Under His Roof

chapter twenty

People actually want a Melitta & Mr. Martinez book?? Honestly it would just be them fucking the entire way through because I don't want to go through the whole cat & dog of teacher-student relationships

(even though M&M is a great couple name)

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'It's your fault we're down here!'

'It's your own fucking fault, Kimberly!'

Julian's words rang in Kimberly's ears as Freddy made his way down the steps, the falling cement getting closer and closer to them.

It really was all her fault that they were down there, and now she wasn't sure whether or not Julian was safe. After all, Freddy didn't seem like the most stable person around, so what would stop him from killing Julian along with her now that he had been royally pissed off by the both of them?

"Lucas! Tell Jim to check the upper level of the house!" Freddy ordered, and then added in a menacing growl, "Incase that piece of shit was lying to me. And you keep an eye on the door! I don't want anything getting out of this house."

A grunt of affirmation came from upstairs and then Freddy continued down the stairs, now nearly at the bottom. Kimberly realized that all Freddy had to do was look underneath the staircase to find and kill the two of them. All he had to do was take three steps to his left, bent over, and shoot.

Her breathing was ragged. She wasn't taking in as much air as she should have been and she felt her throat beginning to close up, but still, she didn't make any noise. Freddy was right above them. Only a flimsy slab of concrete was separating them, there was no room for mistakes.

Julian could feel Kimberly's fear as he kept his eyes out for any shadows coming closer to them. He could feel her hand shaking and he just wanted to hold her and tell her that he was sorry and that he loved her so much. He wanted to take back the last hour in which he had told her that it was her fault that Fred wanted to kill her, because that wasn't the truth. She was shaking next to him, holding the guilt of putting both of their lives in danger, when it was really all his fault.

The first day, after she had answered his phone and talked to Fred, sure Fred wasn't pleased, but he didn't want to kill her. He only said that she was dead to mess with her because Fred was the kind of person who loved fuck with people's minds. He was smart enough to know that she wasn't a threat, after all, for all Fred knew, Kimberly could have been Chevelle picking up the phone.

That night though, when Julian went to see him, Fred mentioned talking to a woman through Julian's phone.

"Broad had the kind of voice I'd love to hear gagging as I shoved my cock down her throat," he had said.

Upon hearing that, Julian had lost his temper and cursed Fred out and told him not to talk about Kimberly like that. And as it turns out, Fred had actually thought that that was Chevelle, because when he heard her name and saw the way Julian's temper had flared, his interest was immediately peaked. "Kimberly?" He had asked, his eyebrows raised, and mouth in a cringe-worthy grimace.

Julian had realized his mistake almost immediately, but by then Fred and his men were beating the crap out of Julian for mouthing off to Fred.

You see, Julian had done a very good job of keeping himself alone ever since his things ended with ex-wife. And truth be told, things would have ended anyway because he would have had to leave her if he wanted to leave the ring or else she would be in danger. Fred and those he worked with had had nobody to hurt since the only people who were close to Julian were his mother and his elder sister, and they were both safe just like he was because of his father. Now that Kimberly had come along though, and now that Julian had expressed her importance to Fred, he had given Fred something to use in order to keep Julian in. That was why Fred wanted to kill Kimberly. So that Julian wouldn't leave.  And once he had set his mind to it, there wasn't anything Julian could do to change it.