LILLY

I shiver and snuggle into the warmth. My head pressed to something hard and I could smell cigarettes. By opening my eyes, I find his face close to mine. His forehead pressed to mine. He was sleeping with me. I look around and groan as I felt my body breaking. I was in a hospital.
Then I remember it all.
I gasp and try to pull away from his arm only to be pinned on the bed with him on top and his hand on my neck. He looked alert. Terrifying. Then he realizes that he curses to himself "Never creep on me when I'm sleeping."

"I-I w-wasn't creeping on you."

He lays on the side again and rubs his face, groaning softly. Then he looks at me again, pulling his coat up to my shoulder and then draping his arm over his eyes "I'll be up in five minutes." I ask "What happened?"

"Shh, I said five minutes. Don't talk. Quiet."

He pulls me close enough so my head would land on his chest and his arm around me, holding onto my shoulder, pinning me to himself. I perk up when I see the door open. Sarah smiles "Hey, how are you feeling?" Romano doesn't move. When Sarah looks at him, her lips are pressed together with a smile. Partly because she thought he was sleeping and because he was holding me. Romano was not sleeping. He was listening to everything calmly. I had to play the part "What happened?" She comes closer and tones her voice down to a whisper "You fainted before leaving. He brought you here in his arms." She sighs "You were extremely dehydrated and running with a fever, Lilly. You need to take care of yourself. I know you care about the people you love the most but that doesn't mean you should let yourself go." I wanted nothing more than to poke Carter in the eye.
I ask "Where's Josh?" His hand falls from my shoulder and he switches sides, facing me this time, his hand pressed to my back but his eyes were open. Watching me. Sarah smiles at us but then she whisper-yells "That piece of shit Josh! I asked him if he had visited you yet and he just plain ignored me and walked away saying that he doesn't need to. I thought he liked you!" I look down at him and find the corner of his lips stretched. God damn it, Romano.
I say to Sarah "He has been acting weird since I showed up here with," I almost forgot the fake name "with Daniel." Sarah snorts "He's jealous of Daniel. I mean, Daniel is a Greek god compared to Josh now. I mean, I see Daniel on the runway as a Givenchy model. Better than the underwear model Josh is." Romano's smile spreads wider and his brow is raised when Sarah keeps going "Oh, and by the way, you were right. Josh is the underwear model we talked about. He kind of slipped it out when we all had drinks after work. I kept praying you would show up because your ass had been going crazy to know if he was or not."

Shut up, Sarah, he's enjoying this too much.

She looks at him and whispers "You think he's still asleep?" I swallow and look down. Oh, he was wide awake but I lied "Yeah. He's a deep sleeper. He won't know whatever you say." I feel a pat on my spine for lying effortlessly. Her smile spreads wide "So how is he?" I raise my brow "With what?" She wiggles her brows "You know, the body. Is he good in bed?" My jaw drops at her questions but I lie to my best friend again "Oh, yes. He likes it rough but he always takes care of me." To take the lie further, I push my fingers into his hair and press his face to my chest. I could feel his chest vibrate by holding in a chuckle. Sarah looks at us in awe "I love that for you. I'm so happy. We need to celebrate you not being a virgin anymore. We need cake and champagne, and more cake and-" I stop her "That's nice. Don't you gotta work? For what I know, you should be at the reception by now." Her eyes go wide and he looks at her watch "Shit! I should get going because I have this annoying shitty job, but I'll check up on you in an hour, okay?" I nod and smile "I'll see you later. Thank you." She winks and clicks w picture of us, making the 'OK' sign at his butt, and then she's out the door.

He bites my neck and I hiss, pulling myself away from him. He looks up at me and strokes my neck "I like it when you lie for me." I hiss at him "I don't lie for you. I lie because of you." I ask after a moment "What did you do with Josh?"

"Why do you think I have something to do with this?"

"You always do since I've met you."

He smiles and his fingers trail from my neck down to my chest, he says my name in a husky voice and then stops his finger at the start of my cleavage. I push his hand away but he didn't like it. He pulled me on top of me him, holding me close "You wanna know what I said to Josh?" I push at his chest to get off but I feel his legs wrap around me as well as his arm. He grips me right with one arm while his hand tenderly plays with the strand of my hair "I told him that if he looks at you again like the way he does, I will burn his eyes out." I push at his chest again "Why would you do that?!" He licks his bottom lip and mocks me "I wanna stay with you, Romano. Please don't let anyone take me away. I wanna stay with you." He chuckles and his thumb gently swipes across my bottom lip "I told you that you signed your fucking life away." He grabs the nape of my neck and pulls my head close until my forehead rest on his brow, he whispers with a wicked smile "My Lilly." Tears formed in my eyes again and I start crying right then and there. He's not fazed by it. He doesn't care for it. He just presses my face into his neck and I cry even harder.

Have I stooped that low in life? Have I given up my life? Is this my new life? Dancing to his tunes, obeying his words, and letting him torture me whenever he likes?

Please let this all be a nightmare.

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I was ready to leave. He got me fresh scrubs "Why do I have to wear this?" He replies "So if you get caught, they will pin it on a person that works here."

"I still work here."

