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GUARDIAN DADDY
LAYLAH ROBERTS
Guardian Daddy.
Laylah Roberts.
© 2024, Laylah Roberts.
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CONTENTS
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Books by Laylah Roberts
Trigger Warning
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Epilogue
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BOOKS BY LAYLAH ROBERTS
Doms of Decadence
Just for You, Sir
Forever Yours, Sir
For the Love of Sir
Sinfully Yours, Sir
Make me, Sir
A Taste of Sir
To Save Sir
Sir’s Redemption
Reveal Me, Sir
Montana Daddies
Daddy Bear
Daddy’s Little Darling
Daddy’s Naughty Darling Novella
Daddy’s Sweet Girl
Daddy’s Lost Love
A Montana Daddies Christmas
Daring Daddy
Warrior Daddy
Daddy’s Angel
Heal Me, Daddy
Daddy in Cowboy Boots
A Little Christmas Cheer (crossover with MC Daddies)
Sheriff Daddy
Her Daddies’ Saving Grace
Rogue Daddy
A Little Winter Wonderland
Daddy’s Sassy Sweetheart
Daddy Dominic
Daddy Unleashed
MC Daddies
Motorcycle Daddy
Hero Daddy
Protector Daddy
Untamed Daddy
Her Daddy’s Jewel
Fierce Daddy
A Little Christmas Cheer (crossover with Montana Daddies)
Savage Daddy
Boss Daddy
Daddy Fox
A Snowy Little Christmas
Saving Daddy
Daddies’ Captive
A Foxy Little Christmas
A Little Easter Delight
Guardian Daddy
Harem of Daddies
Ruled by her Daddies
Claimed by her Daddies
Stolen by her Daddies
Captured by her Daddies
Kept by her Daddies
Haven, Texas Series
Lila’s Loves
Laken’s Surrender
Saving Savannah
Molly’s Man
Saxon’s Soul
Mastered by Malone
How West was Won
Cole’s Mistake
Jardin’s Gamble
Romanced by the Malones
Twice the Malone
Mending a Malone
Malone’s Heart
Malone’s Pride
Malone’s Fate
New Orleans Malones
Damaged Princess
Vengeful Commander
Wicked Prince
Men of Orion
Worlds Apart
Cavan Gang
Rectify
Redemption
Redemption Valley
Audra’s Awakening
Old-Fashioned Series
An Old-Fashioned Man
Two Old-Fashioned Men
Her Old-Fashioned Husband
Her Old-Fashioned Boss
His Old-Fashioned Love
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
Crime Boss Daddies
Daddy’s Obsession
Papi’s Protection
Papi’s Savior
Daddy’s Soul
Bad Boys of Wildeside
Wilde
Sinclair
Luke
Rawhide Ranch Holiday
A Cozy Little Christmas
A Little Easter Escapade
Jolie’s Little Fourth of July
Standalones
Their Christmas Baby
Haley Chronicles
Ally and Jake
TRIGGER WARNING
The main female character in this story is autistic. She has also retreated into herself due to past emotional abuse and built up barriers.
I wanted to write a story to bring awareness to something that can be misunderstood.
A lot of research went into this book. Including discussions with people who have ASD and others who were on the neuro-divergent scale and/or had experience with family members who are.
What was reiterated to me time and again was that everyone’s experience and journey is different.
This is Cate’s journey.
There are also trigger alerts for death of parents, emotional abuse from family members (in the past), stalking, and murder.
Please note that all characters are above twenty years old. Everything in this story is fully consensual.
1
Ethan Stone was going to kill his brother-in-law.
“What do you mean you’re going to a concert on your own? At night?” he grumbled into the phone. “That’s not happening. What is Stu thinking? Where is he?”
“Ethan! I’m nearly twenty-nine years old. If I want to go to a concert, I will.”
There was a part of him that was aware he was acting irrationally. But he’d always been that way when it came to Lana. She would always be his baby sister. No matter how old she was.
“I don’t care if you’re twenty-nine or eighty-nine,” he countered. “It’s not safe.”
“I’m going with three friends. We have a sober driver. And I’ve packed my mace.”
Well. He supposed that was something.
“You’ll stick with your friends at all times?”
“Yes.”
“You won’t get into a car with a stranger?”
“Of course not.”
