These characters belong to Janet I am just borrowing them for my amusement. Although I would love to keep Ranger and the merry men for myself!
This story does contain violence, and touches on dark subject matters. This story is not friendly to Morelli or Helen Plum so for Cupcake fans you have been warned.
Chapter 21: Repercussions
SPOV
I woke up early much earlier than normal. Carlos was still sleep with me half laying on him and half off. How he could sleep with me practically laying on top of him was far beyond what I could imagine. You would think with my weight on his chest it would make it hard for him to breath but this seem to be the way he preferred for us to sleep as every time I woke up we were in this position.
Looking down I could see his morning wood and it made my hormones come to life. Last night had been amazing. We made love in the dining room on the dining room table. Smiling at the memory I couldn't help but think I no longer had bad memories when it came to dining room tables. Actually quite the opposite I now wondered if I would ever be able to look at them and not blush with the memory of Carlos and I making love to each other on one.
I thought I would wake Carlos up a little differently this morning. Instead of his normal alarm clock going off I would give him a way better wake up call.
Being very careful not to wake him I retreat off of his chest and lower myself until my head is even with his groin. I knew the minute I touched him he would be wake up so I had to spring fairly quickly because I wanted his waking image to be of me tasting him of me taking him in my mouth.
I briefly wondered if he would like it, if he would want me to do this. This would definitely be something new for me sort of like the dining room table last night. I have never woken up and done something like this. I mean I have had morning sex but it has always been started by the guy not me. See I told you Carlos was turning me into a sex fiend.
Before I talked myself out of it I moved in and placed my lips around his enlarged cock. He immediately came awake with a jerk and then a gasp as he felt what I was doing to him.
I heard "Babe" in a sort of breathy voice. I took that to mean holy fuck that feels great please don't stop. I am not really sure what it meant but when his hand fisted in my curls I knew I was pretty close. With a smile and a moan from me I continued to give my lover his wake up call until I had him screaming my name and shooting his juices down the back of my throat.
I raised up smiling into his beautiful face "Morning Batman, I thought I would be your morning wakeup call this morning." He smiled back at me reaching for me pulling me to him
"Morning Babe you can be my morning wakeup call any morning you would like if that is how you are planning on waking me up." Then his lips crashed down on mine as he turned us on the bed me on the bottom and him on top coming up for air he said "so long as you don't mind if I repay you the favor." As he was slinking his way down my body leaving scorched marks behind in the wake of his tongue. I couldn't help but think mind? Did I have mind? How could I mind if I didn't have a mind? Now that was definitely something to ponder on a rainy day.
Damn what this man could do to me with a single touch it should be illegal.
RPOV
My wakeup call was mind blowing. My Babe never stopped surprising me and this morning when I felt her lips on me when I woke up it was pure pleasure. Last night had been wonderful from her waiting for me in her nightie to making love to her on the dining room table to the several times we made love before caving into sleep. I thought she would be tired that she would want to sleep and even feared it would interfere with her training today but nothing could be further from the truth she was energized this morning.
Whatever it was I would take it. I loved it when she came on to me. It made me know that she wanted me as bad as I wanted her. That she could no more keep her hands and mouth off of me than I could keep my hands and mouth off of her and it made me feel like a God.
Quickly showering and getting dressed I headed down to my office. I had to take care of the newbies. They should still be at their desks. They hadn't figured out how to call me from their desk phones I briefly wondered if they even finished the document I requested. I am sure it wasn't without an extreme headache if they had.
I walked out onto the fifth floor and made my way back to the cubicles. I went straight to the newbies cubicles to see what their status was. I walked up behind them neither of them were aware I was even there. I just stand and observe them for a few minutes.
Doug was still struggling with the document cussing under his breath because he has to go searching for each and every letter. It appears that Mike has completed his document or has just given up and is sitting there waiting for further instructions.
Lester walked up and stood beside me smiling as he was watching Doug struggle to type a word. Neither of the guys were aware that Lester has joined me or even aware that I have been standing here. One would think eventually they would get a feeling that someone was watching them and turn and look but that hasn't happened yet. They are definitely not Rangeman material.
I can't help but to mess with them. So in my no nonsense voice I loudly bark "Report". Both men jump. Holy shit did we just hire a bunch of fucking school girls? They look at me wide eyed as if they don't know what to say or do.
Leave it up to Lester to have something to say "Uh guys when Ranger asks you to report he means for you to tell him your status. You need to speak not stand there staring at him with bug eyes and opened mouths. Besides neither of you have brushed your teeth today so nobody wants to smell your morning breath." Sometimes I wonder how small of a box I could get away with when I ship his ass.
Their mouths snap shut but they still aren't talking. What the fuck am I waiting on? I am not going to ask them again. I raise my eyebrow I am slowly losing my patients with these dumb fuckers. Lester can tell my patients is getting thin I have been standing here now waiting for them to talk I didn't break their fucking jaw last night they are able to talk. I see the fear in their eyes and I can smell the fear rolling off of their body they wrecked with it.
Tank walked up seeing our little party he decided to join in. I saw the two swallow hard.
Lester spoke up again "I suggest you two dumb fuckers start talking or you will be back on the mats and we don't need to see another round of your pitiful display of fighting skills again this morning." Leave it to my cousin. I knew he was excited to hear how they worked at their desk with all the stuff Stephanie and him had done to their desk.
Mike spoke up first after swallowing so hard I thought he was going to swallow his own tongue. "I have finished the document you request sir. I tried calling you at zero three hundred to inform you I had finished but someone glued my phone so I was unable to use the handset."
Too fucking bad I thought. Had he called me at zero three hundred and woke up my Babe to tell me that he had finished a fucking document, I would have fucking killed him. No one calls me at that time of morning and wakes me up not to mention my Babe unless it is an emergency that needs my immediate attention. He should already know that you don't call me at that hour unless it is an emergency it is standard operating procedure.
