{Walter}

Shortly after Victoria took Cody to the vet we started training him on what we need him to do as a service/guard dog for Victoria. Cody's a fast learner and that's a good thing. Not to mention because he already has his certificate for being a service dog so Victoria can take him wherever she needs to go as long he has his work vest on it's all good.

However, lately Victoria's been having nightmares and somehow I wind up in her bed holding her until she falls asleep again. Another thing I've noticed is that if she has a nightmare and can't sleep she gets up and starts working on a drawing. She figured out that she'd rather just draw and then color it in later with colored pencils or something like that. Either way from what I've seen it doesn't matter what she chooses to color in her drawings with she's very talented at what she does. That's good because she's been getting a lot of different clients lately and every single one of them has been singing praises about her artwork.

That also means she'll have to attend another art exhibit soon. I think her nightmares have been occurring more and more lately because of that.

Tonight was another night that she had a nightmare but I wasn't there to hold her when she fell asleep because I had just gotten back from spending the weekend with my family. I saw her door closed so I figured that she was already asleep so I didn't want to disturb her.

I was going to lay down after I had taken a shower when I heard Victoria moaning in her sleep. It sounded like she was in pain so I went into her room to check her vitals just to make sure everything was okay.

When I opened the door I paused and smiled as I saw the most adorable scene unfold in front of me. Victoria was snuggling Cody as if he were a stuffed animal and Cody was sleeping beside her. Which meant he probably knew she was having a nightmare and chose to sleep beside her for comfort.

I went to grab my phone and when I came back I took a picture. After I took the picture Cody's ears perked up and he looked at me. He climbed off the bed and went up to me and tugged my shirt and whined.

"What do you want?" I asked.

He tugged on my shirt again and pulled me in the direction of the bed. I smiled. "Oh I get it."

I got in the bed and laid down. No sooner that I did that Victoria put her arm around my waist as if she knew it was me.

"Hi Walter," She said in a sleepy voice. "Goodnight Walter."

After that she went right back to sleep.

She is so cute! I thought. I paused. Okay where the heck did these feelings come from? I've worked with beautiful clients before and not one of them gave me the feelings that I have for Victoria! I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing?

As I pondered this it made me think back to what my Boss said about what would happen if Victoria and I got together. He also said that he's had other caretakers get together with their clients and when that happens they declare their relationship.

I wondered if Victoria had any feelings for me or if she does then maybe she hadn't recognized them yet? Thoughts about Victoria raced in my head and after a while I fell asleep.

***

The next morning I woke up and Victoria was still sleeping which was fine because it was only 6am. Victoria isn't an early riser. She normally gets up around about noon and that's fine by me because it helps me go through my morning routine and I have extra time to take Cody for a walk. So her being a night owl makes things easier for my schedule.

I got up and left the room and closed the door as gently as I could behind me.

"Oh crap I didn't realize you were going to be here!" I heard Jenny say.

I spun around and saw Jenny coming out of the guest room and now she was standing in the hallway staring at me. I raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"Why are you coming out of my sister's room?" Jenny asked.

I told Jenny about the nightmares and whatnot and she nodded in understanding. "You know what's interesting is she never had nightmares if she was a kid. And having the lights off for sleep always helped when she was a kid. Does she still sleep with the lights off?"

I nodded. "Yeah she does. She doesn't even want a hallway light on because of the shadows that it puts on the wall for whatever the reason."

"You're a nice guy, you know that?" Jenny said. "Let's go downstairs and get some coffee. I need my caffeine."

I shrugged. "Sure I'm not much of a coffee drinker but okay."

We sat down at the kitchen table after Jenny poured a cup of coffee for herself.

"Has Victoria mentioned what her nightmares are about?" Jenny asked.

I shook my head. "Nope. She just says she has nightmares and needs someone to comfort at least until she falls asleep."

"Victoria's been through a lot in her life and most of her trauma comes from what my stepdad Howard did to her and what her piece of shit ex-finance Wyatt did to her," Jenny sighed. "I hate Wyatt the most! Too bad he's dead or I wouldn't mind going to jail for his murder. I wouldn't mind going to jail for killing Mom either but I don't really have much of an excuse to kill her. She's not really worth it considering from what I heard her new husband Frank is making her life hell now for whatever the reason. I have a feeling that it has something to do with how she treated Victoria. Serves her right!"

