Loving You - Chapter 16 (Patreon)

I'm sleeping until I feel a rough jerk on my shoulders. I open my eyes and see Damien. His wide blue orbs glaring into my green ones.

"Nevaeh, wake up. We have to leave. Now."

I'm still groggy from sleep, but the tone of his voice wakes me up soon enough. I get out of the bed and stumble on my feet as he throws a set of clothing at me. I stare at them in disbelief. These are his sweatpants and shirt! I couldn't fit these!

"Damien, what's going o-" I'm interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Room service!"

Damien turns sharply to me. "Did you order any room service?" The murderous gleam in his eyes scares me. I shake my head and he grabs me by the arm and drags me out of the room to the front door where the knock is coming from. He pushes me behind him and looks me in the eyes. His cold eyes turn soft as he stares at me.

"Nevaeh, I want you to listen to me well. The last thing I wanted was to put you in harms way. Follow me, and listen to my directions." He kisses me quickly on the lips before I have a chance to respond.

He turns back to the door and pulls a gun out of his pants. He takes a deep breath and all emotion is wiped from his face. He looks like an angel from hell. Emotionless, scary, and deadly. He jerks open the door and with one shot the man on the other side of the door falls to the ground. I scream but before I can let it out long enough he turns to me.

"Shut the fuck up!" He hisses. "Make another sound and you will not like the consequences." He goes to the now dead mans body and flips him over, revealing a gun in his pant holster. He takes it out and hands it to me. I stare at him wide eyed.

"No! Damien I can't have a gun! I cant shoot someone I-"

"Nevaeh! Take the damn gun. " I shake my head and he just rolls his eyes and puts the gun in his pants.

He jerks my arm and were out the door. Damien begins speaking into his earpiece.

"It's already begun... How soon?...Damn! How can we get there this place is crawling with them!...Ok."

Damien pushes me behind him and starts walking the lining of the wall like some CSI agent. He gets to the elevator and pushes the button closing the door behind us. Once the elevator starts moving I turn on him.

"Damien, what's going on?"

He looks at me. "Nothing you need to concern yourself with."

"Well, when you're shooting random hotel staff in the head, I think it should concern me!"

He whips around to look at me making me immediately regret my tone.

"I said, nothing you need to fucking concern yourself with. Got it?"

I nod my head vigorously. The elevator dings and Damien immediately pushes me against the side wall, aiming his gun at the doors. They open slowly and he fires off three shots. I jump behind him and cover my ears. I'm immediately pulled from my panic as Damien yanks my arms, dragging me out of the elevator over random peoples bodies. My eyes widen in shock as I see they're still alive! Damien seemed to have shot them where it would immobilize them, but not kill them. He looks at me as he gathers the ammo from one of the not so innocent peoples gun.

"If it hurts you that bad that I kill them then I just wont kill them." He flashes me that charming smile and my heart stops. He stands up quickly and drags me out of the building. We're standing at the front of the hotel again, but this time there is no valet. Damien pushes me behind a plant. "Stay here." And he runs back into the hotel leaving me alone.

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Damien

This couldn't have happened at a worse time. Ramirez put out a 3million dollar bounty on Nevaeh's head. Alive. People were swarming the hotel trying to get Nevaeh for that expensive bounty. I walk back into the hotel and pull out my gun. I told Nevaeh to stay put outside so that I could take care of some unfinished business in here.

I walk up to the men that I had shot in the legs. And kill them off. I told Nevaeh that I wouldn't kill them but that was only to give her mind some ease. I couldn't afford to let them live it was too risky.

I walk back out to the front and Nevaeh is still hiding behind the plant. She looks at me with those big green eyes.

"Did you kill someone?" She must have heard the gunshot. I give her a charming smile. "Of course not baby." She gives me a small smile. She has been very brave she doesn't know what's going on but has been listening to me and following my directions, I didn't want to tell her because I didn't want her worried so hopefully she'll just listen to me.

There's a gunshot and he tile behind my head chips. I grab her hastily and we begin to run across the parking lot to my car. Gunfire is heavy behind me and I know they're aiming for me and not Nevaeh.

"Ah!"

I hear her mangled cry and stop dead in my tracks. I turn and shes behind me moaning loudly and gripping her shoulder. My heart jumps. There's blood coming from the underside of her hand. I drag her behind another vehicle where we're safe and inspect it. She's crying hard now and moaning to me about the pain. I see red but have to control myself for Nevaeh's sake. I finally get her to pull her hand back and look. There's a hole in her skin. She's obviously been shot. But lucky for her it went straight through and didnt hit the bone or her arm would be shattered. She cant walk though and this spells trouble. I pick her up and she cries louder. I cant make her be quiet but I know she's probably in excruciating pain. I take her and sprint across the lot to my car. Once I have her in passenger seat I jump in the drivers seat, my heart squeezing every time she groans in pain. I tear off my shirt and press it to the wound earning an even louder scream from her.

"Nevaeh, Listen to me." She's not listening just crying in pain. Her body starts shaking and her breathing is rapidly coming out. Dammit she's going into shock!

"Nevaeh!" I shout louder but it's no use. Another shot is fired and it hits the hood of my car. Fuck it. I peel out of the parking lot. Nevaeh is currently shaking like crazy her eyes are wide with shock. I reach across her body and open the glove box. Perfect! There's a syringe in it I always keep one handy just in case.

I know this probably isnt the smartest thing to do but I need to focus and Nevaeh is going crazy beside me. I jam the needle in her neck and release the fluids into her bloodstream. After a few seconds she's out. Now I can focus on the five cars coming in hot. This was going to be one hell of a night.

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