Tension (I) ✔️

IX

"Do you remember the necklace that Tyler gave me? For some random reason. Like a few years ago." I explained looking through a miscellaneous shoebox full of Vanessa's jewelry.

He gave it to me for a reason...

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"Umm yeah. I think...? Why do you need it?" Henry asked, giving me a skeptical look. I rolled my eyes.

"Shut the fuck up Henry. I think Tyler put a tracking device in it or something. Because there is no other way he could have known my address." I said with annoyance. Henry was pissing me off I needed to find that necklace,

"Oh! It might be in your bathroom. Under your sink. I think." Henry started with a frown. I rushed to my bathroom and looked under my sink. I see my soap, pads, tampons, condoms but I don't see a jewelry box. Then I found a plastic bag in the back of my sink. I grabbed it and felt the box. I took it out of the bag and looked at the necklace. It was a silver locket in the shape of the planet Venus. I used my teeth to open the locket and something fell out of it, Henry came up behind me and picked up the small object that fell. He showed me the tiny blinking device, it was flashing red.

"Do you see this? That bastard was tracking you." Henry said with a grimace.

"I know that Henry. He told me." I snapped. I was a little afraid and felt vulnerable with all this going on. I don't even feel safe in my own home. I grabbed the tracking device and threw it in the toilet and flushed it.

"Baby what's with the attitude?" He muttered softly. Grabbing the necklace out my hand pulling me close to him, he wrapped an arm around my waist my back was against his chest as I looked at the toilet.

"I'm sorry. I just feel worried about my safety, I don't think I can stay here." I said with a sigh. He turned me around with a wide grin on his face.

"So are you going to live with me? Because I have room in my bed." He asked with a suggestive grin, I rolled my eyes.

"I guess I could," I said with a shrug.

"Great!"

"Don't make me regret it, Henry," I said pulling away from him and walking to my closet and started packing my clothes in a cardboard box I had handy.

"You won't baby I promise you." He said with a wink. I rolled my eyes and grabbed more clothes and stuffed them in the box.

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Once I was finished packing my clothes I was getting the last of my stuff in my room I grabbed the picture frames of me and Vanessa off of my dresser, I stuffed the picture frames in my duffle bag with my other things. I grabbed her case file that was at the bottom of my dresser. The cardboard box was getting old but it would last until I found her killer. The case went cold a few months after her death. I stole the evidence box after they decided it was going cold. I wasn't going to let her die in vain. Henry reached out offering to hold it but I shook my head,

"I got it but thank you though," I said carrying the box through my house to his car in my garage.

"Oh! Can you get Snowy's stuff off my bed?" I asked lifting the heavy box in the trunk.

"Yeah!" I heard his yell from the inside of my house. I sighed and placed my duffle bag on top of the other boxes. He walked in with Snowy's bed and food, I walked in and put snowy in her cage and carried her to the back seat of his car. I closed his car door and turned around Henry suddenly pulled me in a kiss pushing my back into his SUV I wrapped my arms around his neck, savoring the kiss I pulled back taking a breath and then kissing him again. I gripped his hair as our tongues met he left my lips and kissed down my neck,