Aubrey

When I woke up, I was in a room I didn't know. I felt someone's arm around me and I started to panic. I slowly started to move hoping I could get out of here. I was almost sitting up when the arm tightened around me pulling me back down into a hard chest. A whimper escaped my lips as pain shot through my muscles.

"Where do you think you are going?" A deep voice said. I felt my eyes start to water.

"Please, just let me go. I won't tell anyone. Please." I felt tears running down my face.

"You have nothing to tell." I felt him run his hand under my shirt and his fingers traced my stomach. I cried more trying to be quite. Was he waiting for me to get up before he... more tears fell as I thought about that. I felt his hand freeze and move off of me.

"Look at me." I shook my head no. I felt him move.

"Look. At. Me." He said more demanding. I was too scared. I looked up at him and saw someone I didn't expect to see. It wasn't the guy from last night. It was Xavier. I felt relief wash over me and I started crying in relief.

"Xavier?" He looked over me confused. He brushed my cheek lightly moving my hair to the side.

"Why are you crying?"

"I-I thought you were..." I couldn't finish as a sob slipped out. I turned into him and laid my head between him and the bed. I felt his body stiffen but I didn't care. I knew it was going to be okay. I don't know why but I just knew that I was going to be okay now. He put his arm back around me and rubbed my back.

"No, you are okay now they aren't going to touch you."

"Did they...? I mean how did you find me?"

"I saw you get knocked out. Now go back to sleep it's to early to be awake." I ended up falling back asleep with my hand gripping onto his t-shirt.

When I woke up again, he was going through his dresser. He looked like he had just got out of the shower, he had a towel around his waist and water was dripping from his hair to his back. I leaned up and he turned hearing me.

"You slept long enough." He said turning to me. He always sounded so grouchy. He walked towards the bed and lifted my chin. "How do you feel?"

"I'm fine." I whispered. Honestly, I couldn't think because his abs were in my face and all I could think about were all the muscles in front of me. I wanted to reach out and run my hands all over him and the water that was dripping down to the towel was really making it worse. The tattoos also didn't help because as of now they were the sexiest things in the world to me. He sighed and stepped back.

"Do you wanna take a shower?" He asked as he threw his clothes beside me on the bed.

"Um, I don't have anything to change into."

"You're wearing my clothes now." He said before dropping his towel. I looked away fast.

"Xavier!"

"What?"

"Cover your...stuff." I heard him chuckle.

"Okay, I'm covered." I turned back to see he was still naked. I looked away again. He laughed. "Don't be shy, you can look. Touching, however, well..." I felt him move closer to me and I felt his face near my ear. "You'll have to beg." I shivered and he saw. I could tell by his deep chuckle. I stood up with my hand covering my eyes

"I'm taking a shower." I used my hand to guide me. I ran into something. I could almost hear him rolling his eyes. I felt his hands on my waist as he turned me towards what I was guessing was the door. I opened it then peeked to see it was his bathroom. There were towels stacked in a cabinet so I grabbed one and started the shower. It only took me about ten minutes. When I got out, I looked over my face. My eye was bruised with a slit under it. My lip was cut on the side to and my cheek was bruised on the left side of my face. I sighed and got dressed in his shirt andsweatpants. I opened the door to find that the room was empty. I walked into the hall and heard voices. I followed them until I found the kitchen. There were two women cooking and a few guys I didn't know.

"Hello," One of the women said.

"Hey,"

"My name is Rose, I'm Xavier's Aunt." I smiled at her.

"I'm Aubrey, it's nice to meet you."

"I'm Sarah, Chase's mom." The other said

"That's me." I looked at the table to see a guy with dirty blond hair and blue eyes. He had a tattoo of the symbol that was on their jackets.

"I'm Blade." One with black hair and dark eyes said, he also had the tattoo. He was the one from the coffee shop.

"Blade?"

"Nickname," I nodded.

"I'm Clutch." The other said. He had blond hair, green eyes and a goofy grin and the tattoo. I smiled at him.

"I'm Eric." The last one smiled. He had brown hair and he had brown eyes. He looked older then the others. I waved at them.

"Do you want food? They eat late so there is still breakfast." Sarah asked

"Yes, please. Oh crap! What time is it?"

"Almost one." Blade said.

"Can I use your phone, please."

"Your stuff is in the living room."

"Give her your damn phone." I heard a new voice. I turned to see Xavier. Blade threw me his phone.

