Ace (Book 1)

Chapter 9. Mouth

"You idiot! You need to take her home right now!" Kal's father shouted.

"We wanted to get even!" Kal shouted at his dad.

Kal brought me back to his house, which was a mansion. I was in a library tied to a chair with a gag in my mouth.

"Not like this, you got to be smart about it, and you weren't! You got angry and made a stupid mistake!" Kal's father shouted.

"How do you figure?" Kal arched a brow.

"Ace and all of his friends are going to show up."

"So? We can take them down too!"

"This is exactly why every time you battle Ace, you fucking lose! You underestimate Ace, and that is stupid. I didn't raise you to be a loser," Kal's father sneered. "You're getting way over your head with this one."

"Then let's kill her and make it look like someone else did it," Kal muttered.

"She knows too much. We need to think this over." Kal's father turned and stormed out of the room.

Kal turned to smirk at me. "I'll bet those idiots aren't even close to figuring out who took you." Kal stalked toward me. He pulled the gag out of my mouth.

"Eat shit," I said and smirked.

Kal raised his hand and swung it forward.

The slap to my cheek burned, and I cried in pain. Tears built in my eyes.

Kal grabbed my hair and forced me to look at him. "What is it about Garcia that you girls just seem to crawl to him?"

I cleared my throat and spat in his face.

"Because I'm dead sexy, and you're a little twerp." Ace's voice came from somewhere behind me.

I grinned widely. I didn't have to see Ace to know it was him. I had his voice memorized.

The tall glass windows shattered, and three men swung into the room like ninjas. I realized that it was Luis, Austin, and Joey. I turned back to see Ace followed by Kal's father, an older woman, a young boy, and a teenage girl.

Benny, Jax, Gabriel, and Abel had guns pointed at Kal's family. Kal's family all knelt on the floor.

It didn't matter what guns they were holding or why they had them. I was just happy to see them.

"Move away from her," Ace said darkly.

The others kept the family lined up on the floor while Ace untied me.

Ace pulled me against his chest and lowered his lips to my ear. "You should have just let me drive you home, bebita." His warm breath tickled my cheek.

"You can from now on," I promised.

Ace looked up at Kal. "Well, that didn't work, did it, Kal? You just don't get it, do you? I've always beat you because you don't ever think anything through. I'm going to let you live this time, but if you ever come after my girl again..." Ace trailed off. "I'll kill you."

Ace's words sent a shiver down my spine.

"This was Kal's doing, not mine," Kal's father said.

"Not this time, right?" Ace narrowed his eyes at Kal's dad.

"Tie their asses up," Ace instructed the guys.