Thanks so much for the reviews, sorry guys no smut yet.. don't kill me,lol.

Sammy turned red in the face and started stuttering. "I I I ..."

Mark smiled and bent to kiss her, it wasn't a long or hard kiss, but it still set her heart to racing. When he lifted his head, he lifted her chin. "Not like that, just sleep, we'll leave the door open so we can here Toby, if she decides to try anything cute."

Sammy looked up at him. "Just sleep?"

Mark leaned back keeping his arm around her. "Well I cant promise I wont kiss you, but I'm a big boy, I can control myself, kiss a little and sleep."

Sammy was confused and Mark saw it on her face. "I'm attracted to you Sammy, I get the feeling, you have similar feelings?"

Sammy nodded. "Its just, well its been a while since I had sex." She almost whispered.

Mark rubbed her arm. "How Long?"

Sammy sighed and looked down. "Ten years."

Mark gave her a look. "There a reason why?"

Sammy squirmed, she hated talking about the stuff in her past. Mark lifted her in his lap, she was always amazed that she didn't have any fear of this big man. "Shorty you can tell me anything, you know that."

Sammy leaned on his chest and Mark rubbed her curly head letting the curls slip through his fingers. "I was engaged to a man, I thought I loved him, now I'm not so sure, anyway my parents paid him off to stay away from me."

Mark didn't comment just let her take her time. "A couple of months later, he came back, he tried to explain, said he needed the money, and said we could still see each other, just we couldn't let anyone know, what he really meant was we could have sex..."

Mark kept his one arm wrapped firmly around her, his other hand moving down to rub her neck, massaging , trying to relax her. "I told him to get lost, that I hated him, he got mad, he grabbed me..." She swallowed hard and Mark rubbed her back he could sense her pain. "He raped me."

Mark felt the anger well up in him, but he tamped it down. "I'm sorry Shorty."

Sammy didn't cry, she had shed so many tears over the years over it, she wasn't sure she could cry anymore, she was tired of crying over Kent. Mark wrapped both arms around her. "If you're not ready for kissing, well hell anything, thats fine, just tell me to back off."

Sammy lifted her head and smiled at Mark. "I'm not scared of you, the thought of kissing you doesn't scare me."

Mark smiled and bent to brush their lips together. "Good."

True to his word, Mark didn't nothing more than kiss her senseless, although it went on for a while, and by the time, he finished she felt the his desire pressed firmly against her hip. "I'm sorry Mark." She said from the shelter of his big arms.

"I'm a big boy, not gonna die cause I go to sleep with a hard on, now go to sleep." he growled softly in her ear.

Sammy sighed, yeah it wasn't his fault she was a basket case who couldn't be normal. "Stop it." he barked.

Mark sighed and pulled her closer kissing her ear. "Thinking bad stuff about yourself, I can practically here your wheels turning."

Sammy ran her hands over his big arms that were wrapped around her. "Mark?"

"Yeah." He asked.

"Have you always been so bossy?" Sammy asked grinning.

Mark nipped at her neck causing her to squeal. "Yes, always..I'm always in charge, I expect people to do what I say, and if you don't close your eyes and go to sleep, I'm going to spank that cute butt of yours."

Sammy laughed and pushed back closer to him and closed her eyes. "Okay bossy."

Mark kissed her cheek. "Good girl."

The next morning Sammy and Mark fixed breakfast, Toby seemed pretty quite, but she ate and then helped Mark wash the dishes up while Sammy went and got dressed, she wanted to get the paperwork done and out of the way so she could get Toby signed up for school.

Mark looked at Toby."Go get dressed, I'm taking you to Scott's."

Toby ran out of the room down the hallway to get dressed, she never had so many clothes in her life, she picked out denim shorts and a blue tank top and went to the closet and grabbed a pair of the flip flops Sammy had got for her. Sammy came in smiling. "Here let me fix your hair."

Toby flopped on the bed and let Sammy brush her hair and put it in a ponytail. "Okay all done."

They walked down to the living room and Mark jumped up. "C'mon Toby, lets go, "I'l be back in a few and we'll go." Mark said.

Sammy nodded and gave Toby a hug. "We wont be gone to long, okay?"

