AUTHOR’S POV
Bella pushed her phone gently into her pocket and pulled her hair into a bun. Andro was just recuperating and Lucius was still in a coma. The doctors had said he was responding better to treatment but Bella had no idea if they just said that so their heads would not be blown off.
Yes, she had held a gun to the doctor’s head at a point.
In the past two days, she had raided two of Sandro’s place in the country but nothing good had come from it.
She had contacted their men outside the country but there was no good news there about the whereabouts of Lisa.
She also had to keep a low profile after the killings that had happened that night. A lot of men had died and getting rid of the bodies discretely had taken more effort than usual.
Keeping everything away from public’s eyes was being dealt with by the team but Bella knew just how much easier everything was with Lucius there. Lucius just had to make a few calls and everything would immediately fall in place but with just her and Lucius other powerful associates, it wasn’t that easy.
Bella walked over to the couch and plopped down to it. She shut her eyes for a second with a groan before opening back up and looking at Lucius’s unconscious body.
She had been staring at him for a few seconds before she noticed a movement of his fingers. Bella shot up from the couch and pressed a button before rushing to Lucius side.
His eyes were slightly open as if trying to adjust to the brightness of the room after being closed for so long.
“Boss” Bella called.
The door of the ward opened and about four doctors rushed in along with about four other nurses.
Bella stepped back from the bed and let the medical team do their job.
She stepped out of the room and a small smile left the corner of her lips as she saw Diane walking towards her.
“Is… Is there still nothing about Lisa?” Diane asked.
“Not yet but boss is awake now. And Lisa? She will be found in less than a day now.”
It’s night and Greyson comes to her, asks her to have a bath. She reluctantly does so and he compliments her beauty.
He tries touching her but Lisa hits his head with a vase and attempts to run away but she gets hit in the face by him. Lisa feels a sharp pain in her stomach and cried out in pain.
Few hours later
LUCIUS DEVINE
I can’t believe it. Not that I am alive. I can believe that very much. I wasn’t going to die when Lisa wasn’t safe. What I could not believe was that I had been unconscious for this long and Bella could not find Lisa.
“You’d better pray that nothing happened to her!” I growled in anger.
“I… I am sorry, boss” she apologized for the umpteenth time.
“Apologize one more time and I would have you being buried in a few minutes” I swore, cocking the gun in my hand and pointing it at her.
She fell silent and picked up her gun instead.
I lowered the gun and looked away from her. The most unbelievable part of the entire thing was the fact that everyone. Every fucking person who could not save Lisa and bring her to me was there expecting me to lie hours in some bed, recuperating when I had no idea what was going on with my fucking woman.
“Mr. Devine, I want my daughter back. Desperately even and I am going crazy already, not knowing what is going on with her but you just woke up. You are not fit to go and save her” Diane said and I groaned.
“And? And you would rather me stay here while she remains in danger? No! You just sit back. I will bring my woman back.”
Sit back while Lisa was away from me, in an unknown place? This time around, I had to make sure I killed Irene. I had to butcher her body myself and have the pieces buried away from one another.
Heavens help me from killing them all. And from killing myself. Because if anything happened with Lisa, we were all going down. Bella, Andro, every man I had in the country and myself. Every one of us was going to be dead if anything happened to my Cupcake.
My phone beeped and I picked it up. I had requested for every flight taken by every family member of Sandro to be sent to me and I could see that Greyson, his first son had flown into the country today.
I dialed a contact and the phone rang for a few seconds before it was picked up.
“Get me Greyson’s location. He left the airport two hours ago”
“Yes boss”
I ended the call.
I pushed the phone into my pocket, picked up my gun and stepped out. Bella followed behind me and we both walked out of the room I had been in.
Stepping out, I was in front of my men.
“I will be brief and precise. Every single one of you here at this moment will be dying tonight if I don’t come back with her so when you follow me out, you know you are fighting for your very own life, not mine and not hers.”
“Boss…” A voice came from amongst them.
“Bella, get rid of him” I groaned, feeling my head bang. I hated the interruption.
There was a gunshot and then a thud.
“Well, that did help set the mood.” I remarked.
“Tonight, I require no word from you! You do what I say and nothing else!”
I studied their expression.
“And once we get her back, you know how it happens” I turned away from them and walked back into the room.
“Everyone’s life rests on one person’s life tonight. Once you have your eyes on her, you protect her till the end.” I heard Bella say as I slammed the door shut.
My phone beeped and I pulled it out of my pocket. I had the location of where Greyson was and I knew that was definitely where Lisa was kept.
“Cupcake, please be alive for me” my jaws clenched tightly before I pushed the phone back into my pocket.