Touching the Heart of Ace novel Chapter 87

A tight slap fell on my cheek and I opened my eyes.

"LIA!!!"

"Shut the fuck up!" Another slap and my head felt like being crushed.

I was tied to a chair and so was Robbie. He was mumbling unconsciously and I cried out loud, earning another slap.

"I said shut the fuck up." Janice screamed.

"Not so mighty now, are you? Want a computer?" She laughed before calmly sitting on a chair in front of me.

"Lia? Lia?" I heard a whimper and saw my Little Baby curled under the table.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!"

I watched in horror and pain as she kicked my baby girl's leg.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!!!"

I shouted and Janice smiled.

"Oh it hurts you? Good. Now watch this."

I watched her yanking my kid by her tiny leg and slapped right across her face.

"No... Please... please... Let her go... she is just a baby..."

She pushed Lia's head back and my Lia did not even whimper before hiding again.

"Please... don't hurt her... please... let her go... please Janice."

She stomped towards me and pulled my hair back harshly.

"That slut is my child; not yours. I can do whatever I want with her. Get it?"

I whimpered.

"She is just a baby... please..."

"Cry... I wanna see you cry... Not so lucky now, are you?"

"An... Angel..." Robbie whispered and Janice stomped towards him before kicking his knee.

"You pussy... stand up like a man."

"Please let him go..." Voice did not leave my throat.

I was so scared and the only satisfaction I had was Robbie was moving his fingers but his head was hung low and he was whimpering and humming...

What did she inject him with?

Robbie...

I saw Lia peeking out of the table and I cried.

Jesus!

Was this real?

No, this was not.

I was sleeping, right next to Daddy and Lia was...

A slap fell on my cheek again and I tasted copper.

Shit!

Don't faint, Ace. Your family is in trouble... you have to... you have to stay strong and save them...

Janice's phone rang and it blared out of the too silent room.

"WHAT!!!... SHUT UP!!!... I will bring the little bitch when I am done with her... Yes, she is right here... Do you think I am stupid? DO YOU??? DO YOU??? BECAUSE I AM NOT... You will fucking drive away when she in the van and then who will fucking pay me the money???"

She hung up the call and threw it on the couch before cracking her neck.

I felt numb. My ears and brain refusing to believe what I heard.

"Lia... mmm... child... m... Dav... Lia with Ace..." Robbie mumbled, rolling his head.

I turned my eyes to the side and saw real unhinged person looking back at me.

"Pussies think I will hand over my money making golden goose like that." Janice laughed. "I am going to be rich too, Ace. Rich like you. You know how much they offered? 75 million fucking dollars... More than you can even dream of... right? RIGHT??? TELL ME I AM RIGHT!!!"

I nodded before the slap fell. Thankful Janice had no idea how much my net worth was... add a 0 at the end of what Janice said, it was still a couple of millions lesser than what I had.

"Are you jealous of me?" Janice brushed a bright red but chipped nail on my cheek. It was sharp.

I nodded again.

"You should be... for once I am unreachable to you."

My family. I had to save my family.

For the first time in my life, I understood that fear and courage had the same taste and effect.

At the end of the rope of fear, it was courage, nothing else.

"I never knew I was making the money maker when I pushed that scum out of my pussy..." Janice laughed before clapping her hands. "People paid money for little cute bitches. Now I feel bad for not making more. Well, I have time for more. I after all am pretty... Do you know what they would do to a gorgeous lady like me? Can't have that... but... this bitch on the other hand..."

Over my fucking dead body.

I was alive and that meant my baby would live too and no one would ever ever touch her.

My eyes flicked to my baby girl and she was looking back at me from under the table.

I had imprinted on her as mine, as my child, as my fucking daughter and from one look of my eyes... my Little Lia squeezed her eyes shut, covered her ears and hid...

Good!

Janice slapped me again.

"Do you think I am stupid?"

I shook my head.

"Fucking talk..."

"No... You are not stupid."

"Not so smart, are you?" She asked again.

"I am not smart." I agreed.

This was not real. These things did not happen in real life. This was just a stupid fucking funny dream.

In what universe did this happen?

"I do not even know what people see in you." Janice was staring at me. "I mean look at you. You are a pathetic bitch and not even that handsome but... what do you have?"

Robbie whimpered again and I prayed to god that he did not try to talk.

"Fucking ANSWER ME!!!" She slapped me again right on the cheek that was already hurting.

At the end of pain, it was numbness.

No, no, no.

Had to save my family.

"mm... Angel... leave... with with Lia..." Robbie was mumbling and I bit back a scream when Janice slapped him too.

"I want a knife. I am going to..." She walked around frantically all over the kitchen and I thanked everything in the universe that made me digitally lock all the cupboards. "He is the reason why I am like this... He has money... I am his wife... that is my money... where is the money... fuck!!! Where is the knife?"

I thanked Lia for opening all the child proof locks, so I was pushed to lock the dangerous drawers digitally.

She could never take my baby away from me. She would have to kill me for her to handover my kid to the monsters.

I would fucking obliterate each fucking one of them, starting with this...

