"Who do you think we are huh? Idiots? Constable! Take her to the police station with us. We will make her understand physics in the jail only." The officer said when he recovered.

What? I am really getting arrested?

Oh no. What will Jennifer think of me now?

No, no. I can't get arrested.

I turned backwards to see what Ace was doing, but as I turned there was was one is sight. My eyes traveled around and that is when I saw him sitting on the chair nearby, scrolling his phone not giving a shit about what was happening.

Well I technically asked him to stay away.

"Aceee." I said whining. Ace looked up to see me and smirked.

"What happened Miss?" He asked pretending to be oblivious to the situation.

"I bumped into a mess." I muttered. Why does Ace have to be such an ass?

"Sorry, but didn't catch what you said." He said again taunting me.

He knows very well that my ego is at stake and he is poking it with all force -waiting for me to break down and beg him to help me. Which I guess I am about to do. Rest in peace my dear ego. I will miss you. But I have to let you go, Ego. I mentally cried.

"Help me please." I whispered, well aware of the police officers' growing impatience behind me. He is yearning to handcuff me and put me in the jail.

"Help? I apologize but I only do deals. No sympathy. You know me by now, don't you Mrs. Parker?" He said taking his time and my patience.

"I accept your offer." I said meekly, seeing my sassy self dissolving in front of me. Ughh.

"I didn't quite hear it, kindly incr-" I cut him off before he could make it harder.

"I fucking accept your offer Mr. Apathetic. Help me and I will do anything you want, you incessant pig-head." I said shouting yet feeling vulnerable.

"As you say, Mrs. Parker." He said chivalrously.

Chivalrously enough to blackmail me. Mr. Apathetic.

Still smiling widely, with the happiness of seeing me lose, Ace got up from the chair and went towards the police officer. He then began talking with the same confidence he has wherever he goes and it screams - power of Ace Parker.

"Ace Parker." - he said shaking hands with the officer. "Officer, I think there is some misunderstanding here. We can sort this out rationally, just give me a minute first." Ace said and the officer looked at him for a minute before nodding. Ace then turned and came back to me.

"So, as the deal goes. My first command is that you have to do 10 push-ups now." He whispered coming close to me so that only I can hear, making me gasp in surprise and his stupidity.

"Why the fuck would I do that?" I whisper-shouted.

"Well, because I said so. Rest of the day you do everything I say. That was the deal Mrs. Parker. Keep in mind that I have still not talked, you are still a 'criminal' in their eyes." He whispered, while the officers looked at us thinking we both are mad, as we were romancing while I was getting arrested.

Romance, my foot. This is full on- threatening.

"What the- " I stopped as Ace's taunting gaze irked me.

I took a deep breath to calm myself down and said - "Now? Here? What will everyone think?"

The officer looked at me when he heard me.

"Yes right here, right now." He said smirking.

"Ace how can I do that right now?" I said pleading.

"I really understand your relationship Mr. and Mrs. Parker but kindly refrain from doing such inappropriate things in public place as-" The officer started.

Inappropriate things? What does he me-

Ohhh. Ohh. Oh.

Ace seemed to understand that too as we both looked at each other at the same time. I blushed hard and he looked uncomfortable as we both shouted in unison -

"We weren't talking about sex!"

The officer seemed to understand as his mouth formed a 'o' in realization.

I looked the idiot man standing in front of me and played with my wedding ring, contemplating. I don't have a choice. So giving Ace one of my best glares, I bent down on the floor. I laid in the push-up position and was about to start when voices interrupted -

"What are you doing?" The officer said.

Having sex with the floor - wanna join? I thought sarcastically.

Why am I thinking so much about sex these days?

"I told you she is hell mad. Desperately needing an asylum." The rich lady said.

"I hope her bumping into me didn't transmit her madness into me." The waitress said.

"Is she going to play 'sleep-sleep' with the floor?" A childish voice said.

I think I made a new record of embarrassing myself. Great!

I pulled my body up and was about to complete the first push up by pushing myself down, when I slumped and hit my chin on the ground. Oh damn.

I again tried and even after trying so much, I don't think I was able to do it perfectly even once. Actually perfection was far, it looked like I was wrestling with the floor - and failing miserably.

