“What’s this about?” She wanted to act like they weren’t all freaking her out, but they were.
“Do you love your cousin Lucca?” Her father got up to walk around his desk and sit on the corner. Lorna wondered if this was how he reprimanded the people who worked for him. It was very effective. She felt fully chastised and wanted to repent without knowing what she’d done wrong.
“Of course, I do. What kind of question is that?”
“I’ll ask the questions here. You just give the answers.” Her father’s strong voice had a bit of a boom to it, and she swore she could feel it vibrating in her chest.
“I’m sorry, Papa.”
“I’ve just gotten word that there is a man who has been sent to take out your cousin Lucca, and your name was attached to him.”
Lorna sat in the seat not knowing what her father was talking about. The only person she had met recently was Aiden, and there was no way he was some sort of assassin. She just sat there because she knew that there must be some kind of mistake.
“You don’t have anything to say?” Her father shifted a bit on the desk, and she was reminded of a time when he slapped her. It was only once, and it was when she was a teen, but her cheek still throbbed like it remembered he’d done that and was afraid it was going to happen again.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She didn’t know how her father had found out about her dating situation, but it was safe to say he was probably having her followed. Was she ever going to be able to run her own life? Not while her father treated her like she was five years old.
“The man who has been sleeping with you at night and looking for your cousin during the day. Are you going to tell me you have so many men going in and out of your doors you can’t put a name on who I’m talking about?” The head of the Giovanni family didn’t take kindly to being called a liar or a fool, but that isn’t what she was trying to do.
“I’m not saying that, but I don’t think the man I spend my time with is the man out to get Lucca.” She looked over at her cousin and saw that he, indeed, looked like she’d hurt him personally. He had to know she wouldn’t be involved with anything like that. “Everyone knows I don’t like violence, and I wouldn’t ever do anything to hurt or bring harm to my own family.”
Her father drew in a deep breath. “I know baby girl, but the world is rough out there. People could find out who you are and use you to find us. That’s why I didn’t want you to move so far away. It’s hard to keep tabs on you when you’re not living in this house. I should have put the peepers in your house even though you told me not to. You’re too important to me to be on the streets without protection.”
“I’m not on the streets. That would be my house you’re talking about. I’m safe in my own house,” she argued her point without trying to get loud. Somehow the people in her family saw that as a reason to just yell louder and scream out their point of view. That didn’t help anyone, and everyone just got worn out without even hearing the other person’s side.
“You could be your own person if there was a security detail on you. There are times I’ve had you followed, and you had no idea. I’ve let you do your own thing, but something tells me you are getting snuckered and you don’t even know it.”
“Snuckered?” She knew her father made up words all the time, and she usually could figure them out, but not this one.
“It means being hoodwinked, taken for a ride, used… capiche?” Her father was getting a bit upset now. When he started throwing in Italian words, it was getting ready to get bad. She needed to explain a few things to him or she would find herself on father-mandated house arrest with no possibility for parole.
“I want to be my own person, Papa, you know that. I don’t stand in the way of any of the things you do. I know you have my job bugged and probably my phone too, and I don’t put up a fuss, but my home is my domain, and I don’t want it infiltrated.”
He turned around on the desk and picked up a picture. “Do you know this man?” He asked as he waved the picture around near her face.
The man in the picture had the same black hair she’d just recently run her hands through and big hard body she’d run her hands over following those touches up with her mouth. The man that she cared about couldn’t be the man they were talking about. Her father had gone through a lot of trial and error before, and she couldn’t remember a man that she liked that he approved of, but this was a bit much even for him.
She just shrugged in answer to his question because she knew how he worked. She’d say something, and he would shoot her down. There were times when it was just better to keep your mouth closed, and she could tell that this was one of those times.
“A shrug isn’t going to work little lady. This is the man my people have said is trying to put your cousin into a grave. Do you know this man or not?” Her father stood up from the desk and walked over to her chair. She could almost feel the pain he was getting ready to hand down.
Lorna didn’t know what came over her, but she pushed out of her chair and flew at her father knocking him to the floor as she fell beside him. The clicking of the guns told her she’d made a grave mistake. Everyone except her father and Lucca were pointing guns at her face.
The metallic taste in her mouth was bitter, and since she hadn’t planned this out, she had no thought of what to do next, so she froze. It seemed like it was hours that she lay there with her hands raised and prayed they didn’t kill her. What would her mother think about all this?
“That’s enough, guys. What the fuck are you going to do shoot her? Shoot the daughter of the boss right on his office floor?” Lucca said to the men in the room as he pulled her up from the floor into his arms.