"What the fuck are you looking at!!!" Janice came back to me and raised her palm to beat me again.

"Was thinking how true you are..." I mumbled and Janice frowned.

"What?" She asked and I had an out of the body experience.

My eyes were zoning in and out of Janice face and I shook my head to get back to reality.

I was scared.

Not the time...

My Baby...

I had to think of her...

"Robbie... you are his wife and... I..." I left it at that...

"It is my money..."

"Yes..."

I can do this... I can do this...

My family depended on me.

"I would not have been like this if you did not mess up my life. You messed up my life..." Janice snarled. She waved her hands and spat on my face. "Oooohhh.... the Truscott Baby!!! Look at him now... pathetic... all of this was supposed to mine if you were not born..."

I frowned.

Not the time to logically analyse her statements.

I nodded as if I understood what she was saying.

"You took everything from me... All the money... All the people in my life and then... then... you took my first boyfriend too... then... you took my billionaire husband... All mine..."

Janice pointed an accusing finger to my face.

"Your first boyfriend?" I could not wonder out loud and I regretted it right away because her anger intensified before throwing all the things to the floor, screaming.

"Everyone was supposed to love me... not you and whenever you are around people only notice you... I hate it... I HATE it... It was supposed to be me. I am more beautiful than you... I am smarter than you... If only I had more money..." Her eyes flicked to Lia. "It does not matter... now I will have the money I always deserved..."

"I am sorry." I had to say the 'right' things... I had to...

"For what?"

"Huh?"

"For what are you sorry? You see Ace, sorry has no meaning if you don't know what you are apologizing for."

I gulped. When I looked back to the woman, she looked calm and... coherent.

Fuck!

Was she purposefully saying illogical things to get a rise out of me?

What the fuck was she? Her smiled had that all-knowing look. Like she knew how her words were making me feel.

"I always hated you, Ace." She sighed. "I always did. With your perfect family, with your perfect face and then money... fuck... shit load of money... And those were thrown to my face all the time... Now, people are saying you are even more better than you ever were. What the fuck! Life was not supposed to be that way... You were supposed to be hurting while I was at the top. That was how life supposed to go... but for you... you are always at the top... When I married this fucking floppy flap... I thought..."

She was thinking with her eyes squeezed shut and I was scared.

"But no... People could see right through my marriage. They called me gold digger. Can you even believe them? Jesus!!! He fell for my good looks and I loved his money. Was that a crime?"

I narrowed my eyes but smoothed it down when she looked expectantly at me.

"No... It was not a crime. It was a strategic manoeuvring of life. I am sorry people and... me... hurt you so bad. I was blind. I did not see it that you were suffering... my mom wanted the best for you and she helped..."

"SHE HELPED??? SHE DID SHIT!!!"

"She loved you."

"Not enough. Not enough... The bitch did not ask you what you needed money for. I had to fucking explain explain and..."

"She asked me too..."

Janice slapped me again.

Bitch? My mom was a bitch to her?

I bit back a cry.

It hurt so bad.

"Don't back talk to me..." She demanded in a soft voice.

"I am so sorry. I am sorry that I was blind to all that..."

"Good, you should be." Janice huffed, before switching her phone off when it started ringing again.

"My life was fucking miserable, Ace. All the time. It was always you... and when SJ fell in love with you... I finally lost it... His fucking eyes were always glued to you... It was supposed to me... Right?"

I blinked and trained my eyes on her than my need to check on Robbie. I had to keep her talking...

"Wh... who is SJ?"

"My boyfriend in high school, duh! My first... This is what I hate. You don't even remember them and not even know or care when they grovel at your feet. You are all mighty where people just ignore me and forget that I even exist. I loved him so much but for him it was always you, you and you... I gave him my fucking virginity and you know, whose name he screamed when he came in my pussy?"

I shook my head 'no' and whimpered when she slapped me again.

"YOURS!!!"

"I am sorry... But... but... I did not know Jacob fancied..."

"Are you a retard? Not Jacob!!! SJ!!! His best friend... He was supposed to mine."

I now remembered SJ. He sometimes followed Jacob and Janice when we all went out. I thought that was because he was Jacob's best mate. I thought he only sat next to me to stop me from accidently intruding Jacob's intimate moments with Janice.

"But... I thought you and Jacob were..."

"Well!!! I wanted SJ too... I hated how he stalked you always... It was supposed to me. He did not do anything to anyone like he did for you."

"But Jacob did... He..." Jacob always gave Janice love notes, flowers, kisses...

"SHUT THE FUCK UP..."

Well, at least I saw that slap coming and felt like I deserved it.

She slept with SJ just for his attention when there was a man who worshipped the ground she walked on. And apparently it was my fault.

I had no idea how to deal with Janice but... I had to...

Human brain is nothing but a huge computer, Ace. We have to find a way to get on her good sides until someone saved my Baby Girl.

Robbie was not moving. I bit back my whimper, fear and the fucking pain.

I got this.

I had to get my Lia to Jason and everything was fine.

All for my little girl who deserved only the best.

"What are you thinking?" Janice asked softly.