Chapter TwentyOne
‘W-What the hell are you doing here?’ I finally managed to ask after what seemed like forever since I spoke. He just stared at me. Even now, even here, knowing I was in the safest place I could be, knowing he couldn’t touch me… I was terrified of him. I honestly never thought he would come here for me… how did he even know where I was?!
‘There is a lot of people looking for you, Harley. You just take off in the middle of the night, don’t tell anyone where you’re going, I was worried sick’. No, he wasn’t. I could tell from the look on his face.
‘The important people knew where I was’. He just smirked.
‘I didn’t.’. That was the point
Chapter TwentyTwoAs soon as Ryan’s lifeless body dropped to the floor with a bullet hole in the dead centre of his forehead, all the guys erupted, shouting over each other, wanting to know what was going on, asking Harry what the fuck was he thinking, asking me what the hell had happened, it was all just too much.‘Alex, will you get her out of here while we deal with this!?’ Ron shouted over everyone and before I could respond, Alex was pulling me away from the scene unfolding in front of me and towards the apartment.Ryan was dead.He was gone.Harry shot him!
** Trigger warning for talks of Abuse and Miscarriage**Chapter TwentyThreeI wrapped my arms around Alex’s waist tight and held on for the insanely long ride we were taking. I found myself questioning how far away they had buried Ryan’s body. Did they kill people so randomly often?I already knew the answer to that.We were going where they buried those gang members that sent the guys to prison?I already knew the answer to that too.I just rested my head on Alexander’s back and tried to cancel my thoughts as we continued to go... Wherever it was that we were going…
Chapter TwentyFourAfter having such a serious and depressing morning, Alex took me to get ice cream before we went back to the garage. I seem to be living on a diet of Ice cream and frozen treats at the moment, but, It was California and it was scorching hot! If that wasn’t an excuse, I don’t know what is!We went and sat down at a picnic bench and I couldn’t help a few people looking over at us. I smiled and Alex noticed.‘What’s got you smiling?’ I shook my head, ‘No, Come on, What?’‘Well... People are staring at us, I just find it a bit humorous’. He looked up and scanned the park, I noticed the people who had been looking now suddenly weren’t.
Chapter TwentyFive**The Next Morning**I laid happily in Alexander's arms as I slowly woke up and just enjoyed the feeling of his strong arms wrapped around me. I had my head on his chest so I could hear his heart beating and it was such a relaxing sound.‘I know you’re awake’ I heard him moan sleepily and I looked up at him, smiling.‘I never said I wasn’t’. I leaned up and gave him a quick kiss on the lips before snuggling back down again.‘You should move in with me’. I didn’t respond at first because I wasn’t sure if in my half-awake, half sleepy state, I had heard him correctly. ‘Hey? Move in
Chapter TwentySix** A few weeks later **Things had been a bit stressful recently. I moved in with Alex a few weeks ago, as planned and Ron did everything he could to stop it. He really really didn’t approve. Even Jemma told him to just back off and let me live my life the way I want to, with Alex, but he was so flat against it and to be honest, It was starting to drive a wedge between us.Everyone else was happy for us though which was nice. I tried not to get Ron or his attitude to get to me, but at the end of the day, he was my dad and it hurt that he wasn’t supportive of someone I clearly loved very much.Alex told me the night I moved in, Ron had pulled him aside and basically threatened him to try and get A
Chapter TwentySeven**A week later**Alex came back from the bar with Harry and Jackson and proceeded to pass out the drinks. As a sort of ‘’Last Harrah’’, My friends had taken the four of us out for a night out. Jamie’s brother was a co-owner of a nightclub in the city centre and managed to get us all into the VIP section which seemed pretty awesome.I’ll be honest, I was really annoyed when Ron made Harry and Jackson come with us, it was like he couldn’t accept that me and Alex were going away together ‘’unsupervised’’ but of course, he said it was ‘’for our own safety’’. What SS rival is going to follow us all the way to the United Kingdom to attack us?!
Chapter TwentyEightAs soon as we were in the bedroom, I slammed the door closed behind myself and instantly pounced on Alex, making us both fall back onto the bed. I was on top of him so felt slightly more in control than normal, normally he takes the lead but… I don’t know, maybe it was the insane amount of alcohol in my system, maybe it was because I was in my old bedroom and felt more in charge, either way, I WANTED to be in control and Alex realised that pretty quickly.Our kissing continued as we moved into a sitting position so it was easier for me to unbutton the nice, black button up shirt he had put on this evening, and throw it randomly on the floor… followed quickly by my dress and I pushed him back down again, shimmying down his body, trailing kisses, until I reached his trousers. I stole a cheeky look up at him as
Chapter TwentynineBreakfast so the next morning was just so awkward. There was clearly tension but no one wanted to bring it up. So... We sat and ate in complete silence. We all had a simple breakfast of toast or cereal and coffee. I hadn't even looked at Amanda or Jackson, let alone spoken to either of them. Sure, you could argue it wasn't my business, but I just couldn't believe Amanda would do something like this KNOWING he had a family! I was so ashamed of her and I was just flat out pissed off with him.Eventually, what sounded like a Skype call, cut through the awkward silence and everyone checked their phones to see who's it was. Conveniently, it was Jackson’s phone and the caller was Cleo. As he excused himself from the table, I couldn’t help but steal a glance at my friend, she kept her eyes firmly on the table. He didn