I couldn't help myself. "You wrote the document listing the standard operating procedures, correct?" He nodded. "Do you remember writing the standard operating procedure for calling me after hours?" He nodded. "Can you tell me what that procedure says?" Again he nodded. Dumb fucker number two don't make me ask you to tell me.
Mike finally speaks up "It states that you are not to be called after hours unless there is an emergency involving one of your employees, or there has been a break in at one of the accounts that you have flagged for your special attention." Very good, now why the fuck weren't you following procedures. Here we go again.
"Is zero three hundred after hours?" He nodded. Fuck I felt like I was in grade school talking to a fucking kindergartener they wouldn't make me pull this information out of them. They would be smart enough just to tell me what I wanted to know.
"Okay then can you tell me why you were going to attempt to call me at zero three hundred to tell me that you had finished writing a fucking document? It wasn't an emergency with one of my men. It wasn't a break in at a client. You were writing a document detailing out standard operating procedures yet you weren't going to follow them. I want to know why?"
Mike was sweating at this point. Beads of sweat had popped out on his forehead oh this was too much fun. Lester and Tank were standing there with their arms crossed over their chest staring down at the two dumb fuckers.
Finally Mike found his balls and gave an answer "You said to call you when we were finished. You said to use our desk phones to call you. I was following your orders, Sir." Yes I had told him to call me but did I tell him to not follow SOP? I don't remember saying that.
"Did I tell you to not follow SOP when I told you to call me?" He shook his head no. "Again I ask you, you wrote the document is there anything in there about when you are not to follow SOP?" He nodded.
"Yes Sir, we are to follow standard operating procedure unless we are told to bypass SOP." Very good, this is like pulling fucking eye teeth but finally I had my answer.
"So I ask you again why were you going to call me at zero three hundred to tell me that you had finished writing a fucking document?" I was going to let them get some sleep but now I was pissed he had wrote the fucking document and yet still wasn't following procedure. I knew I threw them a curve ball when I told them to call me. But he knew the procedures and wasn't following them. There would be no sleep for them today and they would be assigned to work the front desk which is the most boring job in the building and If they fell asleep they would be wishing they were dead before I was done with them.
He just shook his head and shrugged his shoulders he had nothing to say. Good because there weren't any excuses I would take from him. I set my sights on Doug.
He spoke up "Someone changed the letters on my keyboard around so I haven't been able to finish the document but I am close." Like I was going to accept that excuse, you don't make excuses solider you improvise, adapt, and overcome. You get the fucking job done no matter what without fucking excuses. Excuses were for fucking pussies and school girls.
"Mike here finished why were you so slow?" He shook his head. "So dumb fucker number two is actually smarter than dumb fucker number one." Lester snickers. I give him a look to silence him.
"From my calculations you have had roughly twelve hours to type a document outlining standard operating procedures for Rangeman. Probably all together a ten page document and you weren't able to finish it?"
"But the letters on the keyboard are wrong. Try typing on it and you will see why it has taken so long." So unimaginative, how the hell had we gotten these two contract workers? One that didn't know how to follow a document he had just typed and the other didn't know how to fix a fucking key board.
"You telling me you have been struggling with a messed up keyboard for twelve hours?" He nodded.
"Did it ever occur to you to fix the keyboard?" his eyes got bigger and his mouth gapped for a second before he thought up a way to defend himself by stating "I don't know the keypad by heart if I pop off the keys I wouldn't know where to put them back on at." Oh how stupid.
"I am not going to tell you how you could have figured that out I will let it be something you ponder the rest of the day. You will finish that fucking document. Then you will report to the front desk along with Mike here and you will pull a twelve hour shift on the front desk from the time you reach the desk. You will get two fifteen minute breaks and you will get one hour for lunch I suggest you use them wisely as you both will remain there until your twelve hour shift ends there will be no additional bathroom breaks or you getting up to go anywhere. Enjoy. Oh and guys fuck it up and you will be leaving here." I left it in the air as to how they would be leaving here. Either under their own accord of walking out or being carried out. They can ponder that.
With that I headed to my office to get a little work done before training with my Babe. She was training with Cal, Ram, and Junior today and I would be training her during the last hour of her session.
LPOV
Soon as we walked away from the dumb fuckers I couldn't wait to call Beautiful. Calling the apartment phone she answered. "Hi Beautiful you up and ready for the day?" I asked her.
"Yeah Lester, why? I just finished getting ready. I was going to go over some documents I found on guns and shooting before I start my training this morning." So she was researching her training.
"I have got something funny to tell you. I am going to come up okay? I will help you with that document and answer any questions you may have as well. Even though I am training you on fighting you know one of my first loves is my gun." She laughs.
Stephanie says "Okay I will tell Ella that you will be joining me for Breakfast, you want breakfast right?" Hell yeah I wanted breakfast. "Of course beautiful see you in five." I made a bee line to the stairwell heading to seven.
I get to seven I knock on the door. She answers it "Morning." I tell her she smiles and hugs me telling me morning.
"Lester I found this document online that is for enlisted people and it is about guns, and shooting, etc. I am reading it to try to learn more so that my training will go easier with the guys. I don't want them to know how really bad I am when it comes to guns."
I couldn't tell her we already knew how bad she was. Besides her and Rockford who else do you know who keeps her gun in a cookie jar. Today I notice that her gun is sitting beside her utility belt on the table beside the door. At least she is remembering to take it with her to training.
"Who are you training with today?" I ask her. She says "eight o'clock is Cal, nine it's Ram, ten is Junior and finally Ranger at eleven. I am nervous Ranger knows how I am with guns and is patient with me and goes slow with me and points everything out to me I am not sure the others will do that. I am afraid they will assume I know more than I do and get frustrated with me when I can't do what they want."
"Beautiful you are worrying for nothing. They will be patient with you and there are no assumptions being made about how much you do or don't know. You will be trained as you don't know and if you know something then it will progress that much faster. It's the only way to train someone or you end up with holes in their training."
That seemed to settle her a little bit. She looked at me "So what do I owe for having the pleasure of your company for breakfast?" I smiled and her and laughed.
