Chapter 54: Chapter Fifty Four

*Enzo*

As soon as I heard her scream I jetted forward.

There was no way I was hesitating a second more. I ran so fast that I didn’t care if they heard my pounding footsteps or my heavy breathing as I pushed myself to get to her faster. I wretched the gate wide open, the creaking sounds of the metal high pitched to my ears. I didn’t care about that either.

I race to the front and pull the door open only to come to a complete stop. Charlie nearly slams into me I stopped so fast. I was left completely confused as all hell. I stare at the single crypt that was dead center of the place with not a single person inside. I know I wasn’t going crazy. I heard Gabby’s scream. There was no mistaking that.

I turn to look at Charlie to see him looking just as highly as confused as me. He looks down to his tablet then mouths,

“He’s here.” With a shrug.

I stand there and listen carefully because there was obviously something that we were missing here. Then I hear it. It was faint but it was there.

“I don’t think so honey. You’re not getting away. We’ll make sure of it.”

It was Brittney and her voice sounded distant yet close at the same time. Like it echoed. But what she says has my blood boiling. She was trying to hurt my girl; the love of my life and she wasn’t going to get away with it either.

Charlie taps my shoulder and points at something near the corner of the room. I quickly swing my vision in that direction to see that a wooden door in the ground was pulled opened revealing an underground entrance.

That was new. Never seen something like this in one of these before. But it gave me hope that she was down there, and I was just moments away of getting her back and safe in my arms.

“Fuck!”

I hear Benny and the anger turned into rage. He was a dead man.

I race down the steps and right when I hit the ground level I see another open door and right there lying on the ground looking in so much pain was my Gabby. And standing over her was the piece of shit that was no longer a part of my family. He was done for as far as I was concerned.

“You’re not going anywhere you bitch.” He seethes.

“You motherfucker!” I roar causing everyone to jerk in my direction.

His eyes widen in shock and fear while Brittney, who was coming from right behind him, gasped in disbelief and shock as well. I didn’t hesitate as I swing a fist right into his face causing him to crash down hitting that stupid bitch and she goes down with him.

Disregarding them for the moment I reach down with my voice quivering from all the suppressed emotions that were going through me. “Love?”

I gently touch her face noticing how pale and weak she looked. Her eyes were glazed like they were out of focus. Helping her up I noticed there was dried blood on the back of her neck. She wasn’t answering me, but the tears alone told me how much she was relieved to see me, to see that someone had come looking for her.

But I knew she was far worse than what she was revealing and that alone made me snap. Kissing her on the forehead I whisper,

“I’m here, babe. I’m sorry I’m late but I’m here now.” I whisper to her, leaning our foreheads together and she just cries harder.

“How the hell did you get here?” Benny demands, his voice a bit higher than normal.

Tenderly standing her up I hand her to Charlie, who looked highly worried as he wraps his arm around her shoulders and didn’t wait a second longer to get her the hell out of this place. I was grateful he choose to come with me because I didn’t want Gabby to witness what I was about to do to these two.

It was better that she didn’t see this side of me. The side that was created by my mafia family and was enforced in me by my father. Because right now I didn’t feel very forgiving or merciful at the moment. They tried to hurt her, tried to harm what was precious to me.

And that was not okay.

Not by a long shot.

Instead of verbally answering him, I walk up, grab his head, and slammed it right down into my knee. I was too quick for him to react in any way. Brittney starts screaming her head off, so I just slap her hard across the face, hard enough where she falls to the ground. She quickly shuts up and looks at me with frantic disbelief as she holds her cheek that was vastly turning red.

“Wha tha fuck!” Benny’s voice came out all nasally as he holds his face with both hands, blood rushing down everywhere.

I grab the top of his hair and start dragging him close to one of the crypts and slam him against it getting ready to plummet him to death. But he gets a spurt of anger filled with energy and comes rushing right at me. I let him and we both crash to the ground nearly on top of the bitch that I was completely embarrassed about and regretted I ever slept with, even just one time.

We scuffle all around with him hitting me repeatedly on my side and with me elbowing him right in the gut to get him to stop. Blood was going everywhere, but I didn’t care since it wasn’t mine anyways. He socks me one good one in the lower jaw where a pop sounds.

But I was too angry to care for that either.

But it doesn’t last as suddenly Brittney throws her body on mine and starts wailing on me while screaming all kinds of cuss words at me. Then we all freeze when a sound of a gunshot rings in the air.

“Get off of him or I swear to God I’ll shoot the both of you and you can rot in here straight to hell.” Gabby stands there like a warrior woman holding onto an old colt that I have no idea where she got it from.

Slowly they each release me as I do with Benny.

“You wouldn’t dare.” Brittney sneers, looking like she wanted to eat her alive.

My girl doesn’t blink or hesitate as she aims right at her and pulls the trigger, shooting her right in the leg. She screams as she falls in a heap to the ground. The loudness near deafening me. I was in complete shock that she had actually shot her and with no hesitant on her part either.

Guess we both had a little of that mafia blood in us, no matter how much we try to get rid of it.

“You fucking bitch! You fucking shot me!” She screams holding onto the leg that was bleeding profusely.

“You’ll fucking live, cunt.” She croaks as she aims the gun right at Benny.

“Want to get your ass shot too or are you going to sit there like the bitch you are?” She snaps and I see it.

She was shaking and it was clear she was trying to hide it. She wasn’t doing okay, and I needed to get her to the hospital to get her checked out. So, standing up just as Beeny scoots back looking exactly what she called him, I carefully take the gun from her and hand it to Charlie who stood just behind her not bothering to stop what she was doing.

I knew him, he wanted to do this more than she did.

“It’s over now. We should get you checked out and somewhere safe.” I whisper gently.

She starts to nod her head. “I don’t feel very well.” She whispers back and my heart twisted and clenched.

“Alright then, let’s go-”

Suddenly her eyes rolls back, and she falls right into my arms. I start to panic as she becomes unresponsive.

“Gabby?” I shake her a little but nothing. “Fuck.” Lifting her up I rush out of that place and get her away from those horrible, awful people.