and stood there in a state of shock and disbelief. There was no way his son was mingling with the enemy, Maddox was the perfect son, he was not cruel like his eldest brother or wild like his middle brother. He loved all three of his sons equally and although they had all surpassed his greatest hopes for them, Maddox was the only one who had never disobeyed him. He had no idea who the woman on the phone was, but he was praying that she was wrong, that she was just some scorned ex-girlfriend, lord knows Maddox had plenty of them. Just as he was ready to dismiss the woman who had delivered the news, as a psychopath, he thought about Maddox and the first day of third grade.
Xavier stormed out of the room, and yelled for his sons, they had better know what was going on with their little brother. Xavier had raised them to look out for each other and his eldest sons always made it a point to keep track of their youngest brother.
He had to go to that motel, he needed to see for himself. If he were wrong, then he would buy Maddox that new car he wanted, but if he were not, well there would be hell to pay.
***
Trent smiled with glee as he hung up the phone. This was the best news, the best present he had ever received in his life and it was not even his birthday. It was a miracle, an answer to his prayers! He finally had that bitch, their father would never forgive her for this. He laughed as he thought of his stupid sister locked up in a motel room with their sworn enemy. He was finally rid of Gia, it would be just him and his father, the way it should have always been.
He ran to his father’s room and threw open the door, trying to hide his smile and actually look upset.
"Gia is at a motel right now with Maddox Payne!" Trent said with just a little too much excitement in his voice.
“What?” Victor immediately sat up at the mention of his nemesis.
“Someone just called with an anonymous tip that Gia was at a motel with Xavier Payne’s youngest son.”
“No, your sister would never do something like that.” Victor shook his head and began to lie back down when he remembered Gia‘s first day of the third grade. He felt his stomach begin to shift as the possibility of them together dawned on him.
“Yes she would, in fact I think she has been seeing him for some time now.” Trent bluffed, he needed his father to go to that motel. He was not sure if the caller was lying or not, but that was irrelevant to him. Even if she was not seeing Maddox, Trent had all intentions of exploiting the situation and making his father believe that she was.
“And you’re now just telling me this?” Victor roared as he rose from the bed.
“I had to make sure before I falsely accused my little sister of something so heinous.” he lied so smoothly, his father would never know the difference.
***
Gia walked out of the bathroom in the gown and he felt the air being sucked from his lungs. She was a heavenly vision, a flesh and blood, earth-bound angel and he basked in the glow of her beauty. He swelled with a pride he had never experienced before as he realized that angel was going to be his wife.
"You’re so beautiful." he said in awe.
She felt beautiful as she walked over to stand before him. The corseted top of the dress pushed her large, perky breasts in, forming a scandalous display of cleavage. The fitted top was like a second skin that melted down to her lower waist where it flared out into a voluminous skirt.
"Just one thing." he pulled out the clip that held up her hair.
"No, it's messy." she put her hands to her head.
"I love it messy," he smiled, removing her hands and running his through the tangled waves, "I love it every way you wear it," he kissed her lips, "since the first day I saw you in the third grade."
"You mean the day that you stole my bow."
"It was driving me crazy not to be able to touch It." he kissed her again, then
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