The buzz started as soon as we pulled into the lot on Monday morning. I never knew what all the fuss was about, having your boyfriend drive you to school, when you had your own car. And I never understood girls who got miffed when the guy didn't offer.Now I totally see the appeal, it makes a statement I think, sends a clear message. Or I could just be reading more into it than is necessary.Whatever the case maybe, it felt amazing to have him come pick me up this morning after breakfast.He'd blown his horn and waited outside like the kids in one of those after school specials from the early eighties, that mom hides and watches.I hadn't even known that he was going to do this and of course practical me had questioned the necessity of him driving me here when I had a perfectly working car of my own.In typical Jace fashion he'd ignored my questions and just ordered me to go get my stuff."You ready?" he held the door open for me and I stepped out to the surprised faces of some o
After that first Monday I was on top of shit. I had an around the clock crew on her ass when I couldn't be there, or close enough to walk with her.She'd taken to bitching and moaning at me about it, but all her shit fell on deaf ears.I was beginning to see a little bit of what her brother had been telling me the more time we spent together.Sian wasn't only high maintenance, my girl was nuts. Oh it wasn't overtly obvious or anything, just these little things she would do or say that made me think maybe there was more to my sweet little fiancée. It didn't help that her crew encouraged her shit.Yesterday I'd heard the story of her kicking Mandy in the head during practice, after Mandy and Liz had messed up one of Sian's routines and caused her to almost fall on her head.Then there was the angry ants story. Apparently Mandy had had an infestation of the things show up in her bag, which she carried all the time.By Wednesday people were taking bets and the two girls seemed to be
"What's with all the weird stares and giggles behind the hands? Have I suddenly sprouted another head?"When neither Belle nor Tammy answered right away, but instead turned their faces, I knew something was very wrong."What?" I looked from one to the other, before Belle finally turned her phone to me.There was a message there that I didn't quite get at first. It didn't compute for a lot of reasons. First, because it was sent to Belle's phone, and second because the words didn't make any sense, or I didn't want them to.'I told you it was all a farce, did you really think he would leave me for her?' there was a picture of what looked like Jace in bed with Mandy in our cottage.Subconsciously I knew it couldn't be right. I mean, Jace is always telling me about the many ways people try to shake down other people as he calls it. He even explained the fine art of photo shopping to me.And what about yesterday? We'd made love all evening until he took me home. The guy that held me an
"Hey what do you think you're...?" she tried pulling out of my hand."Not one more fucking word." I pointed my finger at her face. Her mouth fell open in shock, but I ignored her ass and dragged her to the parking lot and over to my truck.I caged her in between the passenger side door and me."What the fuck do you think you're doing?""I don't have to answer to you, you jerk." I grabbed her face, not too hard because I love the little bitch to death, but she's a pain in the ass."Don't fucking push it.""I'll push it as far as I want, you lying cheating asshole."The what, what the fuck are you talking about?""Your girlfriend.""Uh, that would be you, nutcase.""No, it's that Mandy bitch, the one you were screwing before I showed up here, the one you said you were through with. The one you were with last night.""Where the fuck did you hear that bullshit?" What the fuck? I was with her last night until I took her home around dinnertime.Then I went home and had dinner wit
I think I might've bitten off just a tiny bit more than I can chew here. I've seen Jace upset before, but this was a whole new level of crazy for him.Granted, everything he said was true, he has been telling me to stay out of the conflict with Mandy and let him handle it, but that was easier said than done.He didn't have to share a classroom with her, or put his life in her hands doing jumps and flies off her damn shoulders.I wasn't half as mad as I had been anymore, since my anger now paled in comparison to his."She's been texting a picture around school, I don't know how many people have seen it by now, but it's embarrassing and humiliating and the kind of thing that makes people do stupid things.""Obviously, because she got you to put your life in danger. She got you to make an ass of you and me. I guess that means that she's the stronger of you two.Looks like she came out the winner in this little skirmish, since she's probably somewhere right now gloating at the fact t
Everyone else seemed able to see it, but not her. She hadn't been here when I was with the others, so she'd have no way of knowing that there was no real difference between the way I'd treated any of them. They'd all been the same in my eyes she was the only one who stood apart, that's why she was the one wearing my ring.Now here we are, less than a week later, and I have to do this shit to teach her a lesson. After she came the second time I pulled out and dragged her out of bed and into the shower. My dick was still hard, but I was saving him for phase two.I was still silent when I soaped her up and then myself, before adjusting the showerhead to make sure her hair didn't get wet when I washed her off.Turning her to face the wall I pressed my hand between her shoulder blades and leaned her forward so I could slide into her from behind.Then I gave her what she wanted, what she'd begged for. "That, in there, on the bed, was for not coming to me with this shit in the first p
