The Perfect Crime || m.clifford & a.irwin

Chapter 7

"But Michael and Rachel aren't here, we cant leave without them." I complain loading the car with yet another box. Ashton looks over at me before slamming the trunk.

"Michael is more than capable of finding a way to find us, Allison. Believe me. "

"Ash." I whine grabbing Ashton's arm. "Please Ash, call him or something, please."

"You really do love him, don't you?"

"More than you will ever know." I tell him walking back into the house. He follows behind me.

"What's it like to love someone?" He questions. I turn around stocked.

"Well I mean, you can't explain how you feel, you just do." I reply. He looks at me closely before grabbing something out his back wallet. I raise an eyebrow, he opens it pulling out a picture.

"My whole life I knew nothing about love, when I was younger my dad left my mum and I, my mum used to talk about how she didn't want me to grow up and be like him. She wanted me to do amazing things."

"What happened to her?" I question, reaching out for the picture. He hands it to me looking at the ground.

"She was so stubborn, she never listened when people told her no." He explains his voice getting softer after every word. "She was in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"You mean, your business, in whatever you do, killed her?"

"Are you always like this? Blunt and able to read between the lines." he questions a smile present on his face.

"Is this her?" I ask looking down at the picture, ignoring his question. The lady in the picture was holding a small baby in her arms.

"Yes." he whispers. "I was about one years old."

"She was beautiful." I tell him handing the photo back. He smiles taking it.

"I'm going to call Michael." I watch as he disappears around the corner, for whatever reason I couldn't shake the feeling that he wasn't half as bad as I had thought.

\./

Ashton had apparently got in touch with Michael and they had talked about a place to meet and store their weaponry. I was more than ready to see Michael and Rachel again. I didn't realize that the safe place was going to take so long to get to.

"Are we there yet?" I ask shifting in my seat. He looks over at me annoyed.

"Allison, just sit back and relax, please." he says sighing. I lean back in my seat frowning.

"Where are we going anyhow?"

"Melbourne." he mumbles as his phone rings. He answers it propping up his phone putting it on speakerphone.

"Where are you guys?"

"Do you know that you are more like Allison then you know, cause if I was not a good person, I might kill her." Ashton tells Michael. I glare at him. 

"Shut up, Ash." I mumble. 

"Maybe that's why I love her." he tells him laughing lightly. I grin looking out the window of the car. 

"I see that." Ashton says laughing. 

"Michael how much longer am i going to be in this car with this dick." I ask playfully sticking my tongue out at Ash. 

"You how much longer do you have to go without his touch?" Ashton mocks. I punch his shoulder. 

"You'll be here in a couple hours,"