Touching the Heart of Ace novel Chapter 75

Forty-nine hours and six minutes since I had seen... no not seen... I got a glimpse of that brown hair when I went to the garden.

Uncle Fred had hired security and he had given stern orders that my Big Baby was not welcome inside. But the old man's heat was thawing when Little Lia asked him where her daddy was.

We missed him so much that I ached inside out.

I was not eating well, not sleeping at all and... everyone was worried. But what could I do?

Lia shifted in her sleep and I fixed her blanket once again.

'Ting'.

Huh?

'Ting'.

"Pssttt... Angel... open this shit."

What the!

'TIng'.

"Psssst.... Angel... Where the fuck is the lock... shh... dammit."

'Ting'.

Please don't tell me that Bastard was on the other side of the balcony. It was dangerous. Unlike the normal balconies, Uncle Fred had glass panels covering the whole place. It would not open from the outside.

Dangerous was an understatement. What would I do if he fell and injured himself.

He would give me a fucking heart attack!

Why was he climbing up all these places like a teenage boyfriend!

We had a baby together for christ's sake.

I could not find him anywhere. Did he fall?

Then I saw his brown hair peeking through one of the glass panels and I sighed in relief before cursing.

"What the fuck are you doing here?"

Uncle Fred would tan my butt before killing Robbie.

I opened the glass panel next to him and warily watched as he leaned across the barely-there projection. I put both my hand across his torso and he used that as the leverage and kicked off.

One slip he would have fallen down and...

We both fell inside with him on top of me.

Damn! Bastard was heavy and he looked comfortable and not willing to get up.

"Hey, Pretty Angel." He leaned back on his hands and smiled cutely.

I slapped his cheek. "What the fuck is wrong..."

He covered my mouth hard and whispered. "Your son of a bitch uncle has security everywhere. They will kick me out."

I licked his hand and he only smiled.

This pervert!

He was supposed to take his hand away, but... well.

I finally patted his shoulder and he let me up. We silently closed the glass panel and I pinched his elbow hard.

"You are fucking insane. Do you know how deep the fall is?"

"Well, I had to see you. Where is our baby?"

"Sleeping. I am serious Robbie; you are so reckless."

I shook my head to clear the image of him lying on the ground. I did not like him hurt and the fall would have been not lethal but what if he breaks his back...

"I am fine." He held my hand and kissed its back.

I pushed him away and went to the bedroom, already done with his antics.

"Hey, baby... come on."

"You could not wait till morning to come here?" I was annoyed and... still frightened. The teeny tiny ledge was not safe for a person big like him to stand and do circus on.

Yes, he was a martial artist.

Yes, he had better balance of his body because of that.

Yes, he knew how to fall, minimizing the damage.

But did the garden bed know that? Did the gravity care that?

No, if he fell and broke his back, that was that.

Fucking idiot of mine!

He pulled me back to his chest and pressed me to the door the bedroom.

"Stop ignoring me already. Let me at least see you properly." Like we had not seen each other of half a million years. "I missed you so much. Stop squirming, Love. It is doing things to me."

Perverted Asshole.

He dropped kisses on my forehead, hugging me and it might have melted my heart, tiny bit. Just tiny.

"Come home now, Angel." I pushed away another finger that had found its way up to my nipple under my shirt.

"Which home? What home?" I was on my full on passive aggressive bitch mode and I was not giving the love of my life an inch to set his foot.

"Wherever I go. That is your home, right?"

I thumped his chest and tried to get out of his hug without success. His left hand was wound around my waist while his other hand was rubbing my chest under my shirt. He kissed my cheek and I tsk'ed in annoyance.

"Let go now or I am gonna call out for Uncle Fred." He had some nerve to climb up this balcony, this late at night. I peeked inside and checked on my baby girl who was sleeping with her bum up.

"No, you won't." Robbie twisted my face to him after taking his hand inside my shirt.

