“Why haven't you been at the office?” My father asks.
“I've been busy with Ace, but I've still been taking care of my duties from home.”
“I see.” A silence falls between us again, before my father leans in, the stale whiskey on his breath causing me to cringe, he whispers in my ear. “I don't feel sorry for anything that happens to you or your worthless new king.” My heart pounds in my chest, my eyes widen immediately searching for Ace, as the feeling of my fathers darkness washes over me. “What is that supposed to mean father? I thought you wanted this wedding to happen?”
My fathers dangerous laugh barks from his throat. “Oh, I have a better plan, a much, much better plan.”
The song ends and I step back immediately, pulling my hand free from my fathers death hold. “I'm sorry, I wasn't up to your standards, but you never gave me the chance. So Father, I'm sorry to say, I feel sorry for you.” And I walk away. Something I should not do,showing disrespect to a man of my father's power, but my insides are crawling out of my skin, telling me, something is about to happen.
I have to go to Ace.
Immediately I find him, never having left the spot he was standing as he watched everything I was doing with my father. But when he sees the panic on my face, he steps towards me. He reaches for me and I smile up at him, trying to keep my concerns from showing. Getting up on my tiptoes once again, I plant a kiss on his cheek, before I whisper. “I don't think my father is waiting until the wedding, I think he's doing something tonight, Ace.”
Without any hesitation, his arm snakes around my waist firmly, as his words come out in a growl. “We're leaving, I'm getting you back to the estate.” He turns towards Caz, who has been at his side all night. “We're leaving.”
Looking up to Ace something inside him rising, his eyes blackening by the second, immediately feeling his tension, I know I need to keep my eyes fucking open.
“Come on, let's go.”
“Ace, I think that's what he wants us to do is leave. I don't think he would do something inside here, too many bosses; he may be dumb but he can be sneaky and smart too.”
“I'm not risking you being here, Emma. We are leaving and I'm taking you back to the estate now.”
The lump in my throat is bigger, feeling that something is to come once we leave this event, but I nod, not arguing, listening to Ace, but wishing we had shared at least one dance… He usher's me from the room, guards flocking in by the second, a group leading in front of us and a group trailing behind, and my heart races in my chest, but trying to keep my wits about me. The feeling inside me is not good, my chest tight, my heart racing in an uncontrollable rhythm.
With Ace's hard hold around my waist, I take a glance up tohim, the face he carries is not a face I know. “Ace?” He looks down at me, and for a second, I see that star of a light in his eyes as a small smile slips before it is taken over again with darkness, and he looks forward.
We get outside and there are blacked out SUVs lined up, and guards surrounding us. A guard opens the door to the SUV as Ace quickly usher's me in. I have grown up in this world with my father, but we never had security like this, even when that Mafia boss started a fight with my father 10 years ago. This is different, there's more to this. I feel it inside me, something is going on Ace isn't telling me.
We both settle in the back seat before Caz takes off, the other SUVs follow behind us. Ace looks over to me with parted lips before everything goes black.
Chapter eleven
ACE
My eyes snap open, the ringing in my ears deafening, my eyes immediately looking around, jumping to my feet pulling my gun out seeing men run towards me with guns drawn, firing shots at me. Immediately, firing shots at them, taking cover, trying to find Emma, adrenaline courses through my veins mixing with the panic of not knowing where she is, and the pure fucking rage that's lacing me.
Where the Fuck is she?
Focusing on my shots, one by one, I pluck them off, then stand and look for Emma, Caz, any fucking one. A bullet flies by my head, causing me to duck;Fuck.
Spinning around, watching another group of men, running towards me and when I realize who they are, I know; Luca's here.
Not hesitating I fire again, before pulling my other clip out, changing clips, laying cover again. My heart is in my throat, I don't know where Emma is, I don't know if she's hurt; fuck if she's even fucking alive, the fucking cars exploded.
Hearing gun shots from behind me, I take cover before I turn my head, seeing my men starting to swarm around. Not only did my good friend handle Emma's car, he sent some men, men I need to win this war.
I start firing shots again, plucking them off until I can get a chanceto find Emma. I stand, in the clear as my guards swarm around me before I roar the words from my throat with pure venom. “FIND HER!” They scatter and my eyes immediately go to work, finding her, frantically looking, my heart feels like it might fucking explode from my chest. Hearing gunshots and her voice, my chest explodes and I run in that direction, nothing stopping me. When I round the corner, panting, my eyes land on her still body on the ground and bile rises to my throat. I run to her, dropping to my knees, looking up, checking my surroundings before I flip her onto her back. “Baby Girl. Come on, wake up.”
I scan her body, checking for bullet holes and I find none. But her throat looks like someone strangled her, and her gun is in her hand. I look around again,trying to piece what ever fucking happened here together. I see fresh blood on the ground, in a trail around the building.
“Ace.” Hearing her whisper my name in a rasp, my eyes shoot down to her, swallowing down how fucking scared I am right now. I'll admit that, but I'm not scared for me, I'm scared for her.
“I gotcha Baby Girl, I'm getting you out of here.”
She whispers again. “My dad tried to kill me, he knows.” Her eyes flutter shut, and I'm immediately consumed by darkness, the switch turning off in me.
Seeing nothing but black with a flame lit in the center, I scoop Emma up and carry her to my men, before getting into one of their cars. I drive us back to the estate, as the men clean up the fucking mess that was created. I speed down the road, driving like a mad man, because well, right now I am. I promised her, I would let her have her father, and I will honor that, but I will catch him and drag his ass to her and let her take her revenge on him and enjoy every fucking minute of it. But first, there's something I have to do, and she's really not going to likethis one.