"I wish you had come down this morning with Ranger. It was priceless." She looked at me smiling
"What was priceless?"
"You know the newbies in the control room Dumb Fucker number one and two?" I asked her. she laughed and nodded.
Catching herself she said "I am so going to hell for laughing at those two men...but every time I think about it I can't help but laugh." Well she is about to laugh more.
"Well you know the cubicles we pulled the prank on yesterday?" she nodded. "Well those cubicles are the ones that those guys will be using. Last night after Ranger was done schooling them on the mats he sent them to their cubicles to type a document. Told them that they weren't to move until they called him from their desk phones to tell him they were finished. Well needless to say that couldn't happen." Damn I was about to burst from wanting to laugh.
Acknowledgement dawning on her eyes got big "Oh god Lester we are in trouble…you came up here to tell me that Ranger is pissed at us for messing with their desks and keeping them from doing what he told them." She couldn't be more off if she tried.
"No Beautiful that isn't why I am here. Ranger knew what we did, he must have been watching us on his computer thru the cameras that only he has access to. He knew they were going to have trouble because he specifically told them they couldn't swap out their computer or any part of it and they had to only use their desk phones to call him."
Smiling at me she continued. "So he just wanted to mess with the newbies, huh? Those poor men I feel sorry for them. Maybe I should bring them some coffee this morning…It would be a small token for me to say sorry for fucking with your desks."
She is always so thoughtful is there any doubt why we love her. Here we are all giving the new guys a hard time for making her life difficult or more difficult by not being able to press charges because we had no proof so it wouldn't make a bit of difference and here she is wanting to buy them coffee to make amends for messing with their desk.
"Beautiful I don't think it would matter one way or another but remember these guys are the reason you don't have tapped evidence against Morelli. Ranger went down there this morning to find them still working they had worked all night but when they responded so badly. One guy still wasn't finished typing the document and tried to blame it on the keyboard and whoever it was that messed with it…of course he has no idea. The other guy was finished but then failed to once again follow protocol when he tried to call Ranger at three o'clock this morning to tell him he was done."
She looked at me "He was going to call Ranger at three o'clock this morning? But we were sleeping and that wouldn't have been an emergency." Now she was getting it.
"Exactly. Ranger got pissed and put them on twelve hour front desk duty. He is only giving them two fifteen minute breaks and a one hour lunch he told them they couldn't get up at any other time." I started laughing remembering their faces.
"Beautiful you should have seen their faces. They didn't know whether to shit or get off of the pot." We both started laughing.
SPOV
Lester and I laughed as he continued to tell me about the faces those two men kept making with each comment from Carlos. I had to admit it was funny but in a way I felt sorry for them. They were new after all and had it not been for me being in the car then they probably would have gotten a firm talking to but at this point they were being singled out, picked on, and threatened. While what they were doing to them was funny it was sort of like laughing at the school nerd at some point you just start feeling sorry for them and want to help them.
I would take them coffee at some point today and at least introduce myself to them. Maybe if I threw them a bone the guys would lighten up on them and give them a chance.
All too soon it was time for my training. Cal was up first and if memory served me correct I already had a day of piggy back rides coming to me I wondered if he would be willing to make another deal? Maybe I could get something sweet from the deal.
Heading to the elevator with Lester he reminded me of my fighting training I had this afternoon. "Beautiful this afternoon you will be working with Cal, Hector, Zip, and then I will be working with you for the final hour." Two sessions with Cal today…maybe I could get him to promise me ice cream this afternoon.
DougPOV
I know the guys are laughing at Mike and me. It pisses me off but I don't want to make too big of a splash right now. I need to play my cards right so I can stick around and take down the split tail. Even if I don't get the full time job I be damn if I am going to just sit back and let her take it.
Last night going to the mats I told Mike that we should not give it our all just take what he had to dish out it would probably go a lot lighter on us. I was right. The other guys didn't even bother to want to fight us because we basically didn't fight back. I mean we did a little but nothing compared to what either of us are capable of. Not only had it kept us from getting our asses kicked this time around but it had given the others a false sense of what we were capable of.
I heard the comments how that split tail having more fight and could take us down I would like to see her try. For her I wouldn't hold back if the opportunity ever arose they would then know what I was capable of.
Here I am sitting at the front desk with Mike. We have to sit here for twelve hours. This job is about the most boring because unless there is a delivery or something hardly anyone just walks in. I mean people come here for appointments on occasions but there are no onsite appointments scheduled for today so it was going be a long boring day at the front desk. Not that working the control room is any better but at least there I could pull up the camera on her and watch her as she trained or worked out.
RAMPOV
I walk into the firing range. Stephanie has been working with Cal this morning. I was going to show her how to shoot different guns than just her hand gun. I notice that she is using a different handgun a Glock 19 it's a good choice for her better than the thirty-eight. Holds more rounds it isn't huge, safe, very reliable, and not bad on accuracy either.
Today we were going to have fun. I was excited I love guns. I enjoy breaking them down, I enjoy putting them back together, I enjoy loading them but most of all I enjoy firing them. I love the smell of gun oil and a freshly fired gun. Men have their passions such as cars, women, bikes, mine was guns.
I went over the case and retrieved an AK-47 assault rifle, a shot gun, a couple of fully automatic guns that I thought she would have fun with and then I got the baby of all babies when it came to guns. I retrieved the metal storm. Metal storm is a gun that fires completely using electromagnetism it is awesome it is one of the fastest firing firearms in the world and the technology can be put in anything that fires a projectile. They have some awesome weapons for the military and now the technology is in a handgun.
I begin putting the firearms on the table along with their ammunition. I couldn't wait to start firing all of these weapons with Stephanie.
Cal finishes up with her and as he leaves he looks at me "She did really good today, we have been working on breathing exercises. I was working on her with controlling her breath and shooting between breaths."
"Well Steph and I will be just shooting the shit out of these firearms. We are going to have fun this hour." I look at her and wink. She smiles back at me but I can see she is a little nervous and intimidated by the firearms I have laid out on the table.