"Don't be so sure about that." I pushed him again.

"I am. You never did and you never will. You are mine."

"Did you overdose on smoothness pills?"

He chuckled. "So, you admit, you are falling hard on my smoothness."

I rolled my eyes but Daddy dipped his head and brushed a kiss on my lips.

Then another one.

And a small one.

Oh, this one was deep.

Before long we both were kissing like we had not seen in a very long time. From our perspective we hadn't.

Physically we might have had some days where we could not be together, especially when Daddy went on business trips but then we would call and text, so the distance wouldn't be daunting.

"Let us go home now." He whispered again when I took a breather and hid my lips under his chin.

"This late? Lia is sleeping."

"And you are not. She is fine, Baby."

Said the father who I had seen hovering over her like a hawk ever since that episode. He pretended to be okay and happy in front of me; but I knew my Demon well and he was frightened.

I pulled him to the bedroom and opened my suitcase before taking his sweat pants and shirt which I had sneaked in when Uncle Fred was not looking. I knew he would come for me.

Robbie had the audacity to smile cheekily at me.

Fine! I wanted him to come for me... not in the middle of the night through a dangerous balcony but...

"Promise me you will not climb up the balconies anymore. You are a father, now. Behave like one."

"Well, if you don't get angry at me and leave, I would not have to, would I?"

"Tsk. I am serious. What if you fall?"

"Then we can play doctor and patient." He purred and bit my ear, making me blush.

"Yeah, well, if you break your back, patient cannot fuck the doctor, now, can he?" I purred back.

"Fine. No climbing balconies ever again."

Figures! Robbie thinks with his wrong head half the time.

He handed me his clothes before slipping on the sweat pants. I snatched back the sweat shirt he was going to sling across the room, with a glare. I rolled it and placed it back in suitcase with a huff.

"Are you from Tennessee?" Robbie whispered to my ear while rubbing my butt to his crotch.

"What? No..." He, of all people should know. Why was he asking me that?

"Because you're the only ten I see!"

What in the holy world?

Did he just use a pick up line on me?

"Robbie you just didn't."

He rubbed his lips on my neck, making me ticklish and giggly.

"I wish I were cross-eyed so I can see you twice."

I snorted and laughed. "Stop..." That was so bad... so so bad. He twirled me around like we were dancing. "What has gotten into you?"

"More like what is getting into you." He lewdly made a thrusting motion and I cringed before giggling and hugging his neck.

"Please, Robbie, I beg you... just stop."

I could not stop laughing but I was worried we would wake Lia up.

"Do you like Star-Wars? Because Yoda only one for me!"

I punched his shoulders and hid my giggles into his chest. "Wh... where the hell... oh my god. Where the hell did you find all these... terrible lines?"

"Internet, baby, internet."

At least he was truthful.

"You are so not going to get laid tonight, Daddy." Those were really bad enough to turn off anyone.

"Hey! So I did have a chance? Dammit!"

"Well, now we will never know." I rubbed my forefinger over his cheek and sashayed away from him and lied next to my baby girl.

I chuckled again, remembering his lines. 'Yoda only one for me.'

Cringe!

I shook my head.

"Anything to see my Angel smile." He lied next to me and pecked my cheeks.

"I am laughing because I am already in love with you. Otherwise I would have cried at these sad excuses of pickup lines before running away."

He bit my neck in retribution. I held back my moan because Lia was literally next to me.

"Why does she sleep like that?" He tried to poke Lia's bum and I took his hand away.

"Because she is a baby and babies sleep like that. Leave her alone, Daddy." He was going to push her to the side but I was not letting him.

Robbie finally sat up and took Lia to his lap.

Why did he always have this look of wonder in eyes when he held her?

"She is sleeping, Angel."

I dropped my head to his shoulder staring down at our baby... my baby.

"Yes, Daddy. She asked for you, you know?"

"Really?"

"Yup. So, you can stay the whole night. Uncle Fred might not kill you right away."

