We had three days before we went on our "family" vacation. Chloe was loving the limo ride with her brothers as we went shopping for everything they needed. She wanted to try everything so we found ourselves at a dive shop. I had hired a personal shopper and tipped her and extra 500 bucks to shield me from most purchases. She was going to be worth her weight in gold if she could get me out of swimsuit shopping. Chloe had decided that we were all going to be certified to SCUBA dive while we were down in the Bahamas. She was so excited I couldn't burst her bubble and tell her that our magic would allow us to breathe underwater and adjust any pressure differentials so we could basically free dive anywhere in the world. Also she had kept her supernatural abilities hidden from her brothers so even if I did let her know, she would want the gear to keep up appearances. Which led me to buying five sets of SCUBA equipment to the tune of 9800 bucks. Did I mention Gwydion was going with us?
Gwydion was staying at the tower while the Paladins investigated his shooting. I had met with their head inquisitor Lucas and was asked to stand down on my own investigation. He didn't even blink when I told him to blow it out his ass. We did agree to share information though. Chloe's wraith was still tracking the shooter. Since she worked most of her magic on instinct she couldn't quite explain how she had tagged the shooter or transferred the knowledge to her wraith. The net effect of her summoning and command was an incorporeal undead chasing an arcane caster across the world. The quarry wouldn't be able to stay in one place too long because her Wraith would be able to lock in and zip to his location within a couple of hours. I wasn't sure what would happen if the sniper was talented enough or had powerful enough friends to plane hop but if he did then he was entering my realm. I had worked up a few nasty surprises for any arcane caster trying to leave the Prime Material plane. The arcane council was currently determining whether they could officially censure me for that trick but I had them buried under past practice edicts going back to the time of Hammurabi. Even with the extra hands looking at my defense it would take them a month before they could make a ruling. Things will have shaken out by then.
As for Gwydion, he was on extended leave for recuperation even though he checked out fine after Raphael did his thing. There was a little bit of mental anguish from the whole near death experience thing but he looked to be shaking it off pretty easy. He claimed to have moved to the light when he felt arms holding him in place telling him about love and pain. He waxed poetic about the soul he entwined with that held him and the care and love he felt as she placed him back in his body. It made me rather sick. I am all about romance and all that crap but he really seemed to lay it on thick. Then he couldn't even talk to Chloe when he saw her. I swear I was back in junior high with those two. And just like junior high the female was in charge. He had decided to tag along with us to "stretch his legs" but so far he had only managed to carry shopping bags for Chloe. Her brothers seemed to dig him and he seemed to like them so that looked like it was going okay. When conversation would slow down I noticed he would look at her until she looked at him then they would both blush and look away. I mentally cursed Xandra.
Can't respond to that right now boss. Sophia wanted to join the mile high club so we are trying to 69 in an airplane bathroom. I LIKE her.
She sent.
That just sounded uncomfortable.
And how did she turn Sofie into a lesbian so quick?
Sex Demon boss ... don't worry ... she will still like your cock ... now I am busy.
She sent.
I felt her shut out our shared thoughts.
Since I wanted some real conversation I figured I should take the boys and let Chloe and Gwydion go off with the shopper. She stayed totally professional and didn't even flinch when I told her to make sure that Chloe bought swimsuits and any other girl stuff that would be needed for a two week beach trip. I dropped those three at the mall and sat back in the limo with Chloe's two brothers.
And it turned into a staring contest.
"So I will be honest and tell you guys I have no idea how to relate to a 15 and 13 year old so throw me a bone here and tell me what you guys like." I said into the silence.
"Are you fucking my my sister?" Jack asked
"Nope. I thought you would think more of your sister than her being a whore." I responded.
These kids were direct and spoke their mind. I could get to like them.
"So what does she do for you? She doesn't have a degree but she tells us she works for you. You obviously have money and she has no special skills that we know of. She is attractive and young so it makes sense that you are paying her to screw you. I don't think she would do so willingly so you are probably being nice to us to facilitate your agreement." Jack replied.
For a 15 year old kid this guy was pretty astute. That was a solid line of reasoning.
"How would you feel about it if I was just using her?" I asked.
"I would not like it at all. I would take the scholarship you are offering us and use it to learn how best to take you down. I realize you have more money than you need so I would wait until you figured I wasn't a threat then I would destroy you financially and emotionally, even if I had to wait until you were on your deathbed." he replied calmly.
DAMN me and this kid were gonna get along great. Jeremiah piped up at this point.
"I would bring child molestation charges against you and try to off you before you realized I was a threat. As long as it happened before I was 18 I could have my record sealed and get off with minimal sentencing." he said as he glared at me.
I couldn't help it. I laughed. These guys were fucking great! They looked at me like I was crazy.
"I love this! I have only one question, why tell me now? You guys could have kept below my notice and sprung your respective plans on me. Now I can take counter measures, possibly even arrange for accidents for both of you. I would be sad of course but I could use the emotional distress to bind Chloe to me tighter." I pointed out.
"For you to do that you would have to be a psychopath or sociopath, I am not sure what the difference is really, but I don't think you are. Besides I would wager that our sister would be inclined to stop whatever deal she had with you if anything were to happen to us. We are the ticket to your continued whatever so I ask you again, are you fucking my sister?" Jack asked.
"Sorry to break it to you pal but I am not. Your sister does have a special skill set that I am using but it has nothing to do with sex. I have to tell you I appreciate the thought you both have put into protecting your sister. Also I think it is awesome that you have contingency plans to bring me down. Frankly I would go with a dark web search to try and put child porn on my computer then call the FBI. You would have to break through some serious internet security but the resulting backlash would be terrible for my business even if I could prove my innocence." I said.
I could see both of them thinking about it, weighing the pros and cons.
"Two things wrong with your plan." Jeremiah said. "First, one of us would have to be internet savvy enough to deal with a dark web search and break your firewalls to put it on your computer. Second you have enough money and trial knowledge that you could probably beat even a child porn case unless they found Polaroids in your house somewhere. The low tech option would be for Jack to photograph me in compromising positions naked and leave them for the feds to find."
Goddamn these kids were scary good! I would have thought they were sociopaths themselves if it weren't for the fact that they were only looking out for their sister's wellbeing. I decided then and there they were going on my payroll. Maybe even within the next few days. All of a sudden I had one of those really strong hunches. You know the one where you are so sure of something even though you have no data to back it up? I knocked on the privacy window and gave the driver an address to take us to. I was positive I knew what would happen.
