Page 35 of Ace's Ascension

“We should be safe, but to reiterate what I told you earlier, don’t go outside this house for the rest of the night. It’s not safe out there right now.”

“Got it,” Tex responds. Stone and Duke nod their heads.

“Thank you,” Ace kisses the top of my head and my heart swells even more. Ace is taking this in stride and it’s making me fall for him even more. Now to get through the rest of our time down here with my family. If he can handle their crazy, he can handle anything.

“Ready for bed, Sweet Cheeks?” Ace growls in my ear and I hold back a groan, nodding my head.

He leads me back to the bedroom without a word to Tex, Stone or Duke and shuts the door behind us. Once we’re alone, Ace peels off my clothes slowly, kissing, nipping and loving my body the entire night. Each caress to my skin, every time he sinks inside of me, making me lose my mind, brings me closer and closer to filling the void in my heart from my Memaw’s death. Ace is becoming my addiction and I won’t ever let him go.

Chapter Twenty

Ace

The bright sunlight streams through the sheer curtains waking me. Liz is still sleeping, naked and wrapped around my body like a cobra, bringing my morning wood to full attention. I had her in so many different ways last night, you’d think I’d be all out of gas, but that isn’t the case with her. Never with her. This woman brings me alive with every look, every touch, every caress. She makes my heart beat stronger than before and means something more to me than anyone else, even my little brother Spencer.

Is it love I feel for Liz? Fuck if I know since I’ve never been in love before, but if this is what it feels like, sign me up.

I tighten my hold on Liz, dying to tell her my realization, but hold back. There are still things she hasn’t told me about her past and the last thing I want is for her to feel obligated to tell me she loves me in return until she really knows I’m who she wants.

When her mother mentioned a man named Aerik, Liz’s body stiffened and fear replaced her bravado. Is Aerik an ex of hers? Did he hurt her somehow? Was her fear of her mother mentioning him in front of me or mentioning him in general?Does she still have feelings for him? These questions only Liz can answer but I have a feeling deep in my gut, I’ll get my answers today.

Liz stirs and rubs her leg draped over my waist up and down. Her heat pressed into the top of my thigh. I adjust us slightly so she is straddling my waist, my aching erection seeking her entrance. Liz shifts her hips and I slip inside. A groan rumbles through my chest as she begins to move. No words are needed while she takes us to a place made for just the two of us. Her hips move faster while she bounces up and down. My shaft swells, close to finding my release when Liz releases a long guttural moan from deep inside. The sounds she makes drive me to the edge and I’m running off a cliff, powerless to stop myself. Liz’s heat squeezes my shaft and we both explode into a million pieces as her lips find mine and I kiss her with every feeling deep inside of me.

Once we come back down from the heavenly bliss, Liz kisses me again before shifting her weight off me. “That was quite the wake-up call.” She blushes and I grin back.

“If you want to wake up doing that every day, I’ll die a happy man.” I counter.

Liz stretches against me and looks through the curtains at the rising sun. “Shit. We’re late.” She hops out of bed and hurries into the bathroom while I’m left lying on the bed in confusion. Liz comes out of the bathroom and hurries around the room, throwing clothes at us left and right. “Shit, I need a shower. Fuck, I don’t have time for a shower. Ace, we need to get moving.”

She throws a pair of jeans at me that aren’t even my jeans, they’re hers. “Sweet Cheeks,” I respond trying to defuse the situation. When Liz doesn’t stop throwing clothes around, I rise from the bed and stalk over to her. I grab her gently by theshoulders and make her stop. “Liz, what’s going on? Why are you acting this way?”

“You don’t understand.”

“I know I don’t understand because you’re not explaining anything to me. Come on,” I lead her to the bed and make her sit. “Take a deep breath and tell me what’s going through that pretty little head of yours?”

“We need to get to Memaw’s island before anyone else. I have to set up my stones to ward off the evil coming. Please, Ace,” Liz grabs my hands with hers. “You’ve trusted me this far, please trust me on this. If I don’t get there and do this, anything can happen.”

“Ok, Sweet Cheeks.” I handed her the jeans she threw at me. “These are yours. I don’t think one of my thighs will fit into these.”

Liz giggles before taking the offered jeans from my hands and we get dressed without any more clothing casualties. “I wish I had time for a shower,” Liz grumbles.

I pull Liz against me and kiss the top of her head, breathing in our scents mixed together from last night and this morning. “I love the way you smell. It’s intoxicating and tells everyone you are mine just as I am yours.”

Liz blushes before gathering her stones and we leave the room together with our bags in hand. Tex, Duke and Stone are ready to go, standing by the front door with their bags in their hands. Duke is nervously fiddling with the straps.

“Is there a problem?” I ask, raising an eyebrow and waiting for an answer. Duke looks up at me and then his eyes shift to Liz, then back to me.

“We uh…” Duke stutters and rubs his bald head. “Didn’t know if it was safe to go outside.”

Liz stifles a giggle, “Yes, it’s safe now.” She bends down to remove the stones by the door. We all gathered the rest of her stones and put them in her little bag.

Once we’re finished, Liz leads us outside and down to a river about five hundred yards away from the little house. The humidity this early in the morning is manageable but not by much. There is an airboat waiting for us tied to the weathered dock. Duke, Tex, Stone and I all climb on board. The three of them sit on the bench seat near the front and I sit on the seat higher than them in the back. Liz unties the boat from the dock and pushes it away with her foot before hopping on and taking the seat next to me.

“Have you ever ridden in one of these?” She asks, firing up the engine.

“Never. What does it do?” I ask over the roar of the motor.

“Down here, there are places boats, cars or trucks can’t go. This airboat will allow us to travel swamp and land to get where we need to go.” Liz leans forward, speaking loud enough for Tex, Duke and Stone to hear. “I’m going to need you three to watch for gators. They’ll try to tip us or climb on board if we get too close. If you see one, I’ll need you to use the sticks under your seat to point them out so I can avoid them or push them off if they climb on board. Can you three do that?”

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