"He hates me Angel." Robbie whined and I chuckled.

"Whose fault is that?"

Robbie huffed.

Robbie and I had a huge fight after that court incident.

He should have come to me or to my mom instead of making the stupidest of his life by marrying Janice. The fight was not necessarily because of that but he said 'It is my life, Angel, not yours' again and I... completely lost it.

He had no right to tell me that.

How dare he?

If it was his life, why did he barge into mine and turn me upside down? Why did he touch me that day? Why did he keep me in the sides like a fucking idiot?

Where was 'his' life when he pushed and twisted me until 'my' life was braided along with his?

Yes, it was my fault that I never asked.

Yes, I understand there were so many signs that he needed me and something was wrong but I ignored them.

Yes, I pushed him and Lia to Janice because I was so busy trying to fit myself in morally-right pedestal.

But that did not mean he can throw the 'It is my life, Angel, not yours' to me.

And I might have accidently spilled the incident of him telling me that when I talked to Uncle Jack and of course he might have told Uncle Fred. I had a feeling this taking me away from Robbie was his way of punishing Robbie for the insensitive words.

Robbie lied back to the bed with Lia on his chest and hugged me close.

"You are all I need." He pecked Lia's head and then squeezed my waist before sighing.

"We too, Daddy. Don't forget that." I pecked his cheek before placing my head on his shoulder and stared at my baby.

"Please sleep, my love."

"No." I said adamantly. I had to watch Lia sleeping. I had to know when she had nightmares and I had to see her breathing.

"Baby..."

"You sleep, Daddy."

He sighed but thankfully he did not pick up a fight.

I did not know if our talking woke our baby up. But she scrunched her face and frowned seeing Daddy holding her.

She pouted before looking for me and saw me lying just next to her.

"Mmm... daey..." She slithered away from Robbie, still pouting, kissed my cheek, squished herself into my chest and promptly fell back asleep.

Robbie chuckled before turning to my side. He stretched his arm as my pillow and hugged me tighter.

I did not mean to fall asleep but how could I not when I was in the warmest, safest cocoon in this world.

Uncle Fred found us sleeping like that in the morning but thankfully Uncle Jack was also with him. I pretended to be asleep because he would scold me for letting Robbie inside my bedroom.

"They are a family. What do you expect?"

"Respect me and... where the hell are the body guards? I gave specific..."

"Teddy, I am done with your attitude." Uncle Jack sounded the same too. "Now, get back to our bed and sleep some more. Lia will not wake up yet."

"I told you I heard voices last night."

"Stop talking. The kid barely sleeps. Now he is asleep, I am going to be so mad if you wake him up. Come, let us go. Teddy, I am serious. Stop glaring at them like a creepy pervert."

"Hey, that kid is my godson."

"... who is sleeping with his lover. Give them their privacy, you annoying thing in my life."

"... I don't understand how he got past my security, Ken. I gave strict instructions..."

Their voices faded away and I poked my man's cheek. "Possum, open your eyes."

"Phew. I thought he would never leave." I cuddled closer; Lia still sleeping between us.

"I am thinking we can leave after breakfast. Okay, Daddy?"

"Do we have to, Angel? Please come on... We can just leave right now. The bloody bodyguards will tase me."

"Speaking of which, how did you get past them?" I threaded my hand through his thick hair.

"Teddy's Ken took me in when he saw me crouching behind the bushes. He said I am one of his new guitarists and those idiots believed it."

Uncle Jack was one of a kind. Why didn't he just let Robbie in through the door then? Oh, Uncle Fred would just kick him out again.

"DADA..."

A raspy squeaky voice rose between us and the little bunny jumped from my hold to his chest. Lia kissed Robbie's cheeks like she hadn't seen him in years.

"Hey, Baby Kitten. Missed Daddy?"

"Lub you, Dada. Davey missie Daddy."

I blushed.

"He did?"