Brad ended up ditching his car for a ride in Jordan's.
Of course the man brought his car and there had been absolutely no need for him to have snatched his keys.
The ride to the cafe was blurry and he spent most of it on his phone, pulling up files and documents that were related to that case he'd remembered and the location.
His one witness for a case had gone missing the day they'd been scheduled to meet and a couple days later, his body had turned up cold and very dead at the same address they were driving to.
It had happened years ago when he was still a rookie in the business.
Jordan cursed for the hundredth time and for the same number of times, Brad wondered if it was even safe letting him be behind the wheels.
With the way he was working up right now, they could end up in a ditch somewhere while trying to get there any sooner.
The car slowed as they made it
It's been a couple days and JoJo was yet to come out of it and Jordan was becoming worried.The doctor had promised him on arrival that she'd only suffered from a concussion and needs to be watched, but till now she was yet to regain consciousness.As he looked at her pale, small figure lying in the pristine, white sheets of the hospital bed, he found himself praying again.He's been doing that a lot since the morning she went missing.He needed her to come back to him, he hoped she still had a will to.After all she's been through recently, she might not.The thought scared him.She looked so fragile, like touching her could hurt her more, but he couldn't keep his hands away from her.He tucked her hair away from her face with caressing fingers, itching to do more than that but unable to.The bruises on the sides of her face where
Jordan had thought that things were going to get better from the moment JoJo's impossibly blue eyes opened again to look into his, but he wasn't so sure now.His fingers struck he keys of his system with bottled in anger and frustration.He was trying to go through the work load that had piled up over the week and it was somehow more difficult since he was doing that out of his study, at home.In this last week, he's become a terror to work with and he'd had almost half his staffs trying to quit their job because of him, and that's why he's working from home for the mean time.He needed to clear his head and get his head back in his game, but doing that was even more difficult than he'd thought.Because his problem wasn't him.Ever since she's been discharged from the hospital and was brought home, JoJo has been slipping away from him and knowing that was fuc
Officer Lucas!The fucking spineless weasel!Why the fuck had he asked her to show up at that fucking cafe out of the lot that dotted the city?It made no sense except that he'd known those guys were going to show up there and he'd been setting her up for them.The thought enraged him and made him want to hit something, someone, maybe the cunning cop himself.It was the early hours of the morning but Jordan couldn't wait to talk to Brad.He quietly left the room after JoJo finally fell into a quiet sleep.He'd wanted to lie there with her, hold her and savor the feel of her small body curled in his once again, but he couldn't.Not with what he suspected.He went to his room to grab his phones and then went back downstairs to make his call.He didn't want to disturb Riley's sleep, hence the decision to head back down
Ever since that night, morning, whatever, that JoJo had let her insecurities get the best of her, Jordan has been a little distant.She'd believed his words that night because she'd known he'd meant them, it was there in his eyes and very hard to miss.But now, she wondered if she hadn't perhaps misread something in there.It worried her that he hasn't even tried to touch her in any intimate way since the ugly incident she was still trying to get over.And it's been over a week now.Even that night, he'd only kissed her, and that was because she had asked him.He didn't even try to go any further like he would have before the incident.He had just held her like she was some fragile porcelain and she didn't like it.She is anything but fragile and she didn't want to be held, she wanted to be loved by him and she wanted to have him worship her body in
For all of JoJo's troubles, she didn't even know when Jordan came in.She was too lost, trying to piece all the impossible information her brain has been throwing at her since that single call.It probably was nothing and just a mere coincidence but the thoughts and questions weren't going away.But when she made her way back down stairs for dinner, all thought of the call disappeared immediately.First off, a freshly showered Jordan was seated at the head of the table in all his gorgeous glory, his shirt opened half way down to tease her.And second, dinner was set different.She knew it had everything to do with Brooks and her knowledge of her plans for tonight because even Riley was missing from the living room and it was time for her favorite animation.Her cheeks pinked as she watched Jordan stand to pull a seat for her. 
'Making love.'That's the most beautiful way anybody has ever put it for her before.And even when he flipped them, taking over her own game, the words swam in her head, filling her with love for him.Did he realise what that meant to her?"Don't leave me now."He whispered, his voice jolting her out of her thoughts.His lips brushed and then drew her earlobe into his mouth and suckling on it, just like she'd done his."But I'm right here, with you." She whimpered, loving the way he way loving on her.He bit down on her earlobe and then eased the small pain with the sweet circling and hungry pressure of his tongue."You are thinking too much, stay with me baby."He didn't give her a chance to answer as his mouth closed over hers.All the power in this game
'I love you.'Those three powerful words hung thick in the air between them and their exhausted body.And it wasn't because Jordan didn't reciprocate the feeling or anything, he was just too shocked to hear the confession.The woman of his dreams just told him that she loves him, of course he was over the moon level of happy.He hadn't seen that coming though, but he's waited so long to hear those exact words fall from her lips.He loved her too, more than she could ever imagine but knowing that he was keeping secrets from her glued his tongue to the floor of his mouth and kept him from saying anything.She was watching him, he knew and not saying anything at all was giving her every wrong idea in the book, he could see it in her eyes.He watched her lids drop to shut those beautiful aqua pools from him for a full second and when they opened back, there was somethin
That night lay thick between them and they both knew it.Unlike he'd expected, JoJo wasn't angry or trying to avoid him or shit like that.She still welcomes him with a kiss and smiled at him, she still let him touch her, but there was a difference now and he felt like an ass knowing he was the reason it was there in the first place.He'd killed the sweet, addictive warmth that came with her kisses, promising that this was more than just mere meeting of lips.Now when they kiss, it wasn't the same.Her beautiful aqua eyes were always blank now and she somehow kept him out of her head.It was frustrating not knowing what was going on in that pretty head of hers, but it was worse seeing the emptiness in those aqua blues that were her eyes.And then there was that call from Zayn.His father, was in the hospital, battling