I pulled up the pics I'd snuck and taken earlier and showed them around the room. "If you'd notice the pattern is just a little different. Oh and the guy in the pic is also missing a little something."There were a few snickers at that one and I passed around a bland glare. "My Jace has a tat on his arm right about...here."Mandy was red as a lobster and not very happy when she stormed out of the room, or at least tried to. I wasn't about to let her skinny ass just walk away like that though.Jace was no doubt going to hear about this and there was probably going to be another pounding in my future, but I was just going to have to deal with it.I stopped her in her tracks, just before she reached the door. "I've had about enough of you, you might get away with bullying everyone else around here, but I'm not that girl. I don't need to get all pedantic and warn you off of my man, because I know there's not a snowball's chance in hell that he'd ever touch you with a ten foot pole.Oh
It was my idea to invite the girls over for a kind of afterschool powwow, so we could make plans for the upcoming Halloween party, which apparently was so big, that it takes weeks to plan.I also thought I'd use the opportunity to talk to Cass, but those plans went out the window when a caravan followed me home.I pulled through the gate and down the driveway, wondering what the hell the crazy one was up to now."Jace what're you guys doing here? I thought you wanted to go over plays for your big day tomorrow?""We are, right here where I can keep an eye on your little ass." I rolled my eyes at him and went in the house.Mom was a real trooper and didn't even bat a lash at the extra bodies that tromped through her kitchen. Though her eyes did widen at the sight of the mark on my neck. Crap, I pulled my hair forward to hide it but the damage was already done."Ahem, there're snacks in the bin and juice in the fridge, try to finish the milk if you can guys and please, don't get mud
They looked around the room at each other until Logan nodded his head. I guess that was the go ahead because Mancini took point again."What we're about to share with you doesn't leave this room. We've come together along with some other friends that you didn't get to meet this time, to form a kind of group if you will.""Each of us serves a purpose in this group. It's also top secret, which you should understand." He looked at Track and I moved to stand in front of him. "It's okay Jace, he knows.""I'm not working for the government, no disrespect." I looked at the SEALs. The men in the room started to smile. I wasn't sure what the fuck they were, but it wasn't hard to tell that they were something. What with the compound that was more secure that the Pentagon."That's not who we are. What we propose, if we all agree is that you boys become part of our elite group. We'll fill you in on all the pertinent details a little later once you get on board. If not we can stop this lit
I just held her and let her get it out, knowing that she'd be right as rain in no time. "Come on baby, let's get you dried and dressed." I turned off the water and lifted her to take her out of the shower."Jace, do you ever regret marrying me?" I want to answer this shit for the one hundredth time. What is it with women? The guys were all complaining about the same thing, except for Alex who was always smiling these days, the fuck."Sian, just like I told you yesterday and the day before that, even if I live to be a hundred, I won't ever regret the best decision I ever made.""But we're so young." I rolled my eyes and dried her feet that she couldn't hardly see anymore. "Does that mean that you regret it because you're younger than I am?"That one always stumps her but she still asks the same damn question over and over. So I knew what was coming next. "But it's not the same for men.""That's not sexist or anything. I should start worrying as often as you ask me that. Maybe
Not scared like a punk, more like amazed at the shit these fucks can get up to. So when he so casually mentioned something that he should have no knowledge of, I got the sense there was much more left unsaid. I'm sure a man of his caliber wasn't just wasting his time on some kid that he didn't even know."I sense a catch.""No catch, I just think you're wasted on those fucknuts is all. Anytime you're ready give me a ring." He'd rang off after that but there was no mistaking the smile in his voice. I'm pretty sure he knew that I was going to look into him.And that was my reason for being hesitant about taking Jace with me. I'd got a glimpse of where those SEALs live and I have the feeling that shit would only give Jace ideas. He was already making noise about building a place like the one on the island where we all could live. The kid's a damn hippie at heart.***JACE***"Track wants us to go to Georgia to meet his sister. We're going this weekend if you're not too sick
