Ace of Spades (Underground Affair Series Book 1) (14 page)

Ace winked at Lucy and followed her father out.

Ace tried to adjust himself in his pants. He wanted more of Lucy and he couldn’t seem to calm his very manly part down. All he needed was for his Chief to see him with a boner, knowing it was his daughter that made it that way.

“Sit down, Ace.”

Ace panicked, now he thought Lucy’s father was going to ream him a new asshole. He must have heard them. He sat down and waited.

“Yes, Chief.”

“Ace, you know how important my daughter is to me?”

“Yes.”

“Well, I saw the two of you just now…”

“I’m sorry, Chief.”

“Sorry?”

“I didn’t expect to find her here and then when I walked in she was in those skimpy clothes and…”

“Ace, do you think I’ve never gotten a boner from looking at a beautiful woman?”

“No Chief, I, I mean yes, Chief.”

“So back to what I was saying. I’ve seen my Lucy and the way she looks at you and if it wasn’t obvious before it is now that you are quite attracted to her.”

“She is very pretty.”

“Would you mind taking her out for dinner? She needs someone to help her get over that scumbag Tom. I trust you not to hurt her, so how about it? I will gladly foot the bill.”

“I’d like to take Lucy to dinner but only if I can pay for it. I don’t want her thinking, if she ever found out, that I didn’t want to take her and that you paid me, so to speak.”

“Fantastic.”

Ace secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Lucy went upstairs to shower. How she wished Ace was still inside her as she lathered up her body and caressed herself. Thoughts of Ace played through her mind until she went to wash her face and felt her bruise which was left by Tom and she was thrown back into reality.

“Lucy?”

Lucy heard Ace calling her.

“Yeah, I will be out in a minute.”

Lucy pulled on her robe and walked into her bedroom.

“Hey.”

“So what's up?”

“I came to see if you would like to have dinner with me sometime?”

“Let me check my schedule.”

“Oh, ok. Let me know.”

Ace felt disappointed she didn’t immediately say yes. He nodded his head and turned to leave.

“I’m free from tonight…on.”

Ace smiled as he turned around and looked at Lucy.

“Tonight, it is then.”

“Ok. See you at seven.”

Ace walked closer and kissed Lucy goodbye.

“Seven it is.”

Shane woke up to the sound of Declan snoring. His head was throbbing and his heart was broken. At least he still had Declan in his life. Without Declan he wouldn't be the fighter he was today.

"How's the head?"

Shane turned to look at Declan. Declan grimaced when he saw Shane's face.

"Yeah, I'd say I feel as good as I look."

"Look at it this way, Rick looks just as bad or worse and he lost the fight. At least you won."

"Did I? My win lost me Robert."

Shane sat up in the bed. Declan sat up as well. He leaned in Shane's face.

"Robert never deserved you. I know you're suffering right now but Shane trust me you're going to find someone who will love you the way you deserve to be loved.”

"I guess I just can't believe that not only did I allow someone to treat me so poorly but I defended him and loved him."

"Love makes us do stupid things. Do you not remember Melissa?"

"I will never forget what that shady bitch did to you."

"That goes to prove that we are all human and when we are in love we are stupid humans."

"Point proven, pity party over."

"That's the Shane I like to see." Declan smiled.

"Come on, let's get dressed and I'll buy you breakfast. I'm starving."

Chace was on his fifth cup of coffee already. He hadn’t been asleep for more than ten minutes before the Police Chief called into work last night and told him there had been another murder. That made three within a few weeks. The first two seemed eerily similar but when a third body showed up with the identical carvings on the body; they knew that they had a real psycho on their hands.

"Chief, come look at this."

Chief Manning walked over and knelt down beside the body.

"My God.”

“This guy is sending us a message.”

Kyle walked over with Chloe. Chace glanced up and then looked away. Chloe ignored Chace and his childish behavior, she wanted to get to work. She dropped down to her knees next to Chief Manning and looked down at the body.

“I feel as if I’ve seen this same body for the third time now.”

“We definitely have a psycho here.”

“A psycho who’s sending us a message.”

Chief Manning and Chloe looked over at Chace and Kyle.

“Message, Kyle?”

“Chace said the first victim looked like she had the number one carved into her chest, we didn’t think much of it until the second victim had what looked like an eight or an infinity symbol in the same place. But this, this is definitely a five. I think we need to put our heads together and figure out what the numbers one, eight and five stand for.”

Chace stood up and began walking to the car as he called out to Kyle, “Let’s go, we need to figure this out before someone else gets killed.”

L
UCY WAS GETTING DRESSED
for her date with Ace. She was applying make up to her bruised face when her father walked in.

“Well don’t you look pretty. Going somewhere?”

“No, I thought I would dress up to scrub the floors, Dad.” Lucy giggled.

“Ahh, I see. So you don’t want to tell the old man where you’re going?”

“I’m going to dinner with a friend.”

“Friend? A male friend?”

“Dad! This is why I moved out. No privacy and too many questions.” Lucy walked over to her father and hugged him. “I love you anyway though.”

“I love you too, Lucy.”

“I will send you a text if I’m going to be very late so you don’t worry.”

“You know, I will worry anyway.”

“Yes Dad, you always do.”

Lucy walked down the stairs. Her father just stood there smiling at her.

Ace was questioning himself about asking Lucy out for dinner on his way to pick her up. She was on the rebound and he didn’t want to be her rebound guy, he wanted to be her guy. Although, he wasn’t sure how his Chief would feel about that. Sure he asked Ace to take Lucy out for dinner but that was because he trusted Ace to take care of her. Little did he know what Ace did after hours or that he had sex with Lucy more than once in his home. Ace chuckled to himself about the thought of the Chief eating his dinner at the same table he had sex with Lucy on. No time for dirty thoughts, he was now parked in front of his Chief’s house and needed to get out of the car and didn’t need to have a boner.

Shane was asleep on the couch until his phone rang and woke him up.

“Hello.”

“Mr. Hart?”

“This is Mr. Hart.”

“Hi, it’s Luke, Dr. Martino.”

Shane smiled and sat up.

“Are you calling about the rest of my test results?”

“No, I’m calling to thank you for the new clothes you had delivered to my office. It wasn’t necessary to even return my clothes moreover purchase all new items.”

“You went out of your way for me. I really appreciate it. Besides, I bled on your shirt so it needed to be replaced.”