“Or drink anything that is handed to you or has been out of your sight?”
“I won’t.”
He sighed, rubbing his forehead. His head was pounding. “Fine, you can go.”
“Jeez, thanks, Dad,” his younger sister said sarcastically.
“Don’t be a brat.” He still wasn’t impressed that her husband wasn’t going with her.
“Ethan?”
“Yeah?”
“You need to stop worrying about me so much. I’m all grown up and I’m fine. Nothing bad will happen.”
But that was just it. Something could happen. Something bad could happen at any time and she should be prepared for that. Lana thought he was a worrywart, but he thought she didn’t worry enough.
“Just be careful.”
“I will. Now, go do something fun. Maybe find yourself a girl, so then you can concentrate on smothering her in protection instead of me, yeah?”
He ended the call, still grumbling as he walked out of his office at Callahan Security.
He didn’t want to go home.
Was he turning into a workaholic?
Or is it because you live in a barren, empty apartment with no warmth.
He could go to the club, but that wasn’t very appealing either.
What the fuck was wrong with him? Was he having a midlife crisis
Did he need to go buy a red sportscar? Get a new look?
As he walked past Brody’s office at Callahan Security, he saw the younger man slumped over his desk.
“Brody? What are you still doing here?” he asked as he walked into the room.
Brody sat up suddenly, causing his arm to fly out and knock over a half-full bowl of ramen noodles.
“Oh. Shoot!” Getting on his knees, the younger man started scooping up the noodles.
Stone shook his head as he crouched next to him. “Leave it, man. I’ll clean it up. You should go home.”
Brody straightened, banging his head on the underside of his desk. “Ouch. Crap. Owie.”
That had to hurt.
“Be careful.” He winced at the note of scolding in his voice.
Fuck.
Brody wasn’t his sub or his Little. But he often triggered Stone’s Daddy Dom instincts. It didn’t help that Brody wasn’t very good at taking care of himself. And that Stone liked taking care of other people.
“Here, let me help.” He grasped hold of Brody’s forearm and pulled him up.
Stone felt his presence before he heard him.
A whisper of darkness.
The promise of pain.
“Don’t touch what belongs to me.”
Fuck.
This is why he needed to stop letting his Daddy instincts overtake him around Brody.
Because Callahan Security’s tech guy already had a Daddy.
A psychotic assassin Daddy.
Ethan stepped slowly back from Brody, who huffed out a breath.
“Fox,” Brody scolded. “Don’t scare Stone.”
“I wouldn’t need to scare him if he wasn’t touching you.”
“He was just helping me. I fell asleep while I was working. And when Stone woke me up, I accidentally spilled noodles everywhere. I was trying to clean them up, but I banged my head and, well, here we are . . .”
Ethan wasn’t sure if Brody was trying to help or hinder him. Ethan had never directly interacted with the Fox, but he knew enough to be concerned.
“You banged your head?” the Fox asked.
The other man didn’t step out of the shadows and Ethan didn’t fully turn to look at him.
It was safer not to.
For Stone.
He was pretty sure the Fox was now to his left rather than behind him. Although it was hard to tell. He hated not being able to see him clearly.
“Yeah. It hurts.”
“Brody! Are you ready to go home?” Autumn bounced into the room. She came to a stop as she saw Ethan, moving closer to where the Fox was lurking.
“Oh, hi, Mr. Stone. I didn’t know there was anyone still here,” Autumn said.
“Call me Stone or Ethan,” he told her.
“Stop flirting with my girl, Stone,” the Fox warned in a low voice.
Ethan tensed. Holy. Fuck. “I wasn’t. I was just talking to her.”
“Daddy!” Autumn chided. “Stop scaring Mr. Stone. He’s a very nice man.”
A very nice man?
Stone grimaced. Damned by faint praise. He would rather be sexy. Dangerous. Gorgeous.
Nice?
No, he wasn’t nice.
The Fox grunted. “First, he touches my Pup, then he flirts with my Bunny. You don’t want to breathe for much longer, huh, Stone?”
Ethan closed his eyes. Why? Why him? Right now, he could’ve been at the club with a sub on her knees, getting ready to suck him off.
Although, for some reason that was becoming less and less appealing. He’d been going to the club for years and he’d always found the club a good mood stabilizer.
