The men walked in the room as the ladies went back to discussing the last-minute shopping they had to do. “Who is going into town?” Spencer said, his tone not the least bit polite. He was hoping Rose didn’t have plans to go. He didn’t want her out of his sight. She was too precious of a gift and he felt like he could lose her at any moment. Spencer was afraid that she would leave him or that her father might try to do something. He hadn’t heard back from Mac or Fred, the mechanic, yet on her vehicle, so he didn’t know the lengths Landry would go through.

“Us ladies are heading out, son. It’s a girl thing, so you boys can stay here and roughhouse or you could be useful and prepare our rooms.”

“No, baby, you are not going out.” Rose looked at him and felt torn between anger and embarrassment. Everyone else looked on to see if there was going to be a big fight. But Danielle was not in the mood for bossy and domineering men. She had enough before she joined her family on this trip with another bossy man.

“Excuse me, Spencer, but she is a grown woman. She doesn’t need you to tell her what to do.”

“Dani, mind your business, I am talking to my Rose.” He turned to look at Rose again, who looked like she would bite his head off. He ignored her anger. He was the man and she would listen and that was that.

“Son, it’s fine. I am going to drive the girls shopping and your mother knows that, right darling? We don’t leave our women unprotected. We know you are just worried that she is safe, considering she just had an accident the other night.”

“Fine, but baby, can I talk to you before you go?” He was truly afraid for her to go, but with his father, he knew the women would be safe.

They started getting ready while Spencer and Rose walked into the bedroom.

“Baby, listen…” She put her hand up to stop him. She was not going to be treated like a submissive wife when she was just his lover.

“No, you listen. I am not a child. I have lived on my own for the last three months. We barely know each other, and you are already showing your true colors. That was embarrassing out there. I am going out, so deal with it. What the hell is the big deal with me leaving anyway?”

“I am sorry I embarrassed you. It’s just that, well, I am concerned that you won’t come back.”

“What? That is crazy! Why wouldn’t I?”

“You have no idea what you have done to me. I was miserable before I met you and although I am still a prick, I am no longer a miserable prick. It isn’t from the sex either, though, I have to say that has added a bonus to whatever this is between us. When I saw you bundled up, I felt something in me light up. I wanted to know you and I wasn’t sure why, but I just did. So, I feel like you are a gift and I am afraid one wrong move and you will be taken away.”

“I am not going anywhere. This is new to me, too, but I want to see where this goes with us, also. Now I have to get going before your sister drags me by my hair.”

“Give me a kiss first, baby.” She lifted her head and stood on her tippy toes to kiss her man. “Please be careful.” He was giving her more of a reason to believe this was real. She hadn’t believed in Santa or miracles since she was a small child, but goodness did she want to believe in him now. The kiss lingered longer and more passionately than they had intended, so much so that he had picked her up and pushed her against the door of the bedroom. Lifting up her sweater and taking her bra with it, he took her nipple in to his gifted mouth and devoured her delicious harden peak.

“Spencer…we…have… to …stop.” She couldn’t breathe from the pleasure he was evoking in her. Every suck and tug went straight to her core, demanding more.

“No, see that is why you have to stay so I can please you, always. Please promise me you will come back. Please be safe.”

“I am coming back. Stop tripping. You enjoy spending some time with your brothers.”

“I would rather spend time with you,” he gave her a pout that she found super sexy.

They reluctantly parted ways and Rose met up with the girls in the nice warm truck with Mr. Kane driving and Mrs. Kane in the front seat.

“Um, that was fast…” Danielle smiled suggestively at Rose and laughed.

“Danielle, that is not nice. You know your brother had a problem, he probably can’t control it that long right now.”

“Eww gross, Mom.”

“You started it,” Mrs. Kane, or Racheal as she had asked Rose to call her, turned backwards in her seat and stuck her tongue out at Danielle. It was actually comical to her.

“Now girls, don’t scare her off. Rose, don’t mind them, sometimes they forget they are mother and daughter not sisters or that I am in the car,” Mr. Kane gave his women a disapproving look and shaking his head in dismay.

