“TAKE COVER!!”
Before Melody could react, Victor already pulled her. That’s when a loud explosion happened. She couldn’t hear anything. Her ears were ringing, and she couldn’t hear everything so well.
Victor holds her face, talking to her but it sounds muffling. Her eyes look around to see her bakery was destroyed. All the guards are holding their guns, shooting. There’s some group that she didn’t recognize.
They were attacking Damian’s men.
After the ringing in her ears, she finally got to hear everything. Everyone is fighting and shooting around her.
Damian runs toward her and holds her face. “Melody! Can you hear me!?”
“What…What happened!?” She frowns.
“We were ambushed,” he firmly said.
“Dam! We are short of people!!” Matthew yells.
“Of course we are!” Damian grunts. He looks at the people who are attacking them. “You stay here and don’t…I mean DON’T even dare to move.”
His tone is harsh and firm as if he wants to make Melody sit and stay where she is. He can’t risk anything that could happen to her.
“Damian, wait-” Before Melody could stop him, he had already left.
She hugged herself, hiding behind the counter. Everything is too loud for her. She closes her ears, trembling so hard. Celestia runs toward her, kneeling in front of her.
“Ma’am, are you okay?” She looks at her with concern.
“What is happening!?” Melody cried.
“We are being ambushed,” she reloaded her gun. Then, she notices Melody is trembling in fear. “Ma’am, everything is going to be okay.”
She gets up and starts to join them. Melody couldn’t hear everything instead of gun shooting and yelling. Everything is destroyed. Her bakery…the stuff that she dreams of has been destroyed.
Damian shoots the man in the head. He gritted his teeth and looked around to see everything was ruined-the bakery he made for Melody. Whoever did this is asking for their death early.
“Dam, they are too many! We must fall back!” Victor yells.
“Damn, we have to,” he said in anger.
Riccardo looks around and notices something: the tattoo on one of the men who attacked them. He recognizes that tattoo very well. He clenches his fist.
He grabbed one of the men and broke his legs. The man screams in pain.
“Why the fuck did you guys do this!?” Riccardo scowls.
“The boss gives an order, and we just follow!” He spat out.
Riccardo couldn’t help but feel the rage inside him. Melody probably gives the address of this bakery to Matthias, and he takes this chance to attack.
Matthias sitting on the chair, holding the cigar between his fingers. His eyes watch the computer screen which is showing the scene. He couldn’t help but smirk.
“You look happy, sir,” a man walks in.
“What can I say? I found the right thing to destroy Damian,” he chuckles.
“Which is?”
“His wife. Melody,” Matthias grins.
The man sighs and crosses his arms above his chest, “But sir. What makes you think that using that woman, could bring him down?”
“Are you dumb or what? Melody is his wife. Don’t you see how much Damian cares about her? I know it’s hard to believe but I saw it with my own eyes.”
“From there, I got to know that women are his world. It’s unexpected,”
He chuckles seeing Damian is trying to fall back. Matthias takes his phone and calls one of his men there.
“Yes, sir?”
“I want you to take this chance. Target him. He can’t do anything since he doesn’t have enough man.” Matthias demands.
“Yes, sir. On it,”
Damian looks at his men, “Everyone, fall back!”
They are slowly falling back while protecting each other. Damian runs towards Melody who is still hiding under the counter.
“We have to leave now,” he firmly speaks.
“But, there are still a lot of them!” She said.
“We got no time!” Damian holds her to stand up. “If we stay here, they are going to get us and you.”
Melody yelps as it gets chaotic. She is being pulled by Damian to the exit. All the guards are trying to back up them. It didn’t matter what happened to them as long as their leader was saved.
“Ah!!” Celestia yells.
Melody’s steps halted as she heard that voice. She turned around and saw Celestia on the ground, holding her leg.
“Celestia!” She pulled away from Damian and ran towards her.
“Mel-Fuck!” Damian grunts.
As she ran toward Celestia, someone aimed the gun at her. Celestia gasped, “Ma’am, don’t!!”
Before the man could shoot, Damian already killed him. “Don’t run just like that!” He scolds her.
Melody looks at him stunned, “I-I…” She lifts her head, only to see a man holding a gun, aiming at Damian.
“No!!”
As the man pulls the trigger, Melody pushes her husband aside. The bullet went straight to her stomach. Damian’s eyes went wide to see the shocking scene before him.
Victor quickly shot the man who just released the bullet.
“Melody…” Damian called her name.
She touches her stomach only to see red stains pooling on her top. Her trembling hands were covered with her blood.
“Dam….” She looks at him with teary eyes and a trembling voice.
