Daddy's Little Obsession (Daddy 6)

“I figured out how to email you when I was in the room.”

“Sweetheart, I didn’t get an email.”

“It had your name on it.” She looked at him in confusion. “If you didn’t get the note, how did you find out about what was going on?”

“Sam managed to pull the panic alarm that comes to my phone and calls the police also.”

“Oh, God, how is Sam?”

“He’s already at the hospital. He’ll have a concussion, but I don’t think it’s more severe than that.”

Travis looked over his shoulder at his men. “I’m going to go check on something. Can you let the police up?”

“You got it, boss. By the way, Annie, that was some good shooting,” one of Travis’s guys said.

“Anne?” she asked, perplexed.

“As in Anne Oakley.”

She tried to laugh, but she was still shaking, and her teeth were starting to chatter. “Thank you.”

He picked her up. “That is something else we have to talk about.”

She leaned her head against his chest. “All right.”

He moved them into the office and then into the small panic room. Once he sat down at the computer with her in his lap, he started typing.

“Fuck.”

She looked over her shoulder at him. “What?”

“Baby, it did go to my office.”

She didn’t understand why he was so upset. “Hey, it worked out okay.”

He grunted, stood, and got them out of the room, and closed it. Then he set the guns on the desk away from them, sat down, and pulled her tighter against him. “Jesus, I won’t ever get the feeling of you in danger out of my head.”

“You were in more than me. I’m so sorry about all the damage they did.” And that thought broke any control she had left. She tucked her face into his neck and sobbed.

“That’s it, get it all out, sweetheart. Everything’s okay now. You’ve got nothing to be sorry about.”

Several minutes went by before she finally stopped crying. He handed her some tissues to wipe her eyes and blow her nose.

He kissed her gently before he studied her. “You are calming a bit. How do you feel?”

“I can’t explain it. I know I should feel something, but I just feel hollow.”

“That’s normal, baby. Don’t shut me out. The more you talk about it, the easier it will get.”

“I’ll try,” she said and sighed.

“I just need to hold you for a minute longer.”

She tightened her arms around his neck. “I need it, too.”

Chapter Sixteen

Travis closed his eyes. He’d never been so afraid in his life, and he’d been in some sticky situations. The thought of how close he came to losing her made him want to howl in rage.