Animal: Confessions Of a Dominant Man(Book 1)

Chapter 6 - The Finding

I feel movement beside me as I groan, rubbing my hands over my eyes and I look to see Lily up out of bed. I sit up. "Shit Lily what are you doing?" I look over at the alarm clock, seeing that it's three in the morning. "What are you doing up?" I ask before seeing her sink down on the ground near the bed. "Shit." I get up out of bed and come over to her, kneeling down in front of her.

"Lily what's wrong are you feeling well?" I ask, hearing her start to sob and I know what's wrong. "A bad dream.." I mumble to myself as I sit down next to her, pulling her shaking body next to me to try and calm her down. 

These bad dreams have been going on ever since the day her step-father was put in jail. I remember those night where she'll call me, barely able to say anything but sob, begging me to come over, which I did just to sooth her and calm her down so she can go back to sleep peacefully. After a few minutes I feel her calming down but not falling asleep.

"Want to talk about it?" I ask softly, not sounds like myself at all. Normally my voice is hard and firm, always serious but never with her. She shakes her head slowly. "It's just a bad dream, that's all." She says quickly, getting up slowly before sitting down on the bed.

I look up at you, normally she'll tell me and let it all out then go back to sleep but it's something else that's bothering her that she's not tell me. "What else is it?" I ask.

Lily shakes her head quickly. "There's nothing else." She says, looking everywhere else but me and I knew that she was lying.

"You're a horrible lier Lil not tell me." I say firmly. "I can't, it won't do you any good to-" I cut her off quickly. "Lily if you don't tell me then I'm going to have to find out on my own it won't be pretty." I state.

I hear her sighing before she says. "Carlos is out of prison." She says so quickly I wish I haven't heard it. But I did. "What? When? How?" I ask. "I thought he was getting twenty years to life?" I look up at her in shock as she keeps her eyes close, knowing that when she got the news it wasn't want she wanted.

"It was last month, the court house informed me about it two weeks ago, I'm guessing he was on good behaviour and was granted bail. So his new wife bailed him out.." He voice crack as she starts sobbing again. I stand up quickly, my blood boiling at the thought of that monster coming anywhere near her.

How could I have been so stupid? I had files on him and eyes to keep a close watch on him as well but I got to caught up in whatever the hell I was doing to pay attention to that the son of a bitch got out.

"He called me.." I look down at Lily as she whips the tears on her cheek. "I was already out and my old roommate took the call, he was asking for me but when she said I wasn't in and he hung up." She pulls her knees up to her chest.

I mentally kick myself for not keeping tabs on her which I figured I wouldn't listen in on her conversations as long as I kept a camera in her house. Nice, great fucking thinking Julius!

"I'm going to kill him." I roar, storming out of the guest bedroom in the hallway, hearing Lily's footsteps behind me. "Julius wait please, you're not thinking clearly." She says, catching up to me as I reach the kitchen where I left my jacket at and my phone inside, pulling it out and looking through my contact. The phone on the other end rings for a few moments. "Hello.." Tony's gruggy voice says at the other end.

"Tony, I need you to do something for me." Tony was another close friend of my childhood. He was like an older brother to me taught me everything from how to throw a football to how to pick up girls. After he graduated high school he became a lawyer then joined the SWAT team to later on join the special forces. He kept himself busy for most of his twenties before he married and settled down with two girls and he's the only one besides me to know about Lily's abusive step-father Carlos.

"What do you need?" He ask. "I need you to find out where Carlos Ortiz is." I say, just saying his name makes me want to kill something. "Julius what are you doing?" I look over to see that Lily was standing next to me with a worried and hurt look on her face. 

I turn away from her, knowing that I would just end the call quickly for her but I know what I have to do. I go over to the couch in the livingroom, sitting down in the dark with the only light coming from the large window that over looks the city.

"Why Carlos? I thought he was still in prison?" He ask. "Well guess what? He's not, he got out for good behaviour and was granted bail so his new bitch of a wife bailed him out. I was just informed that he tried to contact Lily." I tell him everything that Lily has told me.

"Shiittt. This bad man, just give me a few hours and I'll see what I could come up with." He tells me and I sigh, glad that he's willing to him. "And Julius, don't go trying to look for him. I know that you have years a anger bottled up about that guy and everything else so you have every right to. But please man, don't try anything. For Lily's sake."

I stay silent for a few seconds before saying. "Just get it done and call me when you find something." And with that I hang up, resting my elbows on my knees as I rub my face.

I haven't notice that Lily was standing in front of me before I finally look up. "What did you just do?" She ask. I shake my head, knowing that this is going to eat at me all night until Tony calls me back. I maybe overreacting but he called Lily's apartment which means he knows she's somewhere in New York. Just thought of having him in the same city makes me sick.

I feel two pair of small, warm hands touching my cheeks to look up at her. "Thank you for whatever it is you just did." She says softly, laying her forehead against mine which catches me off gaurd a little but I close my eyes and enjoy this moment, wanting to wrap my arms around her body and hold her for as long as she'll let me but I control myself. I want her to make the first move, to go at her own pase even if it takes forever I'll wait. "So, did you hire a hit man?" She ask, breaking the silence between us and I can't help but chuckle from her question. "Yeah Lil, I hired a hit man." 

A/N: Yes, Carlos is out of prison with a new wife. There will be more of a backstory about what in the past with Lily and her step-father Carlos. Vote or leave a comment! P.S. I've changed Kara to Lily because I like Lily better, if I have a daughter I'll name her Lily. :)