The Love Between US [BxBxB]

34. Mercy

*Thomas POV*

"AHH!" 

Gasping for air as I caught my breath, I grasped the back of the couch and stared upon the man who attacked me and tried coming for my family. If he thought he was going to just come in here and take my kids he had another thing coming.

But I couldn't take all the credit since the man was knocked out on the floor with a shit ton of change surrounding him.

"Is it over now Daddy?" Jaydean asks as she stood at the second-floor hallway where there was once a railing in just her long nightgown, a look of fear struck in her beautiful blue eyes.

 Houston followed behind her, since I put him in her room for extra protection and Cooper with the babies in the bathtub. Now that I think about it, it should have been the other way around.

I stared at the man and blinked a few times, wishing this was a nightmare and totally not happening right now. Adrenalyn pumping through my body as I approached him and flipped him over with my foot.

"Yeah, it's over sweetheart, come here," I quickly coax her and she jots down the hallway.

"Be careful since the railings gone!" I called out but she ignored me, running down the stairs where I met her at the bottom and took her into my arms. Her frail body shaking with fear as I rocked her back and forth, gently kissing her bright red hair. 

"Did I do a bad thing?" She asked and I quickly shook my head. 

"No, no thank you Jaydean, you're so brave and so strong," I told her as she curled her little body around me.

"I know you told me to stay under the bed, but I didn't want him to hurt you," She sighed and I gently rubbed her back to calm her down.

"Are you hurt?" I asked her and she shook her head against my neck.

"No, but Mr. Big Bucks is," She commented and I looked at the large pieces of shattered piggy bank sprinkled across the floor.

"Unfortunately yes, I'm afraid he's beyond repair sweetheart, but the good news is he died for a noble cause" I confirmed the pig's death and she giggled just a little at my dad joke.

"I'm going to put you down on the couch, but don't get up okay? There's a lot of glass," I warned her as I walked over to the couch and she gasped. 

"Daddy look! He has the symbol!" Jaydean calls out as she points to the black almost star-shaped symbol on the man's chest. 

"What do you mean?" I asked her and she reached under her nightgown, pulling out a long chain with a dog tag attached to it.

"Abuelo said it was mommy's, but it has the same symbol." She says and I looked at the tag, which read my husband's maiden name and what I assume to be a rank; Matthias Piers Grayson, NG: Alpha Division.

I stared at it for a few moments, wondering what it could possibly mean.

Was Matthias in the military or something? 

Why didn't I know this?

I dropped the tag and thought back to the time we were shooting out back and how he did it with such finesse and ease like it was second nature. In the back of my brain I knew he had done it before, I just never thought twice about it until now.

Was he a member of a league of assassins? Is that why this man tried to fucking kill me and our kids? 

I walked over the sleeping dumbass and reached into his tight armored spandex, finding the same dog tag burried in his chest.

Taehyung Lukas Grayson, NG; Alpha Division. 

Taehyung...why had I heard that name before?

The man wore a black mask that covered his mouth and bore the same symbol. I went to peel it off but the equipment shocked me, as if my fingers were tazed. 

"Fuck," I cursed under my breath and thought for a moment about what I would do with him. 

Then I got an idea.

Grunting, I picked up the man's body weight and deadlifted him onto my shoulder, still fueled with the adrenaline to protect my children. I walked him into the gym and threw him against the punching bag, grabbing some robe from the closet and holding him up as I tied him to it to keep him in place for now. 

Houston suddenly started barking and I heard the alarm tell me the front door was opening. I quickly rushed back out and immediately stopped the door from opening any further as I stared into the questioning eyes of my husbands who looked at me in shock.

"Uh...Thomas...why does it look like you broke your nose? You're drenched in blood," Luca comments and I feel my face, the wet sticky substance coating my fingertips.

"Ah! About that, you see...before you go inside...um...how was your vacation?" I asked them, knowing there was a whole ass tornado behind my back and I didn't expect them to be back until tomorrow.

"Mommy!" Jaydean called out and I quickly whipped around.

"Stay on the couch!" I warned her, but as I did it gave Matty and Luca the opportunity to get past me.

"Our vacation was...holy fucking shit," Matty gasps and both of them stopped as soon as they entered the front hallway. 

"We left for two days Thomas, out of the three of us, I thought you had this?" Luca points out my failure and I scratched the back of my head.

"Well you see, I did...until someone kind of broke in," I told them and I had never seen the looks that my husbands were giving me now and I hoped I never had to see them again.

"Well did you call the police?" Matthias asked as they walked further into the crime scene and I closed the door to the gym. Not like it mattered considering the blood droplets that led to it.

"No, because I don't think I can," I winced and he stoped, not knowing what to do as they both dropped their bags.

"What do you mean you don't think you can?" Matthias asked as Luca hugged Jaydean on the couch.

"He's one of you,"