My hands were shaking, I could hear Lucas whispering to me but I couldn’t comprehend his words. I just wanted to sink further into his arms. Cody had looked at me shocked, the betrayal written all over his face. A voice in the back of my mind told me I shouldn’t be upset about what I had done, after all, he was there for me. He would have killed Lucas or at least tried. That voice while it spoke reason couldn’t get the rest of my mind to listen to it fully.
The car came to a stop and when the door opened I recognized David. He looked down at me worried taking me from Lucas long enough for him to get out of the car. I had no idea where we were but I assumed it was one of their safe houses. “She hasn’t said a word the entire ride,” Lucas said to David.
David looked down at me, I wasn’t looking at him but rather felt his gaze on me. “She just needs to rest. She’ll be ok, the baby will be ok Lucas. Just give her time. I
The next morning I woke to the bright morning light coming in through the window. Looking down I was surprised to see Lucas still asleep beside me. If it wasn’t for the fact my bladder felt like it was about to burst I would have been content just cuddling up to him. Sighing I scooted down the bed and went into the small bathroom that was attached to the room.Turning the light on I frowned at the ugly dingy yellow tile. I had a feeling that it didn’t matter how much you cleaned the tile would always look dirty. After using the bathroom I stood up looking at my reflection in the mirror as I washed my hands. My reflection looked just as rough as I felt. My hair was a disheveled mess, I had huge bags under my eyes, and my eyes themselves looked bloodshot.Splashing my face with water I closed my eyes trying to process last night. The memories hurt, I didn’t know if I should try and push them away or if I should try and face them. The truth was I didn’t want to face what ha
Lucas POVMy head hurt like a bitch as I opened my eyes, I was more than aware of the chair I was tied to. I looked around seeing that I was alone for the moment. I had no memory of being brought here, just the memory of getting out of my car and someone rushing up shoving a rag of something in my face. Next thing I knew I was here, wherever here was. It reminded me of my own torture room, this was just more of a dungeon than the bright white tile I had.I had woken earlier to find myself alone, I hadn’t seen a soul since I had regained conciseness. It made no sense but I knew someone would be coming. This wasn’t the first time I had been abducted, I just hoped my men discovered my disappearance sooner rather than later. In my head I tried to go over my enemies and who I’d pissed off enough to actually kidnap me and not just try and perform a hit. Could this be in retaliation of Cody’s murder?Hearing the squeak of a door I looked up. A h
David’s POVIt had taken longer than I was happy with but we had finally hacked the parking garage's mainframe and had seen who had abducted Lucas. The guy didn’t stick out to the others but I recognized him almost immediately. He had been with Cody a couple of times in the past.“Zoom in on his passenger window, someone is inside,” I said frowning.The window was tinted dark but it was a piss poor job and you could see the shadow of the person who sat behind it. “It’s a female,” I said looking down at Rudy. “See if you can get a location off of his watch. If they haven’t taken it off of him, it should at least show a last known location.”Rudy nodded. I sighed, I had to find Lucas, failing him wasn’t an option. I couldn’t go back to Taylor with anything less than him by my side. Sinking down in my chair I thought back to the last conversation I had with Lucas. He had made me promise
Just a few steps and I'd be free, the thought had sounded simple enough. The door was supposed to be my passage to safety, outside should have lead to instant freedom. I just needed to make it a few more steps. God how I wish it would have turned out to be that easy.David and I both stopped in our tracks when the door ahead of us slung open with yet more men advancing on us. I felt cornered we had men ahead of us, men coming from behind and only a handful of men were actually with us. With a single glance at David, he nodded at me letting me know he understood. We were fighting our way out of this and it wouldn't be pretty, it wouldn't be easy.As I loaded a new clip into my gun I prayed to whatever God was stupid enough to ever agree to watch over me and began aiming as I made my way forward. My adrenaline was pumping and even the wound to my shoulder was forgotten at the moment. Each step forward I took seemed to be in slow motion and even though I wanted to protect
Taylor POVEven before I opened my eyes I felt that something was different. When my eyes did open I looked out the window seeing how dark it had gotten and let out a sigh, I should have known better than to lay down so late for a nap. Rolling over I froze seeing Lucas sitting in a chair beside the bed. He wasn't looking at me. He sat leaned forward with his head in his hands, and his elbows resting on his knees. Lucas's hair was wet telling of an earlier shower.I sat up slowly confused, why hadn't he woken me? Where had he been? The fact that Lucas didn't even look up as I moved worried me. "Lucas," I said slowly.It was as if he had just noticed I was in the room with him. As his face lifted I let out a gasp jumping out of bed falling down to my knees. Lucas reached out grabbing for me thinking I had fallen and not dropped on purpose. Lifting a hand to his face I frowned as he winced at my touch. "Lucas are you ok?”He nodded moving his face away
Lucas returned to our room with my drink and food in hand. Taking it from him I made myself comfortable in the bed taking a sip of my drink before I sat it down opening my omelet. I didn’t know how best to begin my questions to Lucas so I just flat out asked, “so what does all of this mean?”Turning his head to look down at me, Lucas sat beside me. “You don’t have to worry.”Shaking my head I sat my fork down, “so us going missing won’t alarm anyone? You won’t have people still looking for you? You’re not going to go back after them for what happened with David?”Lucas cut his eyes at me and for a second I thought he would straight shut down and not answer but soon he sighed. “If anyone asks we went out of town to relax. With you being pregnant it wouldn’t be unheard of. I’m not worried about being retaliated against and you don’t need to worry about what my next movie will
Lucas had done better than good on getting us in to see the houses we had looked at online. Even now we were on our way to look at our top picks. Each house was different in its own aspect. There had been others that had been shot down because one of us liked things that the other one didn’t so I hoped we would be able to find something perfect for our growing family.The first house we pulled up to caught my breath instantly. It was more secluded than any place I thought we’d ever find in the outskirts of New York. The house wasn’t near as big as Lucas’s current house. In fact, only one of the houses we had picked to look at today was as big as the current one.As we parked I followed closely to Lucas as he led us to meet with the realtor. The realtor who simply introduced herself as Diana was probably in her late forties or early fifties. She started spouting off facts about the 3 bedrooms 3 bathroom house. The house had all the extras, balcon
Lucas helped me clean the kitchen in a rush to hurry and get upstairs but ended up being called out on business. I hadn’t been happy but I didn’t argue about it either. It wasn’t worth it. Besides I got to go take a bath in peace, put on a cute nightgown despite being pregnant, and now I was sitting up in the bed admiring my ring. Lucas had done a fantastic job of picking it out. It was amazing and the way it shimmered in the light was mesmerizing. I never thought I'd ever own anything like it.“It’s not going anywhere you know,” I looked up rolling my eyes at Lucas smirking at me from the doorway.“Whatever,” I mumbled.Lucas laughed walking closer to the bed. "You miss me, baby,” he asked as he sat down on the edge of the bed.Shrugging I tried my best to look uninterested, “I don’t know it was kind of quiet without you here. I got to enjoy that huge ass tub all by myself with