Sadistic Mates Chapter 72

Thaddeus Magic was in my system still and hadn t subsided, yet I did manage to sleep only to be awoken by a tiny body climbing over and sitting half on and half on her father. Opening my eyes I find Mara had climbed out of her cot, I don t rember Orion coming back but it was obvious he had because here she was trying to pry her father s eyelids open with her tiny fingers. Thaddeus rolls at her actions.

Mara jumps up and down her bottom hitting my hip as she excitedly tries to wake him. "Dad shower, shower" She squeals, prying his eyelid open and gazing in his eyeball. He smiles half asleep.

"Ask mumma poppit" He tells her as she continues forcing his lids open. I laugh as she then rolls over doing the sa to Ryland trying to wake him but he was snoring loudly, dead to the world until she stuck her finger up his nose making him jump and his eyes fly open.

"Shower" She demands her bottom lip jutting out. I sit up climbing over Ryland.

"Have one with mum, she is up" He says yawning brushing her curls from her face. I walk into the bathroom hearing the racing pitter patter of her feet. Turning the shower on, I strip my pyjamas off adjusting the taps and waiting for the water to heat up. Mara cos racing in with her clothes stripped running in with an armful of toys.

"Do you really need all those toys?" I ask her, looking at the death contraptions she wants to bring in to shower. She pouts looking up at and I hold the shower door open for her.

"At least leave this one out, it has batteries" I tell her when she tries to bring her robotic dog that aunty Amara got her. I take it from her placing it on the bench as she arranges her toys in a booby trap for to step on. I wash her little body of chubby rolls with soap while she plays before washing myself. Halfway through my shower a panicked Orion races in before sighing realising she was in the shower with .

"I told you to wait," He tells her as she gazes up at him.

"You know she thinks she needs to shower with everyone," I tell him. Usually as soon as she hears water running, no matter how sneaky you are trying to have a shower by yourself, she will run in with her towel and naked demanding to hop in with whoever is showering, sotis it can be frustrating especially when you are trying to shave and have to walk out with half a shaved minge or leg. Orion leans on the basin, he looks tired considering he doesn’t sleep.

"You sorted everything with Thaddeus" he asks. I nod and feel his relief through the bond.

"Where did you go last night?"

"Inside didn t want her to wake up and be scarred for life with the images of her fathers and mother in bed" He says chuckling.

"Yeah, we need to find a place soon," I tell him.

"If you can take her today, I will go find sothing" He says and I nod.

"You want to co to work with mummy and nanny?" I ask her. She nods.

"Well then you need to let wash your hair" I tell her.

"Goodluck with that" Orion says walking out knowing washing her hair is like performing an exorcism. Today is no different she screams bloody murder as soon as the shampoo touched her head and I had to pin the writhing child beast to wash it out. Her screaming forced Ryland and Thaddeus up as I tried to wash the soap from her head.

"Why all these tears?" Ryland cos in, staring down at her now drenched hair still with bubbles in it.

"It burns" She says,

"Well if you would let wash it out it won’t get in your eyes" I tell her, grabbing the shower head off and trying to wash it out again while Ryland distracts her by pressing his face against the glass.

Once we are both showered we hop out and I wrap her towel around her. Thaddeus was getting dressed pulling his shirt on as we walked out. He raises an eyebrow at his daughter for her screaming ltdown in the shower.

"Where are you going?" I ask him, seeing him all dressed up.

"Council, been asked to co in"

"I need to go in to work but I am taking Mara while Orion house hunts"

"Did you still want to go ho?" He asks and I nod.

"Well when you finish ring , I will co grab you" He says and Ryland clears his throat loudly grabbing our attention.

"What s this talk of going ho?" He asks while dressing Mara while I get changed.

"We are going to see if we can find anything" I tell him buttoning up my blouse.

"That is going to be an issue" He states and I hear his worry smash into . Thaddeus looks over at him. "Why is that an issue?" He asks him.

"Because the place was bulldozed yesterday, there is nothing left"

"What?" I ask burning anger bubbling within .

"Evelyn, Mara!" Thaddeus warns as he feels my temper rise. I press my lips in a line biting back the profanities I wanted to scream at him.

"I told you I would clean it up" Ryland tells Thaddeus.

"Yeah but I didn’t think imdiately, I thought like a week or so"

"Great, fucking great Ryland" I tell him and Thaddeus glares at swearing.

"If you’re going to argue, do it outside, not in front of her" Thaddeus says glaring at both of us.

I pick up Mara grabbing her shoes before storming out of the little studio toward the main house. Imogen steps out dressed for work.

"So you coming in again?" She asks and I nod handing Mara off to her.

"What’s wrong?" She asks.

"Nothing, everything is fine" I tell her.

"That new girl we hired won’t be in today" Imogen says, making look at her.

"Why?" I ask, she had only just started just before I left on maternity leave.

"Stealing from the til, I fired her that’s why I am coming in today" I nod, great now I need to find another person.

Getting to work Imogen and I set to work while Mara draws behind the counter watching everyone. We were completely run off our feet, the day filled with commuters and workers from the main street. Towards the end of the day just as we are closing a woman walks in around her mid twenties. I smile at her as she enters walking to the counter. Mara watched her with a strange look on her face that I hadn t seen before. She put down her pencil to openly stare at the woman.

"Hi what can I get you?" I asked her, hoping it wasn t a big order seeing as we were about to close.

Imogen cos out wiping over the last few tables and clearing them.

"Oh nothing, I saw in the window you’re looking for a kitchen hand?" She says holding out her hand for to shake. Imogen stops looking her over.

"Can you pass a criminal check?" Imogen asks now paranoid. The girl nods holding her hand out to Imogen. Imogen shakes her hand gently. "I m Laura" She introduces herself before handing her resu to Imogen who quickly reads it. "We do need soone desperately" Imogen says under her breath so low I could only hear.

"Can you start tomorrow?" Imogen asks her. The girl nods eagerly.

"Be here at 7" I tell her and she agrees before giving us her contact information before leaving.

"Her resu is impressive. I wonder why she wants to work here" Imogen says.

"Resus could be faked, do your checks and we will see if she shows up tomorrow" I tell her and Imogen nods in agreent. Mara however runs over to the window peering out looking at the woman, I thought her behaviour strange, she doesn’t usually show such a keen interest in custors and sothing about the way Mara watched her, had on edge.

"What s wrong?" I ask her, turning the closed sign on the door before scooping her up and walking back out the back with her.

Mara shakes her head but I could feel her looking over my shoulder out the front of the store still.