Page 7 of Weston

By the time they were in the master suite, four rooms just for the master and his mistress of the house, she was about as sappy in love with Weston as she could have been.At one point, she held his hand as they toured the backyard, and she thought that the two of them could make a good family by just being able to hang out with each other.She knew that she wanted to spend the rest of his life with him.Right here in this house.

“I love this place.Its being finished has a lot to do with that.Knowing that I’m not going to have to go home and do something about a wall or a door is nice, too.”Weston told her how the faeries were very good at keeping things repaired.“I have to admit having a year-round garden, even though I have no desire to work in one is nice as well.You told me that they made sure you have fresh vegetables and fruits, too, right?”

“We do.I have a cook now.Mae.She’d part faerie and brownie.Brownies tend to be slightly larger than faeries, and it makes it nice that she can organize the magic around the house, too.”Weston told her about the walk-in closets and how, when he first got to the house, they were as big as a bedroom.“You have to be careful when you explain to them what it is you want with magic.They tend to think that bigger is better.I do wonder if it’s because they’re so small, but who knows.You should have seen the barn that Archie wanted put up on the leap land.It was twice the size of the house here.They thought that all the leap was going to live in it and wanted to make it as comfortable as they could for so many.He’s since then had them pare it down, but it was funny for a while there.”

“Archie did a great job with Belinda getting her money back.We all have taken care of her since our brother was killed.I don’t know that she needs us to do that.She’s showing us that she likes to take care of herself pretty well.”He pointed out that she took good care of him as well.“I heard about the playground equipment men.She had a lot of fun helping you out, she told me.”

“I was never really afraid about them.Just getting hurt, but—I forgot to tell you now that we’re mates, you’re an immortal as well.We can extend that to your family, too, if you’d like.Sunny, she’s the daughter of the mother of earth and has somewhat adopted us into her family.Anyway, we can make sure that everyone in your family is safe as well.”She didn’t know how she felt about being around for a long time and told him that.“I’m sure if you didn’t want it, Sunny or her mom could work something out.”

“No.I don’t want to…I need my family around me as much as I think you do.They’re my life and my heart.”Weston said that he could understand that, being that he needed his brothers around him as well.“But you said you’d move away with me if that was what I wanted?Do you still believe that?”

“I’ll go where you go.I want you to be as happy as I can make you.”She told him that he was to have some say over where they lived as well.“I hope you wanted that, but as I said before, I want you to be happy, and if that means moving away, then I’m all for it just to be with you.”

They didn’t talk all that much more about leaving after that.She wanted him to be happy as well, and if that meant she left her family for him, then so be it.It startled her that after such a short time with him, she was as willing to give things up as he’d been.It scared her just a little to know that the two of them were so suited, too.

“Rogen?Is that your brother-in-law with those kids?”She had to pull herself from her thoughts when he touched his hand to her shoulder.“I don’t know what’s going on, but it looks to me like he’s trying to get them to do something that they’re not comfortable with.Do you suppose he’s trying to get them into trouble?”

“More than likely.”She started toward Danny and the half a dozen kids who were trying their best to back away from him.“What’s going on here?”

“Nothing.”She told Danny that it didn’t look like nothing to her and that the kids looked a little scared.“Oh, them.I was trying to get up a pick-up game, that’s all.They’re going to be hanging out with me while I’m around town.I got nothing better to do.”

“There is plenty that you can do, but you refuse to do it.I spoke with Sandy, and she’s going to have you go back home until we’re finished here.You’re causing us too much trouble not having a sitter all the time.”She kept an eye on Weston as the kids disbursed quickly.“What were you going to do with a bunch of kids half your age?Stay away from people, Danny, or so help me, they’ll be sending you home in a box.If there is enough of you left to send home.”

“You’re forever taking me out of my comfort zone.”He looked at Weston.“I surely hope that the two of you aren’t hooking up.She’s a real cunt when it comes to having fun.Or anyone around her having fun too.”

“Is that so?I like her kind of fun if it means knocking you around a bit.”Weston seemed to grow, and she could see his cat as he ran along his skin.“You talk about my mate like that again, and she won’t have a chance to send you home in a box, I’ll take care that you’re never found around here again.You can count on that.”

“I’m only going to ask you once more what you were doing with those kids?Then I’m going to rape your mind to find it.”She didn’t think that he was going to answer, but when he did, putting just a little compulsion in her voice, she was about as shocked as she’d ever been.“You were going to have them cause an accident at the leap house to kill my sister?Why?”

