LUCIUS DEVINE
Fifteen minutes after this bastard’s death, Lisa would be…. Killed. But how sure was I that letting Sandro live was going to ascertain Lisa’s life?
I was the one in control here but he was the one in control over there.
There was only one way. I had to be back home before fifteen minutes.
I turned away from Sandro for a second before kicking the table in front of me hard.
Sandro laughed and it was at that moment that I turned and shot at him. I wanted to make his death slow but I had no time for that anymore.
I shot at him multiple times, taking his men by surprise and giving them no time to protect him. The laughter caught up in Sandro’s throat as the shootings started instantly.
I had no business here anymore. I ran towards the door carelessly. I was about grabbing the door handle when a bullet hit me in the side.
I cursed and gripped the door handle tightly. I pulled the door open and ran out, trying my best to ignore the crippling pain.
I got into my car and accelerated it instantly. I was bleeding badly and the pain was wrecking me badly but that could not stop me.
The faces of Lisa that flashed before my face made me accelerate even more. I was moving at a dangerous speed but my life was the last thing I cared about.
“Please be safe. Please…” I mumbled. Maybe I was saying those words to beg her to be safe for me or maybe I was saying it to keep myself conscious, I had no idea but I continued saying it. Over and over again.
Taking a turn at the speed I was going, I almost rammed the car into the bridge.
“You bastard! You can’t die now! You have to keep her alive before you die!” I yelled at myself, hitting the car steering wheel.
Time seemed to go faster and with every second that passed, my heart was beating faster.
My phone rang and it was Andro calling. I picked the call hurriedly.
“Protect her with your life. Don’t stay alive if anything happens to her”
“I… I tried my best, boss” he seemed to be groaning.
“Wh… What do you mean you tried your best?! Andro?! Andro?! What the fuck do you mean?!” I yelled insanely.
“She’s still alive but… But I won’t be when you get here” he whispered, his voice sounding weaker with every word he said.
“An… Andro?” I called but he wasn’t saying anything anymore.
Andro had been working for me for years now and losing him was….
“Shit! I fucking hate this night!” I cursed and hit the steering wheel.
“You are not allowed to die, Andro. Hide somewhere for now and you’d better stay alive!”
I finally got there after what seemed like hours but was actually thirteen minutes.
I parked the car in the space that now had a few bodies around. The shootings were still going on.
I rushed out of the car, holding my gun and nothing else. The bullet had me so much weaker but I wasn’t going to let this stop me.
I hurried my steps, shooting a few times to get rid of the few on my way.
I hurried on the steps to my room, regretting for the first time why I had my room up the stairs.
Getting to my room, the door had been thawed open and as I stood in front of the opening to get in, a bullet was shot and it penetrated my left arm.
“You bastard!” I cursed loudly before maneuvering into the room.
There were three men and I shot one upon my entrance into the room.
“Lucius!!” Lisa screamed but I ignored her scream and shot at the men in the room.
They dodged and I was so furious. My vision was getting dull and blurry and yet there were two men in this room.
“Fucking die!” I shouted with the strength I had in me and shot madly at them.
I got another shot in my shoulder and Lisa screamed again. I got one down though.
Just one more. One more. Bella and others would be here soon and they would keep Lisa safe for me.
But my body was betraying me already. Stupid body! I didn’t spend all these years training his body just for it to give up on me right now!
There was another gunshot but it wasn’t from me or the guy. It was from Lisa. She had shot the last guy. I was fucking relieved and so effing proud of her.
The gun in my hand dropped and I dropped to my knees.
“Lucius!” Lisa ran to my side and knelt in front of me.
She cupped my face, raising my head.
“Lucius, please” she was crying so badly.
“You… You did so well, Cup… Cupcake. You protected… You protected yourself” I wasn’t sure she could still hear my voice and I wasn’t even sure I was actually saying those words.
I felt so weak, so tired, so close to dying. And yet so relieved.
“You are… You are alive and I’m… I’m happy you are alive. Stay.. stay strong for me. Our child, I love… I love our child” I coughed out blood.
“Not a word more, Lucius. Please” she cried.
“Not a word more, please. You aren’t going to die! You… You will be with me, Lucius. You will be with me forever”
I didn’t believe her words anymore though. I couldn’t survive this. Even if Bella came right now and rushed me to the hospital right now, I would die on my way there. It was over for me already but I had lived well, very well in fact.
I had met Lisa and I had left a baby inside of her.
“I… I love you” I struggled to say it. My last words.
“I love you too and you aren’t dying so just shut the fuck up right now! Don’t say a word anymore! Not a word from you!” She yelled at me and I forced out a smile that didn’t last a second on my face.
I wondered if she even saw that smile.
Just then, someone else burst into the room but it wasn’t Bella. It wasn’t any of my men. It was that bitch.
Irene.
“I… Irene!” I heard Lisa gasp.
“Come with me right now!” Irene grabbed Lisa’s hand but Lisa screamed.
“Let me be!!! Leave me alone!”
I weakly reached my hand out to Lisa. I didn’t want her to leave. I didn’t want her to be taken away by this goddamn bitch that should have been long dead.
I wanted hec safe and her safety could never be guaranteed in the hands of this bitch.
“Lucius!” Lisa grabbed my hand tightly and as my eyelids closed in definite death, I held her hand tightly.
“Let go of me, you bastard!! Let go of me!!”
The voice was fading as a few men walked in and started pulling Lisa away from me.
I tried to call her name or at least grab my gun. I hated this. I hated this death. Hated this weakness. Hated that I couldn’t protect her.
“Lucius!!!!” She screamed as I dropped to the floor, my eyes closing as I weakly reached out for her but she was out of my grasp, far away from me.
Death. I couldn’t die yet. Not yet. Please, I couldn’t die yet…
But my eyes closed and it forced itself on me. The darkness. Death.