She felt so alone right then, so adrift. What in the world had she been thinking? She was the girl who was always by her father’s side as a child and the proclaimed daddy’s girl throughout her life. He’d hit her once as a teenager, and she’d never forgotten it. Her mother told her that she should have been a better daughter, and it wouldn’t have happened. It was probably true, but she’d promised herself no one would hit her again. His hand wasn’t raised as he walked toward her, but she felt the aggression and it was like her body took over.
“I don’t know what he’s done to you, but that ends tonight.” Her father said to her sounding like he’d never sounded before. Even with the guns and the chaos of the night, that tone scared the crap out of her.
“What do you mean?” she asked trying to get out of Lucca’s arms.
Her father turned to the guys she didn’t know. “Let it be done.”
“Let what be done, Papa?” She didn’t know if he would even give her the information after all that had happened, but she didn’t like the ominousness of what her father had told his henchmen.
“Little girl, I’ve killed people for less than you’ve done here tonight. Bringing strangers in among our family and helping someone find a relative are things that aren’t acceptable. You’ve embarrassed me in front of my men, and I’m fighting hard not to beat the hell out of you.”
She knew that her actions wouldn’t go over well, but there she was again getting in trouble for something she didn’t do. “Papa, I didn’t bring any strangers around.”
“Silence. This man you’ve been with… the one who’s looking for Lucca, will be killed tonight. Then we can return his head to the people who sent him, and then I can deal with you and your disrespectful nature.” Her father didn’t even look like the man she knew. His face was angry and red. It looked like it was going to pop. What she realized was that they were going to kill an innocent man because of her. Her father was going to take her actions out on Aiden, and his death would be on her hands.
She broke away from Lucca and ran to the door, but Lucca was much faster than she was.
“Don’t do anything stupid… well anything else.” Lucca always had a smile for her and a witty response. They hadn’t been able to catch up like they usually did, but she’d mak
e sure they sat down for a nice long chat when she got this thing with Aiden all cleared up. She’d bring him that expensive liquor he loved so much. She gave him a kiss on the cheek.
“I’ll try my best.” She had to get to Aiden before the men her father sent did. The problem was she thought they knew where he was, and she had no clue. She could have tried harder to get more information about him. She didn’t know where he spent his days or much about where he’d come from, but there was no way he was a killer. She’d seen how shocked he was when he found out who she was, so he couldn’t have been using her for that.
She ran down the hall and into her old bedroom before she locked the door. Thank goodness she had her phone so she could send off a text message to Aiden.
People are coming to kill you leave wherever you are and get to safety.
She wondered if he would think she was kidding with that kind of doomsday text, but she hoped he knew better. Her bedroom had been wired for sound and not video her, and her brothers had gotten to make that choice so her father wouldn’t know that she’d texted him. Hopefully.
There was a knock at the door that didn’t sound like your average ‘Can I come in and talk to you,’ and she wasn’t going to be able to sit down and talk to anyone with the way she was feeling. It had been a long time since she crawled out her window, but that was what she was going to do. This night had turned from bad to worse within minutes, and she felt like she was Alice in Wonderland. Everything was different even though it all looked the same. Heaven help her if she lost the only guy who made her not want to hide who she was.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Aiden had gotten the message from Lorna and had heeded her every word. It wasn’t every day a woman he was dating went to a family dinner with her mafia boss father and sent him a text that people were coming to kill him.
He ended up in a cheap hotel on the outskirts of the city, and he waited until he got a call from Lorna. He told her where he was, but he wondered how smart that was. She could be followed or she could just be turning him in. Blood is thicker than water; he grew up knowing that, and since he’d never had any blood to test that theory, he was going to have to just take for granted that it was true.
The knock on the door had him drawing his gun although he shouldn’t have. The type of people who were supposed to be looking for him wouldn’t be knocking on the door. They’d just bust in, do what they wanted, and then leave, but not before taking some piece of him for proof that he was killed. He knew the procedure. Hell, that was his procedure.
He opened the door and found Lorna looking like a shaking leaf. Pulling her inside, he scanned the parking lot briefly to see if anyone was out there.
“No one followed me because I doubt they know I’m gone. I threw my phone away before I got here because you never know who’s tracking my phone.” She held on to him so tight that he could feel her shivering like he himself was shivering.
“It’s okay, honey. What happened?” He tried to wrap her in a hug to warm her up.
“I’m so sorry,” she said as she pulled him down to kiss her. Whatever he’d been expecting it hadn’t been this.
“Sorry about what?” he asked as he watched what she was doing to him.
She was pulling his shirt out of his pants and unbuckling his jeans. It didn’t appear that she was even trying to answer him and that surprised him. Sex with them was always great, but it felt like she was using it as an apology, and she had nothing to apologize for. He stopped her flurry of hands and kisses and looked into her eyes.
