Page 15 of Stalker Daddy

He doesn’t think a man twenty years older should be with someone so young with a bright future ahead of her.I never did like to listen to anyone before, and I believe I had been written upon insubordination a couple of times.

None of the consequences went anywhere because the army needed me, and they couldn’t afford to lose a brain that thought differently than the average.

“You were cold, darling.I was not about to let you freeze on my watch.”I tuck her hair behind her ear.

Her lashes flutter prettily, brushing on her skin in the lightest touch, and she sighs at the slow brush of her hair.

“Thank you,” she murmurs, her small body curling deeper down the bed and securing her spot in front of me.

“What was that?”I pull on a piece of silken hair.

She makes a noise in the back of her throat.“Thank you, Daddy, for keeping me warm.”

My chest rumbles with approval.Her body begins to relax as the grip of sleep sinks its claws into her mind.

I had prepared myself for the questions that she would have when I put this choice on her, but I must admit that it wasn’t a choice that I gave her.It was a controlled guide to a mind-space that I want her to be in so I can control the narrative better.

I didn’t have trouble at all.She was all too trusting and too naïve to understand that this is not a healthy way to start a relationship, but she has no baseline to distinguish the manipulation coated with a sweet poison that seeps into her mind.

I do what is best for her, and I deem this is the way.Some dangerous people want to hurt her because she is out in the public a lot, and one day, they will be consumed by their obsession and violence will answer their prayers.

In my eyes, violence is always the answer.It is almost a guarantee that they will learn their place once I teach them a lesson if they dare to touch what’s mine.

I have had enough of being the guardian angel in the shadows.It’s time for me to become her protector in the lights.

Cyrus will no longer be able to take this responsibility since his wife is too sick to let him take one step away from her, but I have no obligation to Alana or her husband.

I rest my head on the edge of the pillow, my head touching hers as I feel her breathing on my skin while sleep completely steals her away.

She wouldn’t be sleeping so peacefully next to me if she has any inclination of what goes on in my mind, but she would never know.I’ll make sure of that.

Closing my eyes, sleep comes rather quickly.

Time passes, and I get woken up by something not quite right.The hairs on my arms, the pinch of a nerve at the back of my neck, and the nipping of a warning swirling in my mind snap my eyes open.

Darkness blocks the entire wall as my eyes focus.

I stay in my position stiffly, arms around Fia, and securing her deeper into my embrace.The subtle changes in the air are alarming, but I haven’t been able to pinpoint them for the last five minutes.

Taking a brazen chance, I sit up from the bed and press my palm on the bed space behind Fia.My eyes scout the pitch-blackness around the cabin, and my eyes land on the place where the stairs would be.

I should remember in the morning to make a wall and a door to enclose the space for privacy.It’s another layer of protection for Fia, and I could use that right now.

The more I stare into the darkness, the more it stares back at me.

I keep my eyes there and move to turn on the lamp.I’m prepared for something to be there, but the light shows nothing other than the small whispers in my ears that the air is wrong.

I may be retired, but I still have the training to detect the notion of being watched.

It’s an asset that comes from experience, and I am not wrong about this.Someone is watching me, and it’s not an animal.

My gray eyes scout the room with care before scanning the open living room down below with a detailed sweep.Nothing has been moved.I don’t see any signs of someone being in here because I would have heard the door open.

This place has more touches from nature, but I am not that much of a risk-taker when it comes to Fia, so I had a security system installed beforehand.Although I am paranoid, it’s at times like this that it is definitely appreciated.

It’s an off-network system that doesn’t connect to anything other than this cabin.The cables and some of the sensors are in the walls to use as a secondary wall of protection if someone with a basic comprehension of security systems sees the tell-tale signs of gadgets.

Once I know that there is no intruder, then that leaves the world beyond these walls.Someone is here with us, and I was not positive before when I felt a tip of the scale in my head on the first day, but this afternoon confirms my suspicion.

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