Ace of Spades (Underground Affair Series Book 1)

by Iannarelli, Michelle

  Ace walked over and the Chief pushed him over next to Lucy and winked. Oh no, now the Chief was going to play matchmaker. Ace felt very uncomfortable standing next to Lucy.

  Lucy whispered, “Don’t worry, I don’t bite…in public.”

  Ace looked down at her and couldn’t help but give her a half smile. Soon the picture taking was over and the class all said thank you. Jorge and Ace were packing things up when the Chief walked over.

  “Ace, can you and Lucy go out to the truck and grab the gift bags that we have for the children?”

  “Jorge can come help me, Lucy is teaching. No need to bother her.”

  “Lucy, do you have a minute?”

  “Sure Dad, what’s up?”

  “Can you go out to the truck with Ace and get the gift bags for the children, please?”

  “If you can keep an eye on my children for me, I can.”

  Ace didn’t look at Lucy he just started for the door. Lucy followed him out to the truck. Once they were outside she spoke.

  “Ace, I know that no matter what I do or say that you will never forgive me but can’t we at least be civil?”

  “Yeah, whatever.”

  “No, it’s not whatever. I had no idea who you were…”

  “No, you didn’t.”

  “I never did anything like that before. What did I know?”

  Ace stopped what he was doing and looked at Lucy.

  “Lucy, I’m going to be honest here. I never felt dirty or cheap about what I did. To me it was fun and I enjoyed the attention. But when you left me that money…”

  “I’m sorry.”

  “I never went home with anyone from my shows. I wanted you and I thought you wanted me too. I was a fool. I know now that I was just someone you thought you were paying to piss off Tom. I have feelings Lucy, regardless of what you think of me.”

  Ace grabbed the bags and slammed the truck door and walked off. Lucy stood there feeling awful that she had hurt Ace. Although she was very attracted to him and that was why she decided to have sex with him, he was right, her intention was to hurt Tom.

  SHANE STOOD OUTSIDE DECLAN’S office door. He had avoided him for the past few days. Declan called a few times and left voicemail as well as texted but he only replied once to say he was busy but ok. He knew he needed to have a clear mind for his fight tomorrow, so here he was…about to confront Declan. It scared him because he was afraid he would end up having to choose between him and Robert and he wasn’t ready to lose either of them.

  “Are you alright, Shane?”

  “Kaylee, yeah, I was just trying to remember if I locked my car.”

  “Do you want me to run outside and check for you?”

  “That’s sweet but its ok. Thank you though.”

  Declan pulled the door open. Kaylee looked up and smiled when she saw him. Shane took a deep breath.

  “How can a man work with all this noise out here?” Declan laughed.

  “I’m sorry, Sir. I will get back to work.”

  Declan reached his hand over and placed it on Kaylee’s shoulder.

  “Honey, I was just joking. You’re one of my best employees and please don’t call me Sir…unless we’re in the bedroom.” Declan winked.

  Kaylee looked up at Declan and became instantly flushed.

  “Thank you. I have to go. Bye, Shane.”

  Kaylee took off. Declan watched her as she practically ran down the hall.

  “Pretty, smart but sometimes she acts so strange.”

  “She likes you Dec and you intimidate her.”

  “I, intimidate her?”

  “Yes, you intimidate her.”

  “I never thought of myself as intimidating.”

  “No, well Robert found you to be quite intimidating the other day. In fact, that’s why he went out and got drunk and ended up with some guy taking advantage of him.”

  Declan looked at Shane and then he laughed as he shook his head.

  “Shane, you’ve got to be kidding me, right?”

  “No, I’m not and I don’t appreciate you laughing in my face, Dec.”

  Declan was growing angrier by the minute. He wanted to shake some sense into Shane and then find Robert and beat the crap out of him.

  “I saw Robert in the parking lot at the gym and we talked.”

  “Did you or did you not threaten him?”

  “I was worried about you. You’ve been miserable, I…”

  “I can’t believe you would do that to me!”

