We drove for about five minutes in silence. It was annoying if I was being honest. Daniel was a pain in the ass sometimes, but I also hated sitting in awkward silence like this. Especially with him so close to me, in a tight space where all I could feel was the inebriating smell of his cologne.A stop light in front of me changed to yellow when I was a little far back from it and I stopped, not wanting to run a red light because all the traffic lights had cameras on them. “Fuck, Audry! You could have totally made that light!” Daniel shouted. His outburst made me jump. Just a second ago we had been completely silent and I wasn’t expecting him to say anything at all. “I’m so sick of you being a dick!” My voice rang out in the compact space we were in. I felt rage build inside of me and it felt like too much to hold for the small car we were in. I didn’t want to drive when I felt like this, so I turned on my blinker and when the light turned green, I turned into an
*Daniel*As soon as Audry rolled off me, I regretted fucking her. Why did all of my self-control fly out the window when it came to this woman? It made me hate myself even more than I loathed her. I was an almost thirty-year-old man, I should have better willpower than this.All these thoughts ran through my mind as I put my seat back up. I could hear Audry shuffling around in the driver’s seat, but I didn’t want to look over at her. I didn’t want to talk about what just happened between us. I had no idea what to say to her. Audry started the car and I glanced over at her. She wouldn’t make eye contact with me as she drove out of the alleyway and merged back onto the road. Audry stared straight ahead driving in her bra. Her expression was unreadable and the tension in the car was awkward. I put my seatbelt on as we drove in silence for a long time. I could tell that we both wanted to pretend like the last twenty minutes didn’t happen. But the one million dollar qu
*Audry*The moment Daniel walked out the door, my phone rang. I looked down at it and saw that it was Dominic calling me. I turned to Lyle, my eyes wide.“It’s Daniel’s father,” I whispered to him, even though there was no one else in the room. Or the house, for that matter. Lyle’s eyebrows shot into his red hair. “Answer it.”I did as he said, slightly stunned and scared, wondering what he wanted to tell me.“Um, hello, Mr. Molton,” I said, putting my phone on speaker so Lyle could hear as well. “Good morning, Audry. I was wondering if you could come into my office today. I’m aware that you are at a safe house currently with my son, but I need you to come to the house to speak face-to-face. This is something that can’t be discussed over the phone,” Mr. Molton’s deep voice muttered on the other side. I immediately started to expect the worst. What did he want to talk to me about? The first thought that crossed my mind was what happened with Daniel
Fuck. That was all I could think as I stared at Matthew, more specifically the gun he was holding.Dominic and I were at this traitor's mercy. This turned into a hostage situation and I was on the wrong end of it. How was I going to get Mr. Molton and me out of this alive? Daniel’s father needed medical attention soon, or else he would bleed out. I fashioned a crude tourniquet of my sweatshirt, but he couldn’t have an open wound for long, that would be risking a deadly infection. If he didn’t bleed out first. I honestly had no idea how either of us were going to get out of this alive. Our situation was looking bleak. “How could you, Matthew?” Dominic’s voice was surprisingly strong for a sixty-year-old man who had just been shot. He was probably running on pure hatred and adrenaline at this point. Matthew snorted, and then laughed cruelly. “How could I, Dominic?” he said in a loud voice. “How could I? The real question is, how could you?” “What
My head was swimming with a million thoughts and I couldn’t focus on a single one of them. My mind was a buzzing and confusing mess. I was in between the state of sleep and awake. I was afraid to fully awake. I didn’t remember what happened, but all I knew was that it was something bad. Something truly bad, like the end of your life kind of bad. I didn’t want to consider the possibility that I could be dead. That I had met the same fate as my mother and father. But as the memories of what happened slowly came back to me, I had to accept that my being dead might be a real possibility.Mr. Molton calling me in for a meeting and interrogating me because he found out that I’d originally joined his gang to ruin them. Then, I remembered figuring out that Matthew was the rat all along and he shot Dominic in the shoulder. The traitor then pointed the gun at me. I couldn’t remember anything after that. Was I dead? Was Mr. Molton dead? What would happen to the rest o
*Daniel*It was the morning after the fiasco in my father’s office. I was in the shower getting ready for the day and thinking about Audry. My feelings toward her have grown warmer ever since I found out how brave she was for saving my dad’s life. My dad told me about how she had selflessly flung herself at Matthew, messing up his aim so my father only got shot in the shoulder. I smiled ruefully at the thought of little Audry reducing Matthew to a bruised and bleeding lump. After yesterday, I was looking at her in a new light. My attraction to her still scared the absolute shit out of me, but it didn’t feel like it would blow up my whole life anymore. We shouldn’t distract ourselves while we complete our mission, but afterward…Well, that was something I would allow myself to think about when we both came out of this alive. After I dried myself off, I got dressed in jeans and a gray hoodie. With my dark curly hair still wet, I went downstairs to make breakfast for
