She shakes her head. "Mom had vanished as she usually does when there's a new man on the scene. But she owed money to someone, he kept knocking on the door and I wouldn’t answer.” She swallows hard, not looking at me. “He broke in—”
My hands tighten around her and I hold her close to me, needing her close. “Talk to me, baby, what happened?”
“He tried to hurt me, but the neighbors heard me scream. They called the cops but before they could come, Mom arrived home and she packed us both a bag and left.”
Debbie is a fucking bitch. Georgie could have been raped by that animal that broke into the house. I've seen through that bullshit, I know when she's putting on a front. My baby girl is actually sweet, she can be feisty but deep down she's fucking angelic.
"I promise you, Georgie, you never have to worry about being alone again." No wonder she keeps the façade up, she’s keeping everyone at arm’s length so that she’s not hurt.
She nods. "As soon as I met you, I knew you were different. I don't know how to explain it. I felt immediately at ease around you," she confesses.
I smirk, loving those words that have slipped from her lips. "Good, because, baby girl, you're not going anywhere."
She gives me a look of disbelief. "You can't be sure of that."
"Yes I can. I'm forty-seven, baby girl. I've had my fair share of women. None of them hold a fucking candle to you. So, yes, I am sure of that."
She inhales sharply. "God," she breathes. "You make me want things I never thought I would want."
Smiling, I place a kiss against the corner of her mouth. "I'm going to make all those dreams of yours come true."
She lays her head against my chest. "Thank you for being someone I can trust.”
"Has anyone hurt you?" I hate even asking the question but knowing what Debbie was like, or is like.
She shrugs. "Sometimes her boyfriends would hit me, but that only happened if Mom was asleep or didn’t have drugs."
Fuck. Debbie is a fucking cunt.
"What about your mom? Has she ever hurt you?"
"No, Mom has never hit me. She was never around to do that."
"What about while she was living here? Did she leave you alone here?" When Debbie was here, I wasn’t. I couldn’t stand the bitch and I was struggling with being around Georgie.
She nods. "Yeah, she'd leave. It was cool though, at least there was food here. That wasn't always the case."
"Why didn't you say something to me?" If she had told me, I would have fucking ended that bitch.
She laughs, "Mom would have twisted it. She'd have told you some lie that I was acting out or some shit and you would have believed her. Or even if you had believed me, you wouldn't have let me stay here while she was gone. Then what? I'd be back to how things were before she met you."
"She's gone now and you never have to go back to her."
She shakes her head. "You're so sure of yourself. She's still my parent," she reminds me.
"I know that but there's a difference between your mom and I. When I want something I go after it. When I love someone, I protect them with every fiber of my being. Trust me, baby girl, your mom is going to walk away quietly."
She laughs, "You don't know my mom as well as you think you do. My mom hates being second best. She finds out about me and you? Whatever the hell it is, she's going to lose her shit. I've seen what she can do. She's vicious, Dad, and there’s no way she’s going to walk away quietly."
"I haven't gotten where I am in life by taking the high road. Debbie comes at us, I'm firing back." With the resources and men that I have, there’s not a fucking chance in hell that Debbie will survive.
"After everything that's happened, she's still my mom." She tells me as if that's going to stop me from destroying that bitch.
Georgie gets to her feet, the blanket around her and I finally remember that she's naked underneath. My dick starts stirring to life and now isn't the time. Fuck. "Dad," she says slowly and I know that whatever is going to come out of her mouth is going to piss me off. "Now you know how I grew up, I can understand if you change your mind."
I'm on her in a flash, my hand in her hair and my mouth on hers. She moans against my lips and it takes everything I have in me not to lift her up and fuck her against this wall. "Get that shit out of your head." I have no doubt that it came from Debbie. "I want you, fuck, I'm harder than stone right now."
Her tongue darts out of her mouth and licks her lips, a shine of wetness coating them. "Then what's stopping you?"