My Bully’s Love by Stacy Rush

CHAPTER 12: SURPRISE

JACE POV

I don’t know what’s going on with Ella, 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 relationship, well, at least not until she accepts that she

is mine, but I still have a present for her. The last 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, Ella’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.

Jace! It’s been so long since you’ve come 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 start coming over more often. Is Ella here?”

Before he can answer me, Mrs. Baxter comes 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 Elaine for you, always the motherly type and always with questions. I grin because I’ve missed

this, missed coming 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, Elaine. Mom’s been busy with last 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 Ella. I haven’t seen her since school broke for break.” |

glance around, hoping that Ella will come walking into the room at any moment, but her mother’s words

only end up irritating me.

“Oh, I’m sorry, Jace, but Ella 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 glances 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

Ella 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 planning 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 Ella’s face when you walk in the door with us.”

Grinning, I have to agree with Elaine, I can’t wait to see Ella’s reaction either. The question is, will it be a

good surprise or a bad one? For her sake she better be very welcoming once I arrive, because if I

remember right, her room is the only one in the

Surprise

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 accepted 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 for company

in the back seat, I listen to my air pods for most of the drive while he plays video games. It feels weird

being around all the Baxter’s again, but I will get used to it because I don’t plan on going anywhere

anytime too soon. Whether Ella 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 video labeled ‘Sluts-R-Us’, that one of Kaylee’s friends posted, so I click on it. My

hackles rise right away when I see Ella’s face on the screen. Her and Brandon are having a

conversation, and you can tell that whatever Ella 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 Ella until the last 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,”

Brandon laughs before continuing on, “Tell me, Ella, 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 Ella grabs her stuff and rushes out.

Why haven’t I heard about this until now, and why the hell didn’t Ella tell me herself? I need answers, and

Ella best be giving them to me as soon as I get her alone. In the meantime, I start to read the comments

under the video, and the amount of students laughing and calling my Ella 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 to come

clean, even if it means I’m no longer one of the popular guys. I’d rather Ella have the respect that she

deserves over me being friends with a bunch of fake-ass people.

I leave the comment section and go back to my music, needing to calm down before I see Ella. I wish I

had known about this before coming 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 idea comes to me, though. One of the

instructors from the dominate classes 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 internet.

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 Ella to the club and doing a scene with her, but I don’t think

that will ever be Ella’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