Chapter Eight

A/N: Ello Loves! This will probably be the only time I will ever give you guys this opportunity on one of my stories. But I think this is one of the ways I can thank you for putting up with me for so long and that is by giving you all the opportunity to share your stories right here. So feel free to comments on this specific part only and share a link, the name, or even a small summary of your story. But anyways,

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•Taylor's P.O.V•

I watched as Claire bought probably about three dozen chocolate chip muffins and stood there waiting for them to box it up. It amazes me how oblivious she was to the fact that every man she walks by basically falls to his knees.

She was gorgeous that was for sure, but she was too kind, too selfless, too perfect. And that's why she couldn't be with Jesse, he was wrong for her on so many levels. He wanted her because he liked that she was so innocent. Of course I don't know if she was sexually innocent, but just her personality made you think she was wasn't real. I have never met anyone in this world that was as sweet as her. Which is why Jesse has to be stopped.

Ring. Ring. Ring.

I glanced at my phone and immediately answer it when I looked at the name that appeared. "Melody." I greeted.

"What do you have for me, Taylor?"

"He took down every damn person in that club last night. He even killed Jack and he's the gangs bartender. He'd use him when he needed to roofie someone's drink." I told her and she sighed.

"Dammit. And you made sure that Clover girl couldn't leave right?" She questioned me and I smirked.

"Of course. I made all of her and her husbands bank accounts show a balance of zero dollars. But the plane she was still planning to go on is still chipped and has explosives in one of the bags someone was bringing on." I told her and Melody sighed, sounding stressed.

"Jesse is definitely stepping up his game. I'll get someone to handle that. You need to worry about keeping Claire and Clover out of trouble." She told me and I almost groaned out loud. I don't know why she has to remind me 100 times every phone call.

"Yeah, I got it, but you should know something Mel." I said watching as Claire stuffed half of a muffin in her mouth. "Agents from the EA agency arrived."

"Of course they did." She muttered to herself."Well don't let them know who you really are Taylor. No matter what keep your identity a secret."

"I know, but hey I have to go, Claire's on the move." I said watching as she struggled to carry her boxes from out of the small bakery.

"Okay, stick with the plan Jones." She said before hanging up. I stuffed my phone in my suit pocket and slowly followed her.

"Damn!" She yelled when she tripped over a dip in the sidewalk and her boxes of muffins fell on the ground.

"Hey are you okay?" I asked her.

"Are you following me?" She retorted and I shook my head.

"No, I'm out doing something for Jesse." I lied easily.

"Which is following me?"

"Jesse has his mind on more important things right now." I told her and she rolled her eyes before picking up her sealed muffin boxes.

"It's disgusting how sick you all are. I mean he was about to rape a woman right in front of you and you just sat there." She said with disgust completely written on her face as she continued to walk.

"I don't agree with what he does, but I have to follow him or else I'll end up dead and you know that. The only reason Caiden isn't dead is because Jesse doesn't want you to hate him." I told her with a scoff.

"Well pass this message on to Jesse. I'll never like him if he wants to spend his life trying to ruin everyone else's." She said and I clenched my teeth together.

"You and Caiden broke up." I stated as I continued to walk next to her and she narrowed her eyes.

"That doesn't concern you, Taylor." She said and I sighed. If she wasn't with Caiden anymore like she claims then that means that Jesse will take things to a new level, to a new type of game.

"Just be careful tonight at your little fancy work party thing." I told her and she raised an eyebrow.

"How the hell do you know about that?" She demanded stopping and looking at me.

"Sweetheart, It's one of my many jobs in the gang. I know everything." I told her and she scowled.

"Just like it's your job to sit back and watch while Jesse does all the wrong things." She retorted.

"I don't even agree with half of the shit he does, but it's either listen to him or get killed." I told her and she sighed thinking over my words for a few minutes.

"I'm sorry." She replied softly and I looked at her completely confused. I never noticed that she could be so bipolar.

"For what?"

"I judged you without even knowing you." Claire responded and I stared at her, shocked.

"It's cool you wouldn't be the first." I told her with a small fake smile. Everyone judges me from the start, so of course I'm use to it. She shouldn't apologize cause I'm over it, I mean it's not like I'm going to fucking cry about it.