After grunts, tries and curses - I finally managed to do 'push-ups'. I then laid on the ground facing the ground to calm my accelerating heartbeat.

"So officer, can I know why you are arresting my wife?" I heard Ace saying from above.

"Mr. Parker, this lady has fired a complaint against your wife. It is an offence to use threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior in a public place with the intention of breaching the peace. If you are found guilty of this offence you can be liable to class D fine and to a prison sentence of up to 3 months." The officer explained to Ace.

Ace listened to him carefully and nodded his head as if understanding.

Then he started explaining what all happened and was sounding pretty convincing. But he used words like fool, clumsy and etc. about me - which took all my power to not say anything. I kept quiet.

After few words, handshakes and whispers - the officer smiled at Ace and then at me(at the same time eyeing me as I was still lying on the floor.)

Smiling sheepishly, I got up and brushed my pants off the dust. I then went towards Ace. I wasn't gonna say thank you for sure, because well - I paid off by doing those damn push ups.

After a while, when everything was sorted out and cleared, the police left. After that, Ace started going towards the exit and I stopped him confused while saying -

"Aren't we going to have pizza!?"

Ace looked at me and shook his head in amazement.

"You know what, on a second thought - let's go somewhere else." I said looking at the rich lady.

Ace muttered 'Crazy' but nevertheless we walked towards the exit door. When we were getting out, the butler on the door said - "Spero che tu abbia avuto un buon momento. grazie." (Hope you had a good time. thank you.)

Oh my holy gods. This language. Without a second thought, I dashed inside the restaurant again while Ace shouted behind me - "Hey! Where are you going now?"

But I was not listening, while running only, I took my phone out. Opening the translator, I dashed towards the rich lady again. Turning on the mic of the translator, I kept the phone out of the lady's eyes as I stopped to stand in front of her.

As expected, the lady was shocked and angry to see me and expectedly started shouting at me again -

"perché cazzo mi hai mostrato di nuovo la tua faccia torva!" Perfect.

I brought my phone in front of me again and as soon as the mic captured the words, it showed the translation and the language was......

"Italian!" I burst out. What the lady said meant -

This incessant lady.

Damn this language is the reason for all this mess. I quickly typed something in English and translated it to Italian.

I then put it on speaker as it said what I had typed in English -

"Mangia la tua pizza prima che la gravità la faccia cadere di nuovo su di te. Possa dio farti esplodere, incessantemente ricca signora."

As soon as the sentence was completed by the translator and the lady's face became red - I jumped on feet and ran as fast as I could with my legs, out of the restaurant. I could hear the growling of the rich lady, but I was far our of her reach now as I dragged a confused Ace to the parking lot who was surprised and amazed as hell.

Take it, my lady.

I laughed hard, at what I just did. I felt happy as hell and carefree after so long.

"You are crazy, you know that right?" Ace said joining my laughter and we both laughed till our stomach hurt as we got in the car and drove away.

After an hour or so, we were still in the car heading god knows where. I was getting bored so I stretched my hand towards the radio to play something but before I could do that, Ace slapped my hand away.

"What the heck! You should seriously focus on driving dumbass, and not repeat what you did just now." I shouted outraged.

Ace snickered beside me, hands still on the steering wheel. He was annoyingly handsome and this infuriated me. More like, bothered me. Why?

Because, it was easy for me to stare at him and forget that I am supposed to be mad at him. Shaking my head, I again directed my hand towards the radio to turn it on but then again-

SLAP.

"I am going to chop your one hand off so that you can't do that again. I will leave the other hand for driving." I said.

"Go ahead. I am sure your teeth are capable of doing that." He said sarcastically. I decided to change the topic.

"I am hungry." I announced.

"So?" He asked shrugging.

"you are supposed to feed me, being my husband." I stated.

"And you have to keep your mouth, being my slave today." He taunted me.

I shut my mouth up so that he doesn't come up with any other unique command for me. God knows what he might order me -

My imagination definitely runs wild.

After few second, Ace stopped in front of a restaurant. As soon as the car stopped, I was about to jump out of the car when Mr. Apathetic locked the doors from his side. I turned back to him with a frown -

"Why did you do that?" I asked.

