Tag was waiting for him when he pulled the door closed behind him and checked that it was locked.
“Glad you’ve taken your head out of your ass Delgado.” Tag growled with a grin.
“Yeah, yeah! We’re talking later today and after that it will be crystal clear to every-fucking-body who she belongs to.” Diego growled back at him as he walked across the corridor to his own room.
He closed his door behind him and locked it then grinned as he started stripping. He was going to make sure that nothing and no one interfered with his plans for Jade Delgado, she was going to be his. With a satisfied sigh he crawled naked into his bed and fell asleep with a smile on his face.
The soft noise ripped him out of sleep and he silently slipped out of bed. Someone was trying to open his door. Pulling his discarded jeans back on he sat on the side of his bed listening to the soft scratching noises and texted Tank and Hanson.
Intruder at my door. Who’s on lift duty?
Checking his gun silently he placed it on the bed next to him. His phone vibrated with the returning text.
Pete. Heard noises on stairs. Checking. Coming back your way. Tag has visual. Can’t see faces. What do you want to do?
Shit! What the fuck was this?
Is Jay secure?
The answer came back immediately.
Tag in her room. What is the play?
There was only one way to play this.
Pete approach from lift side. You, Hanson from stairs. Tag from their six. Move in on the count of five.
“Which is when I’m going to open my door and stick my fuckin’ gun in their faces.” Diego muttered softly to himself.
Diego slowly moved to the door as he counted, as he got to five he slipped the lock free and opened the door in one move. The fucker crouching in front of the door gave a high pitched squeak and reared back into the one behind him and both tumbled to the floor as five guns were shoved into their faces almost simultaneously.
“Who are you and what the fuck are you doing trying to get into my room?” Diego growled menacingly.
The smallest of the two immediately started talking and Diego sighed and put his gun away as he saw they were damned teenagers. The others followed his lead but Tag’s gun made a sudden reappearance as the guy blurted out their so-called mission.
“Dude! We’re sorry man! That was supposed to be Jay Gallado’s room. We have to talk to her dude. She’s in some serious shit man. We’re fans of hers and we’re really good with computers. Like reeeaaally good dude. We’ve been trying to hack the guy who’s been putting all that shit about her on the internet and last night we did it! Shit it was so cool! We like, cracked his code and everything!”
“So you say you are fans of hers and you wanted to help. Why not just contact her security and tell them what you found?”
The two looked at each other before looking back up at him.
“We couldn’t take the chance dude. Someone on her team or something is like helping the creep.” The kid looked nervous as he answered.
Diego sighed. Fuck!
“You two in my room now. Pete and Hanson you’re with Jay. One inside, one outside. Tag and Tank you’re with me. Let’s go.”
Diego didn’t give the kids a chance to protest, just dragged them up and into his room. Flipping the lights on he pushed the kids towards the bed, made them sit then dragged a chair closer and sat down in front of them. Tank moved behind them and stood against the wall while Tag stayed just inside the door, his gun stuck in the waistband of his jeans, big arms folded over his naked chest. Rubbing his hands over his tired eyes Diego leant forward with his elbows on his knees and just looked at the two. They looked scared shitless but still defiant.
“Okay, let’s have your names.”
The two looked at each other then back at Diego.
“We don’t know who to trust. How do we know you guys aren’t the ones helping them?”
The one who had been silent all this time spoke and damned if it wasn’t a girl!
“Do you know who I am?” Diego snarled.
The two nodded.
“Right, then you know I have no reason to wish to harm Jay. I’m in charge of her security and I’m her boyfriend.”
“No you’re not!” The girl leant forward as she snarled at him. “You’re with Marcella Vincent and you’re getting married the day after the tour finishes.”
Diego reared back in shock at the animosity in the kid’s eyes. “No I’m fuckin’ not with Marcella and I’m sure as fuck not marrying her either! Where the hell did you hear that shit?”
The boy grinned. “It’s all over the internet dude. Marcella posted it on her facebook page and tweeted it. Everyone knows! You’re so totally lying about being Jay’s boyfriend.”
Diego pushed the chair back as he stood and walked over to the big desk to power up his laptop. He stood leaning over the desk as he waited. What the fuck was going on?
“Get over here and show me where this shit has been posted.”
The girl slid into the chair beside him and started typing furiously while Diego stood in awe at her skills. Suddenly a photo of him and Marcella popped up. Holy shit! It was of the two of them kissing. Jesus! He had his hand on her ass and was virtually eating her face off. Where the hell had that happened? And then he narrowed his eyes as some details started to become clear. The photo was old, almost three years old. His hair was shorter than he was wearing it now and the leather jacket in the photo had been ripped beyond saving when his bike slid on a wet road one night and he went down hard. And then he remembered the night of the kiss, he had been at a party with Marcella and a friend of hers had sneaked the photo. Marcella had promised him she had her friend delete the thing from her phone. Obviously she hadn’t! He'd had the bike accident about two weeks after the night of the party.
“That photo is almost three years old. I’m not with Marcella and I’m not marrying her. I haven’t seen her in almost three weeks.”