  “Shane, he’s no good for you and you know it.”

  “He said you told him you were going to find a way to break us up.”

  “He drinks, cheats and I know…”

  “Don’t go there, Dec.”

  Shane was fuming. He was pacing with his fist balled up and his teeth gritted.

  “I’m going there because clearly you need to be reminded about all of the things he has done to you. He beat you and then left you laying outside in the freezing cold, bleeding. I was the one who found you and took care of you, who called a doctor to come and stitch you up and then stayed and held you all night.”

  Shane turned around, punched Declan in the face and started screaming.

  “You promised me, you promised you would never throw that back in my face. Robert was right. He said you were going to do whatever you could to break us up.”

  Declan couldn’t believe the way Shane was behaving, after all he had done for him.

  “Get out.”

  Declan walked over to his desk, sat down and began typing on his keyboard. Shane never said a word. He just walked out.

  Lucy was sitting in the yard correcting papers. Her mind often wandered to Ace. The same Ace who wanted to have nothing to do with her.

  “Lucy, are you home?”

  “I’m out here, Tom”

  Tom walked outside and handed Lucy a bouquet of roses and then dropped to his knee.

  Lucy gasped when she looked down and saw a huge diamond ring in Tom’s hand.

  “Lucy, marry me.”

  “Tom, I love you…”

  Tom grabbed Lucy and kissed her before she could finish her sentence. When he pulled away he grabbed her hand and slipped the ring on her finger.

  Lucy looked at Tom and then down at the ring. She was going to tell Tom that she needed more time but after seeing the smile he had plastered across his face, she just couldn’t. She decided maybe it was meant to be.

  Ace and Jorge were doing maintenance reports while the rest of the guys were cleaning up the truck and refilling air bottles.

  “Jorge, do you ever find yourself thinking about something and no matter how hard you try not to, you just can’t think of anything else?”

  “You are talking about Lucy?”

  “Forget I asked.”

  “Ace, the Chief likes you. Why are you so uptight?”

  “Like I told you before, even if I was talking about Lucy, it wouldn’t matter because I’m not her type.”

  “What makes you think that Ace? From what I saw, my Lucy is quite smitten with you.”

  “Chief, I didn’t see you standing there.”

  “I’m actually here to ask if you had some time to come by the house tonight?”

  “Sure, Chief.”

  “Oh and by the way, I’ve never seen Lucy look at Tom the way she looks at you.”

  The Chief winked and walked out.

  “Maybe you’ll get to see your girl tonight?”

  “Knock it off. She’s not my girl.”

  “Why don’t you just go on a date with her and see what happens?”

  “She’s with some other guy who wants to marry her.”

  “Wants to?”

  “Yeah, I guess he asked but she hasn’t accepted yet.”

  Jorge stood up and patted Ace on the shoulder.

  “Then you still have time to ask her on a date.”

  Ace shook his head. Jorge was going to keep riding him about this. He picked up his pen and continued to fill out
his reports. Jorge walked out.

  Chace and Kyle were getting coffee. Kyle ordered the coffee and Chace walked over to grab a few bottles of water for them. He reached down to grab the last bottle of water but another hand grabbed it faster. He looked up and saw Little Miss Sunshine smirking up at him. He quickly imagined grabbing her by the throat and choking her; instead he stepped back and started over towards Kyle.

  “Detective.”

  Chace turned around.

  “Yes.”

  Chloe tossed the water to him and winked.

  “I only grabbed it because you wanted it. I was actually going to grab a chocolate milk.”

  Chloe turned around and walked away. Chace stood there watching her. When she headed back towards him he stepped in her path.

  “What the hell is your problem?”

  Chloe looked up at Chace who towered over her and smiled as she said, “You.”

  Chace growled through gritted teeth, “Me?”

  “Look Detective, I have work to do, so either say what’s on your mind or get the hell out of my way.”

  “Chace, let’s go; we have a call.”

  Chace didn’t say a word he just walked out. Chloe did spend a few moments admiring his ass as he walked out the door.

