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“Thanks, I think.” He shuts the water off, wiping his hands on a dish towel and spinning to face me. He slides his hands up my jaw and into my hair at the nape of my neck, pulling me in for a kiss. It’s slow and sexy, his tongue slipping into my mouth and mingling with mine. I surge up on my toes, moving in to deepen the kiss but he slows it down and pulls back. “Let’s circle back to this. I need to talk to you for a second, Ace.”
I huff out a breath and drop back on my feet, trailing my hands down his chest, slowing working my way to his waistband. He chuckles again and captures my wrists, bringing each palm up to his mouth and pressing a kiss to them.
“Genevieve stopped by the office after you left earlier,” he starts, and my frown deepens.
“What? Why? She should have been in school.” He holds a hand up to stop me.
“That’s what I said, but once she explained to me why she was there, I understood it. Ace, your mom left last night around eight. She hasn’t come back.”
“What?” I snap, reaching for my purse to call Vie but Jax grabs my hand, sliding my phone out of my hand. “Damnit, Jaxson. Quit.” I snap again and he moves into me, pinning me against the island with his hand on my waist.
“Well, then let me finish talking, Ace. You don’t need to call her because she’s already upstairs. In her room.” I breathe out a sigh of relief and relax a little.
“Whose idea?”
“Mostly mine but she didn’t object. I drove her to the motel to grab her stuff and then brought her back here. She just went upstairs to work on her homework. I’ve already got Zander looking for your mom but no luck yet.” He steps away from me and lays my phone on the counter behind me. The pounding of feet let me know that Blake is approaching.
“Ave, Ave, did you see? Vie’s home!” He chatters excitedly and I give him a smile, ruffling his hair.
“I did see. Were you surprised?”
“So surprised! I misseded her,” he says and then busies himself with the magnets on the fridge just as Genevieve comes down the stairs. She smiles at me, hesitantly.
“Hey,” she says quietly, pulling herself up onto a stool at the island. I just want to try and put the last few weeks behind us and move forward. I love these kids and this man more than anything in the world, and I just want us all to be together again.
I leave my spot on the opposite side of the island, rounding it and wrapping Vie up in a hug. She’s stiff at first and then she slides her arm around my middle and bursts into tears, pressing her face against my hair.
“Shh, shh,” I console her.
“I’m sorry I was such a jerk,” she sniffles, and I laugh.
“I forgive you.” And I do. I remember what it was like being sixteen. You want so badly to be an adult, but it’s not quite time yet and you get tired of being told what to do. Or at least that’s how all the kids that were my age back then explained it.I was always busy being the adult way before I actually was.
I listen to Vie chatter excitedly about this new boy in her geometry class and chance a glance at Jaxson, who’s standing against the counter with his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes pointed directly at me, reflecting nothing but love and adoration.
Jaxson
Avery chews her nail as Wood’s voice comes over the speaker on my cell phone.
“I was able to access her phone remotely, but it didn’t turn up much. It was powered off shortly after she left the motel that first night, the last call coming from a payphone and everything before that looks like it was wiped clean,” Woods says and Avery paces back and forth in front of my desk, both of us shut in my office to take this call.
“What about her bank account?”
“No movement there, either. Wherever she’s at she must not need money or she’s running strictly on cash,” yeah, if she’s even running at all. “My best guess, she met with Weller and didn’t have his money, so he’s using her to make more cash,” Wood says and Avery sucks in a sharp breath.
“I hope you’re wrong. Call me if anything comes up,” I say, disconnecting the phone and raking my hand through my hair.
Dana’s been missing for almost a week now, like she’s vanished into thin air. There haven’t been any sightings of her or her car in the last six days. Zander had guys on it, but they had to pull back when a new case came across his desk that he needed more men for. So, the extensive search for Dana and Weller has been put on hold temporarily.
“Do you think he’s using her to make more money?” Avery asks and I hesitate to answer, but she cuts back in. “I can’t believe she’s gone.” She covers her face with her hands, dropping down in the chair across from me. I stand and round the desk, spinning the chair towards me and dropping down on my haunches in front of her. I gently remove her hands from her eyes.
“Ace, I swear to you, we will find herandWeller and this will all be over soon, okay?” I rest my hands on her thighs and she gives me a weak smile, placing her hand against the scruff on my cheek. I turn my face and press a kiss to her palm, capturing her hand in mine and rucking her dress up her thigh, exposing more of her creamy skin.
I drop down on my knees in front of her and loosen the collar on my shirt. Her pupils dilate at the sight of me rolling my sleeves up my arm slowly. Once I’m done, I press my hands to the insides of her thighs and nudge her legs open further. I tug at her skirt until she lifts her ass and helps me slide it up further, exposing her bare bottom half to me. She eyes the door nervously.
“What Ace,” I say, growling at the fact that she hasn’t had any panties on all day, “you afraid someone might walk in and catch me eating your pussy?” I ask, sliding my thumb through her folds and her body shudders as her head rolls back towards the ceiling. I lean forward and press my nose to her, inhaling her musky scent. “God, you always smell so fuckin’ sweet.” I graze my teeth along her thigh before dragging my tongue up her slit. She rolls her hips trying to gain friction, but I stop.
“Jaxson,” she whines, lifting her pelvis towards me and whimpering. I chuckle.