When Archie suddenly showed up, Danny was put into cuffs and hauled away.She was still reeling about what he’d said about having Sandy killed off when Weston pulled her into his arms.He really wanted her dead?Wanted to kill someone because they weren’t allowing him to have all the spending money he wanted?What sort of person did that kind of thing?

Chapter 4

“He thought that once Sandy was dead, then he’d get you to buy out her half of the business, and then he’d be set up for a while.He’s also taken out several insurance policies on her that would double if she were to die in an accident.”Weston kept an eye on Rogen while she was being told what Danny had planned for her sister.“He didn’t see why anyone would care as she wasn’t his mate in the first place, and no one would question him.I guess he’d been trying to get someone to do this since before you guys came up here.He thought that it would have been better here because he would be able to manipulate someone else into doing it.Too many people down where you live liked her for him to get away with it.”

“I hate to ask this, but did he have anything to do with my brother’s death?”Weston knew just when the thought occurred to Rogen, too.Sandy had been crying, but she seemed to be getting her shit together, as her brothers called it, the longer she sat there listening to what Archie had been able to figure out.Archie nodded.“Christ.What was his reasoning behind that?”

“Money.Insurance.Not to mention, Benson didn’t care for the way that Danny was treating his sister and was going to go to the police before he was killed.Belinda was supposed to have been killed as well, we assumed, since he had an insurance policy on her and the kids, too.So far, he’s not been able to collect on anything but Benson’s.He’d not paid enough into the ones on the children.”Weston took Rogen into his arms when she stood up.There was no point in her going to find Danny.Since he was human, he would have to be dealt with by human laws.Mores the pity.“He blew through the money quickly.He doesn’t have anything to show for the five hundred grand he’d gotten about a month after the funeral.”

“Half a million dollars, and he hasn’t anything—that’s where he got the games from.The money from killing my brother and my niece and nephew funded his toys so that he could stay at home and do nothing.”Sandy looked defeated as if some small part of her felt like she’d been the cause of it all.“He killed them for no other reason than greed.Just like he was planning to do with me.If not for…had we not come here, then everything would have happened just as he planned.We, I have no doubt that he would have killed off all of us one way or another.”

The rest of the evening was spent quietly talking about anything but Danny.There were plenty of tears.Some memories were brought up about little incidents about things they were only just realizing.

“I’ll gladly go to prison for killing him.”That was the second time one of the Watsons said that, and he believed them just as much.“He killed our brother, and there was no reason for it.”

After a while, Archie and Sunny decided to have dinner brought in.There was plenty of food, and people seemed to be eating, but there was none of the cheerfulness that came with family getting together.Once it was established that there wasn’t any way for the family to get to Danny on their own, he was in jail surrounded by police.They began talking about the other projects that he had going on, from the school building to the mayor’s office, that needed to be worked on as well.Even a little of the conversation was about Hank and his odd conversations about him having to take care of him.

By dessert, the two families were beginning to get pissed off, not at each other but at Danny.They’d gone from the grief stages to the pissed-off one in record time.It was agreed that as soon as they could, they’d go to the police station and file charges against the other man.

“The men from the leap that he’d been trying to convince to kill Sandy are coming forward.He offered them five hundred dollars apiece to cut her lines on her break lines or to make sure that she was using faulty equipment on the job site.The circular saw was to be faulty enough where she’d just suffered enough that he could milk it when she finally died.”Weston asked Jameson if he’d told the family that.“Not yet, but it will come out.One of the men recorded the conversation with him withouthis knowledge.He turned it over to Archie this afternoon, and I’m only just now hearing about it.”

“Christ, this is a nightmare.I suppose asking her for a divorce wouldn’t have even occurred to him.”He explained about the business.“So he thought that he’d be able to get half the earnings from that even though his wife was deceased?He’s a sick fuck if you were to ask me.We’ve been really broke before, but I don’t think any of us have thought about killing one another off for money.Why didn’t he get a job?”

“I believe you know the answer to that without asking.”He did.But it was just too far-fetched for him to think that anyone could be that lazy about things.“What else do you know?I mean, is there more that the family is going to have to deal with?”

“Nothing that has come to me.But I would keep an eye on the women.Not because I think that he might have gotten someone to take her out but simply because they’ll hurt him, if not kill him soon.”There was that, and while he wouldn’t blame them, he didn’t want them to go to prison for a man like Danny.“Also, Toby approached me the other day, and he’s thinking about moving here.He said it’s wonderful for his family, and I think that if he stays, the others will as well.Especially after all this.”

It was a lot to think about right now.He wanted to whisk Rogen away and tell her that he had her, but knew that it was important for her to be with her family right now.There were other things going on, too.Not even related to Danny and his mess that he needed to be on top of.Like Hank.

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