“I’ve had a shitty night, and I just want to feel good. It’s getting late so I’ll spend the night here. We can talk about whatever you want to talk about when we’re done. I just need… I need you, now.”
He could tell that it took a lot for her to get those words out of her mouth, so he knew her desires were strong and real. Doing what was best for her was his top priority if for no other reason than if it weren’t for her he’d probably be dead at this moment.
“Alright, Lorna. Whatever you need, if I’m able, I’ll give it to you.”
“Thank you,” she said as he let her have her way with him.
He wanted to help her with her clothes, but she seemed not to want his help and shooed him away each time he tried. Eventually she had both of their clothes off, and she’d done it with such speed and passion she was almost out of breath. He didn’t know what this was about, but what he did know was his cock was standing at attention, waiting to find out what she wanted to do next.
She pulled him by his hand over to the bed as she lay back on the bed with her legs spread.
This wasn’t what he thought she was gearing up for, but he was more than ready to service her if that’s what she wanted right now. “Do you want me to kiss your pussy?” He wanted her to tell him what she wanted because she was acting so different than she normally did.
“Yes,” she said as she rolled her hips like it wouldn’t take much for her to go over the top. This was one of the sexiest situations he’d ever witnessed. It could have been just that his mortality has been threatened or that his heart beat hadn’t gone down in a few hours, but he wanted to make this night last for as long as it could. The daylight would bring its own problems.
He leaned down on the bed and slid his hands under her body taking a butt cheek in each hand so he could spread her wide and devour her. She was whimpering before he’d even got his mouth on her, and she was so wet her pussy glistened. Her sweet aroma was always so faint but not now. Her smell tickled his nose and made his mouth water with the need to taste her. Was she in the mood to be teased and cajoled? Not really, but maybe that’s what she really needed. A quick release was always pleasurable, but you could get those by yourself. He wanted to thank her, please her, and feel what he really wanted to say through his mouth.
She placed her hand on the back of his head and brought him to her. He grazed her sex softly with his lips and moved his head from side to side opening her up to him so he could get to the needy flesh that needed soothed.
“Don’t tease me, Aiden,” she whispered.
“Just lay back and let me enjoy this. You’ve had a rough day so let me make it better.” He hadn’t taken his eyes off her face since she lay down. She had picked her head up to make her requests, but she must have taken his advice and decided to just go with the flow because she lay her head back like she was going to try to relax.
The shivering he’d noticed when she was at the door had subsided, and he hoped it was because she now felt the arousal starting to grow within her body. The anticipation he was building was hopefully one of the things that was going to make this better for her and in turn better for him.
His touch was a little firmer so she was getting a good bit of stimulation but not enough to send her over the edge. Licking from her opening up to the bundle of nerves and then sucking that bud into his mouth is what he’d been doing for the last few minutes. Judging how fast or slow he should be going by the rhythm of her breathing, his hands palmed her breasts and squeezed her nipples as he tried to make this a full body connection.
One last lick down to taste the sweet nectar she was producing for him was all he was going to do for her. She needed this to be drawn out, and he’d done that. Now his sweet woman deserved to come hard. Making it up to the top of her cleft the last time, he sucked her clit into his mouth and kissed it like it was a little tongue. Lorna seemed to really like that as she drew her legs back and up so he’d have more than enough room. She fucked her hips up to his mouth and murmured the unknown language of passion. What she was saying he didn’t know, but it made his cock harder than stone.
He’d never heard her get as loud during sex as he had when she finally broke and her orgasm over took her. It was a good thing he had a strong neck because it was like she was trying to break it. He held on while she arched up onto his mouth and enjoyed the ride. It took a while for her to finish, and he lightened his touch during the aftershocks of her pleasure.
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“Your turn,” she said as she pushed him off her and then stood up by the bed.
“You want me to lay down now?”
She looked like a sated kitten, and he absolutely loved it. He considered this a job well done. Aiden had wanted to comfort the woman who helped him and was left shaking by his door as she ran across town from what he didn’t know but that she had come to him left him wanting to do something for her.
“Yes,” she said sounding much more confident and comfortable. This was the Lorna he knew, and he was glad to see her back to normal.
Laying down for her wasn’t a problem, and he wondered what she had planned. Not that he was picky. He’d love his cock in her mouth or sliding into the pussy he’d just tasted.
She settled on her knees and placed kisses from his groin to his neck. It looked like she was going to try her hand at the art of teasing. He loved having it all drawn out, but he liked a quick nut as well. With this woman, he liked whatever she did, but the light sucking kisses she was anointing his body with were building him up even more. When she got to his face she just stared down at him like she wanted him to say something or she wanted to get something off her chest. He had a cock as hard as a rock but this was her show and if she wanted to say something he was willing to listen.
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