Toby nodded and followed Mark out to the truck and Sammy sat down at her laptop, she decided to work until Mark got back, she was going to have to do some work tonight, she had been so busy the last couple of days she hadn't even thought about work.

Mark nudged the reluctant girl in the door, she kept her eyes on the floor. Kevin urged her in. "C'mon in Toby."

Toby peeked up at the big man and walked in further. Mia smiled at her from the couch. "Hello Toby."

"Hi." She said looking around.

Kevin went to get Seth who came out looking none to happy. Mark put his hand on Toby's shoulder, reminding her why she was here. Toby sighed and looked at Seth. "I'm sorry I called you names, and I'm sorry I ruined your sandcastle."

Seth sighed, she went first he guessed he could say sorry too. "Sorry I called you names."

Kevin nodded. "Now I think you two can learn to get along, okay?"

"Yes sir." Seth said although he didn't look convinced.

Toby nodded, but she didn't think Seth wanted to be her friend. Seth ran over to Mark. "Uncle Mark will you take me and Emma to the boardwalk tonight?"

Mark bent down in front of Seth. "Maybe, I got some stuff to do today, I'll call your dad this afternoon and let him know."

Seth hugged Mark and ran off to his room. "I gotta get going, I'll talk to you guys later."

Toby followed Mark out, she was nervous about going to Scott's, he was nice, but what if his daughter hated her.

Mark looked down at the girl dragging her feet. "Pick up your feet kid."

Toby just sighed and followed him next door to Scott's. Bailey opened the door and smiled at Toby. "You must be Toby, come on in."

Toby smiled because she seemed so nice, just like Scott. "C'mon." She said taking the girls hand. "Scott and Emma are in the kitchen."

Toby looked at Mark and he nodded and followed the two. Scott and Emma were having breakfast and Emma looked up and smiled at the girl. "Hey, I'm Emma." She said grinning at the girl.

Toby was surprised, she had ruined her sandcastle, why was she being nice to her?

"I'm Toby."

Scott smiled at the little girl. "You hungry Toby?"

She shook her head. "No thank you."

Bailey took Toby's hand. "Why don't I take you and show you my studio, I write children's books, I think you'll like it, Emma when you get done, come on back, you two can play."

Emma nodded. "Okay Mama."

Mark looked at Scott. We'll be back soon, hopefully, shouldn't take more than a couple of hours."

"Take your time, she'll be fine." Scott said.

Mark left he just hoped the kid was on her best behavior, he didn't trust the nice act she was putting on.

Toby smiled as she ate the ice cream cone, her and Emma sat side by side on a wood bench eating. Scott sat on the other end reading a newspaper while they ate. "Your daddy is nice, so is your Mommy."

Emma smiled and rubbed her hand over her mouth to get the ice cream off. "Yeah, I have the best mommy and daddy, but they can be you Uncle and Auntie too."

Toby smiled, Bailey and Scott were so nice to her and so was Emma. "I'm sorry I ruined your sandcastle that day, I was just mad, and ..."

The girl trailed off and Emma just smiled. "Its okay, sometimes I get mad and do bad stuff, so does Seth, its okay, I still want you to be my friend."

Toby smiled. "I wanna be your friend too."

Scott sat the paper down. "Okay girls, you done?"

Both girls hopped up and took Scott's hands. "Yes."

"Well I guess we can go home, Mark and Sammy should be back, and I think they want to get you registered for school."

Toby frowned. "I don't wanna go to school."

Emma looked over at Toby. "Its fun, I promise, what grade are you in?"

Toby shrugged. "I never been to school, I'm six, my birthday was last month."

Scott looked down at Toby. "You'll probably be in Kindergarten, you'll like it and that class is right across from Emma, you can play together at recess."

Toby looked up at Scott." Really?"

He nodded and squeezed her hand. "Yep, I promise you'll love it." Toby lowered her head, she was a dummy, she didn't know how to read or write or nothing.

Scott saw the look on her face and he stopped and bent down in front of her. "Whats wrong?"

Emma looked at her new friend with concern. Toby shrugged. "I'm stupid, I cant read or nothing."

Scott lifted her chin. "Don't ever say that, you're not stupid, everyone has to learn, Sammy is going to help you, Mark too, and Me and Bailey, even Emma okay?"

