Chapter 24: In Which He Calls

Ashton moved the curtain aside and peered out the window that offered the view of the street and sure enough, just as he had expected there was a black SUV parked outside the house with tinted windows offering no view of the men inside. They were gonna tail them wherever they went and that wold make things a lot harder. He pulled the curtains back in place and turned around facing sora who was sitting at the kitchen island on a high barstool all wrapped up in a blanket and lost in thoughts as she was more playing with the scrambled eggs than eating them, a solemn expression adorned on her face. Yesterday's events had taken a toll on her,it was exactly the kind of thing he was afraid of when getting into a relationship with her but now it was too late and his priority was to get them out of this god forsaken mess. Last night, when they had gotten back home late, she hadn't let go of him no matter what he said or what he tried, he had given up after a while and just laid with her til