Honeymoon from Hell III by R.L. Mathewson Page A

brothers as they quickened their
pace as they headed towards him, looking pissed. As he watched the
five large men make their way towards him, he realized that there
was no way that he could explain any of this without landing in a
body cast. They wouldn’t believe him, not that he really cared, but
he did care if his wife believed him. As he watched them approach
and listened as Jacob ratted his ass out, he realized something
very important. He was out of options. So he did the only thing
that he could think of.
    He made a run for it.
    “ Get back here!” Johnny
yelled as Connor shoved past several men and ran inside the manor
and into the beautiful lobby.
    “ Where’s Rory?” he asked
Andrew when he spotted his friend sitting on the couch, going over
paperwork and looking better than he had in months.
    “ In the ballroom. Why?”
Andrew asked, but Connor didn’t have time to answer him, not with
five seriously pissed off James brothers after him.
    “ You have some explaining
to do!” Reese, one of the Bradford twins and a fucking cop,
shouted, drawing his attention.
    Scratch that, he had five James brothers, a
little prick bastard and two seriously pissed off looking Bradfords
after him and he probably only had seconds to convince Rory that he
loved her and wasn’t after her company before they beat the shit
out of him. Not wanting to waste another minute, he made a run for
the ballroom, shoving men aside as he ran down the long hallway.
The entire way he heard the sounds from the very large men chasing
after him, and he’d be lying if he said that he wasn’t a little
wary of the ass whooping that he was about to receive, but he was
more concerned about losing Rory.
    He was just about to run through the open
doorway of the ballroom when Rory stepped out, looking down at the
clipboard in her hands and unaware of all the men barreling down on
her. She’d barely looked up when he grabbed her arm and gave it a
pull towards the elevators. He didn’t have a plan, but he hoped
like hell that this would at least buy him a few minutes.
    “ What the hell are you
doing?” Rory demanded as he yanked her into the elevator, pushing
her behind him as he slammed his finger against the “Close Door”
button just as her brothers and cousins abruptly turned and headed
for them.
    “ Come on, come on, come
on!” he muttered, panicking as the door started to close, but not
fast enough.
    Her brothers were getting closer and closer
until all they had to do was put their arms out to stop the doors
from closing, taking away his only chance to make this right. Just
when he resigned himself to a trip to the hospital and losing Rory,
something unexpected happened. The two Bradford twins reached out
and grabbed Craig and Johnny just as they reached out to stop the
elevator doors and yanked them back, allowing the doors to
close.
    “ What the hell is going
on?” Rory demanded.
    “ First things first,” he
mumbled as he reached out and pulled the emergency elevator button.
The elevator shook hard once as it came to a complete stop. When
the alarm began to blare, he flicked it off, took a deep breath and
turned around to face the woman that he loved.
    “ I love you,” he said,
needing her to know that. “I’ve always loved you and no matter what
happens, I will always love you.”
    “ You son of a bitch!” Bryce
shouted, reminding Connor that it probably wouldn’t take the
brothers long to crack those doors open and kill him.
    “ I love you too, Connor,
but what the hell is going on?” Rory asked, shooting a nervous look
past him at the closed doors.
    “ I need to tell you
something,” he said, cringing when the banging behind him
started.
    “ Yeah, looks that way,”
Rory mused, shifting her gaze right back on him.
    “ Did I mention that I love
you?” he asked, shooting her a nervous smile as he tried to figure
out how exactly to explain the whole fucked up deal he’d come up
without Rory going for his balls.
    “