Aidan (Devil's Stepbrothers MC)(15)

"Stay back. If someone is going to get killed, it's going to be me." He  said as he jumped in front of her on their way out the door.



"Where are we going?" She asked as they closed the door and went for the steps.



"I'm not sure where we are going, but we need to make this right. I  guess we take the motorcycle and try to get away from this area, but  don't worry; we'll work this out, and you'll be back at your boutique  before you know it."



She couldn't help but be skeptical, but when he reached for her hand she  knew that he would try his best. He revved up his bike, and she hopped  on behind him. The lights of a half a dozen cars could be seen in the  distance, so Aidan left his lights out as he drove in the opposite  direction.         

     



 



"God bless us," she said as a prayer. Her life had never been peaceful, but it looked like she'd made a turn to hell.





CHAPTER NINE




How could someone be your heaven and your hell?



Lorna Giovanni lay on her side and watched the man who she'd been hiding  out with for the last week. His jet black hair had grown out longer  than she'd seen it, but that was to be expected. They were on the  outskirts of town living in a beautiful cabin like they were on the run.  There was a reason for that. They were on the run from seemingly  everyone.



She'd met the sexy Aidan Barnes at a dive bar where he was trying to  find information about where to find the mark he'd been sent to kill.  Little did she know he was there to kill her favorite cousin Lucca, and  little did he know she was the only daughter of the city's largest  organized crime boss. Since she'd met him, it was like she was in a  constant state of "what the fuck." Sometimes it was wonder, amazement,  disbelief, or a varied amount of other things that made her feel this  way. They had a deep connection, and it was one that she hadn't ever  found with another person.



Unfortunately, she'd acted irrationally when she heard from her  controlling father that he was going to kill him and pushed the head of  the organized underworld down in front of her cousin and many of his  followers. She was able to save Aidan, but she didn't know for how long,  and she didn't know what her punishment would be for her part of what  her father would call betrayal of the family for a stranger.



"You know I can feel you staring at me," he muttered in his deep sleepy  voice. Have mercy. The man sounded like her favorite treat deep, dark  and chocolate, and it made her want to slide her fingers into her  panties immediately.



She'd heard before that your body can feel someone watching it even when  they slept, but she didn't believe it before now. "I stare at you all  the time, and you never notice."



"I notice. I just don't say anything about it because I think it's hot  as hell, but you've been doing it for quite a while. So I thought I'd  let you know so you can either tell me what's on your mind or I can  occupy your time since you have nothing better to do than to stare at  me." He opened his eyes, and his clear green gaze scanned her face as if  he were looking for the answers there. "What's the problem?"



"I don't know, Aidan. Could it be that we are hiding out from who knows  how many groups? Doesn't that bother you? How the hell is this going to  end?" She wasn't actively trying to wake him up to talk to him, but now  that he asked her, she did have a lot of things on her mind.



He sat up on his elbow and turned toward her. "There is a lot going on  in that mind of yours. Know that I have a few things in the works for  how to get both of us out of this."



"Do these plans include us walking on our own two feet and being a part  of the land of the living?" She wasn't trying to be a smart ass, but  they were both living here in la-la land on borrowed time and money, and  the real world was just outside that door.



"That is the plan. I want us both to get out of this alive." He looked  so sincere, and she had to give it to him. This man could wake up and  have a decent conversation. She didn't know if someone had awakened her  out of a deep sleep if she'd have much more than grunts from her.



"What about my cousin, Lucca? If you were hired to kill him, then won't  there be some repercussions from that?" She was getting herself all  worked up about this, but it didn't seem like he worried at all. The man  had been hired to kill her cousin …  her freaking favorite cousin, and  here she lay in the bed with him. Her father would call it sleeping with  the enemy, but she had to believe that Aidan was going to make sure  everything was going to be okay.



"I'm working on it and hoping that we can be out of here within the  week." He gathered her into his arms and rolled onto his back pulling  her on top of him. Warm and fragrant, she was filled with the beauty of  being in the bed with a man who filled her spirit as well as her sexual  needs.



She knew that he was having lots of conversations with people off and on  throughout the day. The talks he'd been having were quiet and personal.  Growing up with a mafia father had taught her not to ask many  questions, but she wasn't a kid anymore, and Aidan wasn't her father so  her need to have answers grew with each phone call. They had bought  throw away phones since she'd had to ditch hers while she was trying to  save his life when her father found out that her new boyfriend was  trying to kill his first in command who was also his nephew.         

     



 



"Lucca won't be killed. Right?" She picked her head off his chest to see  his face when he answered that question. It had been difficult  listening to the real reason he'd fallen into her life, and it was  something she was still working through. Her father could order  someone's death as easily as people ordered a pepperoni pizza, heavy on  the sauce and light on the mozzarella. Lorna didn't like violence and  had tried her whole life to stay away from it, but she'd practically  fallen for this beautiful man within days, and after listen to him tell  her his life story, it appeared she'd been vigilant for nothing. This  man was as dangerous as they came.



"I'm trying to get that whole deal resolved." He looked her in the eye  when he said those words so she wanted to believe that he was telling  her the truth, but did she really know? When working with criminals, no  one knows 100%.



"I don't know what I would do if someone killed Lucca. He's more like a  brother to me than my brothers are. He was one of the only ones who ever  tried to understand that I was different from most of the people the  family who just went along with the mob lifestyle. He stood up for me  and helped me get the life I wanted." She looked over to see if Aidan  could hear what she was trying to say about her cousin Lucca and was  relieved when she watched the remorse fill his eyes. It would have to be  enough that he understood what was going on with her and how important  Lucca and his survival was to her. That man had fought tooth and nail to  get permission for her to move out of her family's home and for her  father to set up that boutique for her. Lucca was the second in command,  but her father looked up to him more than anyone else, so when she had  Lucca's ear, she knew she also had her fathers.



The room was filled with regrets and tension that the conversation and  their situation had brought about. After spilling so much of her guts  before breakfast, she felt like she was wilted. There was nothing else  to say to express how important it was to her that her life remain  Lucca-filled, but she wondered how much a man like Aidan could actually  do. He didn't seem to be in a management position but more of a person  who fills the contractual agreement.



"I hate to see you like this, Lorna. The thing is …  I don't know what the  future holds. It's new for me to even worry that far. I've always been  in it for myself and partially for my brothers in the club, but having  someone like you involved is putting an unfamiliar spin on something I'm  usually accustomed to dealing with. That's not to say that I'm not  going to go over and above that standard, but I just wanted to let you  know where I stand."



She could understand that, but that didn't help the fact that she wanted  some reassurance that her cousin wasn't going to be harmed, and he was  basically telling her that he couldn't offer that to her.



He rolled her on her back so he was on top of her, and the wanton that  she was had her legs spread so that his big body settled right between  her legs. Losing herself in sex was something that she'd done before but  never with someone so good at it or someone that she was beginning to  feel something for. All those dumb love songs were right when feelings  were involved it did make everything more intense.



"I know there are a lot of things that are going on, but now isn't the  time to worry about them because nothing can be done. There are some  things going on behind the curtain that I have to wait and see how they  pan out but no one is saying we can't have fun while we wait." His words  were interspersed with kisses, and she hoped he continued with this  mode of communication all day.