The Gambler (20 page)

I don’t know how much you know about the autistic community, but some of these kids and some adults as well, have amazing talents. Some we haven’t even tapped into yet. This Bonata character somehow convinced some very influential men and women to exploit these people. We’re talking children being ripped away from their families and being placed with others that were handpicked by him, or whoever else was working with him. He has families who were being paid by these unscrupulous men to foster these poor kids.

They would target them, in the beginning we didn’t know how they knew who was who, but I suspect that the operation was very sophisticated. We found school officials, doctors, lawyers and the head of DHS. They were all in bed together. You might wonder how they found each other, or how they were able to convince these people to sell their souls, but in the end it was all about the money.

They’d have someone bring a trumped up charge against the biological parents so that they could remove the children from their homes and place them. Can you imagine a child like Jenna, so unassuming and innocent being taken advantage of like that? It broke our hearts; we had to do something.

It started with my granddaughter yes, but I couldn’t sit back and let this go on after learning these things. The more we dug, the dirtier it became. A sanctioned government organization that had been set up to help children and families in need, was being used as a front for this…I don’t even know what you’d call it. So I got the idea for the expose`, I knew the only way to flush the guilty parties out was to shine the spotlight on the whole sordid affair.”

“Did your daughter know about this?”

“I didn’t want to believe it, not at first. But when I brought some of it to her attention she seemed, I don’t know. Either she didn’t want to believe me, or she just wanted it to go away. When I started getting threats I didn’t think anything of it. We always get threats when we’re working on a cause. And no one else knew what I was doing; I kept this one close to the vest. I thought we were covering our tracks pretty well, because of the sensitive nature and of course to protect the innocents.”

Jenna chose that moment to start her speed texting and Andros looked down at her little fingers as they sped across the letters. No one else had said anything once the senator started to talk, and the room was in almost complete silence, except for the tapping of her fingers.

He took his phone out when it chimed and read the message she had there. “Do you know a Spencer Dewitt?”

“Why yes, he’s my assistant, he’s the one helping me with the expose`; which I have to get back to by the way. The book’s being launched in a couple days with the documentary following after.”

“This guy have your documents, whatever it was that you were gonna use?”

“Why yes, yes he does.”

“He’s the one they sent to kill you.”

“What? That can’t be, he’s…what?”

Jenna started typing again and he waited. “Do you have backups for all this shit?”

“I don’t know, I have my notes and stuff, but Spencer took care of all that, I had other things that I’ve been working on. What are you saying? The book’s launch is coming up soon, wouldn’t the publisher have contacted me if there was a problem?”

“Not if your assistant used your name to squash it.” She seemed genuinely flustered and upset; her husband put his arm around her and tried comforting her. Andros meanwhile was trying to work his mind around all the shit he’d learned. He didn’t doubt that the shit she’d said was true. His only thoughts now were finding those who’d been exploited, and seeing to their care. He wasn’t interested in the
expose` and other bullshit.

People paid interest in those things only for as long as they were in the spotlight, as soon as the news stopped running it, people copped the attitude of, out of sight out of mind. Some of them even believed, that as long as it was no longer a running stream on the six o’clock news that the issue had been dealt with. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

“Jenna.” The grandfather had gotten up from his seat next to his wife and gone to retrieve something from the bag he’d packed in a hurry. He handed Jenna a laptop before going back to his seat. Andros was about to ask him what the fuck, but the other man answered before he could open his mouth.” Cathy used that for her work, if the records, manuscripts and all that are gone, Jenna can get them back.”

“How?”

“You’ll see.” He smiled at his granddaughter with pride, much as gramps did on occasion when Andros had pleased him. Usually when he’d burned someone or fucked somebody’s shit up for being stupid; but you had to take your proud moments where you could get them. Not everyone was a damn computer criminal.