  Declan couldn’t concentrate. He was so angry with Shane. After all they had been through together, to think Shane would side with Robert. He finished his drink and then slammed his glass down on the bar.

  “Want to talk about it?”

  Declan looked over at Jenna. She was one of his best bartenders and boy was she hot.

  “Talking isn’t what I need right now.”

  Jenna walked up to Declan and stood at his side.

  “Will this help, Boss?”

  Jenna reached for Declan’s belt buckle and opened it and then his pants. Declan looked down at

  her as she pulled his cock out and then sucked it down her throat. Declan leaned his head back

  and groaned, “Oh God, Jenna.”

  Jenna batted her eyes at him and then doubled her efforts.

  “Bring those lips up here baby.”

  Jenna pulled away and began to stand up. Declan grabbed her and pulled her onto his lap and kissed her. He reached his hand up her skirt, pushed her damp panties to the side and then he impaled her with his cock. When they were finished, Declan removed her from his lap and righted her panties.

  “Jenna…”

  “Don’t worry, I don’t expect anything…”

  “I don’t know what to say. I don’t make a habit of…”

  “It’s ok. Really, I’ve wanted to do that since the first time I met you.”

  “Oh.”

  “Don’t look so shocked. You’re fucking hot. All of us girls want a chance to fuck you, some of the guys too.”

  Declan just stared at Jenna for a minute. Then he shook his head and walked away. He had no idea how to respond to that.

  “Mom, Dad, anybody home?”

  Lucy looked around and couldn’t find anyone at home. She walked into the kitchen to grab a drink while she waited for them to get home. As she pulled the refrigerator door open she saw a note on the freezer door.

  Lucy,

  Dinner is in the oven. Dad and I had to run out.

  Start without us. We shouldn’t be too late.

  Love,

  Mom

  Lucy grabbed a bottle of water and then peeked in the oven to see what was cooking. Her mother made lasagna again, yum, one of her favorites. She decided she would make a salad to go with dinner and then she would do some reading while she waited for them to come home. She wasn’t sure how she was going to tell them about her engagement. She knew that as much as they wanted her to be married with children that Tom was not their favorite person.

  Robert was on the phone when Shane came in. After hearing the door, he hung up.

  “Robert, you here?”

  “I’m in the bedroom.”

  Shane walked in and Robert took one look at him and knew Shane was upset.

  “Shane, what’s wrong?”

  “I had it out with Declan today.”

  “Did he deny threatening me?”

  “No.”

  Robert was surprised that Declan didn’t lie to Shane and try to turn Shane against him. He wondered what game Declan was playing now. He walked over to Shane and hugged him.

  “I love you, Shane.”

  Shane turned his head and kissed Robert. Robert started rubbing Shane’s cock. Shane backed away.

  “I’ve got to change and head back to the gym.”

  “Want some company?”

  “No. I need some time alone.”

  Robert was annoyed that Shane was so upset over fucking Declan. He didn’t like that Shane was distracted. He needed him to win his fight. Robert had a lot riding on this win.

  Ace knocked on the door and there was no answer. He tried the knob and the door opened so he walked in. The kitchen smelled so good. He walked down the hall towards the Chief’s office. He figured he was in there waiting for him. He opened the door to find nobody there. He decided to text him and see where he was.

  Ace: Chief, I’m here at the house. Where are you?

  Chief Jenkins: I had to run out with my wife, be back in a few hours. Sorry son. Dinner is in the oven, help yourself.

  Ace: No problem. Tell your wife, it smells delicious.

  Chief Jenkins: She said to enjoy it.

  Ace: Thanks. See you when you get here.

  Ace placed his phone in his pocket and headed down the hall. As he reached the living room he was hit in the head and then had his feet kicked out from under him. When he hit the floor he looked up. Lucy was hovering over him.

  “ACE!”

  Ace just blinked up at her. He was still a bit dazed.

  “Damn, woman.”

