Song: Monster by Beth Crowley

Chapter dedicated to @jdoggy thank you so much for being a loyal reader. Hope you enjoy this chapter.

I let her watch cartoons as we go to the office for more privacy. He puts in the video and we watch the night unfold. Three guys due in fact enter the house, all dressed in black. What I don't get is why none of them are wearing a mask. We watch as they enter the living room and bark orders telling them to go to their rooms. The kids all do what they are told only after the mother begs them to just go.The father walks in and he starts talking to the one guy like they know each other. He acts like he is not scared of him at first until he sees the gun in his hand. Only then does he seem like he slightly frightened and starts backing up and trying to protect his wife.

 We watch as he shoves him to the side and grabs the wife by the head of the hair. They force them both up the stairs. As they go along they close the doors to the other rooms and tell the kids not to dare come out. Two of the guys take the wife into the bedroom and even though we can't see what is happening we all know what is taking place. The husband tries to go in after them but the other guy holds the gun to his head daring him to make a move. I can only imagine what is going on through his head and he stares into the room. "Open the fucking safe or we will do it...I will have them rape and then kill the bitch."

They both walk towards the office. You can see him knelling down to open the safe. He takes out whatever is inside and hands it to man. Within seconds he holds up the gun anyway and then shoots the husband in the back of the head. He comes out of the office and walks back down the hall with a hop in his step and smirks at the other two holding up the backpack. He nods and I'm pretty sure they took turns raping the wife from all the screams she was doing and then finally nothing...We hear the gun go off and there is a spark of light that comes from the room. They were never planning on leaving her alive.

 I think back on walking in that room with the blood all over the place; I know what they did.When they both walk out there is blood all over their clothes. They all three high five each other and make their way down the hallway. They enter the teen girl's room and the gun goes off. A part of me is glad they only shot her sparing her the pain of what her mother just went through. Then once they are done making sure she is dead they go to the two boys room shooting them both from the doorway. They don't bother searching for anyone else and leave the house.

We put in another video of the outside of the house. You can see from the window, lights from the first gunshot in the office. Then the teen's window opens up and she is pushing her little sister out the window. She climbs down nearly falling but lands and runs to the play house. Then more sparks from the gun going off in the other rooms. We watch the three guys take off in the dad's Jeep and the other car that they arrived in.

"They knew each other." I look over at Atticus.

"So why not go after the little girl?"

I shrug. "Maybe they got what they came for...and she was not in there...out of sight out of mind...they were stupid for leaving her behind." I turn off the computer and turn to look at him. "I want you to search for them...find them, tell me where they are? I think we have a little business to take care of."

He smirks; he knows me all to well. "I will get right on it."

Throughout the rest of the week, I introduce Violet to the rest of the family. His mom and Meagan were excited to take her shopping and by the end of the week she had so much clothes and shoes that would last her for the next two years. They went all out to make sure that she would be super happy.

 I made sure she woke up when we all did so that she got a healthy breakfast right along with a good workout. I didn't expect her to keep up with us the whole time considering she was only five but she did as much as she could handle. I thought about my first week here. Zane was so rough on me. He never let me give up and I remember crying those first few weeks. I hated being here and I knew deep down that I would not do that to her. So I was a little easy on her. Even on our runs...I would have Atticus carry her when she couldn't go any farther and on days that we would swim, I let her do a lap or two and then play on one side while I finish up my laps.

 By the middle of the second week Atticus comes to me with information. "I have the folder...do you want to look at it here or the other room?" He sees Violet playing with her dolls in the living room floor.

I glance over at Violet and take the folder from him. I walk over towards her and smile. "Hey I need to take care of a little work will you be alright watching some TV for a little while?"

She smiles back at me. "Can I watch cartoons?"

"Of course..." I turn on the TV and turn the channel to Cartoon Network. We don't watch a lot of TV around here so to her it is a special treat. "I will be right back ok...if you need anything yell for me ok?"

"OK." She lays on the couch and props her head up on one of the pillows.