She gives Cal a hug and a kiss on his tattoo then reminds him that he owes her piggy back ride for a day, and lunch at Pino's. Cal nods his head and he and I bump fists as he heads out of the room.
"Hey Bombshell how was training with the flaming skull?" She giggled at my reference to Cal. "It's good but I swear out of all of my training I am most intimidated by this one. I don't really like guns." I would have her loving guns before her training is complete.
"You don't have to like them but you do have to respect them, you have to know how to handle them, and you have to know how to accurately fire them. But keep working with me and I will have you loving them."
She looks at me almost in shock. "Really you are going to teach me to love guns? You are going to teach me to be comfortable with my gun?" I nod
"Yep, when I am done training you, you will not only be comfortable with your gun you will love it, you will find comfort in having it with you." I then smiled at her then tell her "But that isn't all you will love firing your gun and all other forms of firearms as well." She looks like she doesn't believe me but she doesn't say anything.
I told her about the weapons I had laid out, I explained when and where they would most likely be seen and used. I explained advantages and disadvantages of all of them and what situation she may be in that one would be a better choice to select than others.
Then we headed into the range for some fun. I look at her "You ready to mow down some paper men?" I ask her and she just nods putting on her protective eye gear and inserting the earplugs.
"Some of these weapons I selected today have a little kick to them so it is important you hold them as I instruct you so they won't hurt you. But most importantly it is important that in your stance you brace yourself that you are balanced so you can absorb the recoil from the weapon so it doesn't throw you backwards. For the first couple of shots from the higher powered weapons I will stand behind you so you won't be able to fall backwards. Okay?" She just nods in understanding.
I have to say seeing Stephanie standing there holding those weapons well that was a wet dream come true. I Loved women and I loved weapons and anytime they two could come together well let's just say it was a good day for me.
I know Stephanie is the boss' but she is beautiful and we are all about half in love with her and those that aren't still can appreciate her body. She has a beautiful body and face but her personality and soul make it even more so. Seeing her holding those weapons and firing them was doing me in. I was on one part glad I only had to spend an hour with her and the other part cussing because I only had an hour and this was nirvana. The only thing that would have made it perfect was if Stephanie was mine but there came the rub she wasn't mine she belonged to the boss and unless I never wanted to be able to have sex again I needed to control the monster in my pants but damn the picture she presented wasn't making it easy.
Distract I thought "So how did flaming skull come to owe you piggy back rides and Pino's?"
"Well the piggy back rides were from yesterday when he was working with me in the gym. He said that if I could jump up on his back and get in place for a piggy back ride without any help he would give me piggy back rides for a day. It took me several tries but I did it. Pino's came today when we could see who could hold their breath the longest and I won, so I won lunch at Pino's."
I was shocked. "You held your breath longer than flaming skull?" She nodded "Impressive you know Cal is a Navy seal and they are trained to hold their breath for an exceptional amount of time. It is impressive that you beat him. I bet you he was shocked as well. No one has been able to beat him at that. He has pulled that on all of us and all of us have ended up owing him something. Way to go Bombshell you finally took him down."
I could tell by the smile on her face that Cal hadn't told her how impressive her beating him was. He didn't share with her that she was the only one in the building he has ever challenged that actually beat him.
She told me "Well it wasn't easy to beat him. I thought I was going to pass out but I wasn't going to give in. It was either pass out and lose or win but I wasn't going to take a breath at least not until he did." I just shook my head at how stubborn she could really be at times while the whole time thinking way to go bombshell. Ranger was a lucky prick.
As I was showing her how to hold each weapon and fire it I couldn't help but be reminded of times in my life. I remembered being a little boy growing up in the one horse town of Hardin, Montana working on my parent's ranch. My dad taught me how to fire my very first firearm a bolt action twenty two rifle. Once I was able to shoot it and knew how to safely carry and handle a firearm he took me hunting with him. Those were some good memories.
My parent's and I didn't always see eye to eye as I grew up and they didn't want me to join the army. But I had wanted to be a Ranger since I was a little boy and I had made it. They eventually came to accept my choice of the Ranger's but they were glad when I decided I wasn't going to re-enlist. Of course when I told them that I was going to stay in New Jersey and not come home to work the ranch they weren't thrilled but they accepted my decision and loved me in spite of it.
Switching guns, I couldn't help but remember my training in the military when they taught us about the AK-47 how it was the weapon of choice of our enemies and how it had a distinctive sound of pop pop pop. How they would shoot it above our heads as we crawled thru the obstacle course.
I can still remember the fear of god my drill sergeant put in me the first day of basic training and how he managed to beat the fear out of me throughout the rest of basic training. He was one hard son of a bitch but he turned a wet behind the ear teenage boy from a ranch in Montana into a solider that was good enough to become a Ranger.
Picking up the Metal Storm I can't help but remember the firepower in the military how the guns looked and how they operated remotely. They could effectively mow down anything coming in their direction. It was totally awesome to watch what that weapon was capable of.
All too soon our hour was up and Junior was coming into the range to take over. "So Bombshell did you have fun this hour shooting the different weapons?" She nodded. "Good I had fun too." I told her and hugged her kissed the top of her head and proceeded to put the firearms and unused ammunition away while her and Junior got started on what he wanted to work with her on.
I bumped fists with Junior and headed out of the gun range. It was time to go meet up with Binkie and pick up some skips. Some days I love my job, being able to spend time with Stephanie, fire all kinds of weapons, and then get to take some aggression out on criminals who don't want to go back into the system well it doesn't get any better than that. Not that I would admit that out loud after all I like my bad ass card.
JPOV
Yesterday couldn't have been a better day. I was able to get two guys from Rangeman to work with me, and they called me and led me right to Cupcake. I wasn't going to shoot her but I didn't want her to know that. Had she known that then I wouldn't have been able to have my little bit of fun with her. Of course that little bit of fun left me needing and wanting more. That wasn't enough it only got me excited. The boys wanted her servicing them but they would take anyone at that point.
