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Chapter 34: Taken

It was currently the night. Damien and I were sitting on the sofa, watching a movie. His arm was around me, and I was snuggled into his chest.

"M & M?" I asked him and he nodded.

I threw it in the air, and he caught it in his mouth.

"Damien." He hummed in response, while still watching the TV. "You know our first kiss was in your bathroom, right?"

He looked down with a smile on his face. "Is there a problem with that?"

"Noooo." I elongated the no. "It's just...just an interesting place for our first kiss, I guess."

"You know a lot of other things can happen in a bathroom, Belle." The man winked.

"Is your mind ever clean?" I slowly shook my head.

"Not around you." He grinned.  

Suddenly, I heard the front door behind us open. I heard two different voices enter, and switch on the lights.

"Quick. Act dead." I whispered to Damien. He raised an eyebrow. "Oh, shit. Bad choice of words for today." He laughed, throwing his head back, and I got a clear sight of his Adam's apple.

Hot damn.

"Yo! Woah! What's happening here?" I turned around to see Rocco and behind him Violet.

I tried to move away from Damien's but he held on to me tightly.

"Just two friends watching a movie. That's all." Damien said while looking at the screen.

"Sure..." Rocco said.

"It's true." I stuffed M & M's in my mouth. "We're just friends watching a movie."

Rocco sat down on the other end of the couch and stretched his legs out.

"Why are you two coming here together?" Damien asked.

Violet came out of the kitchen, holding a water bottle. "Ja- My friend dropped me at the cage, and Rocco was already there, so he said he'd drop me off." She came to the couch, pulled Rocco's legs down, and sat next to me.

"What friend?" Damien asked.

I looked at Violet, both our eyes widened.

"Uh. It was...Jessica." Violet said.

"Jessica? Who's Jessica?" Damien asked.

"Not all my friends are from the gang, Damien. Unlike you, I didn't ghost everyone after I graduated high school." She retorted and reached for some cookies on the coffee table.

"What did you guys do today?" Rocco asked while bringing his feet back up and placing them on Violet's lap.

"Ew." She pushed them off. "Get your nasty feet away from me."

"My feet are a blessing." Rocco snapped back.

"Uh-we..." I looked at Damien.

"Simon's gone," Damien said nonchalantly.

"What do you mean gone?" Violet asked.

"Dead." He said.

"You killed him?" Rocco asked.

"Yup," Damien answered.

"Why are you saying this like it's so normal?" I hissed at him.

Damien looked at me and smiled. "Darling. I'm a gang leader. I've killed people before." My jaw slightly dropped.