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

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

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

I knew from the moment that Lucas pulled up to the front of the hotel he had booked us that it was lavish. He had booked us a suite and I couldn’t wait to see what it looked like. It was already dark and from the hotels' location, we would be able to see all the bright lights of the city. I could see them from my apartment but not like this, not this close, not these buildings.On the elevator up, Lucas stood slightly behind holding our bags.“Do I still scare you, Taylor?” His breath was at the nape of my neck and all I could do is nod my head yes. He chuckled, “I can never figure out if that’s a good thing or a bad thing with you.”Tilting my head to look over my shoulder I looked up at him, “me either Lucas, me either.”Smiling down at me he nodded as the door popped open in front of us. As he opened the door to our suite my mouth hit the ground. I had never stayed anywhere this nice before. It was....it was beau

After Lucas left I didn’t really know what to do so I gathered the trays from our breakfast and sat them outside to be picked up. When I was done I sent Lucas a text simply saying “I’m sorry,” but he didn’t reply. It aggravated me because I felt like I was always the one making sacrifices in what I wanted and he couldn’t even acknowledge that I was trying to make peace between us.When David came around two to drop my laptop off I blocked his way out. “So he is still mad?”David looked down at me sighing, “Taylor, Lucas has a lot going on right now. He’s being drug in and out of the police station, he’s at war with your brother’s gang, not to mention the normal crap with the club. I know you don’t like to hear it but Lucas has a whole crew of men running the streets under him, he’s used to chaos. I think he just wants to come home to peace.”I looked down, “we got int