“What the fuck?” She whips her head around, and my eyes follow the voice. “Jack? What are you doing here?”
“I’m just out for a little date night myself. Does Captain Montgomery know your fucking one of the private security guys?”
“Yes, we had a conversation about it before I left today.” My eyes widen. I had no idea she told him about us already. Jack’s face goes blank like he thought she would get in trouble.
“Well, I guess I should be heading back to my date.” He pulls his phone out of his pocket and turns to walk away.
“That was weird.” She shakes her head and then rests her forehead on my shoulder. Her body was still straddling my lap, but the moment was gone.
“Yeah, let’s finish the movies, then we can head back to your place.” This would be the first time I’m sleeping at her place, but I packed a bag. Not that Demitri wouldn’t let us have time alone, but I know my girl. She would feel bad not including him in our playtime if he was there.
“Sounds perfect, Blue.”
She slides off my lap to sit next to me, her head leans over on my shoulder, and I could stay here for the rest of time.
The movies are over, and we are sitting in the drive-in traffic to get home. She is playing DJ using my phone connected to the truck. We seem to have similar music tastes, and thank goodness. I don’t know how I would handle it if she listened to nothing but bubble gum pop. I can listen to just about anything, but too much of something can get annoying. Dee always says my Spotify has ADHD.
The drive back into the city was chill, but so much fun. Just singing along to the music, laughing with her at how horrible we sound. Pulling up outside of her apartment and seeing Dee brought her car back to the apartment for me.
“How did my car get back here?” She looks surprised that I had it arranged.
“Dee.” It’s all I say to her before I open my truck door and exit the vehicle, coming around to help her out. I grab my bag out of the back before following her up to the building.
We climb the stairs up to her apartment. She goes to pull her keys out of her backpack and then looks up at the door. In front of our faces is a note. The paper appears to just be scrap. Torn on the edges, with chicken scratch across the tattered page.
You will get what’s coming to you bitch. Just know that those Marines of yours can’t keep an eye on you at all times.
I rip my phone out of my pocket, pulling up Dee’s contact, hitting the camera button to FaceTime him.
“Dude, I don’t need- his face goes slack as soon as he sees the look on my face. “What’s going on, Hutch? Is Nyx okay?”
“Ya. She’s fine. I need you to go into my room and pull up the cameras outside of her apartment from when she left for work this morning until now.”
“You need to tell me what’s going on.” He tries to sound cool, calm, and collected, but we’ve been best friends practically our whole life, so I know he’s panicking. I turn the camera around and show him the note. “FUCK. Bring her back here! We can go over the cameras together.”
“No, I will not run from this fucker. Hutch is with me. I will go in and set the alarm, and we will be fine.”
“Little Witch, can I load the program for the security cameras to your iPad so I can review it?”
“Of course.”
“Okay, I’ll get on reviewing the cameras as soon as I can get into the system. I’m here. I’ll go grab my gun out of the truck, and Nyx has hers here too. We will be fine. I’ll let you know as soon as I find anything.”
Dee nods his head with his forehead creasing, the concern on his face obvious. He takes a deep breath and gives me a look that says everything he can’t say out loud yet. This is the first woman he’s ever cared for outside of his family, and the last time he left his sister alone, it didn’t end well.
“Alright, man, we’ll keep you posted.” Nyx pops her head into the camera frame with a soft smile.
“We are ok, Demon. Blue is here with me, it will be fine.” She makes sure to enunciate every word so he can hear them, trying her best to calm Demitri from here.
“Famous last words, Little Fox. Be careful and call me if anything seems off.” We both nod our heads in agreement before saying goodbye and heading into the apartment.
She takes her work bag into her bedroom and gets changed into some sweats. She brings her iPad out to me, and I get logged into my cloud to start reviewing the video. I hear her showerstart up. And I have to focus on these damn clips, instead of dreaming about joining her in the shower.
I feel like I’m just staring at a photo because there is absolutely nothing happening on these damn videos. This apartment building is quiet as fuck, and I am starting to wonder if she’s the only one living in it. Finally, catching a cute family walking down the hallway. I am catching up to when Nyx would have gotten off work and still, fucking nothing. Finally, I see a guy come up the stairs, wearing a black hoodie and a ball cap, with the hood pulled up so we can’t see any facial features. FUCK. One thing I have, is that it happened while we were at the movies.
I pull out my phone to shoot a text to the group chat as Nyx comes out of her room in my old beat-up Marine Corps hoodie she stole while she was at our place. She doesn’t appear to have shorts or anything under it, but I gotta focus.
Me: So the asshole hid himself from the camera, but it was while we were at the movies.
