Chapter 104

Chapter 104
Gabriel POV

I take a step closer to Alex. As long as he is within my reach, I can handle him. I'm mastering some martial arts, it's that or my granddad will put bodyguards on me.
I walk from the side in order for Alex to take a step back far from Isabella. And as expected, he moves a bit to the couch. Now we are in a triangle position.
"Stop, Remington ! Don't come closer or I will shoot you." His hands shaky, eyes rimmed red unfocused, I can see the bulge vein on his neck. He is high. Motherfucker! It's easier to talk with sober people than the one under influence.
"What do you want, Alex?" I ask in a stony voice. I take a glance at Isabella. Her face looks pale.
"I need money, Remington . Your cousin threw me off the bus! That bitch doesn't want me anymore."
"It's your business with Cam. Don't drag us to your drama." I walk a small step towards him. "Listen Alex, I can give you the money you want and you can go for now. But that means you admit you are the mastermind of the embezzlement."
"It wasn't me! I swear to you, Remington . I'm not the mastermind. Ben is the mastermind. He took me under his wing, because I found his embezzles. That greedy man isn't that smart in hiding the proof. He's just an old green-eyed guy!"
I nod. Jack came with Alex files. He is a smart guy. I suspected he was the one who did the tricky job to make us harder on finding the embezzlement's proof.
"I'm not the mastermind. He said he would give a lot of money if I helped him. It's big, Remington . I swear to you it's big. And I was with Camilia back then, that was why when you interrogated me I couldn't tell you it was him." Alex keeps talking about the embezzlement. He doesn't realise I'm a few steps towards him.
"He was planning to pull you down when he found out you were looking closely at the embezzlement. That's why we came with the idea of sexual harassment. I know your former assistant will choose Isabella. She's smart. If it wasn't because of her mom, she would have moved to LA since last year. The timing was right. Cam was so antsy with my relationship with Isabella, even though I told her it's nothing. Guess she sensed I was planning to leave her once I got the money."
Isabella gasps. "You used her?" My woman is too pure for this world.
"What else, Izzy? I was with her for more than half a year. She kept pushing me to break up with you. I didn't want to. My future was you in it. Not her." He looks at Isabella.
"You're so disgusting, Alex!" She says in disbelief.
This is my chance. Alex's focus is on Isabella, while his gun is still pointing at me.
I lunge forward. I'm planning to break his fingers from the gun. We are fighting. Alex pulls the trigger when the gun is facing the roof. Isabella screams. I'm still fighting the gun with him. I'm sure I broke at least one of his fingers. Another shot, and I feel there is a hot in my left upper arm. But finally the gun falls down. I kick the gun away and punch Alex with all my power.
He falls backward to the wall; the blood comes from his nose. I stagger back a bit. I glance at my arm. Damn it! There are blood trickles from my arm. My white shirt becomes red.
Alex lunges at me and hits my left bloody arm. "I just need money, Remington ! You have a lot." He is still talking while his hand presses on my wound. I don't know how long we have been wrestling, but somehow during the wrestling match, I kicked him hard. He falls back and bumps into Isabella, and she falls to the table.
I lose my focus on Alex when Isabella doesn't wake up from the table immediately. Alex punches me in the face. He comes again; I stagger myself, ready to launch the punch on him. But suddenly there is a vase and smack!
Alex stops and falls to the ground. Behind him is Isabella with a vase in her hand. She hits Alex with it. She throws the vase to Alex's cock (that hurts, man) but I don't think she realised it. Alex doesn't move from his place. Isabella runs to me and hugs me.
"Gabriel..." she cries.
"Shh.. it's okay." I kiss her head.
Jack comes into the apartment. "Gabriel, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good" even though the wounds scream in my hand. I look at Isabella. "You okay, Sweetness? Our baby is okay?" I caress her stomach.
Her eyes get blurry and suddenly she falls into me. There is a lot of blood dripping from her thighs.
"Sweetness! Isabella!!"

Everything is blurry. The ambulance took me and Isabella to the hospital. I kept holding Isabella's hand. Her face was pale. What happened to her? God, please save her and our baby. Please... don't take her away from me. I beg you.
The nurses separated us because they needed to check on Isabella and treat my wound. Luckily, the bullet didn't go through my arm; it was just flying on the side of my arm. They wrapped the bandages on my arm. I forced them to let me wait in front of Isabella's room. I was still pacing when Christian and Ruby ran to me.
"Gabriel, where is Izzy?" Ruby's face is pale. I gesture at the room. "The doctor is still checking on her."
"You okay, G?" Christian looks at my arm, his face worried too.
"I'm fine…”"Alex hit Izzy?"
"No. I don't think so. The only time Isabella got hit was when I pushed Alex and he accidentally bumped into her. She fell to the ground.