"No, I am truly sorry. I shouldn't have judged you so fast, you obviously aren't the bad guy here. You're just a guy who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and Jesse took advantage of it." She said as she stopped outside of a wedding store to look at a wedding dress.

I didn't respond and only silently watched her as she gazed at the puffy wedding dress. Why was everyone so interested in the Claire Martez? The answer was right here. She's probably one of the most amazing girls you can meet. She's nice, compassionate, kind hearted and cool, yet she's with a man with one of the darkest hearts of us all. But the funny thing is somehow they work and I don't know why anyone would want to ruin someone's happiness. I mean that fucking man beat the impossible here.

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• Clover's POV•

"You're back? I thought you were going home early?" Jasmin asked standing up from the couch in the penthouse we were all staying in.

"Some asshole stole all of our money." Andrew hissed dropping his luggage straight on the ground. I followed his lead and then sat next to Jas on the couch.

"What do you mean?" Jasmin asked with narrowed eyes.

"We have like nothing in our accounts!" I exclaimed.

"Of course that happens when you finally get ready to leave this crazy place." Chris says, walking into the room with a Pepsi in his hand.

"I bet it was that Jesse guy." Andrew said shaking his head.

"I don't think so." Jasmin said and we all looked at her.

"This guy is trying to kill me. Of course he'd stop me from going home or else he wouldn't of succeeded." I said and Jasmin shrugged.

"He seems like he would of followed you either way." She said and before I could respond Andrew cut in.

"How would you know? You've never even met the ass." Andrew questioned and I silently wondered the same thing. Out of all of us I was the only one that actually met him and trust me when I say they aren't missing out on anything special, but still there's been something off about Jas every song we got here.

"Oh you know I think that just because of how you described him." She said, her eyes twinkling with a look I couldn't describe.

"Well I think we should call the cops and report about an identity theft." Andrew interrupted and I shook my head.

"No, I need to go talk to Claire first. She may know what's going on." I said and after hesitating for a minute he agreed.

"Fine, but I'm going with you. I don't like this whole being left in the dark shit. Especially because last time you almost got yourself killed by the bastard." Andrew said seriously and I nodded. I'd feel better if Andrew was with me anyways.

"Hey Clover?" Chris called and I looked over at him.

"Yeah?"

"We have to be out of here by eleven." He stated and we all looked at him.

"And? It's ten thirty. I can just pay them for some extra days." I told him and he rolled his eyes.

"No, Clove I don't think you realize. You have no money in your accounts and we don't have enough to pay for all of us to stay some where else in Seattle." Suddenly it's like a brick hit me.

"Oh my gosh. Oh my freaking gosh. Andrew, we're actually broke." I said staring at him blankly and he nodded slowly.

"Clo, honey, we discussed this already. Some asshole robbed us." He said and I threw a pillow from the couch at him.

"We can't afford anything now. We can't even afford a ride let alone a room." I said and he paled.

"Where are we all gonna stay?!" Chris asked and I paced back and fourth, trying to think.

"I could ask Claire." I said and Andrew scrunched up his nose.

"She pretty much hates you half the time."

"We fixed things!" I said sending him a glare.

"What about Tori?" Jasmin asked us and I immediately shook my head.

"She already left. She had to get back to her family." I told her and she shrugged.

"Hm I guess Claire's our only option then. Do you think she'd really let us stay with her?" I didn't comment about the glint in her eyes, but something about it made me feel uneasy.

"Possibly. I'll talk to her about it." I told her and she smiled and clapped her hands.

"Great!"

"Well on the bright side you already paid for this place ahead of time. The downside though is we need to get out of here in the next twenty minutes before we get kicked out." Chris said and I nodded in agreement.

"I'll call Claire now and figure everything out." I said taking out my phone and looking for her contact.

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•Claire's POV•

"Fuck no." Caiden hissed and I narrowed my eyes.

"Caiden they can't just live on the streets! She'll be ate alive out there I mean she's a celebrity for heavens sake!" I told him throwing my hands in the air and he sent me a dark glare.

"I don't want that stuck up bitch in our house." He grumbled and I rolled my eyes.

"Caiden, can you stop being an ass for ten seconds. If it was us I'm sure she wouldn't hesitate to take us in. There's only four of them and we have two extra bedrooms!" I said and he scowled.