  “I’m so sorry, I thought you were an intruder.”

  “You should keep the door locked.”

  Ace started to get up.

  “Let me help you up.”

  “I’m fine.”

  Ace started to get up and Lucy leaned forward to grab his arm and they banged heads, literally. Lucy dropped to the floor as well. Now they were both down on the floor.

  Ace rolled onto his side and Lucy’s face was right there. He couldn’t resist, he reached his hand up and brushed her hair away from her face. Lucy smiled and he melted. Without another thought he kissed Lucy and in seconds they were rolling on the floor kissing and grinding against one another. The timer on the oven buzzed. Ace pulled back.

  “We had better check the oven, we wouldn’t want to start a fire.”

  Chace and Kyle had been going from one crime scene to another. It was one long grizzly day.

  “Damn Kyle, I don’t remember the last time we had back to back calls like this.”

  “Yeah well, don’t look now but your day is about to get worse.”

  Chace looked in the direction Kyle was looking.

  “Great.”

  “So Detectives, what do we have here?”

  Chace chose to ignore Chloe.

  “Dr. Mason.”

  Chace never looked up he just started talking.

  “Looks like the same MO as the Plaza Street homicide.”

  Chloe put on her gloves and knelt down to examine the body.

  “I can’t be positive until I conduct an autopsy but yes, I agree.”

  “Whoa, you and the big guy here actually agree on something.”

  Chloe turned and gave Kyle a dirty look.

  “Fuck you, Kyle.”

  “The only fucking I’m doing is with my wife.”

  Chloe stood up. She took off her gloves and then looked up at Chace and Kyle.

  “You two are pathetic. We are working here, this is no time for a discussion about who is fucking who.”

  “You’re right, I’m sorry, Dr. Mason.”

  “Touchy aren’t we. What’s the matter, not getting any Mason?” Chace laughed.

  “M
y personal life is none of your business.”

  Kyle decided he had better start talking before things got any worse.

  “How long before your report will be available?”

  “I should have the preliminary report to you tonight, Detective Kent.”

  Chace walked away and left Kyle talking to Little Miss Sunshine.

  Lucy and Ace had dinner. They made small talk but didn’t discuss what had happened earlier in the living room. After they finished their lasagna, Lucy got up and grabbed the pie and whipped cream.

  “Your mom really can cook.”

  “Yes, she can. Is your mom a good cook?”

  “She did great dumping food out of a can and microwaving it, when she remembered to feed us.”

  Lucy felt bad now that she asked.

  “I better get going.”

  Lucy didn’t want him to go but especially not upset. She decided to do something completely out of character. She picked up the whipped cream and sprayed it at Ace.

  Ace sat there stunned for a minute, then he jumped up and grabbed the can and sprayed Lucy in the face. Then he leaned over and started licking it off. When he got to her mouth he kissed her. Lucy started pulling at Ace’s jeans until she popped all the buttons. Ace pulled back.

  “Lucy, I…”

  Lucy grabbed the whipped cream with one hand and Ace’s waistband with the other and sprayed the whipped cream. Then she dropped to her knees and began licking it off. Ace watched Lucy as she licked him clean. He knew he was making a huge mistake but right now he was thinking with his cock and it wanted Lucy. Lucy looked up at him and smiled.

  “Fuck it.”

  Ace grabbed Lucy by her waist and yanked her up and laid her down on the table. He pushed her dress up and her underwear down. He grabbed a condom from his wallet and rolled it on. Then he grabbed Lucy and pulled her closer as he plunged his cock inside her.

  “You feel so good, so hard.”

  Ace slowed down his pace so that he could lean over and kiss Lucy. Lucy wrapped her arms around his neck. Ace whispered in her ear, “I’ve wanted you so bad…”

  “You’re all I think about, Ace.”

  Lucy started wriggling beneath him. Ace took that as his cue to get moving again and he did. Hearing Lucy moan his name pushed him over the edge and he came. Ace pulled out, took off the condom and placed it in the trash.