My ex-boyfriends dad

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I was focusing on Jace but looked at lazlo for a second just to see his face. He was staring at the back of Jaces head so hard with anger I'm
surprised jace didn't feel any burning in the back of his head.

Throughout the rest of my date with Jace I zoned out and started to wonder what Lazlo and Lisa were talking about. It started to make me wonder just how much they have in common. Jace could tell I was zoning out and I realized it made him feel like I wasn't enjoying my time with him. I mean I had tried to enjoy it but my mind was driving elsewhere.

"Listen, I can leave if you-" jace starts to speak but I cut him off, "no no I'm sorry I've just been distracted...how about we leave and go somewhere more relaxing?" I say while looking Jace in his eyes.

"I'd like that." Jace smiles at me and he asks for the bill as a waiter walks by.

When had finished paying and left a tip of the table we both stood up. Jace walked over to me and held my hand. I took a look back at Lazlo who was staring at the dress I was wearing. I smiled to myself as I turned around and walked out of the restaurant holding jaces hand.

Once outside I just stood there. Jace had realized I wanted space so he headed off to the car but I decided to just stand there. I took some deep breaths and straightened up my dress before walking over to the car and getting in.
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Me and Jace had been driving for a while and I started to do nothing but look out of the window. I hadn't realized it but jace had pulled over into an alley. I felt the car stop abruptly and I look ahead to see a brick wall.

I look over at jace to see him setting the car in park before talking off his seatbelt and turning to me, "alright so what's the deal?" He asks and it takes me a minute to understand what he was saying.

"What deal?" I asked as it was pretty random for him to just ask me this question with no context given.

"Everything was good and you randomly stopped interacting with me...and it was all after that couple walked past us so do you want to walk about it?" Jace asked with a questioning look.

Jace and I hadn't been talking that long but it might've been good to vent with someone other than Lexi so I took a couple of deep breaths before speaking.

"Just don't judge me when this story is over." I sigh and Jace placed his hand on top of mine that was resting on my leg.

"Trust me I won't judge" he says and I felt some reassurance before I started to speak.

I took a long sigh before finally speaking, "ok so...I used to date this guy name Keaton for some years and uhh that ended because it turns out he was cheating on me for quite some time....me and his father were very close so I went to him for comfort and he was helping get over it. Now what I'm going to tell you next might shock you a bit and I hope this isn't the end because I actually did enjoy our time together." I stopped speaking and Jace held my hand to give me the green light because he knew I was scared.

"Ok so I uhmm...I ended up sleeping with my ex boyfriends father...and not only once...it happened multiple times and in fact I started to catch feelings....and one time his neighbor caught us..we don't know exactly how much she saw but we know she saw something. The part of this story that matters most is the couple that walked in just happened to be the neighbor and my ex boyfriends father who is also kinda my ex as well." I took a long exhale once I finished speaking.

"We broke up because I just felt like everything was moving so fast and I made up with my ex so we're friends and I felt wrong to be messing with his father...so much guilt...but his father has something about him...I know you think I'm pretty fucked up now don't you?" I look up at him  with glossy eyes because talking about this almost led me to crying.

"No I actually thought it was pretty badass that you fucked his dad but I mean the heart wants what the heart wants. I think we're both pretty fucked up I mean I have some shit I've done too." He shrugs and I raise an eyebrow as I had wanted to know more.

I noticed that Jaces hand started to shake slightly. I squeezed at it and he looked in my eyes. Whatever it was he was about to tell me was definitely something that destroyed him.

"Ok listen...I haven't told anyone about this and let alone would I speak about this in a first date so please bare with me." Jace sighs and I squeeze at his hand tighter to let him know he could tell me..

"You ever heard of the William case?" Jace said and I closed my eyes as I tried to think. The William case.

I had heard about it for the first time a couple of years ago. This kid shot his mom but not because he wanted to. She tricked him into shooting her because she wanted to commit suicide but didn't want her own prints on the gun. She had this crazy obsession with her death wanting to be remembered all over the world. The kids name was ace Williams and he had to witness his mom die at the hands of him. The case was brutal and when I learned about it I felt horrified for the kid. The case goes on to say that the kid ended up with his father. The father had slightly abused him and once out a gun to aces head. Ace became triggered by the sight of the gun and killed his father later that day when the gun was found on the table unattended. The father was in critical condition for a while until he finally gave in to his fate.

What happened to ace?

Well, ace was held in a correctional center for a while but because he was so young he was isolated from all the other people there. When he was 14 he escaped from a youth boys prison he was put in when he turned 10 and the world hasn't been able to find out about his whereabouts since then but ace has been known to have a cut across both of his ankles from cutting them to get the ankle cuffs off. There is also a heart shaped birthmark on his back. The cops at this point wanted to assume he dead because of the amount of blood left in his cell when the cops saw he was gone.

I had realized I was zoned out as I was reminding myself of the terrifying story behind that case. Ace was 5 years old when everything happened and he escaped 10 years ago...I doubt they're going to find him now.

I opened my eyes to see Jace analyzing my face, "I'm sorry I zoned out but yes I've heard of it." I said in a soft and shaken tone because remembering the case terrified me.

"That poor child...I can imagine that type of trauma at such a young age is terrible." I sigh out and Jace jolted a bit.

"Take the First letter of my name off." Jace says and I pause for a second trying to figure out what he meant. Jace took off his suit jacket and unbuttoned his shirt before pulling it off and turning around.

His back.

In the dead center of his back was a birthmark.

Heart shaped.