“What did you do to her?” Dominic whispered to no one in particular.
His fingers clenched against his gun, but his hand wasn’t pointing at anyone now.
“I told you not to hit her face or head! How dare you go against me?! I will kill you,” Sage raged and shot the person who hit Aaliyah with the wooden leg.
“No! No! NO! This can’t happen! Aaliyah can’t die like this! How dare he!” Sage pulled his hair in agony and frustration before he turned around, his gaze landing on Dominic, who was standing there with a shocked expression.
“Who are you? How did you get here? Mason, what is the security doing? You all are good for nothing, scums,” Sage pointed his gun at Dominic, but Dominic’s gaze wasn’t on him.
Before Sage could pull the trigger, Dominic shot Sage mindlessly, hitting his hand, which was holding the gun.
“Aaaaa! Aaaaa,” Sage screamed in pain, rolling on the ground in agony while Bryce and everyone entered the room.
“Dominic, did you -” Bryce paused when he saw Aaliyah on the ground with her eyes closed and blood all around her.
“Aaliyah,” Bryce’s voice was barely a whisper. He couldn’t believe that the girl making fun of them a couple of hours ago was lying on the ground like this. Her complexion was pale. She almost looked lifeless.
“Aaliyah!” Dominic finally found his voice and started walking before he ran to her.
“Don’t worry. I won’t let anything happen to you. Please forgive me, my love. I couldn’t come in time. Nothing will happen to you. Open your eyes, my love. I will take you to the hospital,” Dominic bent on the ground to pick up Aaliyah, but before he could do that, someone kicked him from behind, making him stumble forward, almost crashing over Aaliyah in the process.
“Don’t touch her! She is mine!” Sage snapped, holding his hand that was bleeding as he stood in front of Dominic.
Sage looked around and noticed this man didn’t come alone. He brought a few men with him. It wasn’t hard to guess who these people were from their popularity and tattoos.
It was the infamous Python Gang.
But why would the python gang come here? To save Aaliyah? Did she call them before coming here? This man said that he came to save Aaliyah. Does that mean Aaliyah is related to one of the people from the python gang? Sage remembered he saw this gang in Katherine’s fashion show when he tried to talk to Aaliyah.
“So Aaliyah is the girlfriend of a member of the Python gang,” Sage scoffed, and Dominic, whose gaze was fixated on Aaliyah’s closed ones, felt pure rage boiling in his body.
“She is not the girlfriend of the member of the python gang,” Dominic whispered, and Sage looked at the man he had seen that day too.
“Rather, she is the to-be wife of the leader of the Python gang,” Dominic’s voice turned cold, and he looked at the man who kicked him with killing intent.
The Vulcan inside him wanted to see blood, and though he promised Aaliyah he would control himself, it looks like it was the time to break a promise today.
Dominic needed to take Aaliyah to the hospital, but he won’t be able to do that until he deals with these people who are becoming a hindrance to Aaliyah’s treatment.
“Who is Sage?” Dominic growled and looked at all the men in rage, and Mason and his members, who were now fighting with Bryce and everyone, looked at their boss, who was lost in his thoughts with a creepy smile on his face.
Sage looked at Dominic before chuckling.
“Why do you ask? Do you want to kill him? Who are you to say she is the to-be wife of the leader of the python gang? She is my wife. I was going to marry her today. If only she wasn’t so adamant about playing and fighting, she would have become my wife,” Sage chuckled, and Dominic didn’t need anyone to tell him that he was Sage.
“You planned all this?” Dominic walked to Sage.
“Yes, I did. What are you going to do about it? Hahaha, if she is not mine. She is nobody’s. Hahahha,” Sage raised his head and started laughing maniacally, making Bryce grit his teeth, who wanted to shoot a bullet straight through his head.
However, Bryce didn’t want to snatch this pleasure from Dominic.
Dominic looked at his woman one last time as his heart ached, feeling like it would burst any second before he punched Sage square in his face.
“How,” punch.
“Dare,” punch.
“You,” punch.
Dominic kept punching his face before he slammed Sage into the pillar.
“How dare you even think she would be yours? How dare you even touch my woman?” Dominic broke the table’s leg before he hit Sage again and again.
“She is mine!” Hit.
“I will kill you for even thinking anything otherwise,” Hit.
Dominic was hitting Sage like some mad person, and not only Sage’s team but even the python gang members stopped fighting to look at their boss, who looked like he was losing it.
“Mason! What are you doing?! Save me!” Sage shouted, and Mason looked at him, unsure.
He was good at fighting earlier and did everything Sage told him, but he wasn’t a fool either. They were not standing against some local gang. This was the infamous python gang. These people were known for destroying the whole ancestral legacy of people who went against them.
Mason took a step back in horror. He didn’t want any of this to happen. He didn’t want to hurt that innocent girl. Her only fault was that she saved a man from getting beaten up, and her life had been turned upside down since then.
He remembered how the ‘guy’ had said that he didn’t want Aaliyah to be found out by Sage. She was too good for a monster like Sage. The guy was right. Now she is lying in the pool of her blood just because she didn’t want to marry Sage. Aaliyah was a girl that valued her dignity the most.
