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As she reached his lower back, she slowly brought her hands around his waist to his stomach.

Oh my fucking goodness!

His abs were prominent and tight.
 
She knew how they looked, but they felt…oh how they felt! She caressed up his body to his defined pecs and over his round shoulders before taking her time moving down again. Savouring every contour of his hard, sculpted, physique.

His whole body tensed, and he let out a sexy-as-hell growl against her mouth.
 
Holly whimpered and tightened her legs around him.
 

Alex pulled away from their kiss, his breath ragged, and beads of sweat across his brow.
 
He looked into Holly’s eyes and her green irises were almost black from her pupils dilating, her skin flushed and chest heaving.
 
As he looked her over, he couldn’t help but scan down her beautiful neck, her exposed shoulder showing her pink vest top.
 
He licked his lips and closed his eyes for a second to try to calm himself. It was no use.

His body was alight.

Holly underneath him gripping him to her with her legs wrapped around his. She’d had her hands on his bare skin, and he had loved every second of it.

He craved more.

He needed it like he needed air.

He had to get closer.

He couldn’t think straight.

He was lost, with Holly, in their cocoon.

Alex opened his eyes as Holly’s hands were exploring his bare chest. He lowered his head and kissed her cheek.
 
He let his lips trail down to her jawline, scraping along to her chin and back up towards her ear. Holly let out a high pitched “Ahh!” as he kissed under her lobe and down her neck to her collarbone.
 

They were right were they had been the night before.

In less than a week, they’d gone from sharing a message to sharing each other more than they could’ve imagined.

Alex continued kissing along her collarbone to the hollow of her throat.
 

Holly’s breathing became heavy and she was biting her lip to keep herself from crying out.
 
Alex felt her legs tighten around him as he kissed her more and more.
 
He was about to press his lips to her skin when he had an overwhelming urge to taste her.

He parted his lips and ran the tip of his tongue, gently, back across her collarbone to her shoulder. Holly’s hands shot up into his hair and for a moment he thought she wanted him to stop.
 

“
Oh my God
!” She squeaked and he pressed featherlight kisses across her shoulder.
 

His hand on her thigh slowly caressed up, over her hip, to her waist.
 
Her top had ridden up, and his fingertips grazed her smooth flesh.
 

“
Alex!”
She cried out in a whisper.

He continued his unhurried ascent of the side her body.

He paused high up on her ribcage.

If he moved his hand inwards, he would be overstepping, surely. Alex lifted his head to capture her lips again. Holly’s fingers tangled in his hair, their lips sucking and nipping each other.

Alex was about to burst.

His pulse was racing, breathing erratic and his body on fire. The hardness in his pants against Holly’s own heated area and was wanting, desperately, to break free from its restrictions.

He felt Holly’s hand cover his own, and he thought he’d gone too far, until she started to move his hand inwards towards her perfect feminine mounds.
 
He could feel the outer curve, and then his fingers were underneath as his thumb moved up the side of her beautiful breast.

She wasn’t stopping.

“Holly? Alex?” A knock at the door and they froze.
 

Their mouths parted quickly, and they stared at each other, suddenly realizing what they were doing, and had come
very
close to doing.
 

“
Oh crap”
 
Alex whispered as another knock sounded.

They sat up, quickly, and adjusted their clothing.
 
Alex had to position himself so as not to show evidence of what they had been up to.
 

“Holly? Alex? Are you ok? Can I come in?” It was Dev.

How long had they been up there? It had felt like only five minutes.
 

“Hang on!” Said Holly and she lifted her hands to fix Alex’s hair.
 
She ran her fingers through his dark, silky strands and she bit her lip as she did.
 

God, she loved his hair.

Holly felt Alex’s hands on her waist and as she looked into his eyes, he was smiling at her with humour.
 

“What?” She whispered, smiling back.
 

“Down girl.” He said. Holly opened her mouth I’m playful surprise.
 

“Speak for yourself!”
 

“Guys…I’m coming in.” Said Dev and she slowly opened the bedroom door.
 

Dev’s eyes scanned their faces and the ruffled covers on the bed.

Dev’s expression turned from concerned to shock. Holly understood what Dev had thought, and she shook her head.
 

“No. We didn’t!”
 

“Oh my God, Dev!” Said Alex. “You know we wouldn’t.”

Dev narrowed her eyes a little and then released her breath.
 

“Ok, But you’ve been up here for almost an hour.”
 

Alex and Holly’s eyes snapped to each other.
 

“The police called…” Dev continued. “…They’ve got something they need to tell us.”

Chapter 22

They made their way downstairs, and all eyes were on them as they walked onto the lounge.
 

Holly didn’t miss Evie raising an eyebrow at them, to which Alex gave a small shake of his head. Evie looked relieved.

I need to ask about that.

Officers Dixon, and Jones, were sitting on the sofa with an iPad.

“What’s happened?” Holly asked as she and Alex sat down together.

“How much do you know about Miss. Scutter?” asked Dixon.

Alex told them all he knew was that she’d moved from San Francisco, two years ago, with her mother. She’d started their school and had been a thorn in his side ever since.

Holly frowned, questioningly, at Dixon.
 

“There’s more to it isn’t there?” she asked.
 

“I’m afraid so.” He replied.
 

“Miss Scutter didn’t leave San Francisco for new opportunities, she was ordered to leave by the courts.”
 

“What?” Dev whispered in disbelief. Alex and Holly were stunned.
 

“Due to her age, documents were sealed until she turned eighteen.
 
Other technicalities prevented us from telling you sooner.”

“What
technicalities?”
asked Evie, angrily. She was becoming visibly unsettled that Stacey was already known to the police.