I didn't feel shit when I put pressure on his neck. Everything was happening so fast. Sian was screaming, finally giving into the fear and Track was trying to talk me down."I told you not to touch her you fuck. Did you forget?" I tightened my arm around his neck, adding just the right amount of pressure and barely restrained myself from doing more "I'm going to break your fucking neck.""Jace no, let him go, he's not worth it." I ignored Track and twisted my arm quick, snapping Stanley's neck. "Call the cops.""Fuck Jace! What the fuck did I say?""Call the cops.""No, let me think let me clean this up. Shane, Alex bar the door make sure no one gets by..." I hadn't even heard the others rush in behind me. But turned to see them now with horror in their eyes. "He's not dead Track his neck's just broken. Call the cops." I dropped Stanley on the floor just as the men who were supposed to be watching the school came through the door."What took you guys so long?""He didn
For now, it was fine. For the next nine months I knew she was going to keep me on my toes. We had an appointment with the best Obstetrician of course, who'd been vetted to within an inch of her life before I agreed.I was trying to make it so that she only had to worry about school and giving birth, other than that I was there to pick up the slack. I had the fridge in our suite stocked with all the things she's been asking for lately and hoping for smooth sailing.I was getting used to waking up with her in the morning to hold her hair while she threw up. Then her horny ass would need a fix on the bathroom floor after a quick nap.Other than that, there was no sign that her tiny ass was even pregnant. Of course she's decided that she can get away with shit now, because I can't fix her ass, but I have other ways of keeping her ass in line.That Monday as soon as we'd reached the school yard the whispers started. It wasn't long before we heard the whole story of Mandy being dropp
Mom came down with a tray of something in her hands instead of letting one of the servants do it."Hey mom, how come you're doing this yourself?""I don't know. We didn't go to the shelter this year because we've invited everyone, so I guess I'm feeling a little bit guilty.""Didn't you donate all the food this year? I'm sure they don't mind us missing one year mom, we'll go for Xmas, and make everyone that's here today come with us.""Sounds good son. By the way, I'm going to let you off the hook for telling your dad before you told me.""Shit, mom...""It's okay, he explained. By the way her parents know so you two don't have to keep putting it off any longer.""How?""Veronica is a mother son. We both figured something was going on that day in the hospital.""Well, that's all good and well but Sian has decided she's never telling her dad. She doesn't want him to know she's having sex."Mom thought that shit was hilarious but the rest of my crew, except for Track,
With Mandy behind bars, all I needed was to find Stanley to tie her into the attack on Sian. I need that to put her away for the rest of her life.I'd been leaving clues and making anonymous phone calls to the cops for a while. Once I'd contacted the men she'd been extorting and told them the truth about her age, some of them were more than happy to come forward. The only ones that tried to hold out were the married ones. Some of them I let slide, like Cassie's dad. But the others I put the squeeze on.That's why I'd needed her phone and the stuff that she left behind when she got kicked out of her house. My team had already confiscated it all. That, along with the computer stick Liz had mailed me, were locked away in my safe. Everything except the phone which had been mailed to the cops. I was still protecting Carter, but I had to do it for Cassie's sake.The ones that did have sex with her when she was underage, their names had been handed over to the cops. There were going
I drove down the driveway slowly with the lights off. There was one light on in the house and I wasn't surprised that it was in Sian's room. I got out of the truck and looked around at the dark night.It would be so easy... But I couldn't do anything here, not where my girl's family slept. Instead I walked around back. How did she get in anyway? And how do I get in without alerting her to the fact that I was here. I wasn't left wondering long.The alarm hadn't been set because of the workers going back and forth, which was an oversight. No one expects to be robbed in this neighborhood, but still. I knew it wasn't on since the night I'd come back here for her medicine, but hadn't thought much of it. Missed that one.I walked up the stairs, being as quiet as I could and stepped into Sian's bedroom door. Mandy was sitting on the bed, the new bed that replaced the one that had been burned in the explosion."What are you doing here?" It was obvious what she was doing. The door to Si
I'd been so excited I'd forgotten to score some drugs. I hadn't seen a male anywhere in that stupid place anyway, that might've been willing to help me, so it was most likely a bust. I sat in the car and formulated my next move in my head. How can I get close enough to do what I have to do? There was no way to get onto the Saunders' property without being noticed.Unless...No they've had the same domestic staff for a while, they probably know each one on sight. How can I get there? I don't have anything suitable, anything that would disguise me until I got close enough. Close enough to destroy her, that bitch.I drove around for a while still no closer to a solution. Thanksgiving was in two days. Another thought hit me. It was something I'd learned about Jace and his family even before we dated. When he still used to act like I didn't exist. When I used to read anything I could get my hands on about the ultra-wealthy family. Yes, that would be perfect. I'd forgotten all abou