2. ACE
Chapter two
ACE
I can't shake Emma off my mind. She's got my blood boiling with the way she kept snapping those eyes up at me earlier. She's like my new obsession.
Leaving the Casino heading out for a night at the races.
My old stomping grounds I haven’t been to since I left years ago, ever since my father shipped my ass away for my training, learning everything there is about the brotherhood.
It changed me in ways I cannot explain but being home, I'm finally starting to feel like me again but as a changed man.
My phone pings with a text from Caz, as I maneuver my car through the city streets. I look down and click the file he just sent me named Emma.
I skim through the file, trying to pick up little details about her and what dirt she has, any secrets, boyfriends. When my eyes scan over the words, street race, I pull my car over to the side of the road to quickly read.
She fucking races.
My eyes scan my phone as fast as they can, gaining more and more secrets she holds about her street racing. Has been unbeatable for the last 5 years. And she's racing tonight.
Oh this will be fun.
I clearly have not kept a close enough eye on Baby Girl since I’ve been gone.
I push the clutch in and shift my car to first. I speed off, slamming gears to get to the race faster now knowing she is going to be there.
EMMA
Pulling up to the starting line before turning my car off.
I still have time before the race starts.
I get out and my friend Zee comes over to me.
“Hey girl.” Zee's like a brother to me, but he doesn't know I'm Heiress of my father's Mafia Empire.
I keep that a secret of course. He knows about the Hotel what does he want, did he follow me? “It's none of your business what I'm doing here?”
He leans in, his hard body pressing against mine causing a flutter to rise up from my core, then he whispers, “Everything in this city is my business.” I snort a laugh, “Mine too.” I push against his body, peeling my back off my car.
“Let's go girl!” Zee yells out to me. It's time, it's fucking go time.
I stare up into Ace's baby blues and twist a smile.
“Got to go!” I tease. He cocks a questioning brow, but I slip from his grasp and quickly get in my car, shooting him one last glance before shutting the door and starting her up as she roars to life.
Leaving Ace standing there with a raised brow and parted lips, unsure if his face is telling me he's intrigued by me racing, or fucking livid, either way I'm racing.
He's in for a fucking show tonight.
I put my car in gear, as my foot holds the clutch in, waiting on Zee with the starting flag.
My blood pumps through my veins with rapid flow, my heart beating against my chest walls with a hard thump.
As much as my mind wanders thinking about Ace, I have to focus, this race is a big deal.
It's the race that will get me into the states race, racing from state to state, the dream my grandfather had.
And the dream I will carry on for him, I just have to make it there.
I look over to my opponent, unable to see me through my blacked out windows, then look back to Zee as he starts to raise the flag.
And the flag drops, dumping the clutch, beauty leaves the line with a deafening roar. Quickly slamming into second, she pulls away from the other car. Letting second reach the end of the gear, I shift to third as I start my way up the mountain.
This is what I was born to do.
Trying to keep my heart calm as I come to the first turn, dropping a gear, slightly pulling my e brake, my car turns sideways just how I want her as we coast around the turn.
The nose hanging the mountain side, and the rear, clinging to the road just grazing the cliff's edge.
The other car tries to make moves as we come up the straight aways but he's got nothing against me tonight.
I pull away from him, as I weave up the mountain then start my way down.
My car slides just a little too much, giving him the perfect opportunity to slide past me in the turn, but it isn't given easily.
I fight for the lead again, taking our last turn, I take it a little faster than normal, bringing my car close, almost touching the other car as we both drift around the turn side by side.
I slam another gear, and beauty screams as she leaves him in the dust, flying down the straight away and over the finish line.
Pressing in the clutch, I pull up on my e brake, swinging my car around into a skidding stop.
What a fucking ride!
I'm so fucking pumped right now, I can barely contain my adrenaline as it courses through my veins.
I leave my car running, knowing my time will quickly come to leave, I step out as Zee reaches his hand out with my 20K, my winnings for tonight.
“That's what I'm talking about, girl. You're going to the big race!”
A woman of few words when I finish racing, probably because my jaw chatters from the high I'm on which makes me antsy. I smile up at him, when my eyes notice Ace walking towards me.
“You know the drill, get out of here.” Zee reminds me and I give him the nod of understanding before he walks away. This rush is always short lived, knowing the cops will soon come. I can't get caught, it will cause so many problems for the casinos, and my father.
Ace gets to my side, he asks. “How did you learn how to drive like that?” Raising a brow with a playful smirk. “Wouldn't you like to know.”
“EMMA, GET OUT OF HERE. COPS!” Zee yells and my eyes fly up, seeing the flashing lights, now hearing the sirens and how close they are.
“Fuck, Ace we have to get out of here.” I reach for my door handle and Ace reaches out, wrapping his hand around my wrist.
“Answer my question.” He growls.
My psychotic giggle dangerously escapes as my lip sucks in between my teeth and my eyes seductively looking into his.
. “You wanna know? Then Catch me, if you can.” I drop down into my car, looking over watching Ace running to his car, everything in a panic around us, cars peeling out, people scattering.
