Page 8 of Going Dark

"Are you worried about your mom and Ana? Are they going to be okay?" I start to stand but his hand stops me.

"They have someone watching them and my mom is going to stay with my Uncle and Aunt. She's pregnant with their first child so Mom is...tickled that she gets to stay with them as long as I stay safe. Ana has a man on her, if she's not at school she'll be with my Uncle too. Or here."

"Here? Why would she be here? How are you going to take care of her if she's here?"

Ace comes in front of me and hunkers down so we are eye level. "They have my contact information and all of our text conversations." He gives me a minute for this to sink in before he says anything else. My brain is running super slow, probably because of the events of the night. "They think you're my girlfriend."

Now I get why it is so awful that they got his phone! He's been sending me goodnight texts and just sent me a picture with flowers and his semi-naked body telling me to come and get what belongs to me. Oh my God!

Before I can really think what I am doing I am in the floor on top of him with my hands around his neck. Something like a pinkish-red haze has come over my vision and all I can think about is how this jerk made me the target of people wanting to kill innocent people just to hurt these men, who are in no way innocent. Jim stands but Ace waves him off. He has me flipped over and my hands in his wrists before I can do any real damage.

"Clear the room."

Ace doesn't have to shout for it to ring in my ears. They are leaving me alone with him. The one thing I didn't want to happen is happening. I don't really count the last time we were alone because there were people shooting at us so we weren't actually alone. We will be now. Jim gives a signal to the scary guy and he finally moves. He didn't even move when I went for Ace's throat.

Ace puts my wrists together so he can hold them in one of his hands leaving his other free to grasp my chin so I can't move my head.

"I realize this isn't how things were supposed to go. I get what I did but I'm going to make it better, Evie. I'm done running. I'm done pretending. And this is just an opportunity for you to have time to get behind what is going to happen one way or another."

I shoot death eyes at him. "What the hell does that even mean? You talk in riddles like a freakin' half-assed fortune teller who doesn't know what the hell is going on and you put me in harm's way. Why? Because you're fucking bored!"

I yank at my hands but he doesn't let me go.

"None of this was because I was bored. And I might have put you in harm's way but I plan to get you out just as fast. I'm telling you I'm not leaving again. This is it. I save you and I'm done."

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Ace

Damn, I am a sick fuck! I know right now is not the time to realize just how good Evie feels under me but I really can't think of anything else. When she went for my throat it was hot as hell. Most women realizing someone put them in danger would have cried or maybe even passed out but not Evie. She tries to kill me. Now that is a hell of a woman. And the perfect woman for me.

Her hair is spread out on the floor around her like a halo of blood and her eyes are spitting sparks that could ignite a forest fire. She's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. The fact that she wants to kill me right now is just foreplay.

"So you're done when this is all over and you 'save' me. Like done with me, as in your done trying to make my life hell so you'll leave to go wherever it is you go when you aren't home? Or done as in just with me and this stupid game you're playing?"

"Why do you purposefully misunderstand what I am telling you? Is it fear, baby? Are you afraid of us being an "us"?" If it's possible she gets even more pissed off. Her little body is so tense and tight she is going to break if she doesn't loosen up soon. "I will never be done with you. I meant what I said when I said I am not running from you and me being together anymore. We're happening and I'll keep you safe now," I lean down and brush my lips against the corner of her mouth causing her lips to open in a gasp for me but I don't take advantage - this time.

"And," I brush her mouth again on the opposite corner, "forever."

This time when I bring my mouth down it is right in the middle of hers. The last time we kissed both of us were a little distracted but now we have all the time in the world. Yeah, men are still going to come to kill me and Jim is outside the door waiting for me but none of that shit matters now. We aren't being shot at and no one needs killing. We have all the time we need.

I can't believe how god damned soft Evie is. Her lips are like silk or rose petals. My hand travels down to circle her neck, which seems like its new favorite place to hang out lately. She has a small neck and the skin there is just as soft as her lips. I bet her pussy is soft like her lips too, if not softer. The thought has me groaning on her lips.

"Open your lips for me, baby." She shakes my head and rolls her lips in between her teeth. I wonder if she knew how hard her sass makes me if she would still give it to me like she is now. She's fighting me but I've known Evie too long for me not to be able to tell how to get around her sassy ass.

I release her throat and run my hands down her front. Not to grab a boob or to be flirty. I have other ideas. Her dragging in a deep breath when my hand trails in between her tits is just a bonus for me. It tells me how much I affect her even if she is fighting it. I run my hand around her body to circle her rib cage - right before I start tickling the hell out of her. It doesn't take any time before she's squirming under me and calling out for me to stop.

"No! Stop, Sasha." Hearing her call me by the nickname I used to hate does something to me. It makes me warm inside my chest like my heart is finally waking up after years of being frozen. I dig my fingers into her ribs and go harder at her, running my hand up under her armpit. She's pulling at her wrists to try to free her hands but I have her good and trapped. "Oh no! You're going to make me pee you ass. ACE!!!!"

I swoop down and take her mouth with mine, pushing my tongue in deep. I only stop when I'm inside. Everything, absolutely everything, phases out and she is all I know. The taste of her, the feel of her tongue dueling with mine, the feel of just how soft her body is pressed against mine. Her.

At first, she doesn't respond but the longer my tongue coaxes hers the more she melts under me until at last she runs her tongue over mine and her legs wrap around my hips. This is one of the reasons I told the men to leave. No other man is ever going to see Evie like this. I break away from her mouth and trail kisses and small bites down her jaw and under the soft skin right below her ear.

"Evie, are you still a virgin?" I want to know. I have to know. If she's not it's not going to stop me from claiming her as my own but it might mean one less hole I have to dig before we get married. "Evie, baby? You still got your innocence, baby?"

She stiffens under me. Her eyes clearing up as the cloud of lust I had her in vanishes. She rolls and I let her roll me over and watch her get to her feet. "You don't get to ask me if I have my innocence after all that's happened. You don't get to ask me anything about me." She turns to walk away from me but I grab her wrist and contemplate jerking her back down to the ground again.

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