She started fiddling with the thing and he looked over at his boys. “Find Spencer, add any names she gives you to the list.” He was sanctioning a hit in front of a United Stated senator, but he pretty much didn’t give a fuck. He was gonna eliminate every last motherfucker that had anything to do with this scheme. One because of the part she’d been forced to play in it; and two because of all the innocents they’d no doubt fucked over.

Bonata’s files had given up some things but not all. Now maybe he could fit the pieces together and get this shit over with. And hopefully put it behind them for good.

The gambling thing in itself was no big deal to him, but the other shit she was capable of might put her in danger. He knew many who would give their eyeteeth to get their hands on someone like her. They’d have to go through him first.

She was totally absorbed in what she was doing. He’d long since given up in trying to figure out how her mind worked. On the screen all he saw was gibberish and dashes and symbols. She read it the way he’d read a book, totally fucking insane. He wondered what their kids would be like? Will they have their mother’s genius? He’d have his fucking hands full if that was the case; but he couldn’t wait.

Thinking of getting her with child, his child only sent his mind and body down a whole other path. It might be hours before she was done here, but he couldn’t wait to get her upstairs behind closed doors, so he could reacquaint himself with her amazing body.

He felt a rush of gratitude in that moment, that she was his, that everything that she was, belonged to him, only him. In her way of always knowing, somehow she knew his mood had shifted, because she looked back at him over her shoulder and smiled. Then she puckered up for a kiss. He tried to make it short and sweet because of their audience, but his Jenna only knew one way to kiss.

He held her little face in his hands to soften the kiss before it got out of hand. Whispering gently in her ear, he promised to give her all the kisses and loving she needed once they were alone. He hoped that would suffice her somehow, but she came back for more. It was the throat clearing from her nana that finally broke the spell and she lifted her mouth from his with another one of her smiles that went right to his gut.

He didn’t have to look to know that the two fucks in the corner were smirking or some shit. She turned back to what she was doing, leaving him hard as fuck and wishing he could send everyone the fuck home and be alone with her. He pretty much had the gist of what was going on and hoped that was all there was to it. The senator was giving Jameson the names of those who’d been under the rocks she’d turned over in her digging expedition. Some he already knew from Bonata’s files, some were new.

It was going to take a lot of work to round up all these people; some of them lived internationally. “Why didn’t you get the law involved when you found out about all this? Why was it allowed to carry on for over a year almost?”

“Because the wheels of justice turns slowly young man, especially when you’re dealing with such highly renowned and established men. Don’t think I didn’t try going through the proper channels. But at every turn I ran into a brick wall. I was very naïve when I first started this. All the places I turned to for help were of no use. Every time I thought I’d made leeway, something would come up to block me.

That’s when Hal said they were stonewalling me. I didn’t see the pattern you see; I wasn’t expecting adversity on this. For heaven’s sake these are our children. I thought for sure everyone would be on board; they’d get out their pitchforks and march in the streets.

Quite the opposite, my peers mostly seemed to want to hide it up. Told me to move on; I was never so mad in my life. I admit, had it not been for Jenna I probably wouldn’t have paid as much attention to it as I did, but because she was involved, I had to do it. After I found that I was getting no help from certain quarters, that’s when I decided to do the expose`. I’d use my own resources and skirt around anyone who thought to stand in my way. By then I knew who was onboard and who wasn’t…”

“Yes, and they knew what you were up to and one of them put a hit on your ass. Any ideas who that might be?” She shook her head as she retook her seat. “It could be any number of people, I spoke to hundreds, and I’m sure they spoke to others. I thought you said this
Bonata person was the one…”

“Bonata might’ve got the job, but there was someone else footing the bill. I can’t see why he would go all out like this for something like this. It doesn’t add up. Yes he stood to lose a lot if you exposed him and got Jenna away from them, but something feels off. Did you ever find out who he was dealing with out of the names you have?”