My tires squeal as I peel out of there, heading in the opposite direction that everyone else is and away from the cops.
Fucking idiots are going to get caught packing up like that.
I shake my head, shifting to the next gear, heading into the darkness of the mountain once more, to a spot I know is safe to hide.
Looking in the rearview mirror, headlights appear, and I play it cool for a moment, until I realize it's Ace, and my foot stomps down on the gas pedal.
ACE
Trailing behind her as she zips up this mountain, maneuvering her car perfectly around these dangerously tight turns. This girl is my business partner, but not only that, she's Charles' daughter, Heiress to his empire.
From what Caz was able to gather on her, she hasn't been involved in the world I've grown up in, she knows how it goes and knows about it, but the depths of it.
Charles kept her from it, but I don't understand why.
She's an important girl, and another boss will come to claim her and her throne, which means my business as well.
I can’t let that happen.
I don't know if I'm more shocked by her skills, or if it's just turning me the fuck on. I'm impressed, that's for sure, but she's got my dick throbbing in my pants with her Catch Me shit. Baby Girl, you want me to chase you, alright, I'll chase you but when I catch you, you better be ready.
EMMA
Maneuvering up the mountain, the red and blue lights reflect off the mountain side, Ace trailing closely behind, causing me to smile to myself.
At least he knows how to drive, I'm impressed, but what will he do when we go lights out?
I flip my lights off, nothing but dark roads ahead of me but my eyes quickly adjust as soon as Ace catches on to what I am doing, he flicks his off as well.
After a few more turns, only the moon lighting the path in front of me, coming to a pull off, that dips into the forest. Pushing my clutch in, shifting my car to neutral, shutting her off as I let her coast to a stop, not hitting the brakes.
Don't want those pigs to see my lights, light up like a christmas tree and give my spot away.
Ensuring my interior lights are off as well, completely black out mode, I open my door and step out.
Watching the silhouette of Ace's body getting closer, along with the smell of his cologne getting stronger with each step he takes causes my belly to bubble.
When he reaches me, he's close, very close, coming into my dark vision. Our eyes meet and I swear, I'm looking into glacier water with his crystal blue eyes. His deep voice escapes his lips. “Care to explain what the fuck I just witnessed?”
I giggle quietly with a huff. “My grandfather taught me how to drive. Why, Impressed?”
He chuckles in a deep dangerous way that causes my nipples to harden. “More than impressed, but what I don't get.” He leans in, his voice softer, quieter. “You haven't been shown the ways of a Heiress, but yet, I get the feeling you have?”
I cock a brow, knowing he's right in a way. My father has kept me in the dark, of my requirements, or even training me to protect myself in this world, but Pop didn't .
He taught me everything I needed to know and trained me to protect myself, knowing that one day I would need to.
“I know what I need to know, but how do you know anything about me?” I hiss.
A deep chuckle rolls from his throat.
“Nevermind.” I sigh. Realizing that was a stupid question, he's mafia, powerful and has resources to find out anything he wants.
I feel his large hand wrap around my jaw, cupping my face in his hand, his thumb brushes over my cheek causing my breath to catch in my mouth.
What the fuck is happening right now.
I stare into his eyes, feeling the warmth of his hand. “You're doing things to me, Emma.”
Ending this before it starts, promising to follow the vow I made myself, no relationships with Mob bosses, even if that meant no relationship at all. “That sounds like a you problem.” I tease.
A growl echoes through his throat as his eyes burn hotter into mine.
His hand grips tighter around my cheek, as he presses his body against mine, pinning me against my car.
His knee slides up between my legs, reaching my center as he applies pressure, then whispers just over my lips.
“It's about to be a you problem.” His breath hovering over my lips, so close, so fucking close, I could just let myself cave and press my lips to his, but I think other of it, I can't, I won't.
“I don't think so, Mr. Collins.” I wrap my hand around his wrist and pull his hand from my face. “We should go. We have a meeting bright and early.”
His hungry gaze burns through me making my heart jump around in my chest like a jumping bean, but I try to calm myself down, I can't do this. I step to the side and he growls. “We're not done here.”
As I reach for my door handle, I look back up at him over my shoulder with a Devilish smirk. “Oh, but we are. Good night, Mr. Collins.” I slip down in my car, shutting the door, leaving him standing there to figure out his own feelings.
It's been a bit of time, so it's safe to say I can peel out of here.
I start my car and she roars to life, I back out around Ace's car, getting onto the road, I shift to first, driving away, leaving a red blur in my path.
ACE
My mind is fucking blown with the powerful essence that feeds off her.
She's a spitfire, not afraid to put me in my place, and I've been known to be intimidating to girls.
Something tells me, she isn't intimidated by me, which causes the fire to burn hotter inside me, the obsession to touch that soft skin, those eyes, and fuck, that mouth, that sassy little mouth.
Visioning her with her lips wrapped around my cock, taking it down her throat only feeds the raging boner between my legs, making it hard to shift gears as I maneuver through the city.
We have a meeting in the morning at the West Casino. I have no idea what this meeting is about, but I do know Emma will be there and I can't say I'm not excited to see her again. She is my new obsession.