"She should stay here with me, I'd keep her safe."
                              
Alice felt like face palming but managed not to. His comment immediately made both cop and SSA suspicious. They demanded to know the nature of their relationship as it was obviously more htan just student-teacher. They needed to know why these two seemed so close and the explanation that they had developed a simple friendship while working together at the animal shelter didn't really satisfy the authorities.
                              
"Before I could condone such a thing, I'd have to request a full physical to establish your...real nature together." Agent Taylor said discreetly. Alice saw Malcolm stiffen up, offended on her behalf, but she blurted out,
                              
"You'll find evidence of recent sexual activity." she admitted. Both cop and SSA immediately turned to Malcolm, but Alice kept barreling ahead with, "It's West, the boy who rescued me." she lied. Ace sent a silent thank you to her mental self, knowing that West would back her up on it if she asked him to. It took a while of explaining after that, but Alice could see the moment when both authority figures started to believe her lie. It made perfect sense once they started thinking that way; West was attractive, he was her knight in shining armour, so what sane girl wouldn't be swept off her feet by him? Only Alice saw the smoulder of Malcolm's jealousy over her plausible lies. She was his woman and he was the kind of guy to want others to know it, but doing that right now would make things worse. Thankfully he kept his mouth shut and Alice relaxed while they continued to fire questions at her concerning her 'relationship' with West. It was humiliating but she lied and made them believe her. Alice tried not to fume over how they were willing to believe the lie that she was sleeping with someone else more than they would have believed it if she said she wasn't sleeping with anyone. It seemed that no one could quite believe that a girl with her looks and hi온라인카지노게임 would be celibate. They took West's information to contact him and confirm her 온라인카지노게임, but agreed that under the current circumstances that moving her in with the adult male Malcolm would be more secure than Salali's barely to code apartment complex.
                              
So Alice was getting to move in with Malcolm, but they were gonig to be watched with a more than critical eye, and anything out of line would blow this whole thing wide open. Ace managed to text West so he would know what to expect and then finally got to try and call Salali back. The large Native woman was by turns pissed off at the cops and upset over the worry Stuart's escape must be causing Ace. Since they were still in the room Ace had to be discreet, eventually reassuring her that no, the cops had not found her and Malcolm doing anything inappropriate, and no, she was not having hysterics over Stuart. Finally Alice told Salali to come over and check for herself, but to bring a bag of clothes for Alice at the same time. While they waited for the agitated Native to come over, Officer Bradley expressed how best it would be for Alice to limit her outdoor exposure and allow her friends to do tasks outside for her. Thankfully that awkward conversation ended when Salali arrived with bag and puppy, reminding Alice to keep her guard dog close. The presence of the dog seemed to ease the last lingering worries anyone had abotu Alice and Malcolm being together because it was obvious that Monster did not like to let anyone close to Alice, Malcolm included.
                              
It should have been happy for Alice, moving in with Malcolm. They were pretending that she'd sleep on the couch and Malcolm was going over with everyone who'd listen about how they'd convert the office back into a bedroom for her. But Alice didn't feel happy, she just felt guilty, intruding on his life like this. He hadn't asked her to move in, he wasn't at that stage yet. But because he was worried for her safety, he'd opened his home to her. Once again her issues were screwing up his life and she felt so guilty for causing all these problems. He deserved to be with someone who wouldn't ruin his life quite so often.
                              
It came as no surprise to Alice that the new upheval in her life caused her to suffer through even worse nightmares than she'd been enduring. The knowledge that Stuart was hunting her down added with the knowledge that there was nothing she could do to stop him just fuelled the fires of her terrors and there wasn't a night she didn't wake up in a cold sweat with her heartrate screaming in her chest. She really had no escape from it either, Stuart's disappearance as a person of interest in a child abuse and rape case put him in the news.