Toby looked up at Scott. "Okay."

Emma hugged her knew friend. "I know my numbers and Abc's I can write my name, I'll help."

Toby was happy, she was glad Sammy had found her, she just hoped she got to stay here."

Mark and Sammy picked Toby up at noon and took her home, with plans to register for school the next day, since it was Sunday.

Mark retreated to his side of the house and Sammy sat down with Toby and they worked on teaching her to write her ABC's and how to spell her name.

Toby was a quick learner and Sammy hugged her. "You're doing so good Toby."

The little girl hugged her back. "Thank you for teaching me."

The two worked for a couple of hours then stopped to get a snack. Sammy fixed them peanut butter sandwiches and they had milk.

Mark walked in a few minutes later, he stopped to look at Toby's work on her letter. "You're doing good kid, you keep practicing."

Toby flushed under his praise, she didn't know why she cared, Mark was mean, she didn't care what Sammy said, he didn't even like her she could tell. "I'm going out for the evening, want me to bring you too dinner back?"

Sammy shook her head. "I'll order Pizza, I have to work, I'm going to set Toby up on my PC, while I work on my laptop, theres lot of good web sites that help with reading and stuff for her age."

Mark nodded and bent and kissed Sammy gently. "I'll be back around nine, okay?"

Sammy nodded and she got up putting the plates in the sink. "Let's get you set up, I have to get some work done today."

Mark walked along the boardwalk, the kids were loaded down with toys Mark had won them, Emma ran over and smiled up at him. "Uncle Mark can we have cotton Candy?"

"Don't you think you two have had enough sugar? He said thinking of all the candy he had fed them.

Emma pouted her bottom lip out. "Pretty please?"

"Fine." Mark walked over and got two cotton candy's for the kids, they laid there stuff down and sat down on the bench.

"Uncle Mark why didn't you bring Toby? Emma asked.

Mark had thought about it, but Toby could be a smart mouth , he didn't feel like dealing with that tonight, these two kids were practically family and while any kid got on his nerves after a while, he and Scott and Kevin were like brothers these kid were his family, besides Seth and Toby didn't really like each other, he knew the two would most likely fight if he had brought Toby along.

Mark just shrugged.

Seth never one to keep his opinions to himself spoke up. "She's a brat, you should see the fit she threw at Aunt Sammy's, besides she dumb."

Mark gave Seth a look. "Thats enough boy, Toby's not perfect, neither are you, and she's not dumb, how'd you like it if someone called you dumb."

Seth looked away, he didn't want Mark to be mad at him, but Toby was a brat.

Emma shook her head. "Seth I like her and you better not be mean to her."

Seth sighed. "Fine, I'll be nice."

Emma smiled and hugged him. "Good."

Mark walked in a little after nine, he found Sammy on the computer working and Toby was laying on the couch watching TV. "Past your bedtime, go take a bath and get ready for bed." Mark said and watched the girl scamper off.

Mark walked over and kissed Sammy on the cheek. "Get any work done?'

She nodded smiling up at him. "Yeah, she was good, she played on the computer , practiced her letters for a while, and then we had dinner."

"Good, I'm going to go get a shower and watch TV, when you're done working come on over."

Sammy nodded and buried her head back in her work.

Mark waited a half hour and went to check on Toby, he knew when Sammy got in her work, she barely lifted her head, he found her in her bedroom, trying to brush her wet hair, Mark grabbed a towel and helped her dry it, and brushed it out for her. "Okay, in the bed, you have to get up early tomorrow."

"I'm not sleepy." She protested.

Mark pulled back the covers on the bed. "Get in." Mark wasn't going to waste time arguing with a little kid."

Toby wasn't happy at all, everything was fine till he came home. "But I don't want to, I wanna watch TV..."

Mark lifted her and laid her in the bed. "Now stay there, I mean it, its bedtime."

Toby turned on her side and tears pricked her eyes, she wished Sammy was the on that had put her to bed, she felt him pull the covers over her and she rubbed her eyes, wiping the tears away.

Toby heard him leave and flipped over on her back, she wished he was nicer, he just barked orders all the time, he never talked to her. Toby sighed, he just didn't like her.