When I left her I called Momma on the phone and had her meet me at the hotel. I needed someone to take care of my situation and at least she was a Plum and she could service the boys.
I put together another little package to be delivered to Rangeman for Cupcake last night a little present from her stalker. I haven't heard from Doug or Mike but hopefully they will be able to intercept the package and make sure it reaches Cupcake before anyone else has a chance to open it I wouldn't want for her to not get her little surprise after all.
I picked up my burn phone and call Doug. He answers on the second ring "Hey" I wanted to know if he could talk without anyone hearing "You free to talk?" I asked him. "Yeah" he responded.
Wanting to keep the call short as possible I cut to the chase "I have a package that needs to get to Stephanie do you think you will be able to get it to her?" He paused for a few seconds then said "Yeah I should be able to. I am working the front desk so if you have a currier send it they will bring it to the front desk and I will accept it. Then I will figure out how to get it to her." "Good" and I hung up.
I steer my car to Stark Street. I will have one of the local drug dealers deliver it for me. I am sure I can find one and bust them. Then I will have them deliver the package for me for a get out of jail free card so long as they keep their mouths shut about who asked them to deliver the package if they are asked.
If I find out they told who asked them to deliver the package well let's just say I won't need to take them to prison. They will be going downtown alright but not to lockup. There trip would be one way.
SPOV
I just finished training with Carlos on the gun range. I can't believe how much better I have gotten. Once again I saved the paper targets to show Lester my improvements. I wrote the day on them so I would be able to see my progress. It was the one part of my training where I could physically hold the evidence that I was improving, I was learning.
I rode up on the elevator with Carlos my back to his front. Leaning into him allowing his warmth, his presence to relax me he was massaging my arms. My biggest complaint with four hours of range training was how bad my arms hurt for holding the weapons up and out in front of me the whole time.
Ram had me using all kind of different weapons and some of them were heavy so he had them hurting before I was even half way thru my training. Standing there with them down beside me they felt like I was hold lead and didn't want to bend or move. Carlos seemed to sense that and started massaging them as soon as I leaned into him.
When we got the apartment Ella had our lunch ready for us. Today was turkey wraps with grilled vegetables and some sort of dressing sauce that I was sure was sugar free fat free taste free but I have to give it Ella she amazes me it tasted delicious and I found it very filling.
All too soon it was work out time for me in gym. I decided why work out and then shower to only get hot and sweaty training with the guys. It isn't like they aren't going to smell me sweaty so I would work out and then rest for a little bit before my training. I still wanted to take the new guys working the front desk some coffee before my afternoon training session.
"Carlos I heard what you did to those two new guys who were working the front desk." I told him. He looked at me. "Babe if you think I wrote on their foreheads then you are wrong." I shook my head he wasn't going to get off that easy. "No, I know you had them typing all night long and then you have them pulling a twelve hour shift in the lobby." He smiled. "Babe"
"Was that because they failed to record the audio and video feed from the car? Are they being treated like that because it was me in the car? Would they be treated the same way had it been any of the other guys in the car?"
He looked at me. "Well they are being treated like that for different reasons. Someone writing on their foreheads was probably more because it involved you and it was a good way to get back at them and for the guys to have a little fun in the process. Me taking them to mats well you know if standard operating procedures aren't followed you meet me on the mat that is just the way Rangeman has always been run and always will be that has nothing to do with it affecting you. Of course I may have swung a little harder and kicked a little harder than normal but they weren't hurt if you were wondering. The front desk assignment was given to them because they once again weren't going to following standard operating procedure so since the mats didn't get thru to them I thought an extended twelve hours of work would and I picked the most boring job in the building because they pissed me off again not because you were involved."
I smiled I felt better that the guys weren't being singled out because of me. Well maybe they had a little bit but not for all of it. "Carlos I am glad to hear it I just felt sorry for them when Lester told me this morning." He looked at me "Lester told you about this morning?" I nodded "Yeah he couldn't wait he thought it was so funny you made them work at their desks that we had pranked yesterday. He came up this morning had breakfast with me and told me all about it."
He just shook his head "I am going to have to give that cousin of mine more work to do obviously he doesn't have enough to do." I giggled knowing he wouldn't do that.
I walked over wrapped my arms around his shoulders put my head on his shoulder giving him a kiss "I have to go get ready to work out. I will see you later for dinner?" He nodded his head. "Yeah Babe I will be in the office all day so if you need me call me. I will be doing paper work and you know anything that gets me out of doing paper work is welcomed." I shook my head and tsked "Carlos trying to get out of paper work what happened to the controlled no nonsense wall street all business man Ranger that dots every I and crosses every t? " I asked him laughing. I get a "Babe" in return which I think means you are now fucking with the boss and you need to stop. But I am not really sure.
He kisses me and I turn to get my work out clothing on and pack my gym bag with everything I need. I carefully packed my paper targets to show Lester. Heading out of the apartment first stop was to grab coffee and deliver it to the front desk in the lobby.
I get off of the elevator with two cups of coffee in my hand and my bag on my shoulder. I walk up to the front desk and notice the two new guys sitting there. I have to school myself not to laugh at them when I look at them. I wanted to throw them a bone not laugh at them.
I walked up to the desk and they both looked up looking at me. I smiled at them. "Hi, I wanted to introduce myself to you. I didn't get a chance yesterday with my four hour training sessions I don't get a whole lot of time for anything." I sat their coffee down on the desk and extended my hand "Hi my name is Stephanie Plum."
Mike stood up first and took my hand "Mike" shaking it. Doug followed telling me his name was "Doug" "Nice to meet you guys. I brought you coffee." Motioning to the coffee I had sat down. "I heard you two have been pulling an extended shift and thought maybe you could use a little caffeine about right now." They both nodded and said "Thanks".
Now is when the awkwardness started to sit in as no one knew what to say so I just jumped in there "well I got to go, I need to get o the gym to get my work out in before my next training session. Have a good one." I went to turn when Doug stopped me.