*Audry*Daniel finally kissed me and it felt like a lightning bolt hit my entire body when our lips met. He tasted sweet, like the Twizzler he was eating. I thought that as soon as we put the movie on, we were going to ignore it and make out instead. But Daniel seemed to actually want to watch the movie. Hadn’t he ever been young once over at a girl’s house and put on a movie just to make out with her? Was Daniel so out of the loop that he didn’t know what Netflix and Chill meant? He had finally gotten the hint though and kissed me. This time, our moves weren’t filled with hate, but with passion and mutual respect for one another. My saving his father’s life had been a turning point in our relationship and I believed Daniel no longer hated me.No, I didn’t think he actually ever hated me. But he hated how much he wanted me and the fact that he couldn’t trust me fully ever since he found out my true intentions when I joined his family.The turning point for me had b
A couple of days later, I woke up before the sun rose like usual these days. I went down to the kitchen to get the coffee pot started, but Daniel was already in the kitchen, flipping pancakes. He heard me and turned around to flash me a grin. “Hey, I was going to make you breakfast in bed,” he said when I joined him over at the kitchen counter. “Oh, you were?” I felt my shoulders slump. I was sad that I had woken up and missed that. “Yeah, I’ve decided that we deserve a day off today,” he added, then started to whistle a happy tune. His good mood was throwing me off. I’d never seen Daniel so cheerful, especially this early in the morning. “Did we make a breakthrough in the plans against the Taddeos?” I asked him hopefully, wondering if this was the reason for his shiny new attitude. “No, but I figured that we would work better tomorrow if we had a day off today,” he explained as he slid three chocolate chip pancakes onto a plate. I didn’t quest
Before I could even fully enjoy the feeling of Daniel’s tongue against me, he stopped what he was doing and I felt a hand clamped over my mouth. I looked over and somehow Daniel was next to me. “I seem to remember asking you to be quiet,” he said with a stern expression as he took his hand away from my mouth. “Oops, sorry,” I said, not feeling apologetic at all. “Are you going to keep quiet? If not, then you won’t get what you want,” Daniel warned me. I pretended to zip my mouth closed. He smiled. “Good. Now I can enjoy myself again.” Then he was back on the floor, kneeling in front of me in a blink of an eye. Daniel licked my wet center and I had to stuff my fist in my mouth to keep from screaming again. He set a fast rhythm, licking my pussy and rubbing my clit. Daniel pushed his finger into me and it took him a moment because I was so tight around him. “Damn, baby. I need to get you ready to fit my cock inside you,” Daniel told me when he ca
Daniel was standing in the middle of the room holding a bouquet of orange tulips and plastic black flowers. I loved the color palette he had chosen because I automatically knew what he was going for—Halloween colors. “What did I do to deserve these?” I asked as I walked over to where he was standing and took the flowers from him. My cheeks began to warm as I held the bouquet, chewing on my bottom lip.Daniel shrugged. “I owe you a lot more than flowers,” he said with a grin. “This is only the start of the surprises though. I’m taking you out of town. I think we could both use a little getaway.” My heart began beating with excitement as I gripped the flowers.“Pack a bag. We are going somewhere for two nights.” I opened my mouth to ask more questions, but he held up his hands. “That’s all I’m going to say right now.”I tried to get it out of him while I packed, but he wouldn’t say a word. I was so excited to leave this city behind us for a little while. We had
After I shot Aaron, I immediately turned to Dominic.“I’m so sorry. I-I…” But I didn’t have an excuse other than the fact that I thought it was the right thing to do. The right thing for me anyway. Even though we had technically agreed that I could be the one to kill Aaron at our last meeting, it felt like the situation had changed. I didn’t regret shooting him, not even for a second, but now I was scared of how everyone was going to react. Mr. Molton was the leader and it was his decision. I was hoping he wasn’t mad at me. Also, the Chief of Police was here. Sara could easily arrest me for what I just did. It could be technically counted as murder because Aaron hadn’t been pointing a gun at me when I shot him. There were many witnesses to my crime. All these scenarios were going through my mind in rapid succession and I was beginning to feel dizzy.“I understand why you shot him, Audry,” Mr. Molton told me. He patted my shoulder in a fatherly sort of way. Dominic