"When are we ever going to clean out that room for the baby if someone's sleeping in it?"

"I've been wanting to clean that room out for two days now and all you've done is work." I yelled and he scoffed.

"That's all you do too. How the hell do you expect us to have time for a baby if we can't even find time for ourselves." He yelled and what ever words that were going to leave my mount suddenly got stuck.

"So that's how you feel? Something told me you wouldn't be able to handle this and everything's been such an act lately." I said shaking my head. The door bell rung and I made my way towards it. Who cares what the ass has to say, it's my house too.

"Claire, can I just thank you so much." Clover said trying to bring me into a hug but I stepped back.

"This is Andrew, Jasmin and Chris." She introduced and I sent them all a friendly smile.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Chris said sending me a charming smile, I simply nodded in agreement.

"It's not to meet all of you. This is my boyfriend Caiden. Feel free to stay as long as you need to." I told them and Caiden grunted in disagreement causing me to elbow his hard chest. Yeah in case you were wondering that did hurt me more then it hurt him.

"Let me show you guys to your rooms." I lead them all upstairs and put two in each room.

"I noticed Caiden was in a nice tux, are you two going somewhere special?" Clover asked me sending me a wink and I nodded smiling.

"I have an important charity event tonight. If you want you could all come." I told them and she smiled.

"As great as that sounds it would probably be best if we stayed here for the night." She replied and I silently agreed.

As soon as I was away from Clovers room Caiden tried grabbing my waist, "Claire," He called, but I quickly moved to the side and headed back downstairs and sat on the couch.

"You're mad."

I'd say that's an understatement.

"C'mon, baby doll. Listen I'm sorry but it's great. Between me working full time and you working full time this baby is gonna end up growing up with babysitters." He said sitting next to me, but I still refused to look at him.

"I can quit my job."

"That's your own company."

"I'll sell the whole place. We'll be rich for years." I replied and he snorted.

"Stop being dramatic and actually work with me on this." He said, irritation laced behind his words.

"I don't know what you want me to say Caiden! It's starting to sound like you don't want the baby! So make up your mind. If you can't handle this commitment then tell me now before we go even deeper into this relationship." The thing that had to hurt the most was he stayed silent for a minute.

And now I just sit in silence

Really? Now is not the time.

"Claire, You're killing me here." He answered clenching his hair with his hands. "I love you, okay? To this day you are still my everything and I don't want you to think for one second that you're not. I just need sometime to get use to the fact that this is all real."

"Claire?" Chris called and I gave Caiden one more look before plastering a fake smile on my face.

"Yes?" I asked turning around.

"Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt but I think one of your guys phone is ringing." He said holding up my cell that showed an unknown number on it. I quickly thanked him and grabbed it from him.

"Claire Martez." I answered immediately putting my work/serious voice on.

"Please tell me you're on your way." A soft voice asked me from the other side of the line.

"Elena?"

"Yes, it's me. Things are getting weird here. A bunch of random guys showed up." She whispered into the line and my eyebrows furrowed.

"Elena, are you sure they aren't just from other companies?" I asked heading up stairs.

"Yes!" She responded immediately. "They refused to sign in with their company name and they all just give me a bad vibe. Even security has been watching them carefully." She told me and I sighed.

"I want you to check if they've made a donation. I'll be there in thirty minutes." I told her as I entered my room.

"Okay, see you soon." She said before hanging up.

I was planning on going to this since it is my event but I didn't mind showing up late. It only started a half an hour ago. I quickly grabbed the dress I was planning on wearing and changed into it. The white dress had little detailed designs and looked great on me. This whole pregnancy hasn't really taken its toll on me yet, well besides the whole hormones and those fake contractions part to it. But I guess those are pretty normal when you're almost four months pregnant. Yeah, you must think I'm crazy for not noticing it sooner, but you'd completely understand if you were in my situation. I mean I thought it was close to impossible to be pregnant but now I know that I didn't just randomly start gaining weight.

I looked in the mirror at myself and smoothed out my wavy hair and reapplied my lipstick. It was going to be a good night.