“Unless Miss. Scutter broke any terms of her order, we weren’t made aware of her previous arrests.
 
We only knew she had an order in place, but details were kept confidential until she was a legal adult. We never needed to look into it until yesterday, when she damaged Miss. Edwards’ car.”

“What was the order? What did she do?” asked Rami, angrily.

Dixon explained that, for over a year, Stacey had terrorized a family that lived near her.
 
She had taken a liking to the husband and pursued him relentlessly.
 
She’d even broken into
their
house and stole some of his personal items. Toothbrush, underwear, and some photographs of him, and had gone to his wife to show her the items she’d taken as ‘proof’ of his infidelity. Stacey had even approached his children and told them, in explicit detail, how she’d seduced their father. The family went to the local police.

They’d searched Stacey’s home and found photo’s that she’s taken of herself in the family’s home.
 
Some explicit ones, in their bedroom, and a note that she was planning to send to the husband.

Her thought was, if he were forced from his family, he would be hers…’like he wanted’.

The family had a protection order against her and she was ordered to stay at least two hundred yards away from them and no communication in any form.

Two days later, she set their house on fire in retaliation.
 
She had to undergo psychiatric treatment for three months, and she and her family had to leave the state.

“What the fuck!” shouted Ben. “You mean to say that a convicted psycho was allowed into our school to harass somebody else? What if she’d gone further and tried to hurt someone? What if she hurt
them?
What if she hurt Dev?”

Ben was raging with anger.

“Our hands were tied.” Said Dixon. “We knew she was moved, however, we didn’t know of the extent until we asked to see her records after yesterday’s stunt.
 
They came through
after
she’d been released with the EPO.”
 

“Yeah, cos
that
totally worked!” Shouted Ben, sarcastically.
 

Alex and Holly sat in silence.
 
Horrified that Stacey had done this before and that they were now on the receiving end of her psychopathy.
 

“Ben, calm down.” Said Dev gently.

Ben was pacing up and down the lounge, Alex and Holly in shock, and all of the parents terrified of what that girl could have done to their children.
 

Holly stared at the floor, breathing deeply to calm herself.
 

“I can’t calm down, Dev.” Ben said.
 
“That…
slut
…was in your house! What if Alex and I hadn’t checked out the house? What if you…?”

He ran his hands through his hair and down his face in frustration.

“She wouldn’t have done anything. Not then anyway, but Ben…she’s in custody.” Said Dev and she stood to place her hands on his arms.

Alex was holding onto Holly, and he was rubbing up and down her back.

“Let me get this straight…” He said with an icy calmness. The initial shock subsiding.

“A girl goes crazy, stalks a married guy, breaks into his house, confronts his kids, tells his wife lies
and
, once actually getting arrested, commutes arson. She has a few months therapy, moves state, and school, then starts all over again. Can you
please
explain to me how that was ok?
 
Who actually thought it was appropriate to let a fucking psycho into a school when she thought nothing of attacking a whole fucking family?!”

Alex was getting irate.
 
His blood was like lava in his veins.

“Who the
fuck
thinks this shit is ok? Did the principal know? Oh no, wait, she was a minor and records were sealed. “He said sarcastically. “So Mr. Lawson unknowingly allowed a crazy bitch to roam the school to have her pick of victims?
 
She approached
me
the day she started!
 

I’ve had to put up with her shit for two
fucking
years! Do you have
any
idea what that’s like? To have somebody constantly tracking you down and violating your personal space, putting their skanky hands on you and saying disgusting things to you?! Even the teachers told her to back off, and she didn’t. I had to hide from her.
 
Janitor’s closets, storerooms, bathrooms even my car! She followed my friends, and I to our hang out and then we couldn’t even go
there
anymore. She. Made. My. Life. Miserable.

I was always looking over my shoulder!”

Evie was openly crying and Kim had her shaking hand over her mouth in shock at hearing what Alex had gone through at the hands of Stacey.
 

Holly was ready to kill.
 
She’d sat in silence, tears rolling down her face as she listened to every disgusting detail. She knew she would normally have a panic attack, but she was far too enraged for any sort of anxiety to take hold of her.

Her hand curled into a fist, and she clenched her jaw. Her breathing was heavy.
 

Alex held her other hand, with his arm around her shoulder.

He pulled her closer to his side, sensing her distress.

“We’re sorry, Mr. Valencia.” We were not aware of the details of Miss. Scutters’ offences until earlier today.
 
As we said, we only knew she had been moved and her files were sealed.”
 

“That’s not good enough.” Said Holly. Coldly. “She was a known danger.
 
Yet, she was allowed in school after committing arson as a ‘retaliation’. What then?

If the principal was made aware of the order, would she have been arrested when she started to harass Alex? Even after he complained about her?”
 

Officer Jones answered and Holly could see he knew they were fighting a losing battle.
 

“We don’t know miss.”

Holly wasn’t happy with that answer and was ready to make her displeasure known.
 

“
Bullshit!
She would have been! Dad?”

She knew Oli would be able to let them know exactly what would have been done.
 

“Yes, she would, honey.
 
If the faculty were aware, she would have been picked up and, because it was so soon after her previous conviction, she may have even faced a prison sentence.”

The officers turned to Oli with concern.
 

“I’m a lawyer.” He said with a scowl. “I’ve listened to everything you have told us, and it’s clear, to me that the police department and courts responsible for the girls’ release, and subsequent concealment of her files, have placed a great number of
minors
at risk.
 

Regardless of the details of her actions, you will only need to read over other cases to see how quickly an attack of this level can escalate to something of greater magnitude.