Lucas POV
Frowning I could hear talking but couldn’t make out what was being said. I wanted to yell at them to shut the fuck up, my head was pounding but I couldn’t seem to get the words out. The more I tried to focus the more I felt like I was clawing my way out of a fog.
My body wanted nothing to do with helping me out. I tried to remember where I was, was I at home? You know the feeling you get sometimes when you first wake up and you don’t recognize your room as your own. Only I couldn’t wake up. What the hell had I been doing? Did someone drug me? Was Taylor...
Taylor, it all came crashing down on me faster than I had been prepared for. It was like rapid flashbacks hitting me, none of them making much sense at first. Taylor and I had a fight, her in that dress, us in the elevator, fucking her in my office, leaving, killing Chase, his blood splattering on me, Taylor and me leaving the club then...the car. I remembered the sound of sha
I had yet to quit smiling, the past few months had been better than I could have ever imagined my life would be. Lucas had taken the news of becoming a dad better than I could have ever hoped for. Today we had found out at my monthly appointment that we were having a girl. I had assumed that Lucas would have wanted a boy but the moment they told us the baby was a girl his face had a huge grin plastered on it.Looking in the bathroom mirror I placed my hand on my ever growing belly amazed at how big I had already grown. Of course, the nightgown I wore didn’t help much to hide the bump, the way it was cut only brought it out more. Lucas loved it. I sighed walking back to the bedroom wishing he was home.The club had been taking up a lot more of his time than usual this week and it made me wonder just exactly what he was doing. I didn’t ask him anymore about his other life, I trusted that he would keep that side of his life away from me and the baby. The only thing I wanted
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
It had been a month since Chloe came into our lives. Lucas had done good on his promise and had been spending a majority of time home with us. He would still make an appearance once a week at the club. David was helping out with the Dom situation so Lucas had been working a lot from home.I couldn’t ask for Chloe to be a better baby, she hardly ever cried and if she did she was just letting you know a she was hungry, or because she was wet. She even slept for a good stretch of time at night. That little girl had her daddy wrapped around her tiny little fingers. I loved watching him with her. His whole demeanor changed when he held her.Things were still the same with my parents. I had given up on them ever coming around. I knew they blamed Lucas for Cody’s disappearance. Even if I straight up confessed to murdering Cody they would turn it around on him. I wished things could have been different. I wished that mom and dad would be understanding for the sake
Taylor POVOpening my eyes I realized I must have fallen asleep in the recliner. Looking at my watch I saw it was just after midnight. Going to get up I felt horrible and debated on how bad I really needed to pee. Lucas was at the club and wouldn’t be home till sometime early in the morning. Closing my eyes I grabbed onto the arms of the chair to help host me up when I felt a sharp contraction hit. Oh shit I thought, I was only 36 weeks and at my appointment earlier in the week I wasn’t even dilated.Shaking my head I forced myself up thinking maybe I was tripping, maybe it was something I ate. Getting up I wobbled my way to the bathroom flipping on the lights before I quickly did my business and washed my hands. Heading back to the living room I grabbed my phone before going upstairs to the baby’s room to make sure the diaper bag and overnight bag wasn't still on the floor. I had told Lucas to put them in the trunk of his car and I guess he finally l
Lucas POVClosing my eyes I leaned back in my chair trying to drown my thoughts with scotch. I felt the weight of the world on my shoulders and no matter how much I shoved back at it, it just came down harder. I had a huge weakness now, a weakness that my enemies were determined to try and use against me. Taylor, Taylor and our baby to be exact.I knew she was probably upstairs still semi mad at me but I couldn’t focus on that right now. I was determined to strike back at every person who threatened us. To show them I hadn’t grown soft. If anything I had become more cold hearted. Taylor had no idea what I was up to when I left her, she had no clue the things I had done the last couple of months. She had no idea that even now I had the cop that snuck into our house tied up in one of my safe houses.Sighing I took a sip of my drink wishing David would hurry up and call. I had a clean up crew out tonight taking care of some loose ends. Normally I would