"Wait a minute Stephanie a package was delivered for you a little earlier would you like it now or would you like me to have it delivered to your desk?" "Oh I don't really have a desk here. I mean I have a cubicle that was mine when I worked here part time but right now I don't work here. I will just take the package you can give it to me."
Mike started to protest but I stopped him. "Mike don't worry if someone asks I will tell them that I just picked it up when I was down here. It will be okay. Besides it probably isn't anything anyway. I can't imagine what would come here with my name on it."
I threw the box in my bag and headed to the gym for my workout.
HectorPOV
I headed to the gym to train with my Angelito. I was looking forward to working with her. The guys were all talking about how well she was doing with her training. I couldn't wait to teach her a few moves. I was going to help her hone in on her sixth sense to feel when someone is close to you even when you can't see them. It was going to be fun provided she trusted me enough.
Walking into the gym I see her up on Cal's shoulders celebrating something. She hops down and comes over and gives me a hug. Running her thumb across the tear drops on my cheek like she could wipe them away. In away her doing that sort of did wipe them away.
In order to do her training I was going to have to let her in on my little secret. I hope she would be able to keep my secret to herself.
Cal and I bumped fists as he headed out of the gym. I looked at Angelito and she was waiting looking a little unsure about what was going to happen. I gave her a smile to hopefully reassure her that everything was going to be okay.
"Angelito, I have a secret that I need to tell you but I need to know you can keep my secret." She looked at me in shock. Her eyes wide her mouth opened it took her a few minutes to get her voice "Y…You…just spoke English…you know how to speak English?" I nodded "Angelito that is my secret but you have to keep it between us. None of the other guys know. I don't want them to know. Not that I don't trust them but when people don't know I speak English they say stuff they think I don't understand. Because of that I can protect myself and I can protect you better."
She looks at me "Protect me?" I nod "You my sister, I protect you." She smiled. "Thanks Hector, you are my brother and I will protect you too." I just shook my head. "So you will keep my secret?" "She nods I will keep it, your secret is safe with me I won't tell anyone including Carlos." She looked at me like she wanted to ask me something. "What Angelito?" I asked her "Hector" Then she paused. "Hector would you be willing to teach me Spanish? I mean I would like to learn would you be willing?" "Yeah Angelito I would be honored to teach you Spanish." She smiled at me beaming.
We made our way over to the mat. "Angelito I want to work on honing in your sixth sense. You may find yourself in a position where you are unable to see or maybe you will just want to fake being asleep to gain the edge in a fight using the element of surprise. So I want to work with you in sensing me. We are going to start by having you close your eyes and then we will finish up with turning all of the lights out in here." She nods her head.
I don't see any signs of distress. I walk over and pick up one of the hand held pads. I instruct her to close her eyes and first I start by circling her and moving noisily around her having her follow me with her head even though her eyes are closed. I step away and back up to her and her head turns to me every time. Very good.
"Okay now I am going to be quieter and when you feel this bag touch you I want you to immediately attack hitting it, kneeing it, kicking it even depending on where on your body it touches you. You can open your eyes at the point you are attacking but keep them closed until it touches you. Depending on how fast you start attacking it will tell me if you were able to track where I was even though you couldn't see me."
I walk around her quietly and touch her several times with the bag and she immediately attacks the bag. Then I step back and walk around her and step up towards her again and touch her immediately and again she has tracked my movements. Even touching her on the back she immediately sprang turning around attacking the bag. "Very Good Angelito" I tell her.
"You don't know much about my history hell most people here don't but I wasn't always one of the good guys. I was a member of one of the deadliest gangs in the country, the name isn't important. Just know there were a lot of deaths at the hands of my gang." She looks at me at my confession.
"I got out a while back and trust me they came after me. No one had ever walked away from that gang and lived to tell about it. Well not until me at least. But I learned to have a sixth sense to sense when I was in danger, when someone was watching me, and when someone was close to me even though I may not be able to see. That is what I want to teach you. It will save your life I promise you."
She nodded and then just touched my arm in understanding what it had cost me just admitting that to her. I was private I didn't tell my business. Now she didn't just know my secret she knew a little of my background and knew that my hands were not blood free. Unlike most of the guys here the blood on my hands wasn't there because I had defended this country, or for any heroism. No the blood on my hands was because I choose to join a gang why I joined it didn't really matter the fact I had was all that really mattered. But regardless of all of that she accepted me and offered me comfort. Is there any question as to why I would guard her with my life now?
I walked over and turned off the lights and the gym went totally black. I made my way back over to her silently and touched her with the bag she was at first taken off guard but she recovered quickly and attacked. I then backed up and circled her. We did that several times in a row and with each time she tracked me better and better.
"Good Angelito, I am going to go turn the lights on." Soon as I said that the lights turned on Zip had stepped into the gym. I knew someone was there I felt them but it surprised Angelito and she yelped from being startled.
Grabbing her chest she said "Damn Zip why don't you just scare the shit out of a girl?" I had to chuckle. I bumped fists with Zip and Angelito gave me a hug whispering in my ear "Your secret safe with me I will see you later." I hugged her back kissed her cheek I went to leave the gym. When she grabbed my arm and motioned for me to follow her.
Zip and I followed her to the bench that her bag was on. She opened her bag and I noticed a package in her bag but I hadn't heard of any package being scanned for her It was procedure that packages coming to Rangeman for her were to be scanned before given to her. Since I am the one who does the scanning I knew I hadn't scanned it. She pulled out the paper targets and pointed to herself and to the targets to let me know that she had shot those targets.
Zip and I took them and started looking at them impressive. I smiled at her and nodded my head "Bueno, muy bueno Angelito". Zip speaks up "Bombshell he said "Good, Very Good and I have to agree these are great. I bet Ranger and Ram are excited to see these. You look like a natural to me."
She looks at us "I brought them to show to Lester I wanted him to see my improvement from last time."
Zip looked at her and said "I am sure he will be excited to see them as well." I couldn't let it go. I touched her shoulder to get her attention and then motioned to the box in her bag. She shrugged her shoulders.
