The Captive Series Read Free Page B

together? Now give me a kiss—we’re here.” She looked like she was ready to argue with me, but was smart enough not to even bother.
    She obeyed nicely. Her lips were tender and sweet. I was gentle but dominating. She needed to understand her fate was already sealed. She was mine to keep, protect, and worship. I tasted her lips, forgetting that they’d been abused earlier, but then again, so had she. Damn, I was getting so into the kiss when Vito reminded me that we were at the hospital and the police were all over. He got out and opened the door for us. I jumped out before taking her back into my arms and carrying her to the entrance. I was glad her body was covering the very blatant erection she gave me. I was hoping it went down before I gave the whole hospital a show.
    Vito led the way as I carried her, with my coat over her torn clothes, into the Emergency Room at St. Vincent’s Medical Center. Security was at the emergency entrance, and I practically growled, “I’m Luciano Rossi. I need a doctor.” I got immediate attention using my name; it held power in this small city. There was a hush when I added, “My girl here has been injured and needs to be seen like fucking yesterday.”
    I wasn’t going to sit there and fill out paperwork while we waited with the rest. If that was the case, I could have taken her back to my place and had a doctor at my door within a half hour. Of course, they didn’t make me wait. A nurse came up to me and said, “Bring her in here, sir.”
    I carried her into one of the ER curtained examining rooms. A moment later, a doctor came into the room. The doctor asked the routine questions, and once her name was given, a call was made notifying the police that she was brought into the ER and by whom. I was waiting for the shit-storm to start. I could handle the situation, but looking at my woman, I didn’t think she could.
    It wasn’t fifteen minutes later that the chief and his wife entered the hospital. I had been sitting with her when they examined her. They had told me to wait outside while she was evaluated, but I looked at her and knew she didn’t want me to go. I refused to leave and made it fucking clear that it wasn’t going to happen.
    “Amber,” her parents shouted in unison. They ran up to her. Her mother hugged her tight while her father stared me down and looked at our hands connected as I sat by her side.
    “Rossi, let my daughter’s hand go,” Chief McLaren roared as he stared me down. Sorry, old man, but it was time for a new reality.
    “No.” I was straightforward and wasn’t going to back down from him. His appearance hadn’t simmered down one bit. He only seemed to get more pissed off, if his face was any indication. Apparently this chump wasn’t used to hearing no. Well, too…fucking…bad.
    “What the fuck? Who the hell do you think you are? You put her in here…I’ll kill you.” The fucker made his move and attempted to launch at me, but Vito came in the room at the same time her parents did. He knew to come in just for this purpose. I would have dropped his ass myself, but couldn’t have my girl getting pissed at me for taking out her dad.
    “Daddy, stop!” We both turned to our girl who called out to her father to stop.
    “He is the one who found me and brought me here,” she said in a rush.
    I couldn’t resist. I kissed her cheek. It was the truth; she hadn’t lied. I wasn’t afraid of the possible charges for the attack, but I didn’t need the cops on my ass when I had other projects in the works.
    “Did he tell you to lie for him?” he asked accusingly. His concern for her seemed to be missing; in its place was pure anger.
    “No…” Damn it! She was right—she was a terrible liar.
    “You piece of shit. I’ll have you arrested.” His face turned red as he stared me down with his weak threat. I wanted to laugh in his face.
    “Daddy, it’s not like that. I was out with Freddy tonight, and well…he wanted more than I was