“It’s not the only one dude. She has dozens of the two of you together. The last lot she posted was of the two of you at some hotel a few weeks ago. You were walking her out of the hotel and she was all over you. She had her hand on your ass!”
Diego sighed and hung his head in frustration. “Kid I’m telling you I am not with the bitch. We were never together in any sense, it was purely sex. And me walking her out of the hotel was to protect Jay, nothing else. Now tell me what the fuck you know about all the shit going on with Jay or I swear I’m going to do something I shouldn’t.”
The girl tossed her head at him and clamped her lips shut.
“Tori, maybe he’s telling the truth, you know how people lie and twist the truth dude and he seems to be far too upset about this wedding shit to be lying to us.” The boy said softly from the bed.
“If he’s with Jay then he cheated on her! The last photo the bitch posted was of him sleeping naked in his bed in the hotel! How do you think she got the photo if she wasn’t in the room with him?” The girl was visibly upset as she snapped at her friend.
“Shit Tori I don’t know dude, maybe the same way we were getting into his room.” The boy snarked at her.
“Enough!” Tag suddenly barked from the door and the room went silent.
“I can tell you with no uncertainty that Diego is not with that slut and is not marrying her and that he is Jay’s boyfriend. That’s to say if she doesn’t take his nuts off for this shit.” Tag growled threateningly at them all. “Now tell me what the fuck is going on.”
“Okay dude it’s like this.” The boy rushed to speak. “We’ve been fans of Jay’s since long before she joined Storm Front to help them out. She played at a Sweet Sacrifice concert we had been at and we’ve been fans ever since. We go to a school for gifted kids and we were given a project to create a complete social media profile for a hypothetical famous person. We decided on Jay because she doesn’t have one and so no one would know that she was in fact a real person. Only problem was that as we
dug around on the internet we started finding stuff that made us realise that she had an enemy, someone who was going all out to start a smear campaign against her. It started off small. Information about her posted in small obscure sites that would only be revealed if something big hit the internet. Sick information that made it look like she was a sexual predator, a big slut and a drug addict. Tori and I downloaded all that shit and crashed the sites as we found them because we knew, we just knew, that she would never do any of the stuff that they said.”
The girl rushed to interrupt. “We know of all the charities she donates too, all the time she donates to volunteering at hospitals and outreach centres. She would never do any of the stuff those sites said she did! And their timeline sucked! There were times they accused her of being in one place when she was in another recording with someone. But we knew the media would not investigate it the way we did. They would just print all the shit as if it was the truth and they would ruin her life. She’s a good person! She doesn’t deserve what’s going to happen to her. That’s why we came tonight. We have to warn her and show her.”
Both the kids looked up at them with eyes filled with hope and expectation.
Diego felt rage and helplessness surging through him. Who the fuck was doing this shit to his girl? And why?
“You said you hacked into the creep’s computer last night. Do you have any proof?” Tank asked.
The girl pulled a USB from her pocket and held it up. “Everything we found is on here. The creep’s timeline and the e-mails from the person he is working for to all of his private stuff. He calls himself The Seeker, as if he’s some big seeker of the truth or something. Instead he’s a big fat liar!”
Diego didn’t waste any time, he immediately called Clint. It was time to shut this fucker down and find out he was working for.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Jade woke for the first time in the last few weeks feeling rested and relaxed as she stretched in her bed. Her muscles twinged a little as she stretched but it was a good twinge. She saw him as she turned to roll out of bed, Diego Delgado sitting in a chair drawn up to her bed, watching her.
“Hey.” She murmured with a soft smile.
“Morning baby.” He smiled at her as she stretched again. “Feeling good today?”
“Yeah, I’m feeling good. I haven’t slept that well in quite a while.”
“I’m glad baby, you needed that.” He sat forward and took her hand in his. “I’m sorry I’m going to have to take that good feeling away from you now sweetheart. Something happened earlier this morning that you need to know about.”
Jade sat up in bed without letting go of his hand as her chest clenched at his serious expression.
“Just tell me Diego, I can take it.” She grinned as his hand tightened on hers.
“I just want you to know that none of it is true sweetheart. It’s all a bunch of lies.”
Jade felt her heart give a scared jump before she nodded and waited for him to speak.
“There’s some shit on the internet that Marcella Vincent posted saying that I’m marrying her the day after the tour finishes. Plus there are some photos from a long time ago of the two of us together and a photo someone took of me while I was sleeping, I was naked. It had to have been taken in one of the hotels we had stayed at during the tour. I give you my solemn promise that I have not been with Marcella at anytime during this tour or even several months before the tour. The kiss you saw the other night was a mistake, a mistake I regret making. I thought if I kissed another woman I would be able to forget about wanting you but it didn’t work. Even though she had her hand on my cock I couldn’t get hard for her, I didn’t want her.” Diego visibly cringed as she sucked in a breath at his crudeness.
“Baby you’re it for me, however hard I’ve been fighting to stay away from you I can’t do it anymore." His took a big breath and then he totally rocked her world. "I love you Jade. I know you will always love Val and that what you had together was very special and I would never try to take that away from you. All I’m asking for is a chance, a chance to see if you could love me as I love you.”