"I took the guys at the front desk coffee and they told me that a package had been delivered for me and I just took it and put in my bag. I haven't had a chance to open it yet." I looked to Zip to wait for him to translate it for me. This is the problem with my secret when I wanted to act fast I had to be patient and wait but the benefits outweighed the consequences most days at least.
Zip turned to me and said "Tomé los chicos en el café recepción y me dijeron que el paquete había sido entregado por mí y me lo tomó y lo puso en mi bolsa. No he tenido la oportunidad de abrir aún" Translating what she had said for me.
Holy shit she had taken the newbies coffee. Probably feeling sorry for how they have been treated and in turned they had let her carry away a package that could have exploded. The thought made me want to take their heads off. Did they not understand from how they had already been treated that they are to protect Angelito from anything and everything that could potentially harm her?
Maybe it was time I had a little talk with them one on one. Looking at Zip I said "Pregunte a Angelito si estaba esperando un paquete, de haber pedido nada? Si no, le pregunto si podía tomar el paquete y escanearlo para asegurarse de que no representa ninguna amenaza. No he escaneado un paquete para ella y saber que debo hacer eso con todos los paquetes enviados aquí por ella. Los dos trabajan en la recepción no me lo dijo un paquete había sido entregado por ella." (Ask Angelito if she was expecting a package, had she ordered anything? If not, ask her if I could take the package and scan it to make sure it does not pose any threats. I haven't scanned any package for her and you know I am supposed to do that with all packages sent here for her. The two working the front desk didn't tell me a package had been delivered for her.)
Before he had a chance to respond Stephanie spoke up "I don't know what he just said but it sounded like Pregnant Angelito and before any rumors can get started I want to set the record straight I AM NOT PREGNANT!" I almost lost it. I had to school myself not to laugh out loud had I laughed I would have given away my secret but I can't believe she thought I would say she was pregnant.
Zip laughing shook his head laughing he said "No he didn't say you were pregnant." He looked at me and said "pensó que usted dijo que estaba embarazada" (she thought you said she was pregnant) whew now I could laugh because I had been holding it back for all I was worth. Zip looked shocked I guess he had never seen me laugh before it happens every now and then about once every ten years or so. Angelito just joined in blushing from jumping to conclusions. I just shook my head.
Zip then looked at her and asked "Bombshell did you order anything, were you expecting a package?" She shook her head no. "Hector wanted to know, since you weren't expecting a package is it okay if Hector takes it and scans it and makes sure there is nothing inside that could pose a threat to you or anyone else in the building." She thought about it for a minute and then nodded.
She reached into the bag and handed me the package. I kissed her on the cheek and she rubbed the tears again. I loved when she did that. Most people would be repulsed by them she just acts if she wanted to just be able to wipe them away. I turned heading out of the gym to my office to scan the package and figure out what I was going to do about the guys at the front desk. Obviously punishment from Tank and Cal and Ranger weren't enough maybe it was time for me to step in and let them know the consequences of their actions. If their failure to follow procedure hurt my Angelito there would be no place for them to hide.
LPOV
I had just finished training with Beautiful and she was standing by the bench with her bag once again pulling out her paper target for me to see. She was excited to show them to me. She handed them to me rolled up as if me unrolling them was a present all in and of its self.
I opened them and I have to say I was impressed. I could clearly see where she had improved. She was clearly a natural when it came to firing a firearm even though she hated them.
"I tell you Beautiful that is impressive. I have said you were a natural and this is just further proof."
She looked at me and I could see the excitement in her eyes. "Really you think they are that good? I know I have improved and wanted to show you." I nodded my head. "These are awesome." She smiled at me just beaming with excitement and happiness. I loved seeing her excited and I knew it was doing good in her gaining confidence in herself.
We were ready to walk out of the gym when Hector walked back in carrying a package. She walked up to Hector and he handed her the package only saying okay to her. He didn't know much English but he did understand what OK meant. She nodded her head and hugged him then he headed out of the gym nodding his head towards me.
She put the package back in her bag. Hector must have scanned the package for her to let her know that it posed no threat to her. I briefly wondered what she would have ordered or what someone would have sent her.
Looking at me she said "I don't know what it is, I didn't order anything and I can't imagine who would send a package to me here. Not many people know that I even live here now." Who says she didn't have ESP?
"Beautiful did you just ESP me?" I asked her smiling. She looked at me and I saw shock register thru her. then she squealed "Oh My God Lester…I just ESPed you. I did it the other day to Ranger as well…Oh My God I can ESP, I am learning ESP….I mean I know ESP…I know ESP…YAY ME."
I just shook my head laughing "Yeah YAY You" putting emphasis on the yay you part. She stop looked at me her cheeks turning pink "out loud?" she questioned. I nodded "Yeah Out loud" and then we both laughed and her cheering herself for being able to ESP.
The box had me a little concerned, I had a feeling this wasn't going to be the good kind of box. I knew that it was safe in the fact that it wouldn't explode or posed no immediate threat to her health but I wasn't so sure about the emotional part. I wanted to be there when she opened the box. I wasn't going to let her open it alone.
"So what are you going to do now?" I asked her. She looked at me like she wasn't sure what to say "Well like every night I am going up to seven take a shower, then have dinner with Ranger, and then hang out. What are you going to do tonight?" she asked me.
"Hang out. Thought maybe I could hang out with you guys. That is if you don't mind." She looked at me as if she was trying to size me up and see the real reason I wanted to hang out with her before answering.
"Yeah I am always fine with you hanging out with us but you will have to have to ask Ranger if he is fine with it." Smiling her eyes twinkling with the fun she was having at my expense. She could be cruel at times. Of course my no good cousin will give me grief but I will take whatever to be with her when she opens that box because I have a feeling it is going to be bad.
"I saw Hector hand you a box? Did you order something for me?" I asked her joking trying to get more information on the box. She shook her head. "I am disappointed and here I thought I was your favorite." I pouted.