Caiden entered our room with his hair no longer sticking up in different directions, but with gelled down hair."Ready?" He asked me and I gave him a short nod, turning away from the mirror and grabbed my purse.

"We're heading out. Feel free to eat anything in the fridge." I yelled before we left. The limo I called was sitting out  front, patiently waiting for us. As soon as we got in he closed the door behind us, which I thanked him for, and he got in himself before quickly speeding off.

Soon enough we pulled in front of the large building. There was a small red carpet that lead to the door and there were little ropes that kept the paparazzi to the side.

The driver opened the door and I took a stepped out, letting my black heels touch the bright red carpet.

"Claire over here!"

"Which charity is all the money going to tonight?"

"How much money do you hope to raise?"

"Are the rumors true that you're pregnant?"

"Look this way!"

The paparazzi tried to get my attention, but I only smiled and let them take pictures of just me and some with Caiden too before going inside.

My assistant Elena gasped, "Claire, thank god you're here."

"What's the situation with those guys?" I asked immediately and she quickly pointed them out.

"I checked the donation list and they donated about 5,000 tonight." She told me and my eyes widened.

"That's great. I'm gonna go speak with them and see who they are exactly." I told her now narrowing my eyes at the guys and she nodded.

"You should get security to kick them out." Caiden hissed and I shook my head.

"If they donated anything it would be rude to do that." I responded sending fake smiles at people who greeted me.

"They're fucking murders." He said causing people to glance over here and I scowled at him.

"Can you watch your mouth? This is an important event with very big people here." I told him and he just shook his head.

"Claire, it's a pleasure. I had no idea you'd be here." Jesse said with a smirk as soon as we stopped right in front of him.

"It's my event" I said dryly.

"Cut the shit." Caiden hissed and Jesse sneered at him.

"I thought you dropped this ass."

"That really isn't your concern, Jesse." I retorted. "Just tell me why you're here."

"I just wanted to donate some money for charity and you know maybe stay a while, have some champagne." Jesse said, his voice heavily laced with sarcasm.

"Oh Jesse, is this the Claire Martez?" A guy asked walking up to us. He was handsome with his dark hair and his tan skin.

"Who are you?" Caiden demanded. "Did you bring your whole gang here?"

"Shh Caiden, no need for the dramatics." Jax said and Caiden sneered.

"I'm Jacob. It's a pleasure to finally meet you. I've definitely heard lots about you." Jacob winked, shaking my hand and I quickly removed mine.

"Don't touch me." I snapped quietly.

"Ooh feisty. Now I see the interest in her Jess."

"Why does everyone have this strange interest in me?" I asked honestly confused. I mean I knew I definitely wasn't ugly but it's not like I'm Angelina Jolie. I mean she is absolutely
stunning.

"Because your looks, innocence, and your personality all just makes you so much more appealing." Taylor replied smirking and I narrowed my eyes.

"Well as lovely as this conversations been I have a job to do, so if you'll just excuse me." I said turning away from the group of men.

"As do we." Jesse replied leaving me with a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

"Claire, it's such a pleasure to see you." A woman greeted me doing the little fake kisses thing.

"Yes, thank you so much for coming. I hope you enjoy everything that's planned for the night." I told her sending her a polite smile. Many people seemed to like the symphony orchestra which sounded beautiful as it played, The Planets.

"You have your speech in ten minutes." Elena told me and I quickly thanked her. My eyes skimmed the room for Caiden and I sighed in relief when I caught him talking to an acquaintance instead of beating Jesse to death.

"Claire, you look lovely." A guy named Damien told me and I sent him a huge smile.

"Damien Richards. Wow I honestly can't believe it's you. How's the modeling life going?" I asked and he shrugged.

"It's been better." He replied honestly.

"Don't forget you are always welcomed to model some of my designs just give me a call sometime." I told him and he sent me a charming smile.

"Thanks." He said before he waved over a girl.

"Claire, I'd like you to meet my wife Katy."

"It's nice to meet you and I love that dress. It's absolutely gorgeous on you." I said and she smiled, thanking me.

I decided to excuse myself to go get a drink and hoped that I wouldn't get disturbed this time. I was use to these kind of events. I always had to talk to everyone and thank them and listen to what's new in their lives. Like I said it's normal. I grabbed a glass of champagne from one of the servers trays and took a seat at one of the many tables.

