He saved me

Chapter 17

Chase's POV

As I made my way into the main house, I was greeted by Asher in the kitchen, drinking a cup of coffee. "Chase! Finally. Did we really have to wait this long? I could be asleep in my soft, comfy bed right now." I walk past him, not even sparing him a glance, wanting to get this over with and get back to my girl.

"You know I'm so tired, that my tiredness is tired" he says, with exasperated arms in the the air. I just kept walking, not bothered to talk to him. "Love you too man" Asher shouts after me.

I make my way down to the cells to be met with Carter. Leo's three idiots were tied to chairs in a cell.
"Boss" Carter greeted me. Everyone calls me boss in the mafia. When we're working, Carter calls me boss as it's 'professional'. I gave him a nod in acknowledgment back.

"Alright Luke, what were you, tweedle Dee and tweedle dumb, doing outside of that diner?" Carter asks the men. When interrogating people, Carter usually speaks while I stand back and observe, taking in all of the information and assessing it. I also can be quite persuasive if 'prisoners' are reluctant to give up information, if you get what I mean.

"A job." Luke replies. Very fucking informative. "Yes, asshat. What was the job?" Carter says rolling his eyes. "To find someone and beat the shit out of them" James, one of the 'tweedles" say. "And that person was....." Carter waits for them to say the name. "A girl" Luke says with a bored tone.

I walk up to Luke and grip his hair, pulling it back so his face is tilted towards me, in an uncomfortable way. "Elaborate. I ain't in the mood for your shit, especially not tonight!" I was getting pissed off. I just want to get back and have Nevaeh cuddled in my arms. But no! This scruff is taking longer than my dead granny walking across the road, to tell us some information.

"You're never in the mood for my shit" he sighs disappointedly. I look over to Carter and nod to him. I move back to make way for Carter. He goes up to Luke, and punches him square in the face. "OW! FUCKING SHIT! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" He screamed. "Talk." I said. " fuck, fine! Leo told us to go beat up some girl. Said you knew her, and that you were kissing her at that club the other time. Your not seen with girls, so obviously, this girl means something to you. We weren't going to kill her! Just rough her up a bit, you know, to send a message to you"

To say I was angry was an understatement. I was livid. I had stayed away from Nevaeh , for the past two weeks, in hopes this wouldn't happen. I had been receiving anonymous emails with pictures of her walking around outside of school, and at the gym she goes to, the day after the club. I started ignoring her in hopes they'd back the fuck off and stay away from her. Obviously, it didn't work.

"That doesn't explain why you were on the other side of town" Carter says. "Well we thought since she was seen with 'boss man' over there, she'd live on this side of town. Clearly she doesn't. After getting away from you guys, we caught sight of her and followed her to that alleyway." The other one, Cian said.

"What happened in that alleyway?" Carter asked, still confused as to how my baby took down the two men. " when we first entered the alley, we couldn't see her at first. We all split up looking around for her. Turns out she was hidden in the shadows. She knocked James and kyle unconscious, and tried to get me too. But, she stepped on something making a loud noise, and I turned around on time, to not be knocked unconscious. After that it was just constant bickering and that's when you guys showed up I'm guessing. Don't really know since you knocked me unconscious!" Luke finishes. Carter looked at me in surprise at how she handled the situation.

That doesn't add up. Nevaeh has a bruise on her stomach from that encounter with them. Someone's lying! "You're lying" I say looking him straight in the eyes. "You gave her a bruise. Punched her right in the gut by the looks of it." I say, clenching my fists.
"Well hate to break it to you but, we weren't able to get a hit on her. I don't know how. I mean, there was three of us and one of her" he says genuinely confused. What is he confused for? They couldn't even beat a five year old, if the wanted to.

I assess his face, looking for any sort of evidence he's lying. He's not. Nevaeh lied to me.

"So it was Leo sending the photo's?" I ask, just to be sure.

"Yes" he replies

I signalled Carter to leave and he nodded. I followed him but stopped at the cell door and said " if you ever go near her again, I won't hesitate to kill you" I then walk out, one of my men locking the door behind me.

When we reach upstairs, Carter turns to me. " how come you didn't take the honour of punching Luke? That's your thing. You torture for information. So why tell me to do it instead?" He asks. I was hoping he wouldn't ask me, but who am I kidding? He was right. Torturing for information is my thing. I was fucking stupid to expect him not to notice it.

" Nevaeh" is all I say before walking off ahead. If I arrived back with blood on my sweat pants, I'd have to take them off and change. I can't have her noticing my change in clothes and questioning me.

I enter the kitchen to see Asher asleep on the kitchen counter. Idiot. I slap him on the back of the head. He jumps up rubbing his head. "What the hell man!" I roll my eyes at him and say "knock them out and leave them where we found them" I then walk out the front door and head home to my bed, which holds a very gorgeous, blonde in it.

***

I enter my room and look over to see Nevaeh still asleep. I take my shirt and shoes off, then climb in the bed, immediately bringing her into my arms.

I move her so that her head is tucked into my neck and my arm is secured around her waist. She immediately cuddles into me, tangling her legs with mine and burrowing her face further into my neck. I kiss her forehead and close my eyes, revelling in her presence.

We have a lot to talk about tomorrow.