"Huh, well at least people are taking steps to at least speak up for her now," I said. "But even if I didn't hear this story there's something about Victoria that I really like-"

I paused. I can't believe I just said that out loud.

Jenny smirked. "I knew it! You do like her! And I think she likes you! It would be awesome for her to get together with someone who actually likes her without having ill intentions in mind."

I blinked. "Huh?"

Jenny nodded. "It seems like just about every other person Victoria meets wants her for some sick and twisted reason and she's the one who winds up hurt in the end. That's why she keeps everyone at arm's length. Except for me and Jaxon of course. So you can understand that Jaxon and I are kind of wary about people who try to get close to Victoria. Until we see that they're a good person.

"Jaxon seems more wary about people getting close than I am though. He even seems jealous sometimes when people try to get close to Victoria. Although the only person Victoria dated didn't have any ill intentions for her was Megan. But Megan seemed kind of obsessed with Victoria."

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Jenny was going to say something when we heard Victoria screaming, "Get off me!"

We ran upstairs and saw Cody standing at the door barking at us and then looking back at Victoria. He turned around and jumped on the bed and started licking Victoria's hands that were grabbing her neck as if she was being choked by someone.

Cody turned around and barked at me again and whimpered. I walked over to the bed and sat down next to Victoria who was still grabbing her hands at her neck. I gently took her hands from her neck and said, "Victoria! Victoria wake up! Please wake up!"

She calmed down a little but didn't wake up. I leaned over and gently sat her upright and pulled her into my arms. That was when she woke up and looked around the room. When she saw that I was holding her, she blinked. "Walter?"

I nodded. "Yes, Victoria it's me. You had another nightmare."

"Oh," Victoria said.

We sat there in an awkward silence when Victoria broke it, "Um… Thanks for doing this. Do you do stuff like this for your other clients?"

I paused and shook my head. "The closest I've come is sleeping beside their bed and not in it. You're the first one."

"I see," Victoria said. "Let me guess you feel like you want to protect me don't you? I understand because most people that get close or try to get close tend to have ill intentions. But you are just doing your job."

I nodded. "True, I'm just doing my job. But what if I did it for other reasons?"

Victoria's eyes went wide. "Well, I'm not sure I'd still be comfortable with it? I don't know. Wouldn't that go against your job if we wind up dating or something like that?"

"It wouldn't if we declared our relationship and stuff. But we don't have to do anything now if you're not feeling anything towards me. Of course I'll stop doing this if it makes you feel uncomfortable now," I said.

Victoria shook her head. "It's strange that even after hearing that confession I still feel comfortable around you."

I smiled. "Interesting."

"Yeah, interesting indeed," She said. "Can we just talk for now and see where this goes?"

I nodded. "Sure that sounds like a good idea to me. So, do you want to talk about the nightmare? You were acting like someone was choking you."

Victoria hesitated at first but then she said, "It was about Wyatt. You remember when I told you that he was an abusive person?"

"Yes, you did," I said.

When she told me her story about what happened with Wyatt it made my blood boil. She was in a relationship and Wyatt hit her, raped her a couple of times trying to get her pregnant and the worst of it was when he locked her up in his basement and put a dog collar around her neck as if she were a pet.

She showed me a scar on her neck where the dog collar was. She said that she had to cut the collar off when she escaped Wyatt and she was lucky she didn't hit a wrong spot or she'd be dead right now.

Upon hearing her story it made me want to protect her even more. Even if we don't get together I still have her best interests at heart.

"I'm glad you feel comfortable enough to open up to me like that," I said.

Victoria nodded. I pulled her into my arms again and held her. A moment later she started yawning. I smiled. "You think you'll be able to go back to sleep now?"

She nodded and I pulled her into my arms after we laid down and held her until she went back to sleep.

***

{Frank}

After finding out about how Delilah actually feels about me I was heartbroken. I immediately moved her out of my room because who in their right mind would want to share a bed with someone like Delilah? I don't understand what I saw in her in the first place now that I think about it. She's right about me being a hopeless romantic though. I also wrote her out of my will and had it sent to two different lawyers and made it so that the will couldn't be changed unless I was the one who changed it.

