Chapter 28 Graham
GRAHAM
Leaving that girl in the bed of my truck, even just to go get snacks, was the hardest thing ever.
She looked so beautiful all snuggled up.
I made sure to turn the heated blanket on before I left.
It plugs into an outlet in the bed of my truck.
Modern fucking technology. I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket and see Little Witch sent a message to the group chat.
A photo pops up on my screen, she is all cuddled up in the nest I left her in with a sassy message to Dee.
Little Witch: Demon, he has a pretty amazing date planned it seems. What can you come up with?
This girl will be the death of us, I swear, but she will keep us on our toes. I see a bubble pop up showing that Dee is responding to her.
Dee: You will have to see Little Fox, but don’t you worry, I have something up my sleeve.
A chuckle leaves me as I find the end of the line for the concession stand.
When it is my turn, I order a big tub of popcorn, and a large Dr. Pepper to share along with some candy to snack on.
I stuff my pockets with the candy, grabbing the popcorn and pop before making my way back to my Little Witch.
She sees me walk back up and her face brightens, the joy to see me lighting up her face.
“Here are the snacks, let's get comfy.” The sun has almost set, a beautiful orange and pink sky giving us something beautiful to look at prior to the movie starting. She settles into my arms, leaning back on my chest. Letting my body circle hers, allowing her to absorb my warmth and comfort.
After the sky turns purple and the stars come out, the movie starts up. I gently massage Nyx’s shoulders, and she moans as I find knots to work out.
“You can’t keep making these noises if you want this date to stay wholesome, Little Witch.” I whisper into her ear.
Leaning in so close that my lips gently brush the shell of her ear. I feel shivers run down her body with my words before brushing her hair off her neck. With her neck exposed, I lean in to kiss her neck. Running open-mouth kisses up and down her neck, loving every single little sound she makes.
“Mmm, I could listen to you moan all night. It is the most beautiful sound ever.”
“Blue.” She groans.
“Do you want me to stop, my beautiful girl?”
“No, please don’t.”
“What do you want, Little Witch?”
“You.”
That is the final straw on my control. It snaps like a thread, and I am pulling her head around in a deep kiss. She spins around in my lap to straddle me and runs her fingers through my hair. My hands roam along her sides and take their place at her hips, helping her grind down on me.
“Oh, look at this.” The voice is familiar enough, but I can’t seem to place it. “How could you have taken your job seriously if you're in his bed?” The snarl comes from the side of the truck bed.
“What the fuck?” She whips her head around, and my eyes follow the voice. “Jack? What are you doing here?”
“I’m just out for a little date night myself. Does Captain Montgomery know your fucking one of the private security guys?”
“Yes, we had a conversation about it before I left today.” My eyes widen. I had no idea she told him about us already. Jack’s face goes blank like he thought she would get in trouble.
“Well, I guess I should be heading back to my date.” He pulls his phone out of his pocket and turns to walk away.
“That was weird.” She shakes her head and then rests her forehead on my shoulder. Her body was still straddling my lap, but the moment was gone.
“Yeah, let’s finish the movies, then we can head back to your place.” This would be the first time I’m sleeping at her place, but I packed a bag. Not that Demitri wouldn’t let us have time alone, but I know my girl. She would feel bad not including him in our playtime if he was there.
“Sounds perfect, Blue.”
She slides off my lap to sit next to me, her head leans over on my shoulder, and I could stay here for the rest of time.
The movies are over, and we are sitting in the drive-in traffic to get home.
She is playing DJ using my phone connected to the truck.
We seem to have similar music tastes, and thank goodness.
I don’t know how I would handle it if she listened to nothing but bubble gum pop.
I can listen to just about anything, but too much of something can get annoying. Dee always says my Spotify has ADHD.
The drive back into the city was chill, but so much fun. Just singing along to the music, laughing with her at how horrible we sound. Pulling up outside of her apartment and seeing Dee brought her car back to the apartment for me.
“How did my car get back here?” She looks surprised that I had it arranged.
“Dee.” It’s all I say to her before I open my truck door and exit the vehicle, coming around to help her out. I grab my bag out of the back before following her up to the building.
