Page 1 of Their Deviant Love
Chapter One
At the sound of the first gunshot, I’m being shoved downwards. I push at the chest that’s on top of mine. “What are you doing? Get off me!” I scream over the commotion.
“Never. On top of you is my favorite place to be.” Connor smirks. “You okay?” He takes his time scanning my face. His hands roam down the sides of my body.
“I’d be a whole lot better when you get off me. Connor, people are shooting,” I tell him.
“I’m aware,” he grunts. His head looks up and then he finally stands. But before I can straighten myself out, he’s hauling me up and then I’m tossed over his shoulder and he’s running.
Why the hell is he running?
“Where are you going?” I ask him, trying my best to wiggle free of his grip.
“Getting you the fuck out of here, like I should have done before the fucking shooting started!” Connor yells back at me, his grip tightening around my thighs.
“No, you should put me down. Connor, my family is in there.” I’m starting to get really pissed off at him treating me like a girl. He never does this. He doesn’t shield me from the horrors of our world, so why the hell is he doing it now?
Connor sets my feet back on the ground. I try to get around him to push through the doors. “No fucking way are you going back in there,” he says, blocking my path.
“Move.” My fists clench at my sides. I thought we’d gotten past the whole me using violence on him to prove a point. But right now, I’m fully prepared to stab him. Not anywhere lethal, obviously. I don’t want him dead.
“No.” Connor’s smirk widens. “You want to stab me, huh?”
“You think I won’t?” I raise a brow at him.
“I know you will. But you can’t.”
“Why not?” I ask him.
“Because we are here to project a united front, Aurora. The family isn’t going to accept a wife who stabs me,” he says.
“I don’t give two shits about your fucked-up leprechaun family, Connor O’Malley.My familyis in there right now.” I point behind him.
“Yeah, well, guess what? You’re my family, Aurora, and I’m not letting you get filled with fucking lead.” Connor doesn’t budge.
The noise inside stops. “You better hope that no one I care aboutgot filled with leador you’re going to need to sleep with one eye open tonight.” When his smile somehow gets even wider, I groan. “What the hell are you smiling about?”
“If I have to sleep with one eye open, that would indicate you still plan on sleeping right beside me. In the same bed,” he says.
“Where else would I sleep?” Now I’m confused.
“Not with me.” He shrugs.
“You think I’m that easy to get rid of?” I laugh.
“I fucking hope not,” he says.
The door opens and my father and brother walk out. “Aurora, you good?” my dad asks me.
“I’m fine. Are you?” I look him over. I don’t see any obvious bullet holes. I then turn my attention to Enzo. “You?”
“Been better,” he groans, holding a hand over his waist.
“Shit, you need a doctor,” I tell him.
“We need to get out of here. I know someone. I’ll have them meet us.” This comes from Levi Mancini. No doubt the reason my family found me.
“You need to go with them, princess. I have to do something here, and then I’ll come find you,” Connor tells me.
