ASA Episode 9: Deception
Alliance Space Academy Episode 9: Deception
“If you don’t step away from her, I won’t be responsible for my actions.” Rigs warned him as he approached. He had never felt such rage as when he saw the man touching Lacey. Not even when she was dancing with Blayne did he react like this. He started forward with angry strides.
Professor Jotham took a step back from Lacey raising his hands up. “Am I going to have to call security Mr. Lawson?”
Before Rigs could respond a new voice called out from the doorway. “I don’t think that will be necessary Greg, unless you want me to speak with security about what I just saw.”
Everyone turned and watched as Professor Toler entered the room. “Of course, you can claim that you were only assisting Miss Clark and that myself and Mr. Lawson misinterpreted what we both witnessed. But then there was Miss Clark’s request for you to let her go. That alone would warrant an investigation. You wouldn’t want that, now would you Greg?”
Jotham stepped further back glaring at Toler. Toler addressed Lacey and Rigs. “You two run along now. I have some pressing matters to discuss with Professor Jotham.”
Lacey picked up her backpack. Rigs put his arm around her and walked her out of the room. They had gotten a few feet past the door where they weren’t seen before Lacey stopped.
“Let’s go Lacey.” Rigs whispered.
“No, I want to make sure that Professor Toler is okay.”
Rigs glared at her but she crossed her arms over her breasts defiantly. He sighed. “Fine, but you stay close to me.” He reached for her hand and pulled her around the corner to where the second entrance to the lab room was located. The door was cracked a little so Rigs carefully opened it up further so that they could see into the room. They were at a back angle so neither man could see them, but they wouldn’t have anyway because of the arguing going on.
“You have no room to charge into my lab they way you are doing!” Jotham yelled.
“What’s wrong Greg, you have something to hide?” Toler taunted him.
Jotham struggled to regain his composure, and then he gave an evil smile at Toler. “Good old Abe, faithful and reliable Abe. I know what this is all about, you’re jealous about me stealing the lovely Ms. Krebbs from you?”
“First of all, you never stole Alice from me to begin with. We were never an item. As she explained to me clearly, she had always only seen us as friends and if I had wanted more, I should have told her. Which is true, I should have. Secondly, if I had been seeing Alice you sure as hell would not have been man enough to steal her from me. Third, Alice decides who she wants to be with, even if I do not agree with her choice I will support her.”
“How magnanimous of you. So you came her to tell me how it doesn’t bother you that I am fucking the woman you are in love with?”
Both Lacey and Rigs cringed and looked at Professor Toler as his face paled. But he kept his shoulder straight and didn’t show any other signs that what Jotham said bother him.
Toler shook his head. “I was on my way here to question you about your whereabouts the night of the bombing.”
Jotham turned away and Lacey and Rigs had to step back so that he wouldn’t see them. They could hear his reply.
“I was having a very intimate dinner with Alice at the time. You could ask her if you don’t believe me.”
“Oh, I will most definitely be asking Alice to verify this.” Toler turned to leave then he stopped. “One more thing Jotham, if you ever lay your hands on Miss Clark or any other student, I will personally see you thrown off campus and your tenure revoked. Have a good day.” Then he walked out of the room.
Rigs took Lacey’s hand and was trying to pull her along but she halted him. They listened as it sounded like Professor Jotham was on the phone with someone. They could only hear the one side of the conversation.
“It’s me. No I’m still on campus right now. Something has to be done about Toler. He’s asking too many questions. I don’t think he has that much information but the longer he is not kept in check, the further risk there is of exposure. I can try to garner information from one of his students, but at this point anything I do might be under scrutiny. Yes that’s right. I will be taking Alice there this evening. No, that’s too open and public; she’ll never go for that. Fuck! Fine I’ll get her there. Hold on let me write the address down. No I don’t know where it is because I’ve never been there before! Okay, Cool Runner 1202 Rochester Street, 9:30 pm. Got it. Fine. Bye.”
Rigs and Lacey quickly ran down the hall leading to the nearest outside exit. When they got around the corner of the building they stopped to take deep breaths.
“Do you think Professor Jotham is involved in the bombing?” Lacey asked between breaths.
“Yeah I do.”
“Holy shit! What do we do? Should we tell someone?” Lacey twisted her hands together nervously.
Rigs shook his head. “I don’t know. We don’t have any proof that Jotham’s involved.”
“But the phone call we just heard…”
“We are the only two that heard it and we only heard one side of the conversation.
“But it sounded like something was going down tonight. We can’t just let Jotham get away with it. What about Ms. Krebbs, do you think she has a part in all this?” Lacey was shaking with fear.
