2. Law
CHAPTER 2
Law
F or weeks, I’ve watched little Nell Tucker wander around this shit school, hiding away from prying eyes, contemplating if she were mine. I knew that as soon as I was given the chance, I would be claiming her as such.
I maintained my distance because even though she begged me without a word between us to come to her, I had an assignment, and I had to fucking wait. I’ve kept my eyes on everyone around us, making sure she stayed safe, that these cocksure assholes remained distant. And fucking Dallas Edwards has been a pain in my ass since I arrived, and if it weren’t illegal, I’d kick his ass now and be done with him.
“Yours?” He laughs as I drag him away from Nell. Frightened as she may be, she has a backbone, and I know she would have gotten away from him on her own, but she has me now.
“All. Fucking. Mine,” I hiss in his ear as I dangle his big body off the ground. My superiors argued that I was too big, too mean looking for this assignment. One look at this pencil dick and they approved my request.
“Since when?” Dallas smarts off. As big as he is at six one and two hundred pounds, I still have fifty pounds and three inches on him. Nobody fucks with me.
“Since the day I arrived.” One look and I was fucking hooked on this girl. I researched everything about her I could. She’s eighteen, soon to be nineteen, her mother is dead, her father is on the road more often than not, and she doesn’t have any friends at school. None that she’d call that anyways.
Pushing Dallas to the side, I step up to Nell and grab the book she was trying to read. “To Kill a Mockingbird?” I laugh and shake my head. Of course, it would be deep shit.
“Prove it,” Dallas challenges.
“With pleasure.” I don’t hesitate to step into the space previously occupied by the idiot behind me and cup the back of her neck with one hand and her hip with the other. “Hi, Eleanor.”
“You know my name.” She gasps as I move forward, capturing her lips in a soft kiss until she lets out a little whimper. That whimper goes straight to my dick, and the possessive beast inside of me takes control.
Stepping into Nell’s body, I force her back into the lockers behind us and press as deeply against her as I can. I feel her breathing quicken, the way she tries to make herself smaller. The nail in her coffin, though, the reason I can’t stop devouring her…
Her nails in my chest. She’s not pushing me away; no, she’s pulling me forward. Gripping my shirt so tightly that she pulls it from the waist of my jeans.
Dueling my tongue with hers, I taste her, dragging her flavor into my mouth and fusing our lips tighter as I try to go deeper. The desire to be inside of this girl is like nothing I’ve ever known before. This one taste is not going to be enough for me.
I need so much more.
“Jesus Christ. Mr. Brentwood!” I hear the principal behind me just as his finger taps my shoulder. A growl erupts in my chest, and I feel Nell shiver beneath me.
Fuck me.
She’s going to fun as hell to explore real soon.
“Mr. Brentwood, let the girl go. Now!” Jack Daily snaps. He’s been principal at this school for three years and is the reason I’m here now.
Letting Nell go physically hurts as I release her mouth. Swollen, succulent, ripe for the taking. “What?” I bark at the man who has been a pain in my ass for months.
“A word?” He looks confused as he stares at Nell. I want to rip his eyes out.
“I’ll be right there,” I tell him, and he walks off, clearing kids to their classes just as the lunch bell rings.
“I…I have to go,” Nell stutters as she snatches her book up off the floor where I dropped it.
As she tries to rush off past me, I grab the back of her shirt and pull her back into my chest. “Don’t ever run from me, Nell. You want to go, fine? But don’t fucking ignore me. Say goodbye first.”
I don’t need to see her face to know she’s thinking over my demand. Likely wondering how wise it is to piss off a guy like me.
“Goodbye, Law,” she whispers.
“Again, say it again.” Why the fuck is my name on her lips so fucking erotic?
“Say what again?” Nell’s head turns so she can gaze up at me.
Her head cocks to the side as she spins her whole body around to face me. Licking her lips, she does as I ask. “Law.” And then she’s gone. Like sighting a rare swan. Beautiful, graceful, but only here for a moment.
“Shit.” I’m in so deep for this girl, I don’t think I’ll be able to recover from her spell.
Shaking her off, I try to get my breathing—and my dick—under control before I go in to see Jack. The bastard is still going to harass me, though.
“I see you’ve found something you like.” He laughs as I enter his office and closes the door behind me.
“Fuck off.” I flip him the bird as I relax into one of the hard-ass chairs across from his desk. “What do you want?”
“I was curious how things were going. If you’ve found anything yet? And to also tell you that Nell Tucker would be a jail sentence.” Laughter gone, he’s serious now. If there’s one thing I know about Jack, it’s that these kids are his priority.
But Nell Tucker is mine.
“She’s not. She’s legal.” I triple checked that the moment I laid eyes on her.
“She’s in high school, Law.”
“So am I.” I grin.
“As an undercover cop. You’ll get shit for this,” Jack warns.
“I won’t. I’ll be gone before anyone realizes I claimed her before I finished here.” I’ve worked undercover in high schools as a buy guy for four years, since graduating the academy at twenty-two, and this is my last job. Apparently, at twenty-six, I’m too old to pass as a high school kid, plus the tattoos don’t help much.
“Keep telling yourself that, Law.” He rolls his eyes at me.
“If you weren’t family, Jack, I’d kick your ass.” I wouldn’t. Jack Daily has been my dad’s best friend since Jack graduated college. I don’t know all the details of how they met, but even with a ten-year age gap, they’ve been as close as brothers ever since. He’s what we call a fixer-upper. Meaning he goes into high schools specifically to remove any drug problems and to get as many kids back on track as he can.
When he called me a couple of months ago with suspicions of drug dealing right inside the school and the possibility of a teacher being involved, I presented it to my division chief and things were up and running soon after because this school had already been on their radar.
“In all seriousness, though, Law, be careful with her. Nell comes from a small town, and she’s struggled to fit in here.”
I nod. “So, did you call me here for a reason…”
“Just wanted to know about the progress?”
Normally, nobody knows I’m in the school until I’m making arrests, so I’ve never had to worry about these kinds of meetings. “You know I can’t tell you anything, Jack.”
“Doesn’t mean I won’t ask.”
“Never said you couldn’t. I do have a teacher I’m looking into, and the Dallas kid was jacked up when I found him harassing Nell. He’s on my radar now.” I can’t help the growl that erupts when I think of how I found him on Nell.
“Just don’t hurt him.” Jack laughs. He’s been more like an uncle than family friend since I met him. He knows how possessive I can be when it comes to something I want.
And Nell is not just someone I want but someone I need.
“No promises,” I say as I get up to leave. There’s an algebra class waiting for me and a certain girl I’m dying to get my hands on again.