Lyon
Chapter 103

It wasn’t Caitlin that woke us up in the morning, but the ringing phone. Rolling over, I answered as I looked at the clock. Almost seven, my baby will be waking up any minute screaming her head off.

“Hello.”

“Mr. Lyon, this is the nurse at the hospital. Your charge is ready to be discharged later this morning and we were wondering if you’d made any arrangements to have her picked up?”

What the f**k?

“There seems to be some sort of misunderstanding. I don’t have a charge in the hospital.”

“The young lady that was admitted after a car accident, we have you down here as the only contact.”

” She’s not my anything, first of all, and my mother is supposed to be there to get her.” Of course Kat woke up just then and started motioning for me to give her the phone. Yeah, like that shit was gonna happen.

“Well, there was a problem with that. Some ladies did show up here to take her home but she was very afraid to leave with them since she doesn’t know them. Your wife apparently left instructions that either you or she were to be called when it was time for her release.”

“What time is she being released?”

“Anytime after eleven, that’s when the doctor finishes his rounds. We’ll need someone here to sign her out by then.”

“I’ll have to get back to you in a bit.” I hung up the phone with that unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach. If this bitch whoever she turns out to be, ruins my daughter’s first Xmas, I’ma break her f*****g neck; the f**k?

“Do you know anything about that chick being released into our custody from the hospital?”

“Um, I might’ve said something that first day that if they didn’t replace her family we’d take responsibility.”

“So you went behind my back and against my wishes.”

“Colt” I just got up off the bed from next to her because after the night we’d just had it wouldn’t be right to slap the shit out of her. Leaving her lying there to think about her stupid f**k move, I headed to the bathroom to shower off the night before.

I couldn’t even think about this shit right now. I have less than three hours to figure out what the f**k I’m gonna do about this disaster. One thing was for certain, she was not stepping foot in my house not with my kid here.

It’s like someone had a personal vendetta or some shit. All my well laid plans were going up in smoke. Maybe I’m paying for my past sins. Can’t think about that shit now either. I have to get my head straight, f*****g Kat.

Although I’d come up with the idea of putting her up in one of my rentals, even that felt wrong to me now. I just didn’t want anything to do with this person. And why did it seem like she was trying to get close to me or some f**k?

It’s true she doesn’t know mom, but she don’t know me either. Wouldn’t it make more sense for a female on her own in such a vulnerable position to be more comfortable with another woman?

Kat seems to think I have some sort of personal issue against this woman or that I’m just being mean for the sake of being mean. Why she couldn’t understand where I was coming from was totally beyond me. While Kat was pregnant, I’d started watching those cop shows on TV maybe that shit warped me a little.

Then I’d moved on to the Internet where I spent most of my time reading up on child safety. I wanted to make sure that I was doing everything I could to protect my little family.

As if I didn’t already know how f****d up the world is the point was driven home for me from what I learned there. There are some sick f***s in the world and I want to give my little girl a fighting chance.

I know there’re no guarantees in life but I’m prepared to do all that it’s in my power to do. I signed up for the s*x offender alerts online and found a couple pedophiles about ten miles away.

That was way too f*****g close for comfort, so me and the boys, along with my boy Travis who lives in that particular town had paid them a visit. He wasn’t too jazzed about them being in his backyard either.

Needless to say, they found it expedient to hit the f*****g road. I don’t give two f***s if they paid their debts to society they’re not going to get the chance to do that sick shit to another kid in my backyard. And they damn sure ain’t breathing air that close to my daughter.

All this time I’ve been doing my part to make my little world that much safer for my daughter and now her mother wants to bring the danger to the door.

I can see this isn’t going to end well unless I put her little a*s over my knee. It’s long overdue but she’s just begging for it. Either that or a f*****g she won’t soon forget.

***

“Colt.”

“Get the f**k away from me Kat.” I tried not to raise my voice in front of my kid so though the words were harsh they were said with less heat than I would’ve liked.

She jumped back like I’d punched her and her eyes filled up with tears. Too f*****g bad, if she couldn’t see what I was trying to do here then I was going to have to get drastic with this shit.

Because of her I now have to get more involved in some shit that I know is not gonna end well. It’s my little girl’s first Xmas and I’m going to be spending it worrying about this fuckery instead of enjoying it with my baby.

I was tempted to get them on the plane and head to the island or some shit but that wouldn’t be fair. My mom and hers were all excited about spending this time with their first grand baby.

They had a million plans, half the shit would be lost on Caitlin but they would have memories of it. I wasn’t about to test Elena’s wrath because she’s lost her damn mind too since the baby came.

“Colton please don’t be mad” I turned to her and she took a quick step back. What my tone lacked my face made up for.

“I said step the f**k off, you f****d up. I know you can’t help disobeying me but now my f*****g kid is involved and not even you Kat, not even f*****g you are allowed to put my kid in danger. Now walk away and stay away from me for the next little while.”

She turned away with her shoulders hunched and head down. I know she has a soft heart, that’s one of the things I love about her but I won’t accept irresponsibleness.

Maybe I haven’t explained things well enough to her. I don’t know; all I know is that on this I refuse to give in. There isn’t much I would deny my wife and child, she knows this but when it comes to their safety all bets are off.

After shunning her I spent the morning playing with my daughter. I guess Kat was off somewhere licking her wounds but right now I didn’t really care.

I don’t think I’ve ever been this mad at her before and she’s made me plenty mad in the past but this shit was dangerous. I have to decide what the hell I was going to do because time was running out.

I’m almost tempted to leave the girl in the damn hospital and let her make her own way since she refused my mom’s help. I don’t buy that bullshit story about her being afraid for one minute.

While Caitlin took her nap I went on the Internet again looking for missing persons in the surrounding areas but there was nothing, not a peep.

I felt at a lost for the first time in my life and I didn’t like it one bit. In the end I decided to call the hospital and have them put her on the phone. I explained to her that it was either mom or she was on her own. Yes I know I’m a cold motherfucker but I had shit I had planned on doing with my kid today and I’ll be f****d if I’m putting them off for her or anyone else. F**k that.