“Oh, Daddy, we are just having a little fun. We love Spencer and we want him happy.”

They rode into town. There were a few shops they could stop in that were open, but they were busy. She had asked what she could get Spencer since they only met less than a week ago. It was kind of hard to know what to get him and with such limited funds the limited selection got even more limited. They explained what they had gotten him so she was looking for something to go with the new Galaxy tablet they had selected. There were cases galore at the one store and she wanted to pick one that would say something about him.

She had learned a great deal about him from their talks over their snowed in days. There was one that had an image of the New York Times on it, and she knew he read it daily when he was not at the cabin. He worked in Boston like her father and happened to be a huge Red Sox fan, so that was another option. She then seen the one that was perfect. She selected the other two just in case and paid for her purchases and left the store only to run right in to her father.

“Rose, I see being a whore like your mother is working out for you. I never thought Matthew Kane would have the nerve to threaten me. The message he sent me just proves that he will toss your ass aside, but unlike your mother, I am not taking you back. She at least serves a purpose.” Tears clouded her eyes just as Mr. Kane approached and grabbed her wrist, pulling her behind him as he confronted Landry.

“You are a bigger bastard than I thought you were. Stay the fuck away from my family, which now includes Rose.”

“She is not your family, she is just your son’s whore. He will move on to the next bitch soon. I will win one way or another.” Richard Kane had not grown up wealthy. He was a street smart motherfucker coming from the wrong side of town in Boston. Landry made him want to go back to his roots and fuck him up.

Spencer and his two brothers had just pulled up behind them, along with Reed following behind in his truck. The truck was barely in park when Spencer jumped out and ran up on them. “Get the fuck away from her!” He stepped in between her father and his, who still had Rose behind him. Quick thinking had Danielle taking the gift bag from Rose and putting it in the truck. She tried to take Rose, but she wouldn’t budge. Danielle attempted to avoid the other male Landry present, but his angry eyes had never left her for a moment.

“What the fuck is your problem, Spencer? She is my daughter and just your brother’s whore.”

Spencer had lost control. He clocked Landry right in the jaw, dropping him on his ass. “She is my woman and if you come anywhere near her, I will kill you.”

Reed walked up to his uncle and kicked him, “You are a sick fuck and if you come near the Kane’s, Rose, or me, we will destroy you.”

“You would side with them instead of your family?”

“They are my family.” He walked up to Danielle and put his hand around her waist, caressing her belly. Danielle looked at Reed, wondering if he knew and was that the reason he wasn’t giving her up. She joined her parents for the holidays to avoid the confrontation with him after their blow up in Vegas.

“This is not over,” Landry told them as he was about to walk away.

“No, it is not. Mr. Mitchell Landry, you are under arrest for attempted murder of your daughter Rose Landry,” Sheriff Bud McCallen, or Mac as he is referred to, approached the scene with his deputy in tow. He was read his rights and cuffed, but he still could not keep his mouth shut.

“That stupid bitch is not my daughter, her whore of a mother and,” he turned to Reed, “your prick of a father made that little slut. Watch out, Spencer, you may be with her now, but Matt has his eye on her and you will be made a fool, just like me.”

Needless to say, the shock was so big it could have been an 8.1 on the Richter scale. Spencer wanted to murder Landry right there. “Sheriff, get this fuck out of here before I am arrested for murder.”

“Spencer, thanks for the tip on the car. It would have been overlooked and he would have gotten away with it.” Rose was in Spencer’s arms, resting her head on his chest, letting her tears coat his jacket.

“Rose, let’s go,” he pulled her away from the scene as they loaded Mitchell Landry into the back of the police car. Spencer opened the door and put her in the front seat of the truck.

Reed met up with the men at the cabin when he had gotten a call from his uncle. He had already been on his way up there to find his wayward woman and talk some sense into her, so he was able to get there in a hurry and explained to them that his uncle was on his way to confront Rose. Also, that he was in love with Danielle. They had issues they needed to work out, so he was stealing her for the night, whether anybody liked it or not.