time we'd been married she'd started breaking out of her shell, she smiled more now, enjoyed things. Sometimes I would catch her playing with my choker around her neck with a dreamy smile on her face. I had explained to her that the choker meant she was mine in all ways forever. It seemed to give her comfort.
It's been two nights without making love, after she'd broken through my resistance the first night I'd put my foot down, that's a first since our wedding, I hoped we didn't have too many more nights like those, this morning I was hard as fuck and my girl was needy, rubbing her heat against me, whining in her sleep. She missed her daddy's loving too.
Tonight though, tonight we'd be back to tearing up the sheets.
I got off the phone with her after ascertaining that there had been no surprises, no one had tried to get in or call. Huh, so far so good.
It was four thirty in the afternoon, Charlotte the receptionist that I shared with dad had just informed me that my last appointment for the day was in half an hour and then I was free and clear.
It was a consultation with an elderly lady who already had an opinion from another specialist but wanted a second opinion and maybe a third.
Dad and I had a reputation for no bullshitting, we took pride in our profession, helping people or making them healthy if we could was our number one priority. Yes we made great money, but that's not why we got into the field.
My family has been well to do for generations so money wasn't an issue. Anyone who got into the medical field just to get rich was an outright asshole.
Anyway, because of mine and dad's rep for straight shooting and putting the patient's needs first, we had more patients than we could handle. It kept us both busy which I never used to mind before, but now with Delia waiting at home for me in the evenings I found myself resenting the time I spent away from her. She was fast becoming my everything, my whole world. That's saying a lot considering a few short months ago I had been ready to swear off women.
She wasn't like anyone else I knew though, she was genuinely sweet, naive and damn near innocent. In fact, outside of my corruption of her she was still relatively innocent, funnily enough I wanted to keep her that way.
When the commotion came ten minutes before my last appointment of the day I can't say I was surprised. I'd expected it, been waiting for it almost, but I think I was still a little floored by their audacity.
I came out in the middle of Charlotte repeating her mantra of you can't go in there. Of course it was both of them, they travelled in pairs or packs like most vile things did.
"It's okay Char, I'll see the Fieldings, you can knock off for the rest of the day."
"Okay if you're sure Dr. Thornton, your father's still in his office if you need him." She gave my two visitors a suspicious look before grabbing her purse and heading out the door.
I led them out of he waiting room and into an empty office between mine and dad's. I wouldn't dignify them with a visit to my private office, they aren't welcomed, why should I pretend?
"Make this quick, I have a patient in a few minutes."
"We want you to undo it." Joann was her usual snarly annoying self, which meant I was ready to annihilate her ass coming out the gate.
"Undo what Joann?"
"You know what, you had your brother buy up our mortgage and call in the loan. Where are we supposed to come up with that kind of money?"
"I'm sure the bank gave you time to come up with it didn't they?"
"Ten days, where will we get one point five million dollars in ten days?"
I shrugged my shoulders in a how the fuck should I know gesture. This bitch knew the deal, she knows what I want, I refuse to play her game. I don't trust this family at all. How they'd managed to raise my babygirl was a complete and total fucking mystery, because she was nothing like these monsters.
Not once had they asked about her, after hearing that their pregnant
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