She smiled and told me "Actually I didn't order anything for you, Ranger, or myself. I have no idea what it is. I delivered coffee to the guys on the front desk as sort of a peace offering and they told me it had arrived. I picked up from them and Hector saw it in my bag when I showed him my paper targets and he asked me if he could scan the box to see if it posed any threat to me or anyone else in the building so I let him scan it."
Mother fuckers gave her a box that had been delivered before it was scanned for hazards. What are we going to have to do those two dumb fuckers before they catch on that you protect Stephanie with your life, you protect her above and beyond anything and everyone else in this building and they just hand her a potentially unsafe package that could have had a bomb in. Where they ever going to learn that they need to follow fucking protocol? Are they that fucking dumb that Ranger has to take them to the mats again. When he finds out about this they will be lucky to be able to walk off of the mat. I guess they didn't learn their lesson well enough last night.
I put my arm around her "Well let's head up to your apartment and tell my no good cousin the good news that I will be hanging out with you all tonight." She giggled and I smiled at her as we made it out of the gym and into the elevator.
We arrived on the seventh floor and Ranger was already in the apartment waiting on her. He raised his eyebrow when he saw us walk in the door with my arm around her shoulder and us laughing about how when she was training with Zip that she had tripped him by accident and taken him down on the mat but then while he was down she just jumped on him like Rock in a wrestling match while yelling do you smell what the rock is cooking. Knowing what a big fan Zip is of wrestling I am sure he was about to burst out laughing at her pitiful reference to one of his idols. Anyone else he would be probably pissed but he wouldn't get pissed at her doing it he would think she was funny.
"Yo cus thought I would hang out with you all tonight, after all Beautiful here said she would like her best friend to hang out with her tonight." Thought I would have a little fun at her expense. She started shaking her head no.
"I don't remember saying that." She said I looked at her "of course you did don't you remember? Or did we work you too hard on the mats and you just forgot. I clearly remember hearing those words." She just laughed and shook her head.
Ranger just shook his head from side to side and sighed he knew he couldn't do anything with us together we were just too much for him.
Stephanie gave him a kiss and told him "I am going to take a quick shower I will be back out in a few minutes." A few minutes my ass. I knew and Ranger knew we wouldn't see her for at least thirty minutes or more. Hell she would probably be in the shower for thirty minutes alone. Soon as she was in the bathroom and we could hear the water running he turned to me.
"Okay why are you here? What's going on that I need to know about that you felt like you needed to impose yourself on us for the evening?" Damn couldn't a guy just want to hang out with his best friend and cousin? Guess not. But he had me there was a reason so I told him.
"Actually she received a package today. She picked it up from the guys at the front desk when she carried them coffee as a peace offering. Luckily Hector saw it in her bag and asked if he could scan it to see if it posses any threats and it didn't. But I have a bad feeling about it. She says she didn't order anything and doesn't know who would send her a package. The only person I can think of would be her stalker but I am not sure how he would know she was here unless he had been watching her or found out from someone close to her that knows she is here. I wanted to be here when she opened the package just in case it was bad."
He looked at me I could see several emotions cross his face then I saw anger. "Did you just tell me they gave her the package at the front desk before it was scanned by hector?" I nodded my head. From the look in his eyes this was going to fun and I already knew I wanted to see what he was going to do to dumb fucker number one and two.
It wasn't long before she joined us but it wasn't a few minutes either. I thought let's get the ball rolling "Hey Beautiful don't you have a package you need to open?" She nodded "I almost forgot about it." Looking at Ranger she told him "I took the guys at the front desk coffee and they told me a package came for me. I had them give it to me. They didn't want to at first but I told them it was fine that I didn't mind and threw it in my bag. Hector saw it and asked if he could scan it for safety reasons and I told him sure so he scanned it and then gave it back." She looked at me "I swear Lester I didn't order you anything so don't get all excited only to be disappointed when you see what's in the box. Because I didn't order anything I can't imagine who would send me something here."
RPOV
I am going to kill those two. They just couldn't seem to grasp the concept that you follow standard operating procedures. Depending on what is in the box and how upset my Babe gets will determine how hard I punish them but they will be punished for once again not following procedures this was getting old and it seemed no matter what job I gave them they were constantly in a position to put my Babe in danger and that is unacceptable.
In this building she is supposed to be safe at all times. I have 30 men here in total all lethal in their own right if we aren't able to protect her within these four walls how the hell would we be able to protect her outside of these walls? How the hell were we competent to protect anyone if we couldn't protect her here in our own house?
She grabs the box and walks back over to us. Grabbing a knife from the kitchen she cuts the tape and opens the box. Looking in she gasps and drops the box and takes off for the bathroom. Oh shit this is not good. I follow her I don't even bother looking. I know she is going to puke or at least dry heave.
Those fuckers were going to be dead for giving her that box. Not that anyone other than her would have opened it but had my men not been as protective of her as they were she could have opened that box when no one else was around and had to deal with whatever it was in the box on her own.
Like I thought she dry heaves nothing is coming up. I hold her hair just in case and put a cool rag on the back of her neck as she heaved and heaved until the point that it brought her down to her knees.
I finally pulled her back against me holding her to me when I knew nothing was coming out so her stomach would settle down and stop contracting.
It took a few minutes but she finally nodded and I released her. She walked to the sink and brushed her teeth. I just wait for her. She looked at me "Well I guess it is time to go face the music and let you see what's in the box. I guess Lester has already looked. I will warn you it isn't pretty."
When we walked back in the room I noticed Lester had picked the box up and had placed it on the counter. I knew he had looked but he had his blank face in place and it wasn't budging. She walked up to the box picked it up and handed it to me.
I looked at Lester "did you touch anything in the box? I asked him" he shook his head no "the box landed on its bottom so the contents stayed within the box. I didn't touch anything."
Good he knew better to touch anything and contaminate it. I looked at him "Call Manny and have him come up here in thirty minutes. I the mean time call Tank and Bobby let them know they need to get up here ASAP."
He took his phone out to make the necessary calls.