Aleysa' pov

After awhile, Ace steps inside the room with a bag of fast food that has my stomach grumbling in devastating hunger.

"You're lucky you're carrying precious cargo or else I would kill you right now", Ace mutters throwing the bag of food into the cage I'm currently being held in. Immediately, I grab the bag grabbing the burger biting a huge piece off due to the excruciating hunger, I can't no longer take.

"Why do you hate me so much? I've never done anything to you", I say.

Ace rolls his eyes, "you ruined everything", he scoffs.

"Ruined what?", I furrow my brows gulping down my chewed up food.

"Your little baby daddy was suppose to join forces with John from the road he was going, but all of that went down to shit since you came into his life"

"What kind of a friend are you?! You should be happy Jason changed into a good man!", I grumble.

"Fuck this world! Being bad is the new good! Why be good while others especially your type of people step on us all of the time and belittle us just because we aren't from the good neighborhoods", Ace clenches his jaw, his light grey eyes turning two shades darker almost looking dark grey.

"I'm so sorry for how others have treated you... I'm not the same I swear", I huff.

I know the battle between rich and poor has always been a huge issue in New York. I never knew about it while growing up, but since meeting Jason, Isaac, Rex, and Tiny I learned so much about their daily struggles. I'm disgusted by how people like my once father treat them, in my eyes everyone is equal.

"I know you're not", Ace sighs intently beaming at me. I stay quiet warily watching him not knowing what to say. I'm completely terrified if I say the wrong thing I'll piss him off again and that's the last thing I want to do since he's calm.

"T-That's why I treat you the way I do", he mumbles stepping towards my cage.

As much as I want to understand Ace right now, I can't. If he knows I'm not like the rest, why would he treat me bad? Instead, wouldn't he treat me good?

"Why?", I splutter not being able to hold my curiosity back, it seriously gets the best of me.

Ace crouches down in front of me, his face is now leveled with mine as we silently stare at one another. His grey eyes are so emotionless so distant so darn cold that it almost seems like he's soulless. However, his grey eyes fade back into his natural light grey ones looking vulnerable which has me baffled. Ace lifts his hand up pushing through the cage until he cuffs my cheek. At first, I flinch at the feeling of his cold hand on my warm flesh, but this is not what got me all jumpy, it's the fact that Ace the mean selfish cold Ace is showing some type of affection towards me.

"Because I'm in love with you"

I gasp completely stunned by his confession. Never in a million years would I have thought Ace would feel anything towards me. If anything I always thought he hated me with a passion.

"W-what?", I mumble breathlessly.

"If you were with me you wouldn't be in this predicament.. I would truly protect you unlike Jason", he bluntly says while moving his thump against my skin up and down almost trying to comfort me in the situation I'm in.

"But you just said you want to k-kill me.. I don't understand"

"At first I did I ain't going to lie because I hated how I was feeling some type of way towards you and seeing you with him made my blood boil not being able to have you for myself, but now this feeling is strong even if I wanted to kill you, I don't think I can. However, I must admit knowing that you're pregnant with that son of a bitch baby angers me a lot", Ace mutters his hand falling down from my cheek.

Instantly, I grab his hand firmly into my hand bringing it up to my cheek, "I've always had feelings towards you, but never acted on them due to thinking you hated me.. Ace, this is our chance to runaway together far away from everything"

"What? You have feelings for me?", Ace raises a brow stunned.

"Yes I love you.. I truly do please take me far away from here, you and me disappearing from New York and starting fresh somewhere else", I hastily say.

"What about Jason?"

"Forget him like you said you're the only one that can truly protect me.. I want to be with you not him"

Ace stays silent looking like he's believing my every word as he grabs his keys from his back pocket with his free hand, but then he stops, "what about that baby your carrying?", he raises an intimidating brow.

"We can raise the baby together Ace. This baby will grow up looking up to you as he/she's father", I firmly say.

Ace takes a few seconds to linger on the idea and the fear of my plan going down the drain is high right now. If this doesn't work then I'm completely screwed.

Please work in my favor

"Let's go before he comes back", Ace splutters inserting the key into the lock of the cage. The rusty door creaks open and I crawl out standing on my feet once I'm completely out. Ace helps me up and embraces me in a tight hug. Before we could pull away from one another, he pulls back cupping my face in his hands bringing his lips onto mine.

As much as I want to barf from the kiss, I can't. So I kiss back as passionately as I can, so Ace can believe my fake feelings for him. I have no idea how I managed to pull this off, but boy am I so happy and now must play this asshole as much as I can until I'm safe far away from here.

"Let's go now!", he says breaking the kiss as we both bolt out of the room.

Jason's pov

We are now at the abandoned old home who knows who it belonged to. All I know this place looks deserted like no human has lived in this place in decades.

"We should split", Rex suggests arming himself with guns and knives.

"Thankfully this place isn't so big, so Tiny and Rex you can enter from the front as for myself and Jacky we'll enter from the back", Isaac firmly says.

"I'm going to enter through the side of that window over there", I chirp pointing my finger towards the window that's duck taped on the side of the home.

Everyone nods agreeing to their positions as we all arm ourselves up ready to take on this dangerous mission we have no idea what we're going to possibly face.

We all separate sprinting towards the home, as I run to the window ripping the duck tape off jumping up sliding through the window. I stand up on my feet once I'm completely in on the cement floor. I glance around the room noticing it's a basement nothing but broken wooden chairs and a huge cage enough to be able to hold someone captive. I notice a bag of food inside the cage along with a half bitten burger.

I sniff the smell in realizing it's fresh. I crouch down grabbing the burger, it's warm meaning whoever was eating this inside the cage was just here.

"Aleysa?", I breathe.

Suddenly, I jump up to my feet firmly as I hear a gunshot coming from upstairs. I bolt upstairs coming to a halt when I hear heavy footsteps outside of the window, I used to get inside. I turn my direction towards the window climbing out of it until I'm outside once again.

"ALEYSA COME BACK HERE YOU BITCH!"

I hear a female voice angrily shout in the woods echoing all around.

"Fuck! Aleysa!", I utter to myself terrified for her. I must get to her before this mysterious female does or else what I'm fearing the most right now becomes my reality.

I sprint towards the woods hearing numerous footsteps of leaves and twigs breaking. My heart is pounding out of my chest as I cringe in fear frustratingly wanting to get to Aleysa, but can't just yet since I don't know where to run to. I turn around glancing all over the place trying my best to hear something, anything to direct me towards her.

BANG BANG!

I turn my head back hearing two gun shots suddenly fire along with a screech, I instantly recognize as Aleysa. Every little body hair on my body stands up.

"ALEYSA!", I shout running towards where I heard the shots fire. Sprinting like flash through the dirt, mud, grass, twigs, and rocks curving every damn tree. Damn so many damn trees.

Why is there so many trees!

"BACK OFF!"

I hear a male voice shout, I instantly recognize as Ace. If my heart wasn't thumping fast enough already, it's pounding even louder right now. I'm sure I'm going to have a damn heart attack at only eighteen years old from the adrenaline I'm currently feeling.

After what seems like forever of running, I come to a halt, my eyes widening at the view that's in front of me.

"Aleysa, no no no!"