Chapter 12
CHAPTER 12: SURPRISE
JACE POV
I don’t know what’s going on with E, but since school has let out for break, she has been MIA. She
won’t answer my texts, her bedroom window is locked, and the blinds are closed, and I haven’t even
seen her leave the house. We are a week into break, and I was hoping to see her since tomorrow is
Christmas. I know we don’t have a name to our rtionship, well, at least not until she epts that she
is mine, but I still have a present for her. Thest gift I gave her was for her sixteenth birthday when I
bought her the diamond studs. I still have the one that Mason gave me; I wonder if she’s held on to the
other one.
Not giving me any other option, I walk up to the front door of the Baxter’s and press the doorbell. It
doesn’t take long before the door swings open and I’m greeted by Eli, E’s nine-year-old brother.
*Hey little man, how have you been?” I stick my fist out to him and he doesn’t leave me hanging; fist
bumping with me before he lets his excitement out over seeing me.
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Jace! It’s been so long since you’vee over!” He steps aside, letting me in out of the cold winter air.
“I know buddy, I’ve been really busy, but I’m hoping to starting over more often. Is E here?”
Before he can answer me, Mrs. Baxteres over to see who is at the door, “Oh, Jace! It’s so lovely to
have you in our home again. I’ve missed that handsome smile of yours! How’s your mom doing, I haven’t
seen her all week?”
That’s ine for you, always the motherly type and always with questions. I grin because I’ve missed
this, misseding here, where the Baxter’s were a second family to me once upon a time. Once again,
it’s all my fault that I missed out on all this time with this family, and the girl I love.
“It’s nice to see you, ine. Mom’s been busy withst minute Christmas orders at the store, but I’m sure
you’ve been busy yourself. Don’t you head up the Christmas Pageant?”
“Oh, dear no, not anymore. I had to give up a couple of things because I was running myself ragged, and
I wanted to spend more time at home with my family during the holiday.” Her hand goes to my back as
she urges me in further, “So what brings you by, Jace?”
“Well, I was hoping to get a chance to talk to E. I haven’t seen her since school broke for break.” |
nce around, hoping that E wille walking into the room at any moment, but her mother’s words
only end up irritating me.
“Oh, I’m sorry, Jace, but E and Elise are already up at the cabin. They went up earlier than the rest of
us to get it ready for the holiday,” she nces at the suitcases that I hadn’t noticed, “We were actually
getting ready to head out soon ourselves.”
Thad forgotten all about their cabin in the mountains, and that they spend Christmas there. I can’t believe
E left without letting me know that she was leaving for the cabin. She obviously isn’t taking me
seriously. Well, just wait until she gets back. I’m already nning her punishment in my head when Mrs.
Baxter’s question draws me back to the present.
“Sorry, what was that?” I ask her.
“I said it would be wonderful if you would join us and asked if you wanted to spend Christmas with us.
That is, if it’s okay with your parents.”
“Oh, I would love to join you! As far as I know we aren’t going anywhere this year.”
“Well, maybe I should invite your parents as well? They can head up once your mom’s done at the
store.” She already has her phone in her hands, typing away, “There, I just texted her! Now, how about
you run home and pack, and meet us back here in about, thirty minutes?”
“I can wait and ride up with my parents if they go; I don’t want to intrude any more than I am.” I turn to
leave.
“Nonsense, Jace! You’re part of this family too, even if we haven’t seen you around for a while. Besides, I
want to see the surprise on E’s face when you walk in the door with us.”
Grinning, I have to agree with ine, I can’t wait to see E’s reaction either. The question is, will it be a
good surprise or a bad one? For her sake she better be very weing once I arrive, because if I
remember right, her room is the only one in the
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basement of the cabin, off of the family room, so there is enough privacy to redden that pretty little ass of
hers.
Turns out that we are having a Baxter/Palmer Christmas this year. My parents epted the Baxter’s
invite and will follow us up to the cabin in a few hours. It’s a two hour drive, and with only Eli forpany
in the back seat, I listen to my air pods for most of the drive while he ys video games. It feels weird
being around all the Baxter’s again, but I will get used to it because I don’t n on going anywhere
anytime too soon. Whether E likes it or not, I’m here to stay.
We only have about thirty minutes left of the drive when I get a notification on one of my apps. Tapping
on it, I see that it’s a videobeled ‘Sluts-R-Us’, that one of Kaylee’s friends posted, so I click on it. My
hackles rise right away when I see E’s face on the screen. Her and Brandon are having a
conversation, and you can tell that whatever E is saying has been prerecorded and put over her own
words making her sound like a slut.
“Of course they’re going to fuck me real good, they’re friends with Jace, and you all know how he feels
about me.” The recording doesn’t even sound like E until thest part, so you know that it’s been
spliced.
“Oh, we know exactly how he feels, especially when he spanks that ass of yours for punishment,”
Brandonughs before continuing on, “Tell me, E, will you fuck me if I promise to redden your ass too?
I mean, that’s what sluts like, right?”
Then the words, “You know it!”, are added in just before E grabs her stuff and rushes out.
Why haven’t I heard about this until now, and why the hell didn’t E tell me herself? I need answers, and
E best be giving them to me as soon as I get her alone. In the meantime, I start to read thements
under the video, and the amount of studentsughing and calling my E degrading names, has me
raging inside. It’s time to put an end to all of this, as soon as we get back to school, I’m going toe
clean, even if it means I’m no longer one of the popr guys. I’d rather E have the respect that she
deserves over me being friends with a bunch of fake-ass people.