"I warned you." Taylor said sitting in the seat next to me.

"What?"

"I warned you to be careful tonight." Taylor repeated and I studied his face carefully.

"Ms. Martez, can I get a picture if you two?" A reporter asked and I hesitated before standing up and posing with Taylor. The reporter thanked us before moving on to a group of people.

"You did," I agreed before continuing,"But that's the thing I don't understand. You'd only warn me if something was going to happen. So what is he planning." I asked nonchalantly.

"It wouldn't be fun if I told you everything now would it." He said standing up and I narrowed my eyes.

"Taylor, I won't beg you. But I'm warning you now if you guys pull something at an event like this I won't hesitate to -"

"You won't hesitate to what call the police on us?" Jax interrupted. "I hate to break it to you, babe but that won't do shit."

"Sorry to interrupt, but it's time for your introduction." Elena told me, nervously glancing at the guys around me.

"Thank you. I'll go up now." I responded. "But could you do me a favor and ask security to please escort these two men out and the three in the corner as well." She nodded and headed towards the front where security was.

"That's a very stupid thing to do, Claire." Jax said shaking his head and I raised on eyebrow and smirked.

"It was a very stupid thing to come here, Jax." I replied in the same tone."You and the rest of your gang think you can do whatever the hell you want, but feel free to pass my message along."

"What message?"

"I'm not afraid of you, so bring it on." I walked away from the table with my head held high and a smug smile on my face.

"Hello." I said into the microphone once I was on stage and everyone got quiet. "I just wanted to give a quick thank you to everyone who has came here and donated money towards such a wonderful cause. This money won't just go to one charity it will be spilt and will go to multiple, so please feel free to participate in every activity there is. Our goal was $20,000 tonight, but if you look to the right where our chart is you can see we are already at $28,658. That's incredible! And in case you didn't know all the money from the raffles will be added to the chart at the end of the night too." I said and everyone clapped. "Oh and please don't forget to help yourselves to the bar."  I finished and everyone cheered while the Dj replaced the orchestra and played music you could dance to more.

I decided to head to the bathroom checking my hair and makeup before just staring at my reflection. It should be obvious to everyone by now that I was pregnant, but maybe they're just thinking what I was thinking. I just didn't keep up with my figure.

"Want to play a game?" Jesse whispered in my ear, moving my completely to my left shoulder. He was close, too close.

"This is the woman's bathroom and shouldn't you be gone by now? I'm pretty sure I watched security escort your ass out."

"Your security believed my men when they simply told them I left earlier." He said looking at me through the mirror.

"Okay, well I don't have time for this." I tried to move away from him, but Jesse placed his hand on my waist.

"Stop acting like I don't affect you, Claire." Jesses hand tightened and he placed his lips on my shoulder.

"Get off of me!" I yelled attempting to push him off. He only turned me around and placed my back on the counter. I tried to scoot as far back as possible but his hands gripped my legs.

"I asked you if you wanted to play a game." He hissed in my ear.

"I swear if you don't let me go in the next five seconds." I threatened and he smirked.

"Claire, baby, I think the fact that you're threatening me makes you even hotter."

"What makes you think -" Jesse was interrupted when the door banged open. Two people pushed their way into the bathroom basically eating each other's faces off.

"Ah look who it is. Nicolas." Nick pulled away from the girl with wide eyes.

"Katy?"

"Claire!"

"Jesse?"

"Now that we've went through names you two can stay for the show. Claire and I were just about to play a little game."

"You're cheating on Caiden?" Nick asked me and I let the disgust shoe on my face.

"Of course not! If you payed close attention right now you'd notice I'm being sexually assaulted! Or if you came in a minute earlier you would have heard me scream for help." I responded and Nick narrowed his eyes.

"Back away from her Jesse." Nick hissed moving closer and Jesse made a tsk sound.

"Guess we have to change the rules to the game." Jesse pulled out a gun out of the back of his pants and smiled.

"I'll keep the rules simple -" He started, but the door busted open for the second time.

"SPD. Put your hands up." 

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A/N: Ello Loves! So I am alive and I didn't forget about this book I've just been crazy busy. I barley have time to sleep these days. But still I apologize for taking so long.

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