We climb the stairs up to her apartment. She goes to pull her keys out of her backpack and then looks up at the door. In front of our faces is a note. The paper appears to just be scrap. Torn on the edges, with chicken scratch across the tattered page.
You will get what’s coming to you bitch. Just know that those Marines of yours can’t keep an eye on you at all times.
I rip my phone out of my pocket, pulling up Dee’s contact, hitting the camera button to FaceTime him.
“Dude, I don’t need- his face goes slack as soon as he sees the look on my face. “What’s going on, Hutch? Is Nyx okay?”
“Ya. She’s fine. I need you to go into my room and pull up the cameras outside of her apartment from when she left for work this morning until now.”
“You need to tell me what’s going on.” He tries to sound cool, calm, and collected, but we’ve been best friends practically our whole life, so I know he’s panicking. I turn the camera around and show him the note. “FUCK. Bring her back here! We can go over the cameras together.”
“No, I will not run from this fucker. Hutch is with me. I will go in and set the alarm, and we will be fine.”
“Little Witch, can I load the program for the security cameras to your iPad so I can review it?”
“Of course.”
“Okay, I’ll get on reviewing the cameras as soon as I can get into the system. I’m here. I’ll go grab my gun out of the truck, and Nyx has hers here too. We will be fine. I’ll let you know as soon as I find anything.”
Dee nods his head with his forehead creasing, the concern on his face obvious.
He takes a deep breath and gives me a look that says everything he can’t say out loud yet.
This is the first woman he’s ever cared for outside of his family, and the last time he left his sister alone, it didn’t end well.
“Alright, man, we’ll keep you posted.” Nyx pops her head into the camera frame with a soft smile.
“We are ok, Demon. Blue is here with me, it will be fine.” She makes sure to enunciate every word so he can hear them, trying her best to calm Demitri from here.
“Famous last words, Little Fox. Be careful and call me if anything seems off.” We both nod our heads in agreement before saying goodbye and heading into the apartment.
She takes her work bag into her bedroom and gets changed into some sweats. She brings her iPad out to me, and I get logged into my cloud to start reviewing the video. I hear her shower start up. And I have to focus on these damn clips, instead of dreaming about joining her in the shower.
I feel like I’m just staring at a photo because there is absolutely nothing happening on these damn videos.
This apartment building is quiet as fuck, and I am starting to wonder if she’s the only one living in it.
Finally, catching a cute family walking down the hallway.
I am catching up to when Nyx would have gotten off work and still, fucking nothing.
Finally, I see a guy come up the stairs, wearing a black hoodie and a ball cap, with the hood pulled up so we can’t see any facial features.
FUCK. One thing I have, is that it happened while we were at the movies.
I pull out my phone to shoot a text to the group chat as Nyx comes out of her room in my old beat-up Marine Corps hoodie she stole while she was at our place. She doesn’t appear to have shorts or anything under it, but I gotta focus.
Me: So the asshole hid himself from the camera, but it was while we were at the movies.
Dee: Do you know if the complex has cameras outside, Little Fox?
Little Witch: Umm I’m not sure. I can reach out to the complex but I might have to wait until tomorrow to hear back from them.
Her message comes through, but I see her typing out an email next to me.
Me: Ok, she’s sending an email to the complex. For now we will just keep an eye on things.
I turn to look at her and set my hand on her porcelain thigh. “Ok, well tomorrow when I get back on my system I’ll see if I can hack the city cameras and get a view of the idiot who decided to mess with my girl.” Her cheeks blush at the end of my statement.
“You probably have your own work to do, Blue. You don’t need to worry about me on top of it.”
“Little Witch, your safety is our priority. I have no computer stuff to do for work right now. Most of our guys are out on bodyguard jobs, and we have no big contracts right now. The perks of owning the business, unless I gotta hack shit. I’m not needed most of the time.
I just make money.” I give her a smirk, and she just shakes her head at me.
She turns the TV on and grabs her favorite blanket off the reading chair. She curls up next to me and I raise my arm to pull her into me. Moments after she is settled on my chest, Midnight jumps up next to me. My favorite girl, and the only cat I have ever liked. This seems like a good night to me.