Chapter 6 Warning
The SUV doors locked with a quiet, final click.
Lucy sat stiffly in the leather seat, her heart pounding as Lucas watched her with an intensity that made it hard to breathe.
Matteo climbed into the front, and the SUV pulled away from the curb, merging into traffic.
For a long moment, no one spoke.
Lucas broke the silence firsfirst.l
“You should’ve told me,” he said softly.
Lucy blinked. “Told you what?”
“That you were being targeted.” His voice was low, dangerous—not at her, but for her. “That Marco Verri knew about you.”
She bristled. “I didn’t know that.”
Lucas shook his head. “You should’ve assumed it.”
Lucy clenched her jaw. “I’m not your responsibility and I don't have the resources you have, its just me and the tip off I get"
Lucas leaned closer, the air between them tightening. “You saved my sister. That makes you my responsibility whether you want it or not.”
Lucy’s pulse stumbled.
“I don’t need you to protect me.”
“You do,” he said simply. “Because you don’t know how vicious Marco can be.”
“I do,” she whispered, voice cracking before she could stop it.
Lucas’s eyes softened—just barely. “Lucy… what did he take from you?”
She looked out the window. “Someone I cared about. Someone I… lost.”
Silence stretched. Not awkward—heavy with understanding.
Lucas didn’t push.
He didn’t pry.
Instead, he said, “Then we have the same enemy.”
"I will make sure you are protected."
"You need to move in with me"
“What no way, I am staying where I am"
“Lucy its not safe”
“Then let him come because I will be ready for him”
“Can you take me back now please I have work to do”
Lucas stared at her
“I can't decide if you are stupid or stubbon”
“I don’t care what you think, I have work to do”
Lucy tried the door to the suv, it
wouldn’t open.
“Can you let me out please?"
She turned to Lucas with a fierce expression
He didn’t move
They stared at each other
“Fine I will take you back to work but I am still protecting you"
"Matteo, turn back to Ms Hales workplace"
Lucas said still staring at her.
Lucy said nothing the whole way back, eventually she looked away from him and stared out the window. She could feel him still staring at her but she daren't look back at him.
Scared she would give in and agree to move in with him, surely he had other addresses she could be moved to and still be safe. It didn’t have to be with him.
The tension in the car was unbearable.
The ccar slowed as it pulled up outside her workplace.
Lucy heard the click of the doors unlocking and flew out the car as fast as she could.
A warning that’s what Lucas had given her Marco was coming for her and she had to be ready.
Lucas watched her leap out the car as fast as she could, tracking her as she darted back into the building.
"Boss" Matteo ssaid as more of a question to him
"Put your best 2 guys on her from a distance she isn't to know they are there but they need to make sure she is safe at all times"
Lucas said
"On it" Matteo said
"You like her?" He asked Lucas
Lucas turned to Matteo "what?"
"You like her don't you? " Matteo said
"She saved Emily" Lucas replied mater of factly
"I know but the way you look at her, you like her?"
Lucas didnt answer this directly
"She is on her own and has no idea what Marco if capable of, I have watched him for years looking for a way to bring him down. He is too clean too efficient. People who stand up to him just disappear, never heard from or seen again. That will not happen to Lucy.
I owe her for Emily’s sake and I will honour that "
"She is very beautiful " Matteo said
Lucas reached for him and grabbed him by the throat.
"Are you trying to get yourself killed " Lucas snarled
"She is off limits to anyone but me"
Lucas released Matteo and he just smiled at him.
"I knew you liked her, I can't remember you ever looking at anyone how you look at her"
Lucas grunted but said nothing. He couldn't deny what he knew was true.
He didn’t know what it was about her, it was more than just the fact she had saved his sister. He knew he had to have her. Maybe one night with her would get her out of his system.
He could play the long game if that's the way she wanted it. But one way or another he knew he would have her.