. He came back about the year and a half anniversary.

" Glen can see the tears in her eyes and hold her hand tighter. She holds on and whisper. "

She was excited about his return because the night before he left I guess he had taken her or call it raped because she said no but he did any way. But well he left her pregnant so she forgave him. She didn't tell him over the phone and no one else did.

Well when he seen she was he flipped out. He accused her of sleeping with everyone from the desk clerk to the driver. She tried to tell him it was his and that she had never been with anyone even before they where married since her first husband but he wouldn't listen. He told her all she wanted was his money and that she would never get it. She told him stick his money, his fame and his dick up his ass she was leaving. She called me to come and get her. By the time I got there the ambulance was there already he beat her so bad she lost the baby. He was arrested but because of his fame and money he didn't get time they gave her all kinds of money and houses which she didn't want any thing to do with. All she wanted was the divorce. So by the time she was twenty-eight she been married and divorced twice. She sold all the property they gave her and the money she got along with the cash is sitting in a bank along with the amount she got from her first marriage.

Wow I gather that was the talk about only money that counts is what she earns?

Sure is Glen.

How did she get over it all?

She didn't but she did what Stevie has always done she put it away and started her Jewelry design business and pretty much stays in the house and to her self. It was about that time that we bought the house we live in. Her business took off because she is good at what she does and she could do so much more but she won't because it would mean coming out of the house and meeting those rich and famous people. So in a lot of ways she a almost 30 year old woman who is scared of the world.

How did she meet this Johnny person if she doesn't go out?

His mother is a client of hers. They hit it off and she though he was a nice guy to he put her in the hospital. She has been trying to get rid of him since. But it not working as you can see with him doing what he did tonight.

Well maybe he will get the hint now?

I hope Glen but I wouldn't bet on it.

How long have you and Stevie been living together?

Just about two years since my divorce and her where finalized..

So you're divorced too?

Yes I am Glen long story short on that one is I married a man who wanted a trophy wife and not one with brains who wanted her own career. And I didn't go through 7 years of schooling to throw it away on him. He couldn't take the fact that I travel some times and wasn't there for him at home.

So what else will you tell me about yourself?

" She grins at him and shakes a finger at him. "

Hey now buddy it my turn now cause I want to know about Mark and if we don't have time I am betting you can find out what you need to know about me from Mark. As I know Stevie is just as protective of me as I am of her and I am figuring Mark is of you too. So I am betting they are talking about us right now too.

" Glen laughs cause he has no doubt that they are either. He really likes Jesse and Stevie and is hoping Mark is having the same feelings. He grins over at her and then pulls her closer and kisses her softly and quickly. This causes him to make a little swerve in the road as he took his eyes off the road for a second. Jesse who likes Glen a lot curls to him and looks up at him waiting. "