Page 9 of Going Dark

"Just answer my question, baby."

"I lost my innocence two years ago. Right around the time my mom died and I had to put her in the ground. Is that what you want to talk about, Ace?" The way she says my name tells me I'm not going to get anything out of her. She's a stubborn little thing and if you don't handle her right you'll never get anything out of her. I don't know if she is telling me she lost her cherry right after she buried her mother or if she still has it and isn't the little girl I once knew. I want to stick my fingers in her pussy and see for myself but if she's not willing to give me the answer I can't imagine she's willing to give me permission to check for myself. But I will find out.

When Evie doesn't allow our past to cloud her mind she gives me who she really is, soft, sweet and a body telling me she is my woman with everything she does. Evie will soon realize I'm not the same boy who wanted what I wanted when I wanted. No, now I am a man who is patient and who will wait for what is mine. I watch as she runs. There is nothing I like better than a good chase.

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Two days later I realize I have been lying to myself. I am not a patient man. This new man that I am is being driven crazy with the thought of the little girl across the hall from me. She allowed me and the guys to take over most of her house downstairs. One of the men will stay awake at all times while the other one sleeps on the couch before they switch. I took the guest bedroom that she used as a storage area. I spent the first day cleaning it up and making some kind of order out of it and putting a bigger bed in it.

It's right across from her bedroom for fuck's sake and I’ve only seen her briefly. She's a slippery woman. But her time is running out. She has to go to school tomorrow and I'm the one taking her there, waiting for her to come out, and bringing her home. We should have plenty of time to talk. She has done everything she can to ignore and avoid me but soon she won't have the option.

It took some fast talking from me, Jim, and finally Ana to make her agree to even let us inside her house. Even when she realized how much danger she was in she wouldn't agree to our help. Finally, I had to call Ana, and when they talked she threatened to tell my mom about what was going on.

"I'll have to tell her about all the weirdness between you and Alex and then she'll want to know all about why it's like that and what happened and why you won't let him protect you. You know she'll dig until she finds out what is going on with the two of you."

"Fine, I'll let them stay but only downstairs. None of them are allowed upstairs. And only until they find the men who think I have anything to do with your brother." She huffs out and when she gives her ultimatum about the upstairs she glares at me.

"Thank you, Evie. Knowing that you are being taken care of so well means that me and mom won't have to worry about you as much."

She turned and wheeled around glaring at me and that was two days ago. I thought for sure that she would come out of her room and say something about me moving and rearranging the guest/storeroom but she didn't. If she doesn't cooperate soon I'm going to be in the bathroom whacking it like mad every day.

I unfold myself from the bed and walk out into the hall. I can tell she just spent a couple of hours in the bath getting ready for tomorrow. I plan to go in there so I can smell her when I cum but when I step out in the hall I'm pulled up short by the sight of her door slightly opened.

The latch on her door doesn't always catch causing her door to sometimes pop back open like now. I can see her stretched out across her bed on her belly with her legs bent up in the air occasionally waving back and forth. From what I can see she is reading a thick book that looks like a textbook. Her phone is lying next to her but she isn't paying it any attention. She writes in a notebook every now and then but for the most part, she is reading.

What has me drawing to a stop and calling out for Jim is the fact that she is laid out on her bed wearing only a tiny sleep shirt that barely covers her ass. In fact, when she moves from reading to writing her shirt comes up some and I can see the soft curve of her ass cheeks only covered by a thin layer of silk that does nothing to hide the sweet globes of her ass.

When I yell for Jim she jumps and rolls over to her elbows to find out why I am shouting her house down. When our eyes meet realization dawns on her that I've been standing there for a while, long enough to have seen her sweet innocent ass on full display. Jim comes up to the landing and stops out of respect for my girl.

"None of the men are allowed up here. Ever. Unless I'm dead and she's in trouble, otherwise every male in this house goes through me to get to her when she's up here."

Normally I wouldn't be slinging orders at my commanding officer but we aren't working anymore and this very much is mine to command. This is my neck of the woods. This is my girl. And this is my place. Jim allows a smile to stretch across his face at my order. He tilts his head in an agreement, "I'll let them know how it is."

I turn and find a pissed off Evie leaning against her door. "What was that all about?"

"You're finally talking to me again?" I shouldn't poke at her but damn if I can't help it when she's made me this damn hard in nothing but a thin nightshirt that's just a little too short and sweet little girl underwear in pretty pink. She might as well be wearing a fucking lace negligee.

"Don't be a dick. Why are you yelling at the top of your lungs for no one to be up here unless something dire happens? I thought I made it clear what my preference was and that even you aren't really supposed to be up here."

I walk closer to her and the scent of cherry blossoms fills my nose, "Because baby, if one of the men I work with came up here and saw you on your bed with that sweet ass laid out for anyone to see I would have to kill one of my own and I would feel awful about it. But I would still kill them."

Her face tells me how much I've shocked her. I don't know if it's because I was looking at her ass or if it's because I would kill a man for looking at what belongs to me and only me. She's always belonged to me and I am beyond ready to claim her. She's going to have to make peace with that. I leave her standing there looking at me as I go to the bathroom to take care of the erection she's caused.

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Evie

I have no fucking idea what last night was all about. Since he's killed people in front of me it seems Ace has become another person, one who is...possessive and protective. I can't make sense out of it. Why now? Why does he come on so strong after so many years of treating me like I barely exist or I'm nothing but an extension of Ana?

Because of his little shouting incident, I slept like shit last night. It didn't help that I was painfully aware of Ace being in the room right across from me and that he would be the person taking me to school. But when we got in the car this morning neither of us said very much. He looked pissed, like he slept the way I did, and I couldn't bring myself to make myself vulnerable to him another time. When someone tells you to go home and grow up when you are standing in front of them completely naked it tends to have a lingering effect on you.

As soon as I hit the classroom, my teacher and friends are all asking me about the 'break-in'. I try to keep to the truth as much as I can. Everything was fine, it was a misunderstanding, and it wasn't my house but my neighbor's house that was vandalized and destroyed. I conveniently leave out the part where my neighbor is a highly trained killer who is now residing in the bedroom across from mine.

"That's still scary, what with it happening so close to you. Do you have someone you can stay with for a couple of days until they catch who did it?" Tammy asks but I see Joe's eyes light up and wonder what the hell is up with him.

"Um...," so much for not lying because now is the time I have to tell them about my 'boyfriend'.

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