By Mistake

Chapter 14 - For You

Aaron Calloway

I open the door to see Liam and Cassie watching some show on the TV. Cassie runs scared but Liam stops her

"You... you took me. You... you broke into my apartment. You locked me in a room!" Cassie screamed at me. I mean, she actually yelled, nothing like when she got mad at me at Palmer's.

This was full of anger and disgust.

I have no idea how she knows it was me. I made sure she was asleep every time I went into her room, that I never spoke to her, that she never saw my face.

Cassie tried to run into her room, but I caught her just in time.

Liam steps in front of her, glaring up at me. Liam doesn't like the way I have handled this but I knew Cassie would freak out if I had told her at her apartment that people were after her because of me.

I never, ever, wanted Cassie to get into this or be hurt, so I thought of taking her and letting her go when I had killed every single one of Moreno's people, including him, but they found her, and finding all have them has taken longer than I thought so Cassie can't leave.

I can't be the reason she gets hurt and this was the only option I was ever given when people were after me so it must work for Cassie. I'm just sorry that Cassie is so scared, I tried so hard to make her happy, her favorite flowers, cooking food for her, giving her what she wanted like the hairbrush. I know that Cassie isn't like me. Hasn't been raised like I have.

I was never meant to meet Cassie, I was only supposed to be at Palmer's for a week.

"Let go of her, man." Liam grunted.

"No, she'll run."

I can't have her running out that door and into the arms of men that will hurt her; I mean into the arms of my enemies.

Unconsciously, I hold on to Cassie's waist tighter. Touching her still sparks fires on my skin. A thought, I must control.

Cassie screams and I turn to make her face me, in hopes that she will calm down.

"Look at me!" Cassie looks up at me with such broken apprehension.

My heart pulls every time I see her in such fear.

This was only a job and Cassie was just a pretty woman, putting her into hiding wasn't meant to happen.

She never should have been involved with me.

Cassie spits in my face after I told her to calm down. My mother always told me never to say those words to a woman, so I should have expected it, but her actions make me mad.

Mad at myself.

Mad that I have caused such a woman to do a disgusting thing, a hateful thing.

I wipe the spit off my cheek, slightly proud of her aim. Liam puts his hand between Cassie and I.

I walk around Cassie, taking my coat and leaving out the door.

I walked out of the house and down the steps to my car. Once I get it, I pound at the steering wheel.

I did not mean it to be like this. Cassie was meant to stay in that house for a bit while I sorted things out but Moreno and his organization went into hiding, so I spent the first few days hunting them down, one by one.

I did kill a few of the lower-ranking member that were careless, but by the time it got back to Moreno; he sent his men after Cassie again.

I drove off thinking of Cassie in that room.