Badboy Ace novel Chapter 26

Ryn's pov

"It's not your damn business cop!" Ace sneers.

"Then I'll make it my damn business." Nate argues back, already trying to push pass me to get to Ace. I push both away from each other, glaring meaningfully at them both.

"Both of you need to stop this shit right now, we have more pressing matters at the moment." I inform them.

Nate sighs and looks at me. "Why didn't you tell me about you and Ace?" He asked hurt.

I avoided looking at his eyes, feeling guilty that I had kept this huge secret away from him. "I was protecting you Nate."

"What, is little Nate mad that his girlfriend kept a secret from him?" Ace taunts. I turn towards him and strutted to him, hold his ears and pinched it as I made him bend down. He hisses when I pulled at it roughly to bring it to my mouth.

"Listen here, we need all the help we can get right now and I so happen to trust Nate with my life. So you either let him in on the plan or get the fuck out of my house!" I hissed loud enough so that Nate would hear.

I let go of his ears and watch him bring his hands to touch it. He cringes when he touches the now prominent red spot. I smirked in satisfaction.

He glares and nods at me in a way to tell me that I could tell Nate about our plans. Which I didn't have a clue what it was, Robert was always one step ahead of us, right now it looked impossible to take him down.

I turn to Nate. "Robert isn't Ace's real dad, he's his uncle, in fact Robert had a twin brother that he had killed, who's Ace's biological father." I inform Nate. I had to give him that information to let him know why Ace had turned against Robert. It was the only way he could trust Ace.

Ace stayed mute, still glaring at Nate in hatred. Who looked shocked at the information? He shift his eyes away from me and settles it on Ace who had a grim look. If looks could kill Nate would've been six feet under by now.

"Looks like Ace has daddy issues huh?" Nate taunts.

I glare at him causing him to gulp and put his hands up in surrender. "I know both of you despise each other but let's put our differences aside so we could take down Robert once and for all." I argue scowling at them. If I stay beside those two any longer I'd get a massive migraine.

Nate groans then sighs in defeat. "Fine, how can I help? I'm only doing this for you Ryn."

A smile stretches onto my lips. "I know."

"God I want to just puke." Ace says in disgust but we ignore him.

"Nate since I'm currently suspended I'd want you to be my eyes and ears in the department. Anything you hear and Robert's involved I'd want you to inform me about it." I explain to him.

He nods in understanding and looks at Ace. "Are you sure we can trust that guy?" He asked.

"I'm right here asshole!" Ace spits.

"The only asshole I see here is you!" Nate responds equally agitated.

I let out a chuckle." You and I both."

He sucks his teeth in irritation and walks to the sofa and plops down. "It doesn't seem that way with what was about to happen if I didn't show up." He says.

My face had the nerve to blush when I was trying to act nonchalant. "Nothing was about to happen Nate. It wasn't like that."

"Explain those hickies then? Don't forget the boner the guy was spotting while staring at you. I know I said to lose your virginity but I didn't mean to lose it to a criminal. One who couldn't be trusted?" He continues.

I know he was looking out for me and I quite frankly was getting a little bit uncomfortable with the conversation. I felt embarrassed to talk about my sex life with someone I see as an older brother.

"I know Nate, I'm not going to let it happen again. I know I could lose my job if anyone found out about this." I whispered embarrassed. He nods in agreement.

"Is Miranda going to be okay?" I asked as I remembered her, suddenly feeling guilty that I hadn't asked for her well-being earlier.

He scrunched his brows. "Is it the blonde waitress who was shot?" He questioned.

I nodded. He smiles. "She was in a bad condition but it's not fatal. She was rushed to the hospital, not gonna lie she's hot, nearly said I was a doctor so I could have an excuse to touch her." He says and smirks.

"Nate you pervert. The girl was bleeding and in pain but the only thing in your head was to touch her? Are you that daft?" I said enraged but my mind eased knowing she would be alright.