I leave thement section and go back to my music, needing to calm down before I see E. I wish I
had known about this beforeing up to the cabin, because I would have made sure that I took care of
everyone involved in it. Instead I’m too far away to do anything. An ideaes to me, though. One of the
instructors from the dominate sses is one of those high tech guys, so I send him a quick text with the
link to the video, asking if he can make it disappear from the inte.
A few minutes pass when I get a reply, telling me that he will take care of it. He will also make sure that it
isn’t able to get put back up after it’s taken down, as well as getting me the person that uploaded it. I
already know the person, but I thank him anyway and tell him that I owe him big time. He tells me to
bring my girl by the club sometime so he can watch me scene with her, and that will be thanks enough.
My dick gets hard just thinking about taking E to the club and doing a scene with her, but I don’t think
that will ever be E’s thing, and I’m okay with that. That is one thing that I will never force her to do. The
lifestyle has to be a chosen one, even though I’ m pressuring her into submitting to me, I’m only doing it
to keep her safe, and because I know deep down that it turns her on. Doing the whole club thing and
being in scenes isn’t what is important to me and I know it isn’t her. I’ll figure out another way to return
the favor to him.
Before I know it, we are pulling up to the cabin, and I’m bing excited. I am thest thing that she is
expecting during her holiday, which makes this so much sweeter. I tell ine and Ethan that I’m going to
stay in the car until they get inside, so they don’t see me getting out, and they both agree with smiles
lighting their faces. If they only knew what kind of hell I have put their daughter through for the past two
years; they wouldn’t be this weing, hell, I wouldn’t be standing here right now.
Watching the three Baxter’s walk into the cabin, I smile when I see my girl greet them at the door. Her
smile lights up her face, and I can’t help but wonder if she will greet me with the same one; I highly doubt
it. I wait about five minutes before grabbing my own bag and trudge through the snow as I make my way
to the front door. I lift my hand and knock loudly. Hoping that my E answers, I’m a bit annoyed when I
hear Elise call out that she’s got the door. When it swings open, nobody but Elise is in my line of sight, so
I lift my finger to my mouth, silencing her. She smiles and nods, stepping back so I cane in.
The cabin smells like cinnamon and pine, and it’s got a cozy warmth to it that only the lit firece can
give. I remember this ce well, but I’m not here to go down memoryne; I’m here because my naughty
girl left and never told me. I relieve myself of my coat and boots, preparing myself to face the girl that is
my whole world and yet I know my presence will irk her. I snicker to myself over thetter; she will learn
to love me back eventually. After all, I know I have a long way to go before earning her forgiveness over
the past two years, but that’s all I need forgiving for.
Elise steps into the living room area a head of me, “Look what the cat drug in!”
I step around the corner and find E right away. There’s a smile on her face until she realizing who
she’s looking at, and it falters, “What are you doing here?” Her voice isced with annoyance but I’m
pretty sure that I’m the only one that notices.
Before I can answer, her mom pipes in, “Well, he stopped by looking for you and I thought that it would
be the perfect surprise if
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we brought him. His parents will be joining us in a few hours. It’ll be just like old time, huh?”
My eyes haven’t left the woman in front of me who is dressed in white leggings and an oversized, off-the-
shoulder sweatshirt. She looks hot as fuck, especially since I can tell that she isn’t wearing a bra
underneath the sweatshirt, “Merry Christmas, E.” I say with a smirk.
She takes a deep breath and put on a fake smile, “I’m so happy that you could join us this year, it’s been
too long.”.
I can tell how ufortable she is, and so what I do next is just out of spite. Stepping closer, I pull her
into me for a nice bear hug, “I’m d we can be together this year, E, just like old times!” I lift her up
and spin her around.
Thear her as she curses me under her breath, and when I see that nobody is paying attention, I give a
quick p to her ass and whisper, “Be good, E.” I set her back down and step away, pping my
hands, “What can I help with?” I notice that we got here just in time to decorate the tree. Admiring all the
new ornament that they have, Ie across a few of the old ones that I remember well. Aside from the
one with my name on it, my favorite oneys right beside it. It’s a picture of me on a sled with E in front
of me as we fly down the hill not far from here. The camera captured our expressions so well that ine
had put it on a ss ball ornament with the year it was taken. It was the Christmas of our freshman year
when we didn’t have a care in the world, and all was well.
Ees to stand beside me, offering me a mug of hot chocte, even remembering to add the little
marshmallows and candy cane, when she looks down at the ss ornament that I’m holding. A sad
smile crosses her face, she takes the ornament from my hands and studies it. I can see her thinking
back to that day, and I’m d that she can still smile about it.
“Those were good times.” She says softly.
“There will be more good times for us, E.” I’m staring down at her, taking in her sweet scent, watching
the emotions dance across her face. She doesn’t believe me, so I take her chin and lift her face towards
me, “Believe me, E. I’m not going anywhere, and I will do what it takes to make you believe that I lower
my voice just a little more, “and for you to understand that you belong to me, and I will never let you go.”
cing a gentle kiss on her forehead, I leave her standing there as I go and join her family by the
tree.
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