There's no way I'm changing that will anytime soon. Delilah will be left with nothing if she plots against me. After I moved Delilah out of my room I started plotting against her. I still can't believe that bullshit story that she married Howard in order to keep her away from Victoria. If anything it gave Howard a way in for him to get closer to Victoria. I guess love can make you do some crazy things, but still…

It was late at night when I was working in my office catching up on some paperwork when the head maid came into the office. The Head Maid is a sexy woman and my type. Honestly, I did think about fucking her a couple of times but because I wanted to stay faithful to my wife so I stayed away from her. But that I found out about how Delilah feels about me, I'm starting to consider fucking her again.

The Head Maid's name is Quinn and she has an hourglass body shape with a big butt and big boobs to go along with it. I could tell from the very moment she came to work with me that she was attracted to me. But then I met Delilah and we started dating so I pushed whatever feeling I had for Quinn to the side.

I looked at Quinn when she entered the room. "What's up?"

"Um, Master the Misuses is asking for you," Quinn said.

"Oh? Did she say what for?" I asked.

She shook her head. "No but she seemed very frightened about something."

I sighed, "Okay I'll go talk to her. Maybe she's just being dramatic just to get my attention."

I followed Quinn to Delilah's room and as soon as I got there Delilah was screaming at the top of her lungs, "There's something in the closet!"

The other maids gave each other a look like they had no idea what to do. Delilah looked at the maids. "Please believe me there's something in my closet."

I rolled my eyes. "Okay then. Delilah I'm checking your room and if I don't see anything I'm done for the night."

Delilah looked at me. "And if you do see something?"

"We'll worry about that after I look inside the closet, okay?" I said.

Delilah nodded but when I caught Quinn glaring at her I thought that would be the perfect way to get back at Delilah. Have an affair on her and I've already got a story in play if people want to sympathize with Delilah after the affair comes to light.

I walked over to Delilah's huge walk-in closet that I had made for her and looked around. I checked behind the clothes hanging up and nothing was there. I checked everywhere I could think of that intruder might be hiding or in places that an animal might hide and found nothing.

I walked out of the closet and shook my head. "Delilah you're seeing things and it makes sense that you're seeing things because it is late at night. So I checked the closet and I didn't find anything else, goodnight."

"But-" Delilah started.

I cut her off, "Goodnight Delilah."

As soon as I left the room I told Quinn to follow me back to my office.

When I closed the door I pinned Quinn up against the wall and started kissing her. She stopped me and pushed me back. "Master, I'm not sure if we should be doing this? You are still married after all."

I smirked. "It's okay I'm at a point in this marriage that I realized my mistake in marrying Delilah."

Quinn raised an eyebrow. "Oh really now? So do you plan on divorcing her?"

I shook my head. "Not yet because I have plans for this woman. Part of that would be having an affair. Why should I stay faithful to someone who's an abusive witch to her daughter and has no feelings for me whatsoever?"

Quinn nodded. "I see." She gave me a flirting smile. "So I take it you want to have an affair with me?"

I nodded. "Yes and I would like to start it now."

"Okay then," Quinn said.

I went back to kissing her and I took her clothes off and I didn't waste any time in taking off mine. However I did pull a condom out of my pants pocket after I fingered Quinn and gave her a mind blowing orgasm from me. I know I'm up there in age but you can't be too careful nowadays because Quinn's still pretty young. She's young enough to have children. Right before she wrapped legs around my waist I made sure to put the condom on.

I started thrusting in her fast and hard and she was begging me to do it. I loved her moaning and screaming with each thrust.

"Oh yes! Harder! Harder!" Quinn screamed, "Oh, Mr. Randal! Yes! Yes! Right there, yes!"

Quinn climaxed and then I climaxed shortly after that. After we caught our breaths I got off of Quinn and helped her get off the couch so she could put her clothes on. Once we got dressed I said, "Come here again around midnight. I'll be waiting for you as long as something doesn't come up okay?"

"Yes Master," Quinn said.

"Oh and by the way, when we're having sex call me Frank and not Mr. Randel," I said.

Quinn nodded. "Yes Master."

I nodded at Quinn and went to my bathroom and took a shower and once that was taken care of I changed into my pajamas and went to bed.