Her eyes closed and her body went limp. Damian rushes toward her and catches her before she meets the floor. The sight of Melody bleeding and unconscious fills his vision.
“We have to go now!” Celestia yells.
Damian snaps out of his thought. He picked Melody up and ran to the exit.
Matthias sighs and turns off the laptop. He lit up the cigar, “Well, that is not what I expect to happen.”
“Um…is that okay to you, sir? I mean…the bullet hit Melody, Damian’s wife,” his man looks at him with a panicked expression.
“That bullet is supposed for Damian but-oh well. It’s not like Damian cares about that woman, isn’t it?” He chuckles.
“I…don’t think so…” his man sighs.
“Oh, come on. Don’t worry about it. Damian is fine with it,” Matthias blows the smoke.
Matthew presses the paddle hard. The car went the speed limit but that didn’t even concern anyone in the car. What is important right now is Melody…
“Hurry the fuck up, Mat!!” Damian hit the back of his chair.
“I’m going as fast as I can!” Matthew yells.
He looks at Melody who is unconscious in his arms. Blood came out of the corner of her mouth. His big hand on the wound tries to prevent the blood from coming out even more.
“Hold on there, Mel. Please…” he whispers.
Damian touches her pulse and that’s when he notices it become slow. He checked the other part and it was still the same.
“Her pulse is going slower! Hurry up, Mat!!!” Damian yells.
Soon after that, the car park in front of the hospital. The door slams open with Melody on the bed that is being pushed by some nurse.
Damian holding tight on her hand, ran along with the nurse.
“STEP ASIDE!! EMERGENCY!!”
The nurse yells. All the patient and people steps aside. Not to mention their shocked expression. Who wouldn’t? Seeing the famous mafia, Damian D’ Angelo in the hospital, holding a woman’s hand.
When they arrived at the emergency room, the nurse stopped him before he could step in.
“Please, wait here, sir,” she said before walking in and closing the door.
Damian standing there, staring at the emergency door. Victor and Matthew finally catch after him. It seems like Melody is inside the emergency room already.
They look at their leader and notice the different aura coming from him.
“Damian…” Matthew softly called.
No responds.
“Damian, are you okay?” He asks again.
Damian finally turns around. His expression is the same as always, blank and cold. But, his eyes couldn’t lie. Those eyes filled with panic, fear, anger, regret, and everything. It’s a mixed emotion.
“I’m fine. I want you guys to call some of our men to guard Melody while she’s in the hospital,” Damian demands.
“Sure. But you-”
“I’m fine,” he said.
They could see his hands covered with Melody’s blood, trembling. From there, they know he’s trying to hide the fact that he’s not okay.
“I need to go to the bathroom. Stay here for me,” he walks away.
“Right. Sure…” Matthew answers.
Both of them exchange looks before sighs. “You see what I see?” Matthew asks.
“I see it, Mat,” Victor rubbing his face.
Damian turned the pipe and let the water wash his bloody hands. The water turns red and everything reminds him of the scene.
He looks at himself in the mirror. He couldn’t stop the trembling of his hands. He didn’t know whether it was from fear or anger. Everything is mixed up right now.
The gunshot sound keeps repeating inside his head. His hands clenched into fists. Suddenly, the bathroom door opened.
“I have no mood right now to talk with you, Riccardo.”
Riccardo closed the door slowly. “I heard Melody already in the emergency room. Is there any news yet?”
“No.”
“Oh. Look…I…I know this is not a good timing but-” Before he could say anything, Damian cuts him off.
“Just…shut up. I don’t want to hear anything from you. I know who did this. No need to say his name,” Damian said.
“I just want you to know that I wasn’t involved in any of this. I swear I don’t even know Matthias will-”
Damian punches the mirror with his hand causing him to stop talking. His eyes stare at him full of rage.
“I said…. don’t say his name.”
“What…”
Damian walks towards him, “I don’t care right now. Don’t show your face in front of me or don’t even get near Melody.”
“Why?” Riccardo frowns.
“I can’t. Seeing your face reminds me of that fucking old man. Also, since you come back into my life, everything is ruined!!!” He sneers.
“That’s not even make sense!” Riccardo snaps. “I told you I have nothing to do with him! You can’t blame me for what happened! I don’t know if this will happen!”
He grips Riccardo’s collar, “My wife got shot, Ric. Because of your fucking father. So, I suggest you not to show your face anymore because everything about you mirrors your father.”
“No matter what you do.”
Damian pushes him away and walks toward the door.
His words are like a knife, a thousand knives that stabbed right into his heart. Riccardo clenched his fist.
“Since when do you care all about that!?” Riccardo yells.
“SINCE MY WIFE TAKE THE FUCKING BULLET THAT MEANT FOR ME!!”