It had been close to three months since I had seen or heard from Lucas. Christmas had come and gone and now February was almost over. My mom was worried about me after I had refused to come home for Christmas. As much as I knew it upset her I couldn’t talk about Lucas yet and I didn’t want to face Cody. He had tried to call me once but I didn’t answer sending him straight to voicemail. In some ways, I blamed him for my falling out with Lucas. After all, if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t have ever met Lucas.
Jack had seemed to take me under his wing, he had made sure I ate lunch every day, he kept me busy, and most important of all he never asked me about Lucas even though I knew he must know. As much as I hated to admit it I laid awake most nights staring at my phone wishing Lucas would call, wishing he would make an effort, but it never happened. I had decided to stay in the apartment, mostly because I didn’t know what to do with it if I was
“Taylor look at me,” his tone demanded my obedience but even so I slowly lifted my gaze back to his. Once our eyes connected he arched his brow, “I asked you a question, Taylor. What do you want?”My eyes went back to the ground as I suddenly felt overheated. Realizing I had never taken my jacket off I shrugged out of it throwing it over one of my arms. Hearing Lucas let out an aggravated breath I looked up seeing he was still waiting on me to answer his question. I looked back down moving my weight from one foot to the other, “I just wanted to know why Lucas?”He snorted, “why? Why now Taylor?”I took a breath feeling as if my jacket suddenly weighed a ton. Laying it down on the back of the chair in front of me I pulled my purse off and sat it in the seat. Looking back up I saw Lucas watching me looking unamused at my stalling. I shrugged refusing to keep eye contact with him, “because I need to hear it from
Looking up at Lucas I shook my head, “I don’t think that’s such a good idea.” Lucas shrugged before taking the couple of steps to me. I stood still refusing to back down to him again.“Are you afraid of me Taylor?” Lucas asked as he looked down at me.I nodded in answer as I looked down. I was afraid that he was still lying to me. I was afraid that if I allowed myself this moment of weakness I’d never be able to walk away from him again. I was afraid I wouldn’t want to.Lucas sighed shaking his head as he leaned down grabbing my chin and pulled it up to meet his lips. Even knowing it was coming I wasn’t ready. As he stood back up straight I looked up at him. His eyes watched me carefully, “you didn’t miss me?”Shaking my head I shrugged, “of course I missed you but that’s beside the point. I don’t know if I can trust you, Lucas. How do I know you're not still lying t
The next morning I opened my eyes laying still waiting to wake up from this dream. Things were too perfect, the bed underneath me was like a cloud, the covers silky smooth, and the light streaming in through the window made the room glow. When nothing changed I rolled over seeing the other side of the bed was empty. Looking up at the ceiling I sighed wondering what I was supposed to do now. Nothing had been resolved and no questions had been answered. We had fucked that's it.Getting out of the bed I walked to the bathroom turning on the shower before taking care of my business. As I grabbed a towel I was surprised to find that my things I had left were still in the cabinet. Stepping into the shower I looked and saw that even my shampoo and conditioner were in the corner. I felt a little better knowing he hadn’t just thrown my things out. I had started to throw his things away at my house but they only made it into a box that I had shoved in my closet. Maybe he di
As I sat drinking my coffee the thought occurred to me that if Lucas had called off his hit on Cody once, he wouldn’t be lying when he said that he would do it again. If I could get Cody to stand down maybe I could get the two of them to come to some type of agreement. I didn’t know how Lucas would feel about me reaching out to Cody. Actually, I knew exactly how he would feel. But he had technically told me to stay away from him, he didn’t say anything about me talking to him.As I hit my brother's name on my phone I knew without a doubt that Lucas would be pissed if he knew what I was doing. I had to try though, maybe I could help fix this mess. As the phone began ringing I began to second guess my decision. Cody was hot headed and he was just as stubborn as Lucas. After two rings I was ready to hand up but I heard the click of him picking up and my stomach fell.“Are you in trouble?” Cody’s voice came through sharply, “or did you just want to tell me you were back fuck
Looking in the mirror I couldn’t help but think this was a bad idea. I hadn’t even been out of the house since Cody had threatened not only Lucas but myself as well. Now Lucas was insisting I join him at the club to make an appearance and let people know we were back together.We had argued before he had left earlier. I didn’t see how it was anyone’s business what we did. In fact, we had never officially been a couple so we’d never officially gotten back together. Lucas hadn’t been too happy when I pointed that out and suddenly had to leave.He had given in and given me my own room, not that I got to spend a lot of time in it. It was basically a huge closet. I should have known that having my own room wouldn’t do any good. I had wanted to ease back into being with him but Lucas wasn’t hearing it.After he had left David had shown up with a package. I already knew that inside would be a dress for tonight so I went a
David grabbed my hand pulling me with him. I didn’t try to argue and for some unknown reason, I wasn’t full-blown panicking. David took me to the back stairs and as he threw the door open he pulled his gun out of nowhere. I stuck close to him as we made our way to the bottom floor. When he was sure the hall was clear he took me about halfway down the hall before he opened a door and pushed me inside.It was dark and I instinctively hit my phone so there was some light. David grabbed my phone turning the flashlight on, “this will have to be turned off.” He pointed in a corner, “see if you can crawl to the back corner and get somewhere along the wall. Then pull as many boxes as you can around you.”I nodded taking my phone from him. The room had tables and chairs pushed up against the wall in a haphazard way. This must be one of the rooms that could be rented out for parties or whatnot. As quickly as I could I got to my knees and undid my straps on my shoes pulling them of
Lucas POVAs the door opened I looked up at the two men who entered. I don’t know how long they had held me in the investigation room alone but I was over it and ready to go. I needed a report from David and most of all I was ready to get home to Taylor and see how she was doing. I had just gotten her back and I'd be pissed if this ran her back off. The younger man, one I hadn’t seen before sat down pushing a pack of cigarettes toward me, “you want some coffee?” he asked.Turning my attention to O’Grady I shook my head no. “You already know I’m not speaking without Latham so why are you here annoying me?”O’Grady looked at me unfazed, “Oh come on Lucas, what’s a little chat among friends. Your little girlfriend Taylor had lots to tell me. I have to say she doesn't seem your type. ”I arched my brow up at him, “oh really, like what? How she can’t stay off my dick.”
Taylor POVI woke up bolting straight up in bed. Looking over I let out a sigh of relief seeing Lucas asleep beside me. My sudden movement had him frowning but his eyes remained closed. I wanted to shake him awake and demand he tell me what had happened but he looked so peaceful I couldn’t.Reaching onto the nightstand I went to check the time but was flabbergasted by the amount of missed calls and texts I had from my mom. Sighing I closed my eyes. It must be all over the news for her to be calling. Opening my phone I scanned through my text. She was worried, she thoughtt I had gotten myself in over my head and didn’t know how to reach out for help. She had basically begged me to call her so she would know I was ok. Her voicemails were all the same.Slipping out of bed I went to the restroom leaving my dress a puddle on the floor as I stepped into the shower. Taking my time I tried to gather my thoughts as I washed my hair and tried to let the hot wa