Page 50 of The Prez’s Daughter

As Savage got to his feet and pulled her into his arms, she heard the sound of bikes approaching. She didn’t care, because he kissed her, and thankfully, her father didn’t rush over and kill him right there on the spot.

She had a feeling with Savage and her dad, it was going to take time, but she was willing to be patient and give her dad the benefit of the doubt.

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Savage sat in Lucas’s bedroom. His parents were out of town, and Lucas was on a date. Savage had already looked around the young man’s room, and it was not thrilling what he had found. Porn magazines, shelves lined with movies and games. Pictures of naked women on the walls. The boy was exactly that—a boy.

“Is he there yet?” Paulie asked.

“Nope, not yet.”

“This is fucking boring. Does he have any interesting shit you could take?”

“You want me to steal from him?” Savage asked.

“He’s the one that made an enemy out of you.”

Savage smirked, but at that point, he heard the downstairs door open. Taking his seat on the kid’s bed, he even crossed his feet at his ankles.

“Are you nervous?” Paulie asked.

“Shut the fuck up,” Savage said.

“I am nervous.”

He just shook his head.

Savage didn’t have to wait long for Lucas to enter the bedroom. At first, the boy tensed up, and then quickly looked around as if to find something that could help him.

Savage let out a little click of his tongue. “Hello, Lucas, remember me?”

“What do you want?” Lucas asked.

He always found it interesting how this could be all balls and threats to Charlotte, but the moment he was faced with a real man, he turned into a fucking coward.

“You sent a private video of Charlotte and myself to her father. You attempted to ruin her life as well as my own, and that,” he clicked his tongue, “I can’t accept.”

“Look, I thought her father—”

“Stop talking,” Savage said, getting to his feet. “I want you to know I am watching you, and if you ever come near my woman again, I will turn your whole world into pain.” Savage climbed off the bed. “Play it, Paulie.”

The recording came over the cell phone and it was of Lucas, sobbing and begging for a second chance. Lucas had a little problem when it came to girls, and he kept visiting a brothel. Lucas finished way too fast and kept visiting the brothel in the city, attempting to figure out how to last longer.

“Do we understand one another?” Savage asked.

“You can’t do this.”

“Oh, but I can. This is not all I have on you, Lucas. Trust me, you will do exactly as I say, when I say it, because if you don’t, I will follow you wherever you go. You made my woman’s life misery in high school. You tormented her, hurt her, and then you were going to sexually assault her. Now, you try to ruin her life with me. That made you my enemy, and if you leave town, I will follow you. Consider this payback, or more politely, the consequence of bullying. You ever heard of Karma? Well Karma’s a bitch, and you just met yours.”

Epilogue

Five Years Later

Even after five years and two grandkids, Savage knew Doc would go through days of loving him and hating him. They had not come to blows any other time. It was close when Charlotte revealed on their wedding day that they were pregnant with their first child. Nathan was a firecracker, and he was pretty sure Doc preferred Nathan to him. It didn’t matter.

Doc, Nancy, and Maeve were amazing grandparents.

Nathan and Shoana had amazing grandparents.