"Thanks." I called the coffee shop.

"Hello?" Mr. West answered.

"Mr. West, it's Aubrey."

"Honey, are you okay we were so worried."

"I'm fine, I am so sorry about not being there yet." Mrs. West must have grabbed the phone because she was talking now.

"Lillian Homes told us that her husband saw someone getting attacked and by the time he went to get help and got back the Night Riders and Young Guns were there. Honey, they described your car. Was it you?" I sighed.

"Yes."

"Oh my dear. I swear that boy! You have to file charges...no he will hurt you again...you have to..."

"Mrs. West I'll figure something outplrase don't worry."

"I just knew that he was going to do something, after I saw him slithering around here."

"Wait what?"

"And after that night they stayed so long."

"Mrs. West, the Young Guns aren't the ones that attacked me, the others did."

"Oh, really?"

"Yes."

"We are going to have to keep a closer eye on you, dear."

"I will be in as soon as I can, I will close tonight since I was late."

"Honey, you don't have to. You were hurt!"

"Still, I feel bad."

"We will see when you get here."

"Okay, bye."

"Bye," I threw Blade's phone back to him and Rose put a plate of food down at the table. I smiled at her.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome." I sat down and Xavier came and sat beside me at the head of the table.

"I don't want you closing." He said as soon as I put food in my mouth. I swallowed.

"Why?"

"Because of what happened last night."

"You think they will try again?" I asked confused.

"I know they will. You were not exactly chosen at random."

"Then why?" His jaw flexed and he looked angry.

"Because of me."

"What about you?"

"They were using you against him." Eric said.

"Trying," Xavier corrected.

"So what does that mean? They are going to be after me all the time?" He leaned forward seeing my sudden panic.

"I won't let them hurt you again, okay?" He searched my face like he was trying to see if I believed him. "I won't let you be vulnerable."

"How?" He looked over the table at the guys.

"There are a lot of us, you won't be alone."

"Xavier, I don't know if..."

"You don't know if what?" He interrupted me. "You are not going to be alone!" He growled. I saw Rose tense up.

"I know but I just don't think it's a good idea if y'all hang out when I work."

"Would you rather be hurt again?" He all but yelled.

"No," I said calmly.

"Then we are done talking about this."

"Xavier, listen. You," I turned to the other guys.

"Y'all too," I looked back at Xavier. "But especially you, scare people. If a couple of y'all are hanging out at the shop, you are going to scare people away. I don't want to make them lose business."

"I don't really care." He shrugged crossing his arms.

"No more than two."

"What?"

"No more than two of y'all there at a time at the coffee shop." I repeated.

"Are you serious?" He glared at me.

"Yes,"

"Fine." He said giving in. I smiled.

"Thank you." He rolled his eyes. I finished eating and I took my plate to the sink. "That was great, thank you, Rose."

"Oh, honey any time." She smiled at me.

"You need to get to work?" Xavier asked.

"Yeah, I need to go home first."

He nodded. "Me and Chase are going with you."

"I'm leaving to stay with Jasmine for awhile,

I told you." He sighed.

"Fine, Clutch your going. Now you go get ready." He said to me. I nodded and got my stuff. "Have you ever ridden on the back of a motorcycle?"

"No," I followed him out side. He grabbed a helmet before walking out the door. His bike was a shinny black and big. Clutch walk around us and jumped on his. The engine roared to life shaking the ground. I suddenly understood how intimidating they were. Xavier turned to me.

"Come here." I walked towards him he was already on the motorcycle. He put the helmet on my head. "Jump on." I bit my lip looking at the seat. "Don't tell me you are scared." I glared at him before working my way on. "Hold on." He took off like a bat out of hell. I yelled grabbing on to him. I felt him laugh darkly. I didn't find it funny. It was only about seven minutes to my apartment and it took about five for me to finally get the feel of the bike. By the time we were at my place I was freezing. I was only in his pants and his shirt.

"How did you know where I lived?"

"I know everything." Was all he said I rolled my eyes going to my door. They followed me inside. "I'll just be a second." I rushed to get changed and realized that I was still sore and my side was kinda bruised but I wasn't sure what from. I did what I could to try and fix my face up so it wasn't noticeable but it didn't hide much. When I was done, I walked to the living room to see them both going through my food.

"You just ate." They both turned to me.

"It took you long enough. We got hungry." Clutch complained.