Ace-The Secret Assasin

Chapter Eleven-It’s all part of the job

Emma POV

     “You really need to be a little more honest with yourself Dante.” I hum in my sultry voice. 

     A smile creeps along my lip as my finger tips graze past all the different types of knives I brought. This was the part I love them most. Knowing that I’m in full control and no matter how much begging and crying they do that their fate has only one end. 

     “I’m not lying you little b***h! Those fuckers killed my son! So I’m going to kill and make each and everyone of them suffer!” He screamed at me as froth spewed from his mouth in anger. 

     “Hmmm well good thing you won’t be living long enough to see that happen.” I manically laugh. 

     Grabbing the trailing point knife, I raise it to my lips and the flat side against them thinking about my next move. Dante’s eyes slightly bulge out of his head out of fear, when I stare at him in thought. 

     Walking around him tied to the chair, I lightly drag the blade up his right up and across his shoulder blades slowly until I reach the left arm. Applying more pressure, I slice open a large sliver of skin and muscle while his screams echo throughout the abandoned warehouse. Leaning down to his ear from behind him I whisper, “No one can hear you, no one knows you’re here, and no one will be able to find you afterwards.” Letting the words hang in the air.

     “I was told that I needed to make this last long, and make you feel how his family felt.” I say as I stand up straight and walk back over to my tools that are laid out nicely on a table. “I heard that you sent the don his mother’s head in a box?” 

     “Payback is a bitch.” He huffed in anger. 

     “Oh and didn’t you kidnap, r**e and murder his daughter?” I couldn’t sound anymore pissed. I knew everything that has happened down to the last little detail. Like how she screamed for her daddy to come save her before this jackass slit her throat. When they dropped off that girls poor body she was barley recognizable. She deserves justice and I was going to get it for her. 

     Frozen from my comment he stares at me and sees the evil gleam in my eyes as I manically laugh. “Yeah your right Dante, payback is a bitch.”  

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     Cleaning up the rest of the mess that all the blood made, I bag the remainder of the trash and pile it up to put it in the car when my phone went off.

Hey so when will I get to see you tomorrow? - Liam

     I sigh with a smirk on my face. Then noticing that it’s 2 Am I roll my eyes when I start to debate if I should spend time with Liam or finally get some sleep. I still needed to dump the body though and get myself cleaned up. Coming to my final decision I start to draft my text back. 

 Well it’s already tomorrow so that leads me to ask why the hell are you still awake? I do need to catch some sleep first but after that I’m free.

-Emma

     Yeah, that should do it.  I just need to separate business and pleasure. That can’t be too difficult right? 

     Im jolted back from my thoughts when another notification comes through.

Good, I’ll plan everything. Be ready by 3PM! 

-Liam

     Staring at the screen confused but I still couldn’t stop the stupid  smile that fell on my mouth as I bit my lip softly. 

Lol Ready for what exactly?

-Emma

     I stand there now waiting impatiently on his message back. I didn’t even realize how giddy I was.

Comfortable and you’ll need to wear tennis shoes! But that’s all you get to know

-Liam

     Laughing softly, I turn back around to finish cleaning up. I suddenly have a new surge of energy while I think of all of the different things we could be doing tonight. Usually I’m terrible at surprises but when it comes to Liam I can’t keep myself from getting excited. 

Liam POV

-the next day @ 2:45pm-

     I’m frantically getting the last details together before I go grab Emma from her room. She got home early this morning and I wanted to make sure she got enough sleep before we did anything. I had every last detail planned out and made sure that everything was the best of the best. 

     After I finished packing the car I double check that I was ready. Looking down I made sure to be comfortable as well. I’m wearing black gym shorts, a light grey fitted tee and my black tennis shoes. Perfect for what I have planned. 

     Building up my confidence I decide it’s time to make my way to Emma’s room. Stopping at the door, I can hear her singing to “Sue Me” by Sabrina Carpenter. Her voice is so beautiful and I just want to listen to it all day. 

     Still standing mid knock at the door, it opens quickly and a shocked Emma basically smacks into my chest in surprise. We both gasp in surprise and start laughing. My arms made it around her waist to keep her from falling back and her hands landed flat on my chest. 

     The close proximity was making it very difficult to think. Her eyes raised to me and she looked so open for once. Whenever I look into those beautiful blue eyes I feel as if she is closed off. Not willing to let anyone in, to truly get to know her, the real her. 

     Her fingers start to skim down my chest with her eyes following them until she was touching close to my waist band. Licking my lips was all I could do to keep from moaning her name. Just watching her was turning me on let alone her gentle touch. 

     I was shocked back to reality when she stepped back into her room and out of my hold. “Sorry, I was really paying attention.” she said as she brushed her loose hairs out of her face and tucking them behind her ear. 

     “Oh no it’s my fault, I was coming to get you and I got distracted by someone singing like an angel.” I laugh nervously and looking everywhere but her. Trying to focus on controlling the huge embarrassing b***r in y pants. What am I in middle school again or something. Ive never been this turned on by just a touch. 

