Chapter 27: Chapter 27
Elijah*
"Who are they? And why are they after us?" Her voice whispers in panic eyes darting around the room causing her hair to flip with each movement.
"I don't know yet, Alexei is working on it but we have to leave. They have surrounded the perimeters of the house." Showing her a display led video of body movements in the forest around us from my phone. "They are in the woods, to kill us. We have to move quickly, stay by my side and never stop for anything. Please." Grey eyes begs her to obey me. She nods, watching her eyes dilates more in panic.
Taking the CZ75 handgun out of my hand, my eyes fall on hers worried, she looks right back at me dead serious. "I won't let you do it alone. It is two of us remember, so don't fight it with me." This isn't the life I want or plan to give her. She deserves more than fighting my battles with me, my heart squeeze refusing to let her have the gun. If anything happens to her I will never forgive myself for this.
"It is either us or them Elijah; so choose." She says assertive though you could hear the fear behind those words. Sighing defeatedly, I stand up with my favorite guns in both arms. A fully loaded benalli M2 super 90 and an AR-15 rifle. If only she knows how much of a killer I am and what this killer will do to protect his heart at all cost; but those instincts became a caution when I took her in my life. And now whomever they are fully resurrected the beast in me. I want to say I'm surprise to hear the words fly out her lips, I'm not. Blinking out the initial shock, I hang a gun across my chest watching her run to wear her pair of fendi sneakers.
Good. I applaud her in my head for acting wise even as it looks funny with her sexy purple boy shirt and matching silky top.
"Do not get out of my sight." exhaling deeply she nods trailing behind me as we climb down the stairs.
Sonia*
He activated the landmines dragging me cautiously down the stairs. A landmine went off in the distance causing me to yelp gripping him tighter. He coos shushing me with his index placed on his lips. Inside me, my heart is thumping at an extremely fast rate I could hear outside of my eardrums. Who will attack us and why? Okay skip the why question because two things are involved already. Elijah being the head of the Russian mafia or me escaping my demons that seem to have found me again.
"Are you ready?" He pauses checking on me. I see we are at the back of the house hiding behind this huge overpriced China vase. I nod affirmative, my eyes darting between the door and him.
"I will never let any harm come your way. Do you trust me?" I nod swallowing a nonexistent saliva. "Say it princess." he commands.
"I trust you Elijah." He expels a deep breath as if hoping my answer wasn’t otherwise.
We stepped out through the glass doors. Steadily behind him, I watch him take out a target at a far distance. He took out another and soon fire shots rang out from different directions. Ducking, he helps us get through the woods at the back. Too busy keeping me safe, he fails to notice the man on the tree top, bang, I shoot at him falling right to our side. Elijah looks at the dead body and then at me.
"We have to go." I walk past him and the body lying helplessly on the grass bracing for another hit from our attackers.
"Alexei. Da. Who are they?" He fires shots at a random at they men gaining grounds on us, just as I fired at will. Dodging bullets and fighting off each men that came close enough. We began running as they chased us through the woods. About putting my foot on the ground Elijah was quick enough to counter my footing.
"I activated the landmines." Realization hits me forming my lips in a big 'O'; this time letting him take the lead of the way before I blow up into a gazillion pieces. A sudden eruption threw us to the ground as we lost not only our balance but each other, sadly my gun also noticing a masked man inch closer to me. His AK47 pointed at me.
"Elijah!" I scream so loud hoping he saves me from this impending death. A loud shot echoes in the night watching the man fall to the ground. Dead. My eyes flits to Elijah rushing to me.
"We have to leave. Now!" Hearing distant voice run towards us, we ran out of the woods and towards the road where a vehicle is parked waiting for us.
Once buckled in, at a very high speed Elijah drove us out of the road and our ruined home. My eyes goes to the mirror watching the huge smoke rise in the air. Everything seems surreal, one moment I had the most amazing sex, sleeping and now running away for who knows who.
We drove until we arrived at one of Elijah's personal built-in safe house. A cozy cabin in the farthest place from the outskirts of New York. Climbing down, he came over to help me into the cabin.
"Sit here and wait for me okay." I nod hugging myself feeling goosebumps cover my skin. I wouldn't even move if I wanted to, physically my body became paralyzed sitting there thinking about the odds.
"Alexei , chto eto nuzhno mne pokazatʹ." (Alexei what is it you need to show me.) I hear him communicate with his brother hugging tightly on the blanket wrapped on me.
"Who is this Nia?"I flinch at his tone not getting why he is suddenly mad at me. Looking at the tablet in his hand, my eyes could pop no more than it already did. Slowly it raise to meet his stormy grey gazing down accusingly at me.
"I-I can explain Elijah." I squeak, stuttering in fear of what he will do to me now he knows who I am.
"What the fuck is this? Why will the Italians come after us? Answer me!" His deep voice bellowed across the little cottage.
"I am Sonia Vatore. The last and surviving heir after the massacre of the Italian mafia."