Chapter 13

Jace:

"Scarlet, my love, I have something I need to tell you." I tuck a flowing strand of her hair behind her ear. 'She means so much to me I really hope this doesn't change us.' She looks at me concerned holding her swollen belly. I gently place my hand on her belly just in time to feel the flutter of our daughter kicking.

"What is it Jace? Babe, you're worrying me." She places a hand on my cheek, her hand brings me so much comfort, I wrap my other hand around hers. "I think the first thing I must tell you is that my first name is Angel, and my middle name is Jace....now I go by Jace for another reason all together..." I wait patiently watching her closely as she absorbs this new information.

"Ok so you go by your middle name that's not as huge as you are making this whole situation feel like it is. What's happening baby? Is there something wrong?" She is worried for me, she handled it really well that I have been going by my middle name that is a huge relief but there is more that I have to tell her.

" My love...the reason I go by my middle name...well keep an open mind please my love it might sound a little crazy..." I pause to let her know I am serious..."Baby I was an Angel.... sadly, I am no longer an Angel I am technically known as a Fallen Angel...." I can't handle the thought of her rejection, so I look away from her beautiful face.

After a few moments she speaks to me, "What happened? Why are you a fallen Angel?"

I wake abruptly from my pleasant dreams of Scarlet. 'I really have to tell Scarlet how I feel about her, this is really getting out of hand.' I get up off of the couch and pull my shirt on and slide my feet into my shoes. I grab my phone off of the counter and see that it is only 7am. 'Well, if I leave now, I can be back here by 1 to help her move.' I write out a quick text to Scarlet,

Hey Scarlet, this is Jace, Camerone gave me your number. I was asleep when he got home, and he was asleep when I left. I just wanted to let you know I will be back with my truck and trailer to help you start moving your stuff to your apartment I will be back by 1pm see you soon. 'Does that sound too desperate?' I hit send either way. I lock the front door as I head out. I pause just before I close the door, 'Should I go check on Scarlet and make sure that she is safe?' I have to go so I just pull the door closed and get into my car and start driving home.

While I am driving, I call Jovanni and of course he doesn't answer his phone, so I leave a voicemail, "Hey Jovanni call me back. I will need your help tonight and if you can get James to come help out to that would be great. I will need you around 5 tonight. Bye." 'I wonder if I can convince Scarlet to let me stay the night...I would be happy to sleep on the couch or even the floor to be able to stay with her tonight.'

As I continue to drive home, I can't help but wonder what life would be like if I was dating Scarlet. I would love to drive her to school every day. Visit her at work, bring her a bouquet of lilies with baby's breath, her favorite. To be able to hold her hand as we go shopping for groceries, hell just to be able to hold her hand whenever I want to. I want more than anything to wake up in the middle of the night and have a dance party while we cook grilled cheese, her with a swollen belly due any day to bring our child into this world. I want a daughter that has her mystic hazel eyes with golden flakes. I want her to have her mother's skin and the beautiful features of her face. I want to wait at the end of the isle and see her dressed in white walking towards me...

Before I had realized it, I was already home, I had been so lost in the hopes I have for the future with Scarlet that I was already pulling into my driveway. 'How in the world did I get that lost that I am already home? This is getting dangerous.'

I walk inside of my house and decide that I should probably take a shower before I head back to Camerone's house. Just as I am getting ready to get into the shower my phone chimes and it is Scarlet, without trying I feel myself beaming with excitement,

Thank you Jace I really appreciate it! I don't have too much stuff that I will be taking to the apartment. Mostly I have to go to the Walmart in town to pick up everything then I have to put it all together. If you don't mind, could you please help me with that so I can have it already before Stella moves in?

'Oh my gosh! She is asking me for more help! Yes! Hell, ya I would love to help you more. Means that I have another excuse to stay close to her!'

Sure, thing I don't mind maybe my brother and his friend could help us.

I hope that doesn't sound like I am trying to make sure that there is no alone time for just her and me. I hope she doesn't think that I want anything but to be close to her. To my surprise she responds instantly,

Perfect I will see you soon!

I smile so wide my cheeks hurt, something about the way she said 'See you soon' leaves me eager to get back to her already. While I am in the shower, I decide I will ask her to be my girl today, I can't wait for us to build a future together. I get dressed quickly, I comb my dark hair and put on my usual cap giddy to be able to get back on the road and see Scarlet again. 'Hmmmm I think that it is time for another hair cut my hair almost covers my eyes.'

I grab my keys and I start to walk out the door when a thought stops me in my tracks, girls love to wear their boyfriends' hoodies so maybe I should bring her one. With that thought I run to my room and grab a clean hoodie and spray it with my cologne to make sure that it stays smelling nice. I grabbed my black one that has the print of a Harley on it considering that it is the perfect bike for her because she drives a Fatboy. I grab a plain blue hoodie for myself and rush out the door excited to give her my hoodie and hopefully make her my girl.

Once again as I am driving back over to Camerone's house to help Scarlet, I begin to imagine us together with a beautiful daughter. We are at the park running around the small lake pushing a stroller where our baby is fast asleep. As we run Scarlet's long hair flows in the wind. I imagine us walking home and walking in the door with our sleeping baby and Scarlet heads for the shower while I put babygirl in her crib. I join Scarlet in the shower and kiss her shoulder tenderly before I massage shampoo into her hair....

Again, I find that I have managed to drive all the way from my house to Camerone's house and I don't even remember any part of the drive.... I knock on the door and after a few seconds Scarlet answers the door and lets me in.

