Touching the Heart of Ace novel Chapter 63

The situation at home was not better. Janice was a walking land mine; a mild twitch ticking her off. She was always screaming at Robbie and I felt like she was searching for my baby to shout at her too.

Over my dead body.

"I did it... Not you. I fucking pulled your precious baby out of my fucking pussy... and what did I get? Huh? I destroyed my beautiful body for that thing to live... Did you know what I went through. What did I get out of it?"

"Stop blaming my kid. I paid for everything you asked for. Liposuction, boob job, butt job... every fucking thing! So, you would leave her out of it. I even fucking paid for your rhinoplasty! How the hell is that related to your pregnancy!"

"Look how it turned out!"

"How is that our fault? Jesus! Woman, if you don't get out of here right now you are going to regret it."

"My face is fucking swollen and you don't care."

"Why would I care?"

"After all I went through? You don't care."

"Please get out."

I was thankful Lia was asleep. I saw Robbie rushing out and Janice screaming after him. I sighed when Robbie drove off and Janice came back a little smug.

"I am going to take a nap. Please do something for god sake so nothing will disturb me." She stormed off to her room.

Well her 'nothing' is my 'everything'. And she never bothered Janice ever in her life.

Robbie did come back less than an hour looking stressed.

"Where did you go?" I asked looking like a petulant child.

He sighed. "To the bank. Had to change some accounts."

He looked so tired and a bit lost. He tried to hug me and let him though I did not look at his eyes. "Still mad at me?"

I nodded and he kissed my neck.

"What did I do?"

I shrugged but let him kiss my other cheek.

But when he came for my lips I twisted my face away, not that it stopped him from pecking my lips.

We were not sleeping together. I was mad and hurt. Lia was sleeping with me all nights and Robbie could not do anything. We both knew if Lia was not there he would have ignored my 'no'.

His phone rang again and he rubbed his forehead. "What now?" He dropped his head on my shoulder. My Big Baby looked so tired.

"Give me a kiss."

"No." I did not even look at him.

"Please."

"No."

He sighed but kissed my cheek before letting me go. His shoulders were slumped and I could see the weight on his shoulders. My heart, my mind and my soul pained at his state.

"Robbie."

I called out before I knew I was calling for him. "Mmm?"

"When will you be back?" I swallowed my real words and spat out a seemingly normal question. He yanked me to him and pushed me to the wall.

"Why?"

"What? I cannot ask when you will be back?" Stop being an annoying brat, Ace.

"You can ask me anything and you know it, brat."

"I just wanna know." I pinched him.

"I don't know love, maybe a couple of hours." Why did he look so defeated? Was it because of my fighting? Or Janice's yapping?

"There is a carnival. I don't know the place. I saw the flayer in our shopping basket. We wanna go, Daddy." He kept on staring at me, but I caught a shining in his eyes. A bit of his stress faded away and his shoulders relaxed.

He slammed his lips on mine and I moaned, melting into him. He was my demon and demons would never stop fighting because they had annoying persistent brats as mates.

"Stop being so naughty and come back fast." I patted his strong back when he poked me with his bad boy.

"You are mine." He whispered and bit my ear.

"So, will you come back fast?"

"Yes, love. I will take you to the carnival." I nodded and might have puckered my lips when he kissed me again.

But nothing was going in the way I wanted everything to go. Janice persistently fought with everyone, including my baby girl. Janice normally stayed downstairs but this time she decided to come upstairs and scream at Lia for disturbing and irritating her.

Lia and I finally locked ourselves up in my bedroom; but we could still hear her screaming. When Robbie came back, she started to throw insults at him too.

"YOU ARE NOTHING!!! YOU PATHETIC SHIT."

We heard it through our bedroom door and Lia was shaking in my arms. I gave her beautiful baby monkey plushy and helped her lie down. "Sweetheart, can Davey go and check on Daddy?"

"NO! Davey... No..." She clutched on my hand and climbed on my lap. "No leave baby."

"I am not leaving you sweetheart. Davey will go and bring Daddy here and we will sit here away from her. Okay?"

"Daddy ok?"

"Of course he is okay. I am going to ask him to come here. Sweetheart stay under this blankie, yeah? Don't open the door."

She chewed on her thumb and I kissed her button nose. I placed her back under the blanket and pecked her lips. "Sweet baby, Davey will be back."

She nodded, scared but wanted her daddy to be okay too.

I could hear Janice' screams from his office. How loud was she shouting?

"Loser!!! ....no money, no business, nothing.... lost everything!"

I did not think Robbie was even talking back. "You are so ugly I do not even know why I bothered. You sad excuse of a man! With your erectile dysfunction, do you think you will get anyone close to me in beauty ever in your life? No one wants you."

Erectile dysfunction? Was she talking about my Robbie? He had erectile dysfunction?

Then with what the hell was he plugging my butt like a piston, all these times? A couple of hours earlier I felt the evidence of his erectile 'superfunction' on my stomach.