Mason took a step back again before shaking his head in denial.
“I can’t. Sorry, boss. I can’t support you in this madness anymore. It’s better to die than help you. That’s exactly what Aaliyah chose too,” Mason shook his head before he walked to the corner and sat with his head between his legs.
If the python gang decides to kill him today, he will readily accept his death. He has committed too many sins to be kept alive.
“Why are you not dying already?! Aaa!” Dominic growled in pure pain and anguish to take out his frustration
“Every drop of blood that dripped from her body should be repaid with a thousand drops of your blood,” Dominic threw the leg beside and broke Sage’s left hand.
“Aaaaa,” Sage raised his head as a scream escaped his mouth when Dominic broke his leg too.
“You wanted to have fun and marry my woman?” Dominic kicked Sage’s manhood making Sage scream in pain and cough blood.
“Let’s see if you have the heart to marry her,” Dominic bent and dug his nails into Sage’s chest, wanting to tear him apart.
“Aaaaa!” Sage flailed his legs and hands on the ground in pain, leaving the marks of scuffing, and everyone looked at the scene in pure horror.
Many members turned their faces around to stop themselves from seeing this horrifying scene.
“Dominic! Get a grip over yourself!” Bryce shouted to snap Dominic out of his killing phase, but it was of no use.
Sage, on the other hand, who was screaming in pain, tried to search for something to hit Dominic to push him away. When he turned his head with great difficulty, he looked at the gun only a few cm away from his hand.
“What’s going on?” Aaliyah opened her eyes slightly when she heard loud screaming, and her mind gained a little consciousness.
“Dominic,” Aaliyah looked at the man in front of him that looked like he was beating Sage.
She smiled gratefully that he was here to save her.
Aaliyah blinked her eyes slowly to not strain herself more. Now that Dominic was here, she was sure she would be safe and didn’t need to worry about anything. She smiled.
However, as she looked at Dominic’s side profile, she noticed Sage trying to reach for a gun, and she squinted her brows before widening her eyes when she realized what was happening.
“D-Dominic,” Aaliyah tried to warn Dominic.
“T-the gun,” She winced, trying her best to raise her hand that was burning with pain.
Bryce, who noticed a slight movement in the periphery of his vision, looked at Aaliyah in shock.
“Aaliyah,” Bryce whispered happily. She was the only one who could stop Dominic’s madness right now.
“Dominic! Aaliyah is gaining consciousness,” Bryce shouted at the same time Aaliyah sat with difficulty, and Dominic turned to look at his woman.
When he saw her rushing towards him, Dominic removed his hands from Sage’s body and was about to hold her so that she doesn’t strain herself too much when something unexpected happened.
Sage finally reached the gun when Dominic left his side and raised the pistol to shoot Dominic.
Bang! Bang!
The gunshots echoed in the silent hall, and everyone looked at the scene in horror.
Everything went silent for a moment as they tried to decipher what happened.
“Sage!” Bryce took out his gun and hit his abdomen.
Dominic fell to the ground a few meters away from Sage.
Everyone thought that Sage hit Dominic until they rushed to them.
Dominic, who realized what happened just now, widened his eyes in terror before he turned around, scared.
‘Please don’t let it be what I think,’ Dominic prayed, but his prayers weren’t enough to change the reality.
Aaliyah, who had been running to save Dominic, fell on her knees, her eyes as wide as saucers.
She had pushed Dominic out of the way at the right moment but couldn’t save herself.
She looked down at her abdomen, which had a bullet hole, and blood gushed out of her. She was able to dodge only one bullet.
“Dom-” Aaliyah couldn’t complete her sentence as her body gave up.
“Aaliyah!” Dominic crawled to Aaliyah, holding her before she could fall to the ground.
“Aaliyah! Open your eyes! Aaliyah! Look at me! Don’t close your eyes. I will not let anything happen to you. Aaliyah, please my love. Don’t do this,” Dominic screamed in horror and burst out in tears before he held her close to his heart and rushed out of the basement.
Bryce shook out of his shocked state before he rushed out and ordered his men to capture all of them and throw them in the python gang’s torture cell.
“Hey, hey, nothing will happen to you. You are hearing me, right? You can’t close your eyes on me like this. Remember your promises. Didn’t you used to say -” Dominic sniffled before biting the side of his hand to stop the sob.
He can’t break down like this. His Aaliyah needs him right now. He nodded at himself.
” -used to say that you will torment and haunt me? We have to go to the movies too. And what about a dog? You love them. We decided we would have one when we lived together, didn’t we? And then -” Dominic wiped his eyes before looking at his girl.
He wanted to shake her to keep her eyes open, but she had been so brutally hurt that he was afraid any slight movement would hurt her even more.
“- and then about our marriage. You said you would marry me. You can’t go back on your words like this. Are you listening? You said you keep your promises,” Dominic whimpered, his fingers trembling from fear of losing Aaliyah.
“Drive faster!” Dominic shouted.