Page 8 of Avenging Laura

“You haven’t been my mother since I was born. You and Dad have hoisted me off to a nanny since the minute I took my first breath. You pretended to want something to do with me if it got Dad’s attention. He stopped wanting something to do with me when I refused to follow in both of y’all’s footsteps and put Laura down. How the hell she was the good one out of you both, I’ll never fucking know!” Dominick yelled at his mother, smacking the table, making her jump.

“She’s not David’s,” Kathy mumbled, looking down at her fingers.

“Come again?” Dominick demanded, confusion in his voice as he looked over at Highlander and his grandmother.

“She’s not David’s. That’s why he’s always hated her,” Kathy said louder, looking over at Dominick, eyes full of anger.

“W-whose is she?” Dominick stammered, clenching his fists, ready to strike.

“I got drunk one night after a fight with your father. Found out about him and that whore, Deanna, that he was fucking on the side. So, I got dressed, went out to a bar and got drunk. Therewere a group of Army grunts there apparently in town for some training exercise and I went back to his hotel room with him.”

“Was it a one-time thing?” Highlander asked, staring Kathy down.

“No. He was assigned to the base for nearly two months working with a unit there. Apparently, David’s unit was working with a Special Forces Unit at the time. They were doing a cross training with the Marines…”

“Who is her father?” Jeannette cut off Kathy’s mumbling.

“Some Army grunt named Travis McCoy,” Kathy mumbled as she looked away.

“Are you fucking kidding me?” Dominick jumped up as he shouted at his mother and walked away.

“Who is that?” Highlander looked between the two women and Dominick who was pacing back and forth in the kitchen.

“General Travis McCoy. He’s the head of Delta Force stationed out at Fort Hood. I’m sorry, Fort Cavazos. I keep forgetting about the name change.” Dominick sighed, as he sat back down, ignoring his mother completely.

“Does he know, Kathy?” Jeannette asked, looking at her daughter coldly.

“No. I never told him and to the best of my knowledge, David never knew who it was I slept with. I never told him anything about it or the person. He just knew I had an affair with someone. He had always assumed it was another Marine.”

Highlander didn’t hesitate. His wife needed every fucking thing on the planet. She’s been gone for two days. One fucking minute too long. He pulled out his phone and dialed Tex’s number.

“Hello.”

“Tex, it’s Joe. Ye are on speakerphone with me, Dominick, Laura’s grandmother, and mother. I need ye to get me in touch with General Travis McCoy.”

“Um, you know he can’t override anything to send the boys out, Joe.”

“Ask him about a woman he had an affair with thirty-six years ago while doing a TDY in California at a Marine Corps base. That affair resulted in a pregnancy that he was never told about. He has a daughter. It’s Laura,” Highlander cut straight to the chase.

“Well fuck!” Tex replied before hanging up.

CHAPTER NINE

Laura groaned as she moved her head. Her whole body hurt like a bitch. She’d been missing for several days now. She knew Joe and Dominick were going spastic trying to find her. She honestly didn’t think they would find her in time. Cyrus had stayed under the radar this long without anyone knowing about him. His taking her wouldn’t change that.

The one thing she will admit is that Cyrus was an evil son of a bitch. He never gave her back her clothes after having his guard dog cut them off her body when they had her hanging from the meat hook. He didn’t even give her new clothes either. He purposely left her naked and cold. He didn’t even give her a blanket when they would take her down after making her hang for hours at a time as they interrogated, beat, and tortured her.

Laura closed her eyes and allowed herself to mentally picture her husband and her children smiling and laughing. She wouldn’t allow herself to think of them sad or worse, dead like Cyrus promised her he would do to them. She had to believe that Joe would stay on high alert and keep their family protected. He would be surrounded by his family and fellow SEALs, and they wouldn’t let anything happen to them. She had to strongly believe that.

“Not today, bitch!” Cyrus murmured as he walked into the room seeing her still on the dirty mattress.

“Go fuck yourself, Cyrus. You haven’t broken me since I’ve been here. Today isn’t going to be your lucky day either.”

“Ah, I have more fun planned for you! Well, fun for me, not for you!” Cyrus smirked at Laura.

“I don’t know. I’m having some fun watching you get pissed when I don’t beg for mercy or for you to stop. Your punches kind of tickle anyways.”

“You’re funny for a dead bitch!”

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