Page 121 of Saved By My Buyers

“Jack?” Dolly asks as I finish the tray.

“Coming,” I call out, bringing it over to the bedroom. “We’re skipping breakfast, so lunch will have to happen as soon as someone’s stomach rumbles.”

The girls smirk as they both grab a handful of popcorn and start eating, making me roll my eyes. I bet that at least one of them is starving. Setting up the projector, I choose a movie, while toeing off my shoes.

“I vote that you lose the clothes,” Dolly says, biting her lip.

Barking out a laugh, I look down at myself. I changed into a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, because Dolly once said that joggers are the equivalent of women wearing lingerie in public. I still can’t stop chuckling over that.

It’s not my fault that you can see the indentation of my cock in them.

“I second that,” Bee says, pouting. “My girl is going to need birthday sex at some point, and I’m injured.”

“You’re both impossible,” I growl, pulling off my shirt and yanking down my jeans.

“Yay. I like getting my way on my birthday,” Dolly says as I crawl into bed with them, turning on the movie.

I had planned a different type of birthday, but had to pivot with Bee getting hurt. No one feels like going out, and honestly, we can do it another time. I just want my girls, and to know they’re safe.

Plus, orgasms are always on the plans for today. I’ll just have Bee lay there and look cute, while Dolly licks her out and I fuck her.

Happy birthday, baby girl. May it be one of the first of many with us at your side again.

Six months later, December

Dahlia

“Jack, I’m going to crash Bee’s car,” I tell him, eyes wide as I sit in the vehicle at the cemetery.

“And hit what?” Bee asks, laughing. “This is how I learned to drive in the snow, baby girl! You can do it.”

“Ciara may be driving you to work, but you still need the skill set, and to pass your driving test,” Jack says, relaxed in the passenger seat beside me. “You’ve been doing really well with me.”

I have my drivers permit, and I’ve been practicing with Jack in his truck or with Bee’s vehicle whenever we go out. Ciara usually white knuckles it in the backseat when she joins us, which is funny, but she’s been a really good sport about it.

Turns out, Gareth has really deep connections to the Boxley gang, and he doesn’t actually have any money of his own. Everything in his accounts is theirs, while he launders it continually.

Gareth has made a series of bad investments, but it took Jack’s team a while to uncover them.

Blowing out a breath as I push away thoughts of my stepfather, I put the SUV into drive. Ciara is in her own car, with the heater on high, probably waiting to see if I’ll make a fool of myself.

Oh well, it’s winter in Detroit, may as well get some entertainment. It’s thankfully been a boring job protecting me so far. She takes me to work, my self defense classes with Bee, and then home.

I thought the self defense classes could go either way. They would either help me be able to feel as if I have some control of my body and my surrounding environment, or it would trigger me.

Thankfully, it has helped me.

Gareth hasn’t made another move to get his daughter to talk, but he and my mother did put an obituary in the newspaper, with an old photo of me when I was fifteen. I asked Jack to buy me a physical form of it and burned it.

It was therapeutic, even though I don’t know how it makes me feel. I guess that’s something I can talk to with my therapist that I’m seeing now. God, what an insane few months.

“The car isn’t going to bite you,” Bee murmurs. “You got this.”

The snow didn’t really start to fall until now, though we’ve had some flurries here and there. I haven’t had enough to worry about, but it’s like the heavens opened up and decided to dump on us.

“Okay,” I breathe, giving the car a little gas.

Even though these are all weather tires, the car still pulls a bit to the right as I drive. Jack teaches me what to do in case I spin out, and then forces the car to do just that. Eyes wide, breath frozen, I go through the motions of doing what he told me to do.

---