I woke up to the sound of beeping. I felt like I had been hit by a car and well I guess I technically had. As I tried to sit up my head started spinning and I realized I was hooked up to an IV. Turning my head I looked for Lucas but the room was dark and empty.
Trying to sit up again I groaned, my muscles were stiff and each move I made hurt. The door opened and a nurse walked in. “Ms. Taylor I’m glad to see you awake. I’m your nurse, my name is Heidi. How are you feeling?”
I laid back looking at the ceiling, “horrible,” I mumbled, “where is Lucas?”
Heidi smiled at me, “you were in a pretty bad wreck but you came out without too much damage. On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your pain? With one being not very much and ten being extreme.”
“7,” I said watching as she jotted it down before taking my vitals. “Is Lucas ok? Where is he?” Gasping I lifted my hand to my mouth
Lucas POVFrowning 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