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Crew

S creaming and the sounds of pounding fists accompanied the bass of Baby Keem we have a call with Black and Blue to go over the surveillance we put on Kyle Harris. From what we found, he isn’t looking for Nova but we all know that’s not true. Blue already found a few private investigators that he hired to get information on Nova and Timberly.”

“I don’t want too many people involved with this.”

“Don’t worry, Black and Blue are solid. You remember me telling you that one of my cousins is a tech genius and the other is ex-military with a private security team.

Well, that’s who I got to collect all the information on the Harris’s for you.

They’re legit and so is their partner. I think you may know him, August Alexander?

They built the surveillance systems that’s keeping August and his family untouched.

They’ve got a private network running circles around the FBI," Del said.

“Yeah, I know about them. If they’re your family they're good with me. And from what I know, August is as real as they come,” I said, heading toward the door.

“Are you going to tell Nova about what you’re planning?” Janelle asked.

"Nova doesn’t even know the half of what I’m about to do for our family. But she’ll learn soon enough" I said softly. “Nobody touches what’s mine and walks away whole. Not in this life and not in the next.” I left the building and headed home to be with my family.

“You didn’t have to do this, you know? I would have taken her. I know this is new to you and I don’t want you to feel obligated to drop everything for Timberly. She’s not your daughter and…” She started but I couldn’t let her finish that statement.

“Princess, you and Timber are a package deal. If I couldn’t handle that I wouldn’t have proposed,” I told her.

“You didn’t exactly propose but that neither here nor there You sound like this is a real marriage Crew. Did you forget this is a business deal?”

“No, but you must have forgot that I said I would make sure you and Timber were good no matter what. So that means anything baby girl asks I’m going to do. This is real for as long as we're married.”

If it's up to me, that will be forever.

“ I told you that I was going to be as much of a father to Timber as I would be a husband to you. You are my wife and Timber is my daughter, so no matter how big or small an event it is, if my daughter wants me to attend I’m going to be there,” I said walking over to wrap my arms around her waist. “Is that okay with you Mrs. Sanderson?” Fuck!

My wife was so beautiful. I held her close to me as she finished getting ready for Timberly’s event.

“Thank you, Crew,” She said with a slight sniffle.

I turned her to face me and saw the tears brimming in her eyes. “Baby are you crying?”

“No, I just… Timberly has wanted this for so long. To have a father figure in her life and I’m just really happy,” she cried.

I hugged her tighter to my body letting her feel the love I had for her and Timber. “I’ll do anything for y'all. I mean that. Come on, we're going to be late,” I said, planting a kiss on her forehead before letting her go so she could finish getting ready.

The gymnasium of Timber’s school was filled with people.

You would think that this was the Olympics, not a gym show for 7- and 8-year-olds.

But what could you expect from an elite private elementary school where none of the parents made less than 500K a year?

I was glad we increased security for Timberly and Nova.

There were too many unknowns at this event.

The school was putting on an event for the Spring sports with students from Timberline and Brookview.