"So, what all is going?" I ask her eager to get started. 'I should ask her to be mine while we are at her apartment.' She looks at me amused but leads me to her room in Camerone's house. "I only packed what I will need..."She keeps talking but I am distracted by her beautiful mouth, and I have to fight the urge to just kiss her. I grab one box that I assume has books in it and stack it on top of another box and carry them both out to my truck to start loading everything. I really want to get her stuff loaded and get to her apartment so I can get an answer. The urge to kiss her grows stronger and more intense with every minute that I am around her. I don't believe in fate, but I feel like she is my own personal magnet, pulling me in further and further....

We finally have her boxes loaded into my truck and ready to go. I go inside and see her writing...she must be leaving a note for Camerone. "Are you ready to go?" I ask nonchalantly. She checks her backpack before she looks at me with her stunning eyes.

"I believe that I am indeed ready to go. Are you ready to go?" she asks me in a feisty tone. I chuckle and follow her out to my truck locking the door behind us. I watch as she sets her backpack on the floor bored of my truck. 'She will need help getting in... I'll get to feel her supple tanned cream skin under my hands.' I quietly come up behind her and gently place my hands on her hips and lift her into my truck. 'Fuck! I wonder if she can feel the electricity between us or it is just me.' I lean my head in to smell her hair, but she turns to quickly and her lips brush mine causing my heart to skip a beat. I fight the urge to grab her face and give her a passionate kiss.

"Th-thank you Jace...." no big surprise but I lose the ability to focus on her words I want to kiss her lips. She is looking down at her hands again, I notice that she tends to look at her hands when she is feeling shy or nervous. I then notice that she has a light shade of pink creeping into her cheeks. My heart leaps into a sprint again. She much be apologizing.

"I'm not sorry it happened.... I thought that it felt nice..." 'Does she regret it? I want more...but...does she? Am I reading her wrong?' After a quite intense hour I can see her peak at me, and I can't help it anymore. The electricity is just too much I want to touch her to feel her skin, I cautiously place my hand on her left leg, my heart feels like it will jump from my chest. I feel her shiver and I go to remove my hand, "Is this, ok? I mean.... I thought you might be ok with it..." I go to lift my hand off of her leg, but she grabs my hand and slides her fingers between mine and she lays our hands together on her leg. My thoughts run wild; I want to scream that I love her that I have always loved her. I pull over in a small gas station and park the truck and turn to face her,

"Age is just a number to me....in all honesty I have had feelings for you for a while.... I don't want to stay away anymore...if it is ok with you, I would love for you to be my girl..." I can't help but to stare into her mesmerizing eyes anxiously waiting for her response.

"I would love that more than anything! We just really have to talk to Cam I don't want to hurt him." She is so caring and sweet, I am soaring! She is my girl! She has confirmed that she has feelings for me and now she is mine! Before I can stop myself, I grab her face with my hands on either side of her face and kiss her lips. Her lips are soft as velvet, warm, and sweet as sugar. 'I can finally kiss her and even better I can even call her my girl.' This is the best day of my life so far! Only there is one rather important thing I have to do I just don't even know what to do.... How do I tell her that I am a fallen angel without her thinking I am nuts? How do I tell her that I had my wings ripped from my back because I have always known that I loved her.... every part of her?

The rest of the night flew by so quickly I didn't realize the time till Jovanni and James left to get home before it gets too late. One look at Scarlet tells me that she needs to go to bed. I get up and grab all of the dinner plates we used for the pizza that Jovanni ordered after a long day of work and put them in the sink I can clean them in the morning. I go to the front door and lock the deadbolt and slide the chain into place, 'I must always keep Scarlet safe. She has been the love of my life since before she could walk.' I wander over to her seeing that she is watching me, and I grab her hands to help her up from the couch and bring her to her bedroom. "Would you like for me to sleep on the couch?" I ask this question hoping that she will want me to share her bed tonight.

"No, I would love for you to hold me tonight if that is, ok?" Her cheeks flush a crimson red. 'She is so shy that I just cannot get enough of the beauty of seeing her thoughts across her face when she blushes. I love it!'

"I only have my jeans Angel is that ok with you?" Of course, I would think last minute to bring hoddies but I would forget to pack some shorts to sleep in.

Ahhhh there it is again she must be nervous again. "You don't have to wear pants my love." 'Oh, my word I am falling harder and harder for her she is showing me that she has feelings for me.'

"Go get changed Angel I will be right here when you're finished." When she has closed the bathroom door, I quickly remove my pants and shirt and place them neatly on her dresser and climb into her bed to wait for her. When she exits the bathroom and in her bedroom my heart stops, she has booty shorts on that show her perfectly round ass and a very thin tank top on that does not hide the beautiful pear shape of her succulent breasts with her perky nipples. Seeing her like this brought a flash back to the night that I stayed at Cam's, and she was having an erotic dream.

This is no time to rush things for as much as I want to love on her body, I know that we need to take this slow. So instead of ripping her into bed and kissing every inch of her body I decided to open my arms to her inviting her in to snuggle. She quickly climbs into bed and crawls over to me; I can't entirely behave myself and I kiss her lips lovingly.

"Goodnight Angel." She readjusts herself so that her back is up against my chest, and I can feel her butt on my groin. I wrap one arm around her waist, and I slide my other hand under her pillow. I gently pull her closer to my body to hold her tight. I am completely content with my life I have the woman of my dreams in my arms, my eyes start to droop, heavy with sleep and all I can feel as I begin to float away into dream land is pure bliss.