"Actually I am happy that you lost your business. All those times, you made fun of me in front of my friends and investors, I was praying that you lost everything. This is the proof that Jesus is watching. Not so mighty, are you? LOSER!!! No one... hear me... no one will never ever look at you, you scum!"

I heard a tight slap and I froze.

"See, you are nothing. I slapped you because you are not even a man! And I will slap you again. You sad sad pussy!"

She slapped him? She fucking slapped my Robbie????!!!!

My man! She slapped him!

I saw red. I wanted to kill her! Fucking kill her for hurting him!

MY ROBBIE!

I pushed the heavy door with all my might and it flew open at my force.

Janice got even more uglier than she usually was. "YOU! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? GET OUT." She screamed at me. "Wipe that brat's ass or something. We are talking here."

At that moment I understood how much I had been suffering for her because Janice looked like my Aunt Marie. But the woman in front of me was not. She did not look like anyone I had to suffer myself for and she hurt my Robbie.

He was mine and who the hell was she to call him a loser or pathetic or...

"Why are you not attending my lawyers' call?" The urge to fucking destroy her to pieces was overwhelming me.

"WHAT?"

"You heard me. They are taking your case to the court." They were not but I could make them, bitch.

"I was busy with my business." She sniffed.

My fucking ruined butt.

Yeah, that is right, your erectile dysfunction husband could not take his fucking dick from mine and yeah, it kind got ruined.

"Good. Then you are capable of paying the interest back."

Janice gulped and I knew she had walked into that one. "You know your mother did not want me to pay."

I shrugged. "I did not even know about you..." leeching of my mom's money "... having any loans with my company." Not sorry for emphasising 'my'. "Better talk to my lawyers before they take it to the court."

She bit her lips and looked down. Once her face made me riled up with guilt and jealousy. But now I could not find any trace of my Aunt or my baby girl in this swollen plastic droopy face. I wanted to punch this water balloon but my mom raised me better.

"Can you do anything about that?" I knew she hated me, she never hid it. She had too many bad emotions in her face when she always looked at me when we were kids. But the woman twirled her hair, blinked innocently and smiled right on my face, like we were friends.

How could anyone be this poisonous?

"Nothing much. The loans were before I took over the firm and loans are not my section but Jason's. I will give him a call but it is finally his and my lawyers' decision."

She ground her teeth in obvious anger. She had called my brother names too. Now, let us see you begging at his feet.

"I will go and talk to them, then. You will call them, right?"

"Don't keep your hopes up. They are legal documents, there is only so far it could be stretched."

She stomped off from Robbie's office after throwing a 'useless' under her breath without looking at me. The innocent paper weight was the victim of my wrath. The glass ball broken down to the pieces from its hard impact on the wall.

"Angel?"

"WHAT? CAT GOT YOUR TONGUE?" I snarled at him. He could have said something. Prevented the slap. I knew he saw that coming from a mile away. I hated seeing him hurt. I hated even if I was the one who had hurt him.

He switched off something and dragged me to him. "Let me go, Asshole Brantley." But my hands already had looped on his neck.

Stupid hands.

"I am fine. Stop crying."

"I am not crying. You are just stupid."

"If it is any consolation, your mom packs a lot more power."

I chuckled before I could stop myself. "But there is only one whose slaps I enjoy." He winked and I glared. "Makes me so freaking hard when you go all angry kitty on me."

I pushed myself off his lap because he was too much. "You are annoying." But I was sad. She hurt my man. Called him names. "Lia is worried about you. Come on."

I pulled on his hands and he held mine reverently. We walked hand in hand to our baby who was waiting for us, distressed. "DADDY..." She jumped to him and kissed him all over his cheeks. "Daddy ok? Davey say you?"

He laughed. "I am okay, Baby Angel. Yes, Davey saved me."

I blushed bright red. "You did. You are my Angel. You always save me."

"When are we going to carnival?" I wanted to get out of here for some time. I was still in funky mood and it rubbed off on Robbie but Lia had a very good time. I could not stop my wayward thoughts.

My Robbie was not pathetic, definitely not a loser but he had issues adjusting to other people. I knew many of it could be blamed on his upbringing.

He had no one to rely on, no one to tell his which was right, which was wrong; he just went with his heart and his heart did not always have other's interest in focus... make that never.

Still he was my man. Who I loved. Who took care of me. Who looked at me like I was the most precious one in his world right next to his daughter.

"I am fine. I promise, Angel." He tried again but I could stop worrying. Was there a part in Robbie that believed everything Janice said?

Loser

Pathetic

Ugly

Erectile Dysfunction

No one wants you

We waited until Lia had tired herself out before leaving for home and I knew I was awfully silent.

I was honestly surprised to see the monster still here. But I was too tried and angry to talk to her without doing some serious damage.

I went upstairs with sleeping Lia on my hip and Robbie followed me without even looking at her. I knew she wanted to talk even vent out some of her anger. But my family was not available to her. They were my treasures, not her punching bags.

Robbie and I bathed our baby together. I held Baby Angel and rocked her while her daddy sung her beautiful songs.