“I don’t think we ever pinpointed any one person now that you mention it. It always seemed like a network, a very well connected one at that. Everyone had their place, their part to play; from the low level clerk to the man at the top.” She shrugged her shoulders and laid her head back. He had no doubt she was tired he was getting tired himself.

Willie came in to see if they needed refreshments, and Andros asked him to set up a room for the senator and her husband. “Put them in the east wing.” That was far enough away from he and Jenna, and unless they went roaming through his place, far away from their soon to be dead daughter. Neither of them had asked about her whereabouts in all this time, he wasn’t sure if that was an oversight or what, but no one knew she was here except his men; so when the bitch came up missing he’d be in the clear.

When it looked like she was drooping in his lap he put a halt to everything. They knew who the killer was and he’d already made moves to take him out, granted his men found the fuck. He didn’t know how Jenna had known that he was the one, but he figured she’d heard things that she wasn’t supposed to. He was pretty sure that the assholes, while using her brain, didn’t think she was smart enough to understand the shit they were planning. He’d seen it often enough, the underestimation of ones they thought were less than.

“Baby, you’re gonna have to finish this later, you’re dead on your feet.” And having her sitting on his lap wasn’t the same as it was before he’d tasted her. Even then it had been a trial, but now it was about to become embarrassing. The senator wasn’t looking too swift on her feet either so he decided it would be best if everyone got some rest and came at it again in a few hours.

“Jenna almost…done.” She was still typing away and muttering to herself. At the risk of setting off one of her fits he decided to put his foot down. She’d wanted him to save her grandmother and he had, now he wasn’t about to let her make herself sick by becoming over tired. She’d been shot just a couple days before, and had been going for damn near twenty-four hours already, enough is enough.

Instead of arguing with her, he just stood with her in his arms. She clasped his face between her hands and tried glaring him into having her way, but it wasn’t working. “Senator, Mr. Winthrop, we’ll see you two later. Willie will take you up to your rooms; feel free to call down for anything you’d like. Willie will show you how the in-house phone works. I’d do it myself but your granddaughter’s been going for hours and she needs her rest.” He didn’t wait around for their answers, but headed out the door and up the stairs. He guessed his baby was really tired because she did no more than lay her head on his shoulder and sigh.

He kissed her at the bottom of the stairs before making his way up with his precious cargo.

He helped her get undressed since she decided to play lazy. She was barely out of the jeans and t-shirt before he was on her. “I missed you baby.” She smiled up at him and he felt that shit in his dick. She really and truly was the most gorgeous creature he’d ever seen. She wrapped her legs around him and pulled him down to her mouth.

He told himself to go slow, enjoy. That was before her tongue came out to play and she grabbed his ass. She as innately sensual, something else she did very well. They rolled around the bed until she got what she wanted. His dick. She studied it like a newfound pet. Then she licked his cockhead and he almost came. She looked into his eyes as she pleasured him with her mouth; he caressed her cheek before pulling her off and over him.

“Hold onto the bed baby.” He had her sit on his face, her hands clutching the headboard as he tongued her. She moved against his tongue instinctively, her moans sweet music to his ears. He had a death grip on her ass as he moved her over his mouth trying to get as much of her sweet essence as he could.

When she’d cum with a mini yell, her lowered her until she was sitting on his cock. Pulling her down, he took it slow as he eased his whole length inside her. When she went wild and started riding him hard, he reared up and took her nipple into his mouth. Biting down gently at first until she pulled his head closer in silent demand.

He held her as he would the most precious gift, which she was, as he bent his knees behind her. She was essentially sitting in his lap, his ten inches buried to the hilt inside her. “I’m going to give you a baby sweet Jenna.” Her eyes flew open wide and he thought she was about to freak the fuck out. But instead his sweet girl caught his lips in a tumultuous kiss as her hips moved even faster.

He had no control over the roar that was ripped from him as he spilled inside her, her sweet spasms sending him over the edge time and again as she followed him into bliss. “I love you so fucking much little one.”