I Married The Asshole (new version)

15. Kai

"I want to get a part time job" I said making Zeke stop doing what he was doing at his desk and to look up at me with raised brow

"Oh?" He asked setting his paper work down to give me his full attention, fingers linked on top of his desk

"Yes" I replied standing my ground, "I've been cooped up in this house since I got here four months ago, plus I don't want to depend on you for everything. I want to make my own money even if it's not a lot"

"You know I don't mind you depending on me, Kai. Your my husband and it's my job to provide for you and our child" he replied and I smiled loving the fact he considers my son as his own

"And I love you for that, Zeke, but I want to be able to earn my own money I mean what if our relationship doesn't work and we break up and I leave then what? I don't want to always be asking you for money when I could make my own" I replied standing in front of his desk now and he pushed back from his desk and walked around to my side making me turn so we were face to face as he lifted my chin up so our eyes locked with each other's

"I've told you before that even if we don't work that I'd always provide for you," he replied

"I know that you're worried," I said making him lean back in his chair crossing his arms, "and so am I but we can't pretend that we're safe specially me seeing as Rick had his contacts and allies and they'll come for me one day but until then, I want to be able to
do more than just shopping and eating out."

"There's no way in me changing your mind is there?" He asked with a sigh making me shake my head but before I could reply a voice I haven't heard in over three years came from the door making us look in his direction.

"You're wasting your time trying to reason with him. When he gets something in his head there's no changing it" I swallowed the lump that had formed in my throat at the sight of him. I could taste tears building in my throat as our eyes locked.

His salt and pepper hair was as always styled to perfection on top his head, his strong jaw was covered with a white beard. He was as tall as o remembered him to be, 6'1 to be exact. He wore a black muscle muscle shirt with dark jeans combat boats. His arms were as broad as I remember littered with tattoos. Tattoos and scars form his time in the Army and as undercover CIA agent.

"Aren't you going to -" he began but I cut him off by slamming into him wrapping my arms arums his strong torso and sobbing

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, so sorry" I blabbered as my shoulders shook as his arms wrapped around me the same way he used to do when I was younger and I would come home crying because of some stupid jock having called me a name and tried to feel me to see if I was a boy or girl.

"Shh, sweetheart, Shh, it's okay," Dad whispered as he held me impossibly close while pressing a kiss to my head. I could distinctively hear the door to Zeke's office closing as he walked out leaving us alone.

I don't know how we had stayed that way until I finally pulled back to look up at him, my face no doubt blotchy and tear stained and all he did was smile down at me with his own tear stained face and watery eyes

"My god, look  at you, Kai," he whispered wiping the tears that escaped down my face making my lip tremble, "you have grown so damn much and have become just as beautiful as your mother"

I swallowed the lump in my throat at being reminded of my mother.

"I didn't believe Zeke when he wrote me a letter about you showing up here after leaving Rick" he chuckled shaking his head and I looked away from him and at the ground,

"I shouldn't have left," I murmured sniffling as my throat felt clogged with more tears, "I should've listened when you, mama, and my brothers all told me that Rick wasn't a good guy but instead I ignored you and left right after graduating high school"