     Her eyes grew huge in her face and her mouth dropped open. “No you didn’t…” I could tell she was currently freaking out.

     “You are actually really good, you should sing more often sunshine.” Looking her straight in the eye showing that I wasn’t making anything up. This time I wasn’t being self conscious about this compliment. This girl doesn’t understand how amazing she is and I just want her to know it. 

     “Thanks I guess,” she smiles as she looked down at her shoes. I look her over checking her out for that second. She’s wearing black athletic leggings, black Nike’s, a white loose fitting v-neck crop top, and a gray sports bra showing from underneath. Her hair was braided back in two boxer braids perfectly. “You ready to go?” she asks when I realize she’s staring back at me now smiling. Damn, got caught. 

     “Yeah lets head out, you got everything?” I look at her a smirk forming on my lips.

     “I guess considering I don’t know what I need because I have no clue what we are doing.” She answer sarcastically and walking past me out the door.

Shit, I love how she’s not scared to tell me the truth. She’s brutally honest but in a funny way.

     “Good just the way I want it.” I laugh back following her quickly.

     Once we get into the car I start to drive off in the direction of our first stop. We listened to music for the first ten minutes in comfortable silence. She whispered the words to every song underneath her breath. I couldn’t stop myself from listening to her until I finally decided to disrupt the quiet. “SO why don’t you sing in front of everyone?”

     The question didn’t phase her as she continues to stare out the passenger side window in thought. “Ive just never been confident in that area I guess.” She shrugs innocently.

     “Well you have a very beautiful voice.” I say as I keep my eyes on the curvy road ahead. 

     “What about you muscle man?”

     “What about me?” I ask even though i know what she’s asking.

     “Do you sing?” She laughs at my fake ignorance.

     “Oh yeah, I could win American Idol.” Being over confident with sarcasm in what I was saying as I looked over at her. At that very second ‘Trumpets’ by Jason Derulo comes on the speakers making me reach over to turn up the volume. I over react every word in my worst singing voice.

     Her beautiful laugh rings out through the car as I continue to sing completely off key but at least I know every word. She starts singing with me but so much better as we finish the song laughing and being complete idiots. 

      “Wow, I would vote for you.” She laughs out.

     “I told you,” shrugging as I laugh with her. “I know you are probably jealous of how good I am but I still think you sing amazingly.” She doesn’t reply though as we both try to calm down our laughter. 

     We continue our ride when we make it to the base of a very large mountain. Her eyes shoot to me when I park the car in the designated parking area that is surprisingly deserted. Parking and hoping out quickly I go to grab our small hiking back packs containing anything we might need for the next six hours. I was so excited because I remembered during our time on the first day sight seeing she mentioned how much she loved hiking and nature so I wanted to make sure she got just that especially with how beautiful everything was in Italy. 

     Looking over her eyes sparkled with excitement. “Are we going on a hiking trip?” She asked as a huge smile spread across her lips.

     “Yes ma’am, I asked all the locals about the best spots and this one has a very special surprise.” I can’t wait to get her to our final destination. Its a three hour hike there and then a three hour hike back but its totally worth it apparently. 

     She is so excited that she almost starts off towards the trail without me. I couldn’t care less thought because just seeing her this happy made everything worth it. 

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     Three hours of trudging through the beautiful forrest as we talked, laughed and just appreciated all of the lushes surroundings. We finally made it to our destination. The sound of running water became more apparent and I could tell it was making Emma ecstatic. Walking through the opening we stop in our tracks from the sight of a glistening pool of water. A large water fall cascades down the smooth rock sending ripples through the water. It was even more perfect the everyone said. 

     I turn away from the gorgeous sight of the water to be met with another equally or maybe even more beautiful sight. The way Emma shined in the slowly setting sun and the look of pure amazement in her eyes made my heart putter uncontrollably. We didn’t speak, not a single word just standing and taking in the unbelievable sight in front of us. 

     Not daring to break the silence, I start to drop all of my stuff and slip off my tennis shoes. Not bothering to look at her surprised face I grab the hem of my shirt and pull it over my head following it are my shorts leaving me just in my boxers. I turn to face her and giver her my biggest and goofiest grin before I take off running and cannonballing into the cool clear water. 

     As I come up for air I see her still standing there laughing at me. “Are you coming?” 

     I could tell she was weighting her options before she finally let the backpack slip off her shoulders and started to undress slowly. This girl didn’t have a self conscious bone in her when it came to her body, I admire as she strips off her tee and then her shoes, followed by her leggings. She was left in a very low cut sports bra and a matching grey thong. My eyes widen in surprise but I reluctantly turn them away so that she doesn’t think Im a complete creep. 

     Hearing the sound of her running, I turn my head to watch as she cannon balls into the water next to me. Splashing my entire face while I laugh at her.

     When her head pops out of the water she wipes off her eyes and looks at me with a smile “Wow this feels amazing.” 

     We both tread water letting our bodies relax in the cool calming water before I reach for her hand pulling her over to my chest, “So do you trust me?” 

