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What if…things with Killian could work out this time. I wasn’t the same naive and innocent girl I was back then.
Maybe I could withstand the shit they did now. Maybe, just maybe, I could find peace with it all.
Or maybe I was lying to myself because I desperately wanted Killian between my legs again.
Killian openedthe door to the lake house he’d taken me to the last time I’d had to escape from my drunk mother. He knelt in front of me as he lifted my chin with his finger. I tried not to look him in the eye as he inspected the bruises and cuts.
“Are you okay?” he asked me. I finally looked into those black pits of his eyes, and the tears began to fall onto my cheeks.
“Yes.”
“I’ll kill her.”
“No,” I stopped him from going to do what I knew he would. I didn’t want him behind bars. I wanted him beside me, stopping the next attack. “Please, Kill, stay here.”
He sighed, but I could see the tension leaving his body as he turned back to me and finally he joined me on the edge of the bed.
“Did I interrupt you?” I asked him. “You didn’t seem happy on the phone.”
“I was in a fight with my dad.”
“Oh,” I said. He never told me about his family, especially not his mob boss dad who ran the entire town. “I’m sorry. You can go.”
“No,” he said. “I don’t need to . Lorcan’s his heir, not me.”
I didn’t like the way he said that, but I didn’t want to fight. I just needed him to hold me. As if he knew that, he wrapped his arm around my shoulders and pulled me into his chest. I let the sobs wrack through my chest as his strong arm held me.
I felt so utterly safe with him.
I never wanted him to be away from me.
I didn’t think I would survive.
“Are you okay?”
I broke from my memory and looked over at Conor. He looked at me with concern. “I’m fine.”
“Okay, well we’re here.”
I got out of the car and looked up at the grand estate. It was always so intimidating being here again. It was the only place like it in our city, being built when the town was discovered centuries ago. Teeghan ran out of the double doors and into my arms. It felt so good to have her wrap her arms around me. I could feel her positive energy and it was lifting my spirits, which was always welcome.
“You look like you could use a cocktail,” she said. “Come on.”
I entered through the doors and took in the grand foyer. This place had once been a safe haven for me back in the day, and hopefully I could feel that same sense of safety I had once felt with Killian while this whole thing blew over.
Whoever this bitch was that was after them, she would soon see that I was noone to Killian and she’d leave me be.
“Where’s Killian?” I asked Conor as he joined us inside.
He sobered a little, looking to Tee first, then back at me. “Oh, he’s in Belfast actually. Urgent business. He’ll be back tomorrow morning.”
“So where am I staying exactly?”
“In a guest room,” he said. “Don’t worry, Walt’s done it up real nice. You have non stop bar service and food service here, Sloane. Maybe you won’t hate me so much after your stay.”
“That’s asking a lot of the alcohol and food, Conor,” I shot back. Conor let out a howl of laughter as he left me with Teeghan. She led me down a hallway, until we got into a room with a bar cart full of alcoholic drinks and a library of books. I’d never been in this room before.
I fought back the irritation that Killian wasn’t even here after he had taken me from my cottage but I had my girl, and we had alcohol.
