gets to call the shots and usually works freelance which meant that if a company wanted her she got to name the hours and her price and my girl didn’t come cheap, but since having Jon two years ago she hasn’t really been interested which has been good for me, somehow I love the idea of them staying home, being where I’d made it so no one could get to them. I loved knowing that my kids will be some of the lucky ones who got to have a mother or in this case three that would always be there. My morning started out same as any other, nothing hair lifting, I almost missed the days when I did most of my R and D myself, now I had a whole department to do that stuff for me, though I still get my hands in here and there, gotta keep the old noggin sharp. I ignored the overt obvious interest of my secretary and for the one hundredth time reminded myself to get a new secretary because this one was looking for trouble. I have no interest in what she’s offering and besides my women were chosen by me not the other way around. I have no problem with a woman showing interest but I like to be the hunter not the prey. Around midday I called the house as usual and got a harassed Marcy who was breathing fire down the line. “Babe, relax now from the beginning.” “It’s Elizabeth.” Shit. “What did she do now?” “I’m not sure but whatever it is is bad because Janine hasn’t stopped crying since she got off the phone with her and we can’t get her to talk.” “Put her on the phone.” I could feel a headache coming on, this lady was going to cause me to do some shit I really didn’t want to the first reason being that she was my wife’s mother and when all was said and done Jan loved the psychotic bitch. She got on the phone sniffling and right away I was pissed. She’s thirty-one fucking years old and that bitch was still making her cry, I’m not sure which of them was more fucked up in that situation. “Sweet girl talk to me.” She blew her nose and cleared her throat a couple times I guess she was stalling for time, which meant Elizabeth had probably hit her with some hard shit. “Mom called…” I didn’t say anything just waited for her to go on with the rest of her story so I could decide what steps I had to take to get this burr off my ass once and for all. “She said if I don’t take the kids and leave she’s calling the authorities and having you arrested.” Ok my heart did a little blip at that news but nothing much, I had contingencies in place in case of something like this happening, like I said this is something I’ve known I wanted practically my whole adult life so I wasn’t leaving anything to chance. “Is that all she said? Did she do anything yet?” “No she said she’s giving me until day after tomorrow to decide then she’ll make her move.” I could hear the others who had obviously been listening in in the background starting to panic. “Put me on speaker.” She did as I asked and I could hear the difference over the line. “Hey sweethearts I want you to listen to me…you listening? I don’t want any of you worrying about this, no one is doing anything to our family, now I’ve had things in place incase of something like this but I don’t think we’re going to need it this time but just incase I’ll make sure everything is in order incase we have to leave. You all know the combination to the safe in the study all out necessary paperwork is in there, the Stream is always fueled up and waiting I would never leave our family at risk so stop worrying ok?” I waited for their sniffled okays while I scrolled through my electronic address book. “Good now that that’s settled, Janine your mother is officially cut off, no phone contact no emails no contact of any kind if you betray me in this we’re done, she’s just up the stakes when she threatened my kids and my wives I expect you to choose your husband and your family in this instance but if you can’t