Page 24 of Dare You to Catch Me
After Ace walked away from me, I went to my room to take a shower.
He's up to something. I can feel it.
Getting into the shower, letting the hot water wake me up, still slightly sore from last night, but the warm feeling that clings to my heart, is just getting warmer.
But I also hate myself right now. I shouldn't have left Ace like that, and I know that. I'm not used to people interfering with my racing, I have worked hard to get where I am. The states race is why my grandfather and I did everything that we did, and I had to defend my title last night. Ace and I have to figure this out, somehow, someway, we have to. I know Ace is angry with me, I can see it in his dark eyes, he has every right to be too.
And now I make a promise to myself to quit with my shit and do fucking better.
ACE
Receiving a text from Caz letting me know that his order is completed, I swallow the lump in my throat. Preparing for the damage it will cause.
Getting Emma out of the fucking house finally, we get in the car and I drive us to the shipping yard where she is soon going to be smacked in the face with realization.
After pulling into the shipping yard, driving all the way to the loading docks, I park the car and we get out.
“What are we doing here, Ace?”
“You'll see. Come on.” She shoots a questioning look at me as she walks closer to me, but I start to walk, not giving her any touch, knowing it may cause me to question my fucking self.
She follows me and I round the side of a container, seeing her demon already loaded and tied down, in a shipping container. I look back over my shoulder and watch for her reaction as she rounds the corner. Her eyes widen as she stops in her tracks. I stop and turn towards her, preparing for what's to come. She stares at me dangerously before the words seeth from her mouth. “What have you done?”
I swallow the lump in my throat, swallowing down the feelings I have for her, flipping my switch, knowing what she is about to hear, will break her. “You've broken my trust, Emma. I told you not to go to that race, and you did it anyway. There was a fucking reason I told you not to go.”
Her breathing quickens as her nostrils flare and I know it's coming, but I don't care right now.
“If you think I'm going to let you take my car away from me, you have no idea who you're fucking with.” She hisses.
I want to let the smirk escape my lips but I bite it down. “You can do whatever your little heart desires, Baby Girl, but that car.” I point at her car in the container, hissing the words out of my mouth “Is leaving this country, where no one will find it.”
Her fist connects with my jaw with a mean right hook, before she tries to run for her car, but I snatch her before she can. “Let go of me, Ace! You fucking bastard!”
I wrap my hand around her throat and pin her against the shipping container next to me, before the words hiss from my mouth, filled with venom, finally losing my control. “You did not grow up in the world I did, you know nothing aboutthe twisted fucking shit these bosses do. You may know what your grandfather wanted you to know, but it goes way beyond that.” Sliding my hand up, taking her jaw in my hand, making her look at me, the tears well in her eyes. “That car is leaving, you can hate me for it, so be it, but at least I know you will be safe, and you aren't risking our fucking empire. I told you a war is coming and yet you're still playing games.” I swallow hard, before the words come out of my mouth. ‘Maybe you'll get it now.” I look up to my men, giving a nod, they start shutting the container doors and I watch her eyes snap over, watching the doors close but I hold her jaw in my hand, not letting her go, pinning her with my body. She squirms against me, bringing her hand up wrapping it around my wrist, trying to pull my hand from her jaw, but I won't give it to her.
“Don't do this, Ace. Please don't do this.”
“You made me do this.”
“I will never forgive you for this.” Her words sting, sting deep, knowing there is a pretty damn good chance that's happening, but so be it.
“One day you might, if not, that's fine too, but I at least now you're safe, and our empire is still standing.”
“If someone gets their hands on that car.” She huffs as she shakes her head. I watch the tears fill her eyes instantly, obviously thinking of the worst. I know this is breaking her heart, but it's breaking mine to watch her like this; fuck. I know this was the right fucking thing, but why does it hurt so bad, knowing I have made her cry and broke her heart all in a matter of 20 fucking minutes.
Releasing my hold on her, she rips herself away from me bolting for my car. She looks back at the container that is now closed that is carrying her car, before getting into mine.
Making sure everything is squared away as she sits in the car, they start to load the container onto the boat and I know I need to gether out of here. I've broke her enough today, she doesn't need to watch it get loaded too, but maybe she fucking does. This is why I have been called the soft one. My heart feels hard, but I also have the Devil in me, and sometimes, it's not a happy medium. When the Devil rises, nothing stops me.
I get in my car and look over at her, as tears roll down her cheeks and she bites her thumb nail, staring out the window watching the container getting lifted in the air.
I start the car before I drive off, not even trying to say anything to her. My insides are screaming, the air between us is toxic, I'm just waiting for her to snap at any moment but she doesn't until she sniffles out the words. “I need to go to the office, I have some work to do. Can you take me there please?’
“No.”
She looks over at me with widened eyes, her lips part. "And why not?”
“Because you need to get your shit together before tonight.”
