few years ago, but I keep a pack just in case of emergencies.”
“Well, this was an emergency I can imagine.” She sat there staring at him, and he realized that she actually didn’t think he was going to come back.
“Come here,” he said pulling her closer to him and sitting her on his lap. When she was settled in, she took a deep breath in and then turned her face toward his.
“I can’t believe you came back. Dinner is probably ruined, but if you want I can call out for something.” She looked so earnest, and he knew he’d never known a sweeter soul. He couldn’t afford to have her though, so he would just have to be content to know that he’d once known someone of her caliber. Maybe that would keep him warm when he was without her, because that day was coming soon.
“I’ve only been around you for a week. It doesn’t seem like you see a lot of your family or your cousin.” And so it began… she had opened the door, and now he was barreling through. The shitty feelings he had swirling around his brain and heart could go fuck themselves because he had a job to do.
“I don’t like to see my family all that much. I’m the black sheep of the family. I don’t want to be a part of the destruction and crime they involve themselves in. I do go to dinner with them once a month. If you wanted, you could come along. It’s actually tomorrow.” She looked so excited, and he would have loved to go if he were a really here to be a boyfriend, but there was no way he was going to show his face to her father when he was on a mission to kill the man’s relative and junior leader.
“Will your cousin be there?” He had to ask since he didn’t know what he was going to do with the whole Lucca slash can I keep my job thing. It was better to have all the information available, and then he could decide the best route to take.
“Most of the time he comes, but I’m not sure about tomorrow. There have been people looking for him or so he thinks, and he’s been laying low for a while.”
“You don’t think people are looking for him?” Aiden wondered if she knew how serious her family’s connections were and how many people wre probably looking for him. She had no idea that is how they met. He was on a mission to find the man she called her cousin and kill him. Then he needed proof so that his group of biker mercenaries could get paid. It was a dirty, cruel world, and all of the sudden, he wanted to protect her from it.
“I guess they could be.” She didn’t seem like she was too interested in her cousin running, and he wondered if she knew he was running for his life.
Turning her heads, he snuggled into his neck. “I’m kind of tired. I took a sleeping pill so I could relax, and it is really kicking in.”
“Come on, Sleeping Beauty,” he said as he pushed her off his lap and then walked behind her to her room. Getting her settled in her large bed wasn’t hard as she was already dressed and just needed to be tucked back in. When she patted the spot next to her, he took off his clothes and slid in beside her.
“Thanks for coming back,” she said sounding like she was almost asleep. He didn’t have an answer for that, so he just kissed her forehead.
“I know my cousin and dad would love you if they met you.”
She didn’t know how wrong she was. He lay in the dark and thought about how this was going to play out. There was a possibility that the cousin would be at the dinner with Lorna tomorrow, but there was no way he was going to kill him in front of her and his family, but maybe he could follow her to get to the house and then follow his mark home.
Lorna snuggled against him bringing her ass to fit his cock, and he thought about taking her up on what seemed to be her invitation, but he knew she was tired and all of a sudden he was too. What seemed like an open and closed case wasn’t feeling like that now. He had a piece of a plan
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