I was at work when an unexpected phone call came into my office. “Mr. Westlake, a Mr. Smith is on the phone for you.” My secretary buzzed in on my phone.
“Thank you, transfer him.” I wasn’t a hundred percent sure, but I had an idea what this call was about. “Hello, this is Mr. Westlake, how can I help you?”
“Mr. Westlake, it’s Mr. Smith, do you recognize my voice?”
I shifted in my chair. “I do.” Mr. Smith was not Mr. Smith, but I knew his real identity.
“Mr. Westlake, I’m calling to let you know the job we did for you months ago, it’s not finished.”
I rocketed out of my chair and turned to look out the window behind me. “What do you mean not finished? I have information that states otherwise.”
“Yes, sir, but we’ve just learned there is a family member.” Mr. Smith cleared his throat. “A brother.”
A brother? How was that possible? We tracked everything about the prick's life. The only family member that came up was his mother. “Can you take care of this?”
“Yes, sir, we wanted to make you aware because we don’t have an identity on him yet.”
“Well, get one and do it fast.” Fuck! How could this happen? How did this brother slip through the cracks? “I’ll transfer the money.”
“Sir, don’t worry we’ll make sure it’s taken care of quickly.”
I slammed the phone down on my desk and stormed out of my office. “I’m leaving.” I barked at my secretary. On the drive to the house, I made the necessary calls to put a security team in place.
When I arrived home, Natalie, Erin, and Pam sat at the table eating lunch.
“Daddy, what are you doing here?” Erin yelled out.
Natalie turned. “Noah? Is everything okay?”
I kissed Natalie’s head and hugged my daughter.
“Daddy have lunch with us.” Erin pulled out the chair next to her.
“No honey, I need to talk to Natalie.” I extended my hand to Natalie, and she placed hers in mine and stood from the chair. She gave me a sideways glance but followed next to me.
I walked her outside to the back yard when we far enough away from the house I shifted to face her.
“Noah, you’re scaring me.” She searched my face. “What’s going on?”
“Baby, you remember we had that conversation about Sean.”
She cringed when I spoke his name, the same reaction she had the last time we talked about him. “When you told me he was dead?”
“Yes. And he is dead.”
“What’s going on, Noah?” She asked as she touched her hand to her belly.
“I found out he has a brother. Did you know there was a brother?” I stroked the side of Natalie’s face. Her eyes went wide, and her blood left her face. She fell forward and reached for my arms to stabilize herself.
“No, he told me he had no family.” She let out a sharp exhale.
“Shit! I was hoping you could help us with his identity.”
“Why Noah, what are you worried about?”
I couldn’t stand seeing the worry in Natalie’s face. “Nothing. I have people working on it, and I will have security 24/7 here at the house and with you wherever you go. Sean was a bad guy, and we have to assume so is his brother.”
I held Natalie’s face and kissed her mouth. The fear in her eyes told me how raw it was to her. She went through a horrific time with her ex. I remember feeling sick when I read the police reports. The day I decided I wanted her in my life to care for my daughter was the same moment I decided I would protect her no matter what.
“Noah, I’m terrified.”
“Don’t be. I have the best people working on it.” I wrapped my arms around her.
“Noah, did you have something to do with Sean’s death?” Her voice sounded muffled against the skin of my neck.
“Natalie, it doesn’t matter who or what brought upon his death. It was inevitable. Sean had many enemies.” I felt her shiver in my arms.
“What if his brother wants revenge?”
The back door opened and Pam yelled. “Mr. Westlake, there is a man here to see you.”
Natalie’s grip tightened around me. “Don’t worry, baby; it’s the security team I hired. Trust me if Sean’s brother wants to get at us, he won’t be ringing the doorbell.”
That night, Natalie curled her naked pregnant body into mine. The warmth of our skin lulled me into a calm. I had never felt so at home. She needed me. Her need differed from my daughters. Since the day Erin was born, I protected her with every arsenal I had, my love, my power, and my money. Erin never knew fear, she had no insecurities, and she wouldn’t understand someone she loved hurting her. I hid Erin’s mother’s faults by paying enough people to surround Erin with love.
Natalie knew fear, and she knew what it meant to love someone and be betrayed by them. Her mother died at forty, and her father left her when she was only five. As an adult, she latched onto a man, an evil man. I did the same to her, I betrayed her trust and now I would spend my life making sure she knew trust, love, and security.
I held her. I cherished the love Natalie showed me, and I would make sure no one hurt again including myself. I would see this punk dead.
I set up a security team at the end of the driveway and at all the entrances to the house. I hated not knowing this guy’s identity but my team was the best in the country, and they would find him.
Natalie and Erin had security with them always. I didn’t let them leave the house without it. Natalie hated the security team following her every step, but I explained it was temporary.
“But why would Sean’s brother want to hurt me?” She asked me one night while we curled up on the couch. Erin was asleep, and it was late. The house was quiet, and we sat together in the dark.
“Maybe he wants to finish the job for his brother.” I stopped to think of the possible reasons. “Maybe, he thinks we had something to do with his death, and now he sees us together, and he wants revenge.” I stroked her arm and kissed the top of her head.
“Do you think he’s watching us?” She tilted her head to look up at me.
“I don’t doubt it since we don’t know his identity.” I gathered her closer into the nook of my arm. “Just always know your surroundings.”
“I have been, it’s making me paranoid.” She pressed her ear into my chest. “I can feel and hear your heart beating against my ear.” She pressed deeper. “It’s my favorite noise in the world.” She listened then she asked me to take her upstairs and make love to her.
“Why not right here?” Just the thought of sex with Natalie made me hard, instantly.
“Because security guards are everywhere on the property and there are no blinds on the windows.”
“So they’ll watch.” I liked the thought of someone watching me fuck the woman I loved.
“You don’t mind someone watching.” She sat up to face me.
“No, it makes me hot.”
Natalie sat considering it for a moment and then she stood up and stripped off her clothes. She undid my pants and helped me shimmy them down to my ankles. With her hand, she held my erection and stroked it. A small drop of come appeared, and she sucked it from my tip. I lifted my shirt over my head and reached for Natalie. “Baby, I need to be inside you, now.”
She straddled my legs and with her hand guided my cock inside her. She grabbed on to my shoulders and moved up and down on my erection. I held her hips and watched as my cock moved in and out of her. She quickened her pace, I could see the first hint of her orgasm, and then she released it. Her body lost in pleasure, saying my name, gripping her fingers into my skin. I pulled her hips down deeper on my cock and pushed my hips up which brought on my release. I yelled out her name, and I heard it echo through the house. She dropped her head between my neck and my shoulder trying to catch her breath.
I wrapped my arms around her body and pulled her close. I wanted to keep her with me always and to protect her and love her and let no one hurt her again including myself.