"You don't." He smiles and buckles his harness around his thigh and wears the trench coat "You're on a two-week vacation. Already filled out your application yesterday. You're officially not working." I close my eyes to wrap my head around it all "So why do you need to go to the security room?" He walks closer and taps under my chin before going on his knees. His hands on my thighs as he gently parts them and lean closer, his eyes on me the whole time as he leans his face to the side, I could feel the warmth of his cheek through the scrubs and he leans his face closer, dangerously close to the sensitive flesh of my thigh. That cocky smile printed on his face and then he pulls something out and stands up. It was his knife. He puts it back in his harness and winks, "Nothing to get your pretty little head worried about. Come on." He grabs my hand linking his fingers with mine "Shall we, darling?" We walk out and get straight into the elevator. Going up the floor where I knew the main security room.

We get out of the elevator and make a bee-line to the room. I stop "Will you hurt them?" He's annoyed "Depends." He swipes my keycard and opens the door. My heart stops for a second when there are two buff men in the room, sitting in the chairs, drinking coffee. One of them looks at me and says "You're not supposed to be here." And the other one gets up with his hand on his taser gun. Romano lets go of my hand "We'll be five minutes only. Promise." And then he gets into action. Before the guy could pull his taser out, he's fast in grabbing him by the collar and turning him around with an arm around his neck, pressing enough to cut off his airways and letting him go on the floor then he attacks the guy who's about to call more security, wrapping his arm around him and cutting off his airways too. The two of them are unconscious on the ground and I cannot help but put my fingers on the side of their neck. Their pulse was weak but they'll survive. The negative side would be a bad neck ache and maybe a pounding head.

He wasn't even panting. Just stood up straight like he hadn't knocked out two buff security guards in front of me. They were larger than him in size. Height, not so much. He sits on one of the chairs and pulls himself closer to the desk. His hands are wrapped in leather gloves as he types away at something quick. He says "Don't touch anything." I just sit on the chair beside him because I was already going crazy that someone might know.

I ask again "What are you even looking for?" He chooses not to answer until he pulls up a clip from two weeks ago. He nods to it "There." I watch the screen and it was the videotape of John Doe being pulled on the stretcher by the paramedics, Sarah and I being the first attending nurses. I call up Emerson.
He fast forwards the tapes to surgery and then when he is brought back from the O.R to his room. Then fast forward again to Sarah and I being in the room. Talking and giggling. The camera is hidden somewhere straight. I get confused "Why are there cameras in the private ward?" Carter scoffs "Some rooms do where they keep unidentified patients or when they're treating a criminal. Lucky for me, Rossi's does." I look at him but his eyes are glued to the scene. And then there's me straddling John Doe and trying to resuscitate him. Romano sits straight in his seat. Emerson and Patel walk in and Ramano fast forwards again, the screen goes blank and then starts again to me running into the room because the patient was gone. And then the camera cuts again and then I'm gone.
I get annoyed at this "You knew about the cameras!"

"Of course, I knew about the cameras. I had Elijah put on a jammer for some time till I could kidnap you. But I didn't cut out the video"

My brows knit "What does that mean?" He explains "From the moment you were done with the chest compressions to the moment you run back to the room, two hours are missing. Rossi knew about the cameras too or his men did. Either way, he knew."

"So?"

"I was hoping for a glimpse of who took him. Even a tiny bit of information would be plenty. But that shit knew how to cover his tracks."

He leans back in his seat and puts his hands on the back of his neck, stretching his spine and closing his eyes, chanting "Dieci anni per un piccolo guaio, devo assicurarmelo (Ten years for a little trouble, I have to endure that)."

My eyes go to my keycard with my ID dangling on his neck and then I realize "You could've gotten in without me. Why did you need me to come?" He looks at me and smiles, grabbing the arm of the chair and pulling me close to him till my knees are between his. He grabs the arms rest right and says "So everything will lead back to you if anyone says anything." He nods at the security guards "They saw your face. Your name will be the first thing they will say when they wake up. You'll be their first suspect and I- I will be a partner that was working for you. They will mostly suspect that you took days off because you kidnapped the patient, and because you found out how important he was. You wanted to trade him back to his people for money and then you wiped the tapes of helping Rossi escape."

"Won't they suspect you either? You were my partner after all." I tried to sound confident but he was ten steps forward. He leans closer, grabbing my jaw "If they come near me, you think I will let them live? I'm above the law, Lilly. You're not." He tilts his head, closing into my lips. I don't know why he did that. Just hovered his lips on mine, never pressing them together or backing away. I ask "You kidnapped me so you could blame it all on me?" He chastely kisses the corner of my lips and turns my head to the side while he remarks "Oh, you are getting smart, Lilly." My heart sank to my stomach as possible scenarios filled my head of me being behind bars for life "Why pull me into this?" He shrugs "My original plan was Sarah but you turned out to be the hero that night."

"You're gonna leave me here, aren't you? The scrubs, the keycard- you're gonna leave me here in the crime scene. The leave application is my bad luck. I wasn't too smart to outsmart anyone." Tears formed in my eyes again. He brushes his nose under my jaw and whispered against my skin "Not yet, darling. I'm not done with you yet. When I'm bored then I'll pin you to the crime scene for everyone to know. But for now," he pressed his lips to my ears as his hands trailed up my thighs. I clench my legs close as he whispers in my ear "for now, you're mine. You belong to me. You signed your life to me and I can do as I please."

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