Vindication (Book 2 of "Sex Doll") COMPLETED

9.

Omniscient
"Jasper.." She whimpered as the tears continued to fall and she let go of his hands and wrapped her arms around him resting her forehead against him. Jasper kept his attention on the ceiling closing his eyes because he didn't know what to tell her. He didn't want to hold her so he kept his arms down. However as her sobs continued and her tears started to soak his shirt he wrapped his arms around her.

"I love you." Dominique told him lifting her head only to see that he wouldn't look down at her. "Why can't you look at me?"

"Dominique...I'm here for my girls. We need to get them back on track. I didn't drive the whole way here for this. They haven't answered my calls in two months and neither have you but I'm here to get everything straight."

"And I have no problem with that because I know I haven't been doing right by them but can you look at me?" She asked. Jasper exhaled and didn't look down. "Jasper look at me." She placed her hands on his face and made him look down.

"What Nique? What you want me to say?" He frowned.

"Are you still in love with me?" She asked him waiting for an answer. As the two of them heard the doorknob turning they stepped back from each other and in walked the girls.

"What the fuck is he doing here Dominique?" Koren gritted dropping her book bag on the the floor and before she could get another disrespectful word out Jasper smacked the taste out of her mouth.

"First of all I'm your father and you will respect me. You won't talk to me like you do everybody else because I'll beat ya ass between ya muthafuckin' legs with a switch since you think you a grown ass woman because you have one or two hairs so DON'T fucking test me right now Koren. And second you don't ever call me or your mother by our damn names as if you done lost ya goddamn mind. I don't give a fuck if you think she's ya friend or not. Her muthafuckin' name is "mama" to y'all wanna be grown asses." He went off. He'd come into town and risk getting caught for them. He wanted to set them straight and also have a heart to heart with them but when their mouths were this disrespectful it made it hard for him to focus on what he'd come for because he found himself having to put them in check.

Koren rubbed her face and frowned up at him as Kylah looked at her sister and then back at him clenching her jaw as if she wanted to say something.

"And what the fuck you gon' do?" Jasper walked up on her hovering over her and she kept her mouth shut.

"Mama?" Koren looked to Dominique who put her hand up.

"You listen to ya damn daddy. Y'all have been doing too much lately and I've been letting it go on for way too long but that's about to change." Dominique said.

"So mama you just gon' let him come here and take over? After he left us? That's not right." Kylah frowned looking over at Dominique.

"No what's not right is how you girls have been acting and disrespecting grown folks lately. He's your father and regardless of if he left he still loves you and he still sees you when he can unlike most deadbeat fathers." Dominique told them. She was finally putting her foot down with them after everything she'd allowed. Jasper going off on her the way he had had gotten through to her. She'd been bitter with him because she wanted him back and she'd lost who she was. In losing herself her daughters followed her behavior. She started to neglect them by going out and leaving them in the house giving them freedom to sneak and do what they wanted. She'd turned into their friend instead of parenting them. She'd once been the best mother she could to them before her divorce and Jasper just wanted her to go back to that person. Both of them had changed after their divorce. Jasper had become a cheating abusive man while Dominique had become a loose woman and a neglectful mother to their children. And it was all because they were hurt over the events of their failed marriage.

A marriage they'd never really tried to work out. He'd asked for a divorce and Dominique had signed the papers with no hesitation because she felt that he'd fallen out of love with her when he stopped showing affection. She'd signed the papers and given him the divorce because she felt as if it was the least she could do after cheating on him. However that never stopped her from loving him. In fact letting him go was because she loved him that much not to make a divorce difficult.

While Jasper was deeply in love with Persia who he'd lay down and die for, he was still in love with his first wife as well. He just knew that Persia was the better fit and he wouldn't hurt her how Dominique had hurt him when they'd been married.

"Now y'all sit down and listen to what your father has to say..." Dominique folded her arms across her chest. A now three month pregnant Koren rolled her eyes and sat down on the couch doing as she was told while Kylah headed for the front door.

"Fuck that. I'm out of here. You muthafuckas are jokes. I don't need this. I wish you were both dead." She frowned and before Jasper could snatch her up she ran out the door and jetted down the street turning the corner. One thing she loved to do was run. She was fast and she wanted to join the track team at her new high school. She just had a bad attitude problem and didn't obey anyone's rules.

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9:45 p.m.

Night had fell and 13 year old Kylah found herself outside of a rundown motel dressed to look as if she was older. When she'd left her mother's house she'd called Austin to pick her up feeling as if he was the only one that understood her. She thought he was her older boyfriend who gave a damn about her when he was indeed grooming her to make her a teenage prostitute and make money off her. He'd taken the video she'd sent him along with the naked photos and posted it on a site for men to choose young girls from. He'd slapped a price on Kylah and tonight when she'd called him he was ready to put her out there. He'd gotten her a wig and given her some clothes to change into. He'd lied to her saying that she needed to look older so people wouldn't get suspicious about her age and their relationship. Being young and naive she fell for it. He'd gotten her high with weed for the first time and had given her some Hennessy. It didn't take much of it to get her buzzed.

"You look so beautiful baby.." Austin told her and she looked at him before putting her hand on her hip.

"Ky.." He called sitting on the hood of his car smoking the rest of the blunt.

"What...boy?" Kylah said playing in her hair spinning around posing thinking she was all that.

Austin looked over his shoulder hearing a UHaul pull up into the parking lot. He knew that it was hthe truck where the other underage girls were being held and tonight they were about to make him some money before he decided to leave the state with them and take them across the country.