I walk to the office with Atticus. I open the folder and they have been busy that's for sure. The main guy is on the first page. Shawn Green, age twenty-one. The other two guys, Brent Matthews and Jayson Wayne also known as Jdoggy, both twenty-one as well. He has their address and he has pictures of them all over the town. I flip through the pages. They have been busy...buying fancy cars and women and blowing a shit load of money. How stupid can they be. I look up at Atticus. "The family...that was murdered...wasn't their last name Green?"

"Yes." He hands me another folder. "Looks like Sam Green got a divorce years ago...with his first wife he had a son...Shawn. He left them and moved on to another life with Sara and they had four kids...apparently Sam did not leave Shawn shit. His mom passed away about a year ago and I bet he was coming back to get what he thought was owed to him."

"Wow...the kid killed his dad and step family...for what... a few thousand dollars?"

"I'm sure it was more than that...shit they are blowing money like it grows on trees. I have a feeling he also cashed out some bonds and who knows what else."

"So let's go get our boys. I will have Meagan come over and take care of Violet."

"You sure you want to go through with this?" By the way he says it he knows that I have not said anything to Mekhi.

"Yes...because she is still alive and once it dawns on them, they will come after her...she is on the will...not him." I reach out and touch his arm. "And Atticus...Mekhi doesn't need to know about this for now...ok."

"Alright them...I will be ready to go when you are."

I pick up the phone and call Meagan. I walk back into the living room and she is still watching TV. I run upstairs and get dressed for the night and come back down when I hear Meagan walking through the door. "Thanks for coming right over. I hated calling you but I have something that needs to be taken care of."

"You know I don't mind." She walks into the living room.

When Violet sees her, she jumps up to walk over to her and Rylan. I bend down on her level. "I have to go out for a little while so Meagan and Rylan are going to stay and play ok."

"OK." She says like it doesn't bother her one bit that I am leaving.

Atticus and I leave and end up at a bar. We scope the place out and see Brent and Jayson having fun with a few girls on the dance floor. I make my way over and get in the middle of all of them dancing. Two songs in, they are buying me drinks. We walk over to one of the table on the side wall. "Hi my name is Scarlett what's yours?" I ask Brent like I don't already know who he is.

"I'm Brent and this is my friend Jdoggy. What's a fine ass woman like you doing here?"

"Just looking for fun...we should get out of here...you two could come back to my place we could have a little more fun." I raise my eyebrows and pucker up my lips to flirt with them.

"Hell yeah...take me baby. What do you want to do to daddy?" says Brent.

I laugh inside... 'daddy' you wish. I try not to roll my eyes. "You think you can handle me." I call out across the table over the loud music that is blarring and he starts laughing.

 "Hell yeah...let's get out of here."

We make our way out and they are stumbling all over the place. They walk over to their brand new Mustang and I shake my head no. I grab the keys from Brent. Even though a part of me wants to ride in it...both are dog drunk and I be damned if either one of them is driving me anywhere. "Come on...you know you want to ride in mine." I point over to the Maserati Quattroporte.

"Holy...Fuck!" Says Jdoggy. "Momma got money...hell yeah!" He walks over and runs his hands along the side. "She's fucking beautiful."

"Yeah...well you can ride in it but you better hope to god you don't puke in it."I let them get in and I look over at Atticus, I roll my window down and hand him the keys to the Mustang. "See you in a few." I mouth to him but not loud enough for the guys to hear.

A few minutes later I pull up at the back of the Crematory and get out. Both the guys get out. Jdoggy walks over closer to me wrapping an arm around my shoulder. "Is this your place?"

"Yes...come on in. Can I get you two a drink before we get...you know...naughty?"

Both shake their heads and I go to the kitchen part and fix them both a drink. I hand it to them and by the time they get the last drop down both are practically falling over. It was just enough to put them out for the time that I needed.

Atticus comes into the back door and sees them on the floor. "Well you didn't waste any time did you?"