Rigs pulled her into his arms. “Easy honey. It’s going to be okay.” He kissed the top of her head, then her forehead, then and her cheek. He trailed kissed down her face to the edge of her lips. He only meant to distract her from her fear, but the moment their lips touched spark ignited. God how he wanted her.
Lacey kissed him back early before pushing him away. “Stop distracting me with your expert kisses. I can’t think straight when you do that.”
Rigs kept her in his arms but laughed. “My kisses are that good huh?”
No, his kisses were that amazing. But she wasn’t going to tell him that because he already had a big ego as it was. “What are we going to do?”
“Tonight is our first date, maybe we’ll make an appearance at the night club he spoke about.”
She frowned and looked up at him. “How do you know what kind of place it is?”
“I’ve been there a time or two. It’s a dance club type of place.”
“Dancing...with or without clothes?” She narrowed her eyes at him.
He laughed. “With clothes honey. But if you want to go without I won’t complain as long as I am the only one that sees you.”
She blushed. “Shut up. Pick me up at 8:30 then?”
“Absolutely. Did you want me to walk you back to your dorm?”
“I need to go to the library.”
He took her hand in his and started walking in that direction. “Come on, I don’t want you to make up any excuses like you have to finish a term people or something and can’t go out with me tonight. This is my chance to sweep you off your feet.”
She smiled. He already had done that. She was filled with butterflies but this time it wasn’t about her date with Rigs, it was about what Jotham might or might not be up to. She hoped that Ms. Krebbs was not involved.
*****
Later that evening
“Why did you wear that?” Rigs stared at Lacey’s outfit for the evening.
Lacey sighed. “I didn’t, Caroline came over and helped pick out the outfit. Why, does it look bad?”
Bad? No, that was not the word that Rigs thought when he looked at the short sleeveless wrap dress. Hot, sexy, nearly indecent might be better words.
“Did you tell her other people would be seeing you like this?” Rigs reached over to run a finger along her delicate bare shoulder. She felt so smooth and soft.
“It’s too short isn’t it? I knew it. I told her I shouldn’t have worn this. Do you want us to leave?”
“Honey, I want to be alone with you so that I and I alone can enjoy you in that dress. You look sexy and almost illegal.”
Slowly his words penetrated and then her face lit up with her smile making her go from pretty to absolutely gorgeous. Rigs’ breath caught. He had to work to get air to his lungs.
“So you like how I look?” Lacey lifted her arms up and did a slow turn for him. His eyes devoured every inch of her. The tight sheath dress clung to a surprisingly well endowed chest, it hugged and squeezed her tiny waist, then it stopped just a few inches short from her well rounded ass. If she bent over it would reveal whether or not she wore panties underneath. Oh God the image was in his head and would not leave.
“Damn it Lacey, I…” He turned towards the wall and adjusted his cock, which was swollen and uncomfortable in his tight jeans.
Lacey watched curiously. “What are you doing? Oh.” She blushed as she saw the evidence of his arousal. “Did I cause that?”
Rigs pulled her into his embrace. “Yes you did you little minx.”
They started to kiss but were rudely interrupted by the bouncer. “Move the line along, get inside or move out of the way.”
Rigs put his arm around her shoulders and walked into the dark nightclub. They both hand stamps on their hands indicating that they were minors and could not drink. The place was filled with a mixture of students and adults.
“Come on honey, let’s see if we can find Jotham in this place.”
“What will we do if Ms. Krebbs is involved?”
“That’s for the authority to decide, not us. Let’s go babe.”
Lacey took a deep breath and went inside. She never would have gone to this place if Rigs hadn’t been with her. He held her hand sending her warmth and strength. With him by her side, she felt like she could do anything. Nothing could touch them.
“Look girls, Rigs is back!” A blonde girl barely dressed dancing in a cage hanging from the ceiling called out. Then three more girls called out greetings to Rigs and a few other suggestion comments. Lacey turned angry eyes on him.
“What? I haven’t been here in a while. Come on Lacey don’t be like that.”
She yanked her hand from his and missed the comfort immediately. Damn him and his playboy ways. She wanted nothing more than to storm out of there and back to the safety of her dorm room. But she couldn’t leave now; she had come all this way to try to get answers about Jotham.
She held up her hand to stop him from his explanations. “We’ll discuss this later.” She saw how crowded the place was and knew it was going to take time for them find Jotham. “You take the lower level since all your girlfriends want to talk to you. I’ll search for Jotham on the upper level.”
“Wait Lacey!” Rigs called out to her but she was already pushing her way through the crowd and away from him. Damn it! He should have come her alone or with one of the guys. He really fucked this date up.
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