“Daddy, you don’t have to carry me.”
“Hush. Close your eyes and relax.” He didn’t want her tohave to see the blood again.
When he got them up to the condo they would stay in until theirs was clean, he sat her in one of the chairs at the counter and dropped the bag off to the side. “Let’s get some food in you.”
Damn. He saw someone had stocked the fridge and freezer with food and set other things like bread on the counter. He hadn’t even thought about it until then and was glad someone had. He pulled a dish from the fridge and opened the lid. “This looks good. Some kind of noodle,” he said, tipping the dish so she could see.
“Ohhh, that looks like the chicken and noodles Holly makes. It’s really good.”
“Do you want this or some scrambled eggs?”
“Definitely the noodles.”
“All right.”
Within five minutes, he had bowls of food and glasses of milk in front of them. He watched her dig in. They ate in silence for a while.
“I’m full,” she said and pushed her plate away.
“Can you drink the rest of your milk?”
She nodded and sipped at it while he finished his food. He took everything to the sink to rinse and put them in the dishwasher.
“Come on, baby girl. Let’s get you back in bed. I want you to take another pill right now, though.”
“My head doesn’t hurt that bad, and it makes me so sleepy.”
“I know, but it will if we don’t stay ahead of the pain. We’ll try regular Tylenol tomorrow.”
“Okay.”
He finally got them settled with her in his arms where she belonged. They needed time to bond again after his mistakes,but she wasn’t strong enough for what he wanted from her. What he knew would bind them together more than anything.
Chapter Sixteen
Several weeks later, Caylee woke and stretched. The sun shone in the window, and everything in her life was a new normal. A better one than before. She had healed and was back in shape, and she and Nolan were back on track. She and Holly had started working at The Safe Haven with their men, so her life was busy, the way she liked it to be.
Nolan rarely let her out of his sight, which she was fine with. But she needed to do one thing to be able to move on, and she knew Nolan would not let her do it.
She wanted to visit the prison where the bad cop Jones would live for the rest of his life. From what she was told, he was being protected because he’d been a cop, but no one knew about the atrocity he’d done to hundreds of women and children.
She knew her daddy wouldn’t even consider it, and she knew she’d get in trouble, but she wouldn’t be able to find closure until she saw the bastard.
“Hey, baby girl, are you getting out of bed today?”
She grinned. “I don’t know. It depends on my Daddy.”
Nolan raised his eyebrows and stalked over to the bed, where he started unbuttoning his shirt.
“Does my baby need some attention from Daddy?”
“Yes,” she cried out.
He came down on her and took her mouth like he was starved for her. His tongue and teeth made her lips tingle.
Nolan used his hands on her body, sucking and making her nipples hard and achy and then moving down her body to her cunt. He spread her legs and latched on to her cunt, and she screamed.
“Fuck, you taste so damn good, baby girl.”