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Let Me In Part I
Original composition by Tatienne Richard exclusively for My Fiction. If you’re reading this elsewhere it has been stolen from the platform.
Gulliver entered his hotel suite with his wife and daughter and felt an unbidden rage at the situation they were finding themselves in. The entire town where January called home for the last eight years was rallying around them and the men in the town were happy to work with Gulliver. They’d driven the federal agents right out of town. 1
The principal of the school was fired thanks to one phone call to the district head which outlined how he allowed officers to interrogate and terrorize two students and he was sent packing. The motorcycle gang which had shown up near the end of the day gave him an escort right out of the town since while he worked in their town, he lived in the next one over.
“Mom, is Dad angry?”
The quiet question from Kaylee behind him made him close his eyes and shake his head, turning back to look at his daughter who was clutching her mother’s hand tightly.
He took her hands in his and kissed her teeny knuckles. “No, sweetie, I am not angry.”
“But you didn’t barely talk to me at all in the car and you didn’t
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sing with me, and you aren’t trying to get kisses from my mom like you did on the way to school his morning.”
“Sometimes dads have bad days the same way moms do,” January said as she flung herself backwards letting her legs dangle over the arm of the sofa.
He shook his head at her antics. “Tired, my love?”
“Agreeing to let you and Thisbe both work in my space today was a mistake. You barked out orders interrupting my every thought and the few moments where I could focus, Thisbe was squealing about how inspired my work made her. I got nothing accomplished, Gulliver. Nothing.
“We’ll need to make sure you have a bigger workspace,” he hoisted Kaylee up in his arms, “as for you, I am not angry with you. Your mom is right. I had a bit of a difficult day. That bald guy who used to come to your school to bother you was at the diner today and it made me annoyed.”
“You should just use one of your guys to shoot him,” Kaylee said with wide eyes, and she made a gun with her fingers and pointed it, “bang.”
“As fun as that would be,” Gulliver snorted at her words, “we can’t simply murder people who piss us off.”
“Grandfather said we could.”
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“Grandfather shouldn’t say such things,” January’s head popped up over the back of the sofa and shooting Gulliver an annoyed look.
“He’s old. Take what he says with a grain of salt, Kaylee.” Gulliver sighed loudly and looked at his phone as it buzzed in his hand, “speaking of old people, my parents are itching to come to our room to meet you Kaylee and your mom too.”
January disappeared again behind the sofa and sighed loudly, “I feel like today has already been a lot. Can we have wine with dinner?”
He chuckled at her question, “yes”
“Can dinner be pizza?” Kaylee asked.
“No!” January whined, “no more pizza. I want pasta, like thick wide noodles and tons of sauce and garlic bread and salad.”
“Oh, yes, salad with croutons!” Kaylee nodded excitedly, “Daddy can we order room service and even have dessert?”
“Yup. Grab the room service menu and take it to your mom and pick out all the things you want. Order enough for ten people, January, please.”
“Ten?” she asked curiously.
“Glenn, Ford, Mitsos, Grandfather, Thisbe, me, you and Kaylee
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and my parents. Ten.”
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“This room is going to be crowded,” January complained. “First my parent’s house was crowded this morning and then the diner was crowded and then my workspace was crowded. Poor Lottie was ready to kill you both because you were so annoying. If she quits I’m making you pay her salary double what she’s earning
now.”
“She won’t quit but if she does, I’ll pay her as you wish.”
“Damn right,” she met his eyes as he leaned over the back of the sofa and laid Kaylee right on top of her.
He dropped a kiss to her lips and then one to the back of Kaylee’s head. “I need to make a couple of calls and shave before my mother comes in and gives me shit for being unkempt. Can you arrange dinner and I’ll tell them to all come in an hour?”
“Sure, but I don’t want everyone here late. I want to go to bed at a normal hour and sleep at a normal hour.”
“You are really starting to sound like a wife now,” he called back as he headed into the bedroom and yanked his tie off and tossed it aside. His head was pounding.
Looking at his phone, he knew Ford had already collected a few of the men to grab his grandfather’s driver and bodyguard and put them, very uncomfortably, in a space where nobody would be able to get any further information from them. Gulliver
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himself would deal with them very personally for betraying the Raptis family.
He moved to the bathroom, leaned over the sink, and stared at himself in the mirror. Of all the ways he’d ever envisioned his reunion with his wife, he’d never thought it would involve dirty federal agents, an old enemy with a score to settle and his grandfather’s inability to manage his family appropriately. The entire thing was a clusterfuck of epic proportions and now he was going to have to deal with his parents on top of it all. Keeping his wife, daughter, sister, brother, nephew, friends, in–laws, and grandfather safe was enough of a battle. Now they were adding a cranky middle–aged man who thought his sons were ungrateful pricks who abandoned him and the life he tried to build for them and Gulliver was ready to take his wife and daughter and disappear into the night.
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