"You are not getting out." He said or more like ordered.

"Why!?" I whined.

"After the stunt you pulled, I am never taking you to any other restaurant. You stay here, I will go order and get it packed." He said.

I pouted at his command but nevertheless nodded. He got out of the car and locked the car.

"I am not a fucking child!" I shouted but it was no use because the windows were closed and the car was long locked.

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I munched onto my fries as I stared out of the window. Getting bored, I turned my attention back to Ace who was currently driving. He hasn't eaten anything and from what it looked like - he wasn't planning to because he didn't get one packet for himself.

I looked down at my lap to see the almost finished fries, fully left pizza and coke. I then looked back and forth between the food and Ace.

"I am not asking for your precious food." He said sensing my hesitancy to share my food.

"I know that. But it makes me feel guilty." I said not making sense.

He shook his head and decided not to say anything.

Fine. He got me the food. I can share at least one piece of the pizza. Mind you I haven't done that ever in my life.

Sighing, I took one piece of fries and directed my hand towards his mouth. He was surprised at my action as he directed his eyes away from the road to me. He raised his one eyebrow questioning my gesture.

"Open your mouth, stupid. I can't shove it down through your nose." I said not looking at him.

"no thanks." He said.

"Fine. You asked for it." I said and made a punch shape with my one hand and directed it swiftly towards Ace's face making it look like I was going to punch him. He gasped shocked at what I was doing and in this process opened his mouth - and using my other hand I shoved two fries into his mouth. He munched the fries still looking at me like I was a maniac as he shouted-

"I am driving Eva!"

"You shouldn't be a jerk then, it's not my fault." I said.

"What the hell is wrong with this woman?" He muttered.

"Trust me I have been wondering the same thing, and I have concluded that my brain wires got crossed before I was born which resulted in me - being me." I rambled.

Honestly, I was too hot with the meagre touch of my hands on his lips when I made him eat the fries. I am so damn sensitive. If I hadn't made him eat, the guilt of him being hungry would have not let the fries get digested inside me. So I had to feed him.

After that, I started eating my pizza with one hand and took one slice of the pizza in my other hand which I stretched towards Ace so that he can eat it.

He again looked at me contemplating and I said -

"you better eat it this way or I would have to use my other unique techniques- an example of which I just showed you seconds ago."

He seemed to understand this as he opened his mouth, staring at me intently.

I made him eat a bite and when he didn't divert his eyes away from me, I couldn't stop myself from saying -

"Staring is bad."

"That's doesn't stop you from doing the same to me." He said smirking as he finally diverted his eyes away, leaving me blushing so damn hard. Oh for the love of holy gods - stop being so cute.

The rest of one hour, consisted of me feeding Ace the pizza and coke while I also ate.

"Do you have a habit of feeding everyone around you while you eat?" He asked me.

"I never share my pizza with anyone." I muttered truthfully.

"So why did you do it now?" He asked still focusing on the road.

"Because you are not 'anyone.' " I said honestly but not meeting his eyes. From the corner of my eye, I could see him look at me and then nod. But neither of us said anything after that until we reached our destination.

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The car came to a stop and I jerked forward due to moment of inertia. I was hell confused onto where we were heading but the familiar church and forest area made our current location clear. I looked at the forest ahead of us and then my head involuntarily turned towards Ace who was busy putting the car off and removing the keys from the car. He noticed my stares as he looked up to meet my eyes.

"Thank you." I whispered to him. He understood my emotions quite well but his usual self forced him to just nod at me in appreciation. I am finally getting to know him. I guess.

We got out of the car and I leaped forward to the indistinct paths of the forest which led to the place where my mother's imaginary grave was. I definitely needed this. After getting kidnapped and tortured by my fucking father, I for sure deserved some peace. In the hope of spilling my miseries in front of the memorial I had for my mother, I jogged inside the forest going deeper and deeper. But in the impatience of reaching to her, I left Ace behind.

I turned 180 degrees to find no trace of my husband.

He seriously needed to get lost right now only?

Did he stay back only? Was he here with me only to drop me?

I was so impatient that I leaped out of the car and didn't even look back to see if he was coming behind me or not. What should I do now?