Jade didn’t listen to more she just launched herself at Diego, throwing her arms around his neck and straddling him in the chair.
“Oh God Diego! You have no idea how long I've wanted this. I love you! So very much!” His arms snapped around her pulling her tight into him as he stood and fell down onto the bed with her, his arms going out to keep the weight of his body off her. He stared down at her and then his head dipped and his mouth was on hers, feeding ravenously from her.
Lips, teeth and tongues clashed as they kissed while their hands roamed each other’s bodies. Diego shuddered as she pushed her hand under his shirt and ran it up his back. Wrapping her legs around his waist Jade pulled him into her and she grinned against his lips as he groaned while slowly pulling his head away from her.
“I have wanted to do that for years.” He rumbled as he placed little sucking kisses all along her jawbone and down into her neck.
She shuddered as he pushed his hips forward and his hardness rubbed against the soft cotton covering her softness sending small ripples of ecstasy through her body. Running her tongue up his neck she drew his taste into her mouth and sighed as she held the man she had wanted for so long in her arms. She arched her back and rubbed herself all along the front of him grinning as he groaned and pulsed his hips against her.
“Baby I want to fuck you so bad right now but we have to finish our talk before we go any further.” He whispered in her ear then lifted his head to look down into her eyes.
Only Diego would talk to her this way, Val never did, to him she had always been a fragile little girl that he wanted to protect. She knew that she had to tell him about what had happened between her and Val all those years ago, he needed to know how close she had come to walking away from his brother forever.
"I need the bathroom before we talk." Jade whispered as she lay beneath him.
Diego grinned as he let her up and she raced into the bathroom getting through her business and brushing her teeth. The minute she stepped back into the room he grabbed her, kissing her deeply as he lowered her back down onto the bed, his hips falling through her open legs and his very obvious arousal hard against her. He lifted his head slightly to look down at her.
"I love kissing you baby, I really do but we need to talk." He said softly.
“I know we have to talk and there is something I need to tell you about Val that only a few people know about.” Diego was going to move away from her but she clamped onto him. “Please don’t leave, stay with me just like this, it will make it easier to tell you.” She pleaded and he nodded and relaxed back onto her, keeping his weight on his forearms as he looked down at her with love in his beautiful eyes.
“Val and I had an easy relationship at first.” She began. “I was young and understood less than nothing about the sexual needs that could drive a person and he was so careful with me. Never pushing me too far but nevertheless pushing my boundaries, testing me to see if I could be comfortable with what he wanted in the bedroom.” She closed her eyes as Diego frowned heavily. “Val was a sexual dominant, just like Tag and there was stuff he wanted me to do that I just wasn’t comfortable doing. He told me it wasn’t a big deal, that he was satisfied with what I could give him and that we could explore more of the stuff I felt comfortable with.” Sighing she opened her eyes to look up at Diego. “I researched the shit out of it Diego and some of the stuff I found I just couldn’t imagine doing and I told him so. He just laughed and said he loved me and that what we had was enough.”
Running her hand over Diego’s shoulder she stared past him at the ceiling as it all came rushing back. “Five months before we got married we found out that I was pregnant and we were both over the moon about it. I had never seen him so happy! He was planning how we were going to tell the media about us and how we were going to let the family know that we were pregnant but I asked him to wait. I had read abo
ut how a lot of pregnancies spontaneously terminated in the first trimester and I wanted us to wait until we were past the danger period.” Diego’s hands clenched hard where he held onto her waist. “I was just over two months along when one of my gigs got cancelled and I came home early. I knew something was wrong the minute I opened the door because there were women’s clothes scattered all over the floor and there was this sickly sweet smell of heavy perfume in the apartment. I could faintly hear the shower running as I stood there, knowing what I was going to find.” Jade swallowed the bile that still rose in her throat as she saw the scene again in her mind’s eye.
“I walked into our bedroom and there was this naked woman tied to our bed. I was so freaked I walked closer and saw more than I ever wanted to see of another woman’s guava. Ugh! She had a ball gag in her mouth and there were red whip marks all over her chest, abdomen and thighs. Her legs were wide open and I saw that she had a...a...a plug up her ass and her thighs and other parts of her were wet with stuff. Her eyes were filled with hate and laughing at me as I stood at the bottom of our bed. I screamed and screamed and Val came rushing out of the shower. I backed away from him and into Tag who had come running from his room with a gun in his hand. Before either of them could say anything I ran, I ran out of the apartment and when the lift wouldn’t come quick enough I took the stairs, running down them. I was almost at the bottom when I tripped and fell, rolling the rest of the way down the stairs and into the foyer of the building.” A soft sob escaped. “I lost our baby because Marcella Vincent sneaked into our apartment and set Val up. She and two of her slutty friends got into the apartment and set up the whole scene I walked into. I still don’t know if she knew I was going to be home early or if she had just wanted to try and get Val to bang her. What she didn’t know was that Tag had installed cameras in all the rooms in the apartment the week before because Val had been convinced someone had been in there and had gone through our stuff.”
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