I sat with my arms crossed glaring at Lucas. He had found out pretty quickly that the two guys from earlier had indeed been cops but that one just happened to be a dirty cop. I had sat and listened as he spat orders out about bringing this guy in but not killing him he wanted answers. Well damn it I wanted answers too. I was more than a little put out at him and he didn’t seem to be noticing.It seemed like hours later before our house was silent again. The house had been bugged, the alarm system had been hacked, everything brought back my question of how. How had Lucas let this happen? He had enemies and right now I wasn’t sure if I could even trust his men. Everyone was a suspect in my eyes.“You hungry?” Lucas asked looking up from his phone. I shrugged which brought an automatic sigh from him, “Taylor baby you need to eat. I can go get something, or we can go out.”I rolled my eyes at him, “you can do what you want b
Sitting at the bar I looked up angrily at the clock on the stove. It was after 10 and I had yet to hear a word back from Lucas. Both my calls and my text remained unanswered. Part of me feared he had gone missing again but the other half of me knew he was still dealing with whoever had rushed him out of the house.I had finally gotten hungry enough to cook but was lazy so I settled for a grilled cheese sandwich. Taking a bite I dropped it back down aggravated at the whole situation. Was this what my life would become, a lot of nights left wondering where he was or what he was doing? I knew I couldn’t really complain, I knew who he was, I knew what he was. Hell, I willingly stepped into this new lifestyle.Even though I had known better I tried to call my Mom, the phone went straight to voicemail. I left a brief message telling her I heard Cody was still missing and if she needed anything to call. Part of me knew she wouldn’t but at least I had tried. I got
I sat on the edge of the bed watching an angry Lucas slide into a fresh white button-up shirt. We had just made it in the doors when David called him back telling him there had been some “changes.” I didn’t know what the change were but I knew it had pissed him the hell off. Any and all plans of messing around before he left went out the window.Looking up at him I sighed, “how long do you think you’ll be gone?”Lucas shrugged not answering me. Frowning up at him I shook my head, “why can’t this meeting wait? We just got home.”Turning to look at me Lucas sighed, “Taylor you know I don’t want to go but this is important. I have to get things set up so I can lay low when Chloe gets here for a few months without things falling all apart.I rolled my eyes, “I thought that’s what David is for.”Lucas shot me a look, “Taylor.”I knew I was aggravating
As we left the cottage I couldn’t help but be sad. I loved our new house but there was just something about the small cottage that just seemed...I don’t know cozy. It was like me and Lucas actually got to know each other better. We bonded and not just in sex. We had laid in the bed doing nothing but talking one night. He had told me things I had never known about him, things that opened my eyes as to why Lucas Blake was Lucas Blake.As much as I wanted to hide in our cottage Lucas had things to deal with back in the city. The police had been to the nightclub looking for him and although they hadn’t called he knew from experience it was better to go to them first. His carefree demeanor had already changed, it changed the minute we pulled out of the cottage’s driveway.I still had no idea what being his wife would entail. He had already set up appointments to add me to several of his bank accounts and holdings. I had told him he didn’t have
Looking out of the limousine window I wondered where in the world Lucas was taking us. I couldn’t believe that I was now Mrs. Lucas Blake. We only stuck around after the ceremony long enough to take pictures. David, Jack, and Taliah had been the only ones allowed to visit with us before we left.Ever since David had been shot something had been off about him. Today however was a total change. He gave Lucas a hard time about being tied down and joked with me about how it wasn’t too late to change my mind.Feeling Lucas grab my hand I looked over at him and smiled. “So are you going to tell me where we are going now?”Lucas shrugged, “somewhere off the beaten path. Nowhere as nice as I would want to take you but I didn’t want to risk flying with you so far along.”I rolled my eyes, “I can fly, you act like I’m due tomorrow.” Laughing I squeezed his hand, “I’m sure it will be amazing.&rd
As I looked at my reflection in the mirror I felt anything but excited and happy. Today was my wedding day and I felt alone. I hadn’t seen Lucas since last night and now here I was dressed in my beautiful wedding gown alone waiting for our ceremony to begin. Sure I had my stylist do my hair and makeup and she talked to me the entire time but it wasn’t like I had my family here. I had reached out to my aunts and cousins but they had all made up some excuse as to why they couldn’t come. I’m sure they didn’t want to make my mom or Dad mad but I still had hoped someone would be able to make it.Rubbing my belly I sighed, I would have preferred to have waited till after the baby was born to get married but Lucas was dead set on us being married before Chloe arrived. Hearing a knock on the door I jumped, we still had almost 20 minutes before the ceremony started and I was already completely dressed. Maybe it was the wedding planner checking to make sur