I didn’t even lift my gun to defend myself against Aaron. I didn’t have enough time and all the fight seemed to have seeped out of me now that Daniel was lying motionless at my feet. In the back of my mind, I realized that I could hear again. But what did anything matter if Daniel was dead? I knew I should be angry and screaming with rage right now. But I felt paralyzed by my numbness. My brain refused to accept what I knew to be true. I wouldn’t even allow myself to look down. I couldn’t.So much had happened tonight that I couldn’t process Daniel was dead and I was about to be shot. Was this really how our story was going to end? After everything we had been through this past month, this was how it all ended? I just hoped that someone took out Aaron after he shot me.I closed my eyes, accepting my fate. Then something amazing happened. I heard someone grunt on the ground. It sounded like Daniel, but I didn’t want to get my hopes up. Could it be my imagina
Chaos ensued and for a moment, I didn’t know which way was up. On pure instinct, I crouched down and covered my head as bullets flew through the air. I army crawled to the Moltons’ side because that was my best chance at survival.I heard gasps of pain and thuds as people fell. I just hoped that it wasn’t any of my friends. My jeans tore on a rock and I felt warm blood seeping through the hole in my pants, but I kept going. I couldn’t afford to stop.Now I was public enemy number one. I had just tried to kill Taddeos’ gang leader.How had I not noticed that the gun wasn’t loaded? I wasn’t in my right mind, to be fair. I had been so focused on wanting to kill my father’s murderer that I hadn’t inspected the weapon I was given to do it. I should have finished the cadets. I dropped out before target practice. I kept crawling over to the Moltons’ side and made my way slowly but surely. My heart felt like it was pounding in my ears. It felt like someone was controlling
*Audry*I held on tight to the gun as Aaron led me through the large house. It was completely different than twenty minutes ago. I watched as the Taddeos ran around the house to prepare for the trade-off with their biggest enemies. I watched in horror as everyone collected guns from hidden places around the house.I clutched my weapon and stared at the huge firearms the members were arming themselves with. I noticed that most of Taddeos’ members were burly men with serious expressions on their faces. The Moltons were sure to be outnumbered. I was fearful for Franky, Lyle, Mina, and all the other friends who made up the Molton Family.I wondered if Sara Walker was going to be present at the trade-off. Would she be bringing her team? “I thought you wanted peace?” I asked Aaron, and looked pointedly at his team preparing for battle. He was leading me to a sitting room with his hands behind his back. “Just because I want peace, doesn’t mean I’m a fool,” Aar
*Daniel*The plan was in place. A group of us were going to collect Audry. Which included my father, Jace, Uncle Gabriel, Franky, Lyle, Mina, Sara Walker, and some of her team. We were all gathered in the meeting room for a debriefing of the plan. Chief Walker was on speaker phone; she and the team she was able to gather on such short notice were meeting us at the Taddeos’ home base. It had been my idea to offer a new peace treaty. That was the bullshit deal I was offering Aaron. But I wanted to end this tonight. I was going to end this long war with the Taddeos once and for all. I was pretty certain Aaron could see right through my offer. Just because he was an awful person, it didn’t mean he was dumb. Tonight was going to end in a shootout. I thought we were all aware of that. Uncle Gabriel and Jace were tasked with the job to get all of our weapons from the vault in the basement. They were handing them out now. Franky was explaining to Lyle how to hold and shoot a g
“What would you like to talk about?” I asked Aaron. He took his time answering me. Aaron got up from his desk, walked around it, leaned his legs back on the wood, and crossed his arms. I wanted to roll my eyes. I wished he would just get to the point. But where was the fun in that? The longer he drew this out, the more enjoyment he received from watching me squirm.Was he planning on torturing me in his professionally looking office? He definitely was twisted enough. “Well, I just want to make sure you have all the facts to the story before you decide whose side you are on,” Aaron said calmly. “What story?” I asked suspiciously. I couldn’t control my emotions anymore. I let my guard down and I bet he could see every thought on my face now. But it seemed like he was done playing games. Aaron was ready to tell me the real reason he kidnapped and brought me to his home. “The real story of the night your father died,” Aaron replied, picking up a manilla f
*Audry*At first, the car ride there was surprisingly uneventful. One of the large bodyguards took my phone away. Aaron sat in the backseat with me. He sat annoyingly close, something that pissed me off. But I couldn’t voice my opinions because there were three other bodyguards in the car with us all who had their hands on their guns. Even the man who was driving had his gun in the drink holder.I contemplated whether I should try and reach out to snatch it, then I could shoot Aaron. But I wouldn’t even get the chance, because his bodyguards would shoot me before I could even get a good grip on the weapon. Aaron knew he had me trapped. I glanced over at him and he had a smirk on his face. His plan had worked. He was going to use me as bait. Could he somehow know about the ‘relationship’ I had with Daniel? Did he think Daniel would come to rescue me once he heard about my kidnapping? Did Aaron think the Moltons’ son cared about me that much?Because of the way thing