     “Im going to say yes because I let you take me out into the middle of no where to a random place without any knowledge if you are a serial killer or not.” She laughs at me making me laugh with her. I hold her closer not wanting to separate from her.

     “Good because you are going to like this and also good because Im not a serial killer.” Laughing and raising an eyebrow at her sarcasm. I pull her closer to the water fall and as we let the water hit us from above we make it to the inside pressed against the wall. 

     Scooting along the wall I find the opening I was told about and start to pull us into the little cave. The cave was small but just big enough for two to three people. It had a man made staircase leading up towards an opening showing off the bright yellow and orange sky. 

     I grab Emma’s hand and start to walk us up the damp steep stairs. Each step took away the loud thunder of the water fall from behind us. Climbing out of the small passage, I turned around to lift Emma up and out. 

     The sight was just stunning. At this point we were standing off to one of the sides of the water fall while the water rushed past us quickly. We were above the trees over looking the forest around us as the sky was glowing with orange, yellow, red and pink. The light covered every inch of the sky reflecting off the water. It all felt like it had taken my breath away. 

     Turning to look at Emma, her face in split in two from the smile that is taking over. A single tear rolls down her cheek while she starts there in amazement. She is glowing from the sun as well I’m the rays of the sun. It’s absolutely captivating having her stand here with me right now. To the point I couldn’t control myself anymore. 

     Grabbing her hand again I pull her towards my chest making her take her eyes off the sight in front of us. “Emma...” I start to say but my throat hitches in my nervousness causing her to interrupt me. 

     “I know liam, I feel it too.” She whispers into my chest. My heart is beating a thousand miles per minute now. 

     “I can’t help it, I can’t stay away from you.” Telling her what I know I feel. I could even go as far as saying that I was in love with this girl even though I know I’m not suppose to be. She would go running for the hills if I said that.

     “You don’t understand Liam, I’m bad news. I’ll just end up hurting you.” Each word she said broke my heart a little more but I wasn’t giving up. 

     “And what if you give me a chance, and it turns out to be the best thing either of us has ever had?” 

     “I’ll still hurt you and I don’t want to. The thought of causing you any pain, it... it just kills me Liam.” My heart stops all together. I’ve never felt so much love and pain at the same time. I could feel how honest she was being and how the thought of my pain hurt her. 

     “And if I don’t care if I get hurt?” I whisper now nervous of her answer. But instead of words she whips her eyes up to me in surprise like I just grew two heads. 

     “You don’t mean that, you... you don’t understand!” I can tell she is getting frustrated like she’s holding back but she won’t tell me.

     “Then make me understand Em! Tell me why I can’t be with you because if you don’t have a good reason then I don’t know what else I can do!” I don’t yell very often but when I do I can get pretty loud but she continues to hold her own looking me into my eyes with pain and frustration. 

     Before I know it she whisper “f**k it.” and grabs my face pulling me into a passionate kiss. Fireworks go off again in the back of my head as I snake my arms around her. Our tongues already mingling and fighting for dominance. All of our anger and frustration being poured into this very steamy kiss.

     “Emma” I moan when we manage to pull away, our foreheads resting against each other. 

     “I don’t want to talk about it anymore...” she sighs so I know I can’t force it to talk to me about it. 

     “Fine, but you will tell me eventually.” I tell her. “Will you sit and watch the last of the sun set with me?”

     “Of course.” As we make our way to a spot to sit at. Sitting down I pull her into my lap and place a long soft kiss in her hair. My arms wrapped tightly around her torso. 

     We watched the beautiful sun set in peaceful silence. I spent most of my time thinking and contemplating what my next step would be. How bad can she hurt me? She can’t just be talking about breaking my heart. There just has to be more. 

     When the sun had finally set and we decided to get up I didn’t want her to leave my side. Walking her to the water fall I look at the rushing water and then back at her. “Do you still trust me?” I ask with a mischievous smile.

     “More than anything.” She says seriously. My heart skips again. What is it with this girl?

     Taking her hand I tug her into my embrace again and jump us both off the water fall. She screamed in excitement giggling the whole time down as we were submerged into the cool water. Breaking through the surface my adrenaline was pumping and I looked around and couldn’t find Emma. When a hand grabbed my foot and pulled me under water playfully. Both of us were laughing when we came up for air again and we headed towards the bank as we got out. 

     “So this wasn’t the whole surprise.” Getting excited all over again. Her eyebrows furrow in confusion. “I rented the cabin that’s just beyond those trees for us to stay the night. It’s up to you if you want to stay or not though.” I tell her as I pull out the towels that I packed us.

     “Let’s do it.”  As she grabbed her towel, her clothes and the backpack. 

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     The cabin was beautiful and classic with a mix of modern touches. Lots of glass windows and wood accents. It’s just a small ranch one bed, one bath but a fully stocked kitchen. “It’s small but the pictures I saw didn’t do it justice. This place is really nice.” 

     Emma looked around admiring the nice little home but I could tell her head was somewhere else. When I went to walk towards the living room I feel her hand catch mine quickly and all of a sudden her sweet lips where pressed against mine again.