No matter what else was going on in his life, the club was his constant. Where he felt in control.
But he now found himself . . . disinterested.
Indifferent.
He was the guy everyone came to with their problems.
Mr. Fixer. With all the answers.
If he didn’t have something to keep him grounded . . .
Fuck. He was worrying about nothing. Maybe he just had ‘Dom block.’ Like writer’s block.
Yeah. That’s all this was.
A temporary issue that would hopefully go away soon.
Perhaps after a vacation.
Opening his eyes, he spotted Brody glaring at something to the side and behind him.
Not something.
Someone.
The Fox.
“Fox, we’ve talked about this,” Brody chided. “You can’t scare our friends.”
“Brody is right,” Autumn said. “We have to be nice to our friends or they won’t want to be our friends anymore.”
“Of course they will,” the Fox drawled. “I’ll make them.”
Dear Lord.
He wondered if they ever intended to have children.
Just imaging the Fox with a child gave him chills.
A baby.
A girl baby.
Holy. Heck.
Parent-teacher conferences would be a nightmare.
Play dates would be a minefield.
He fought off that terrifying thought.
“Papa,” Brody said.
“Fine, Pup,” the Fox said gruffly. “I’ll let your friend leave. But no flirting with my babies, Stone.”
Ethan didn’t bother to protest that he hadn’t been flirting in the first place. He just breathed out a sigh of relief as they left.
Then he sat in Brody’s chair.
Yeah, he definitely needed a vacation.
2
“Morning everyone.” Ink walked into the meeting room at Callahan Security. Brody strode in behind him, looking slightly dishevelled with his hair standing up on end. His T-shirt had a fox’s face on it. Above the fox was the word, ‘No’, while underneath was the word, ‘Given.’
No fox given.
Clever.
Ethan was sitting at the large table. Across from him sat Seth Blue. He’d worked with Seth for years. The other man was solid. If a bit too happy. It was odd.
“Morning,” Seth said cheerfully. “Love the shirt, Brody.”
“Um, thanks.” Brody tugged at it self-consciously.
Ethan didn’t say anything, just nodded in greeting. He was feeling grouchy this morning.
Something about his run-in last night with the Fox had irritated him.
Maybe because a killer assassin has two people who love him, and you have no one.
Ouch. His inner voice was being a real bastard this morning.
“We have a new client,” Ink said, getting straight to the point.
Brody sat with his laptop and connected it to the projector.
“And this client is important because he’s an old friend of mine,” Ink added.
Brody brought up an image of . . .
“Is that Rhodes Ripley?” Seth asked in surprise.
“Yep.”
“He was amazing in that last Luther Kiley movie,” Brody said. “Do you know he does his own stunts?”
Ink nodded. “Yeah, Rip is a good guy. Duke and I went to high school with him and his twin sister, Cate.”
“What’s going on? Does he have a stalker or something?” Ethan asked. That was the logical explanation. Rhodes Ripley was famous for his role as Luther Kiley, an ex-Special Forces turned mercenary hero.
“Looks like it,” Ink replied. “He’s received a series of letters. Each one gets progressively more intense.”
Ethan looked at the images on the projector screen. His eyebrows rose as one letter stated they wanted to slip into Ripley’s room and wake him up with their mouth around his cock.
Another stated they would happily be his fucktoy, to be used however he wanted.
“Some of these letters are explicit.” Seth asked. “That last one goes into a lot of detail about what they want to do to Rip.”
“Yeah. Rip’s agent finally brought the letters to his attention after that one. They reported them to the police, but they don’t have any leads on whoever has been sending the mail yet. No fingerprints, no return address.”
“So your friend called you?” Seth asked.
“Only because of what occurred last night.” Ink started pacing. “Someone attempted to enter his property.”
“Wait, that was the news today, wasn’t it?” Brody asked.
“Yeah, they couldn’t keep it quiet since Cate called the police. She was the only one home at the time. Rip was at his girlfriend’s place.”
“The stalker is escalating,” Ethan said grimly.
Ink nodded. “Since Rip is a good friend of mine, we’re going to push some other jobs back to fit him in. And I’m going to bring in extra help. I’ve already spoken to Matthieu. He will take over some jobs here to free up the two of you to go to Los Angeles.” He nodded to Seth and Ethan.
