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"Oh yes you did. Daddy bought you a little present. I hope you can pick up the technique quickly. After all, you only have to pull the trigger, right?" He said in a mocking tone.
"You bought me a f*cking gun?" I restrained myself from shouting but kept all the anger and intensity in my voice.
"Consider it a gift."
"A gift my a**! And what's this business?" I asked furious.
"Well, people are trying to deal on my turf so they must be dealt with, and you are the dealer."
"And you're the devil!" I hissed before hanging up.
Furious and absolutely terrified, I sunk down into the sofa with my head in my hands. I didn't know whether to scream or cry, I wanted to do both at the minute. He had took things too far, he wanted me to kill. I was now officially a part of the gang and I didn't want to pay the membership fees.
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Daniel's P.O.V
Gun shots were firing at us, the cries of hit men were filling the air around me. I dodged bullets by merely seconds running for a place I could take cover, behind a bin, some crates, a car. I refused to even remove the revolver from my pocket. No blood was being spilled on my hands, not today, not ever. No matter how scared I was it was not making an appearance.
"Get them you p***y!" One of the gang screamed at me.
I ducked behind a car ignoring him completely. My phone vibrated from my jacket pocket for the fifth time in the last hour, I knew it was Louisa, who else would call? Again I let it ring out, guilt coursing through me every minute. I wanted so badly to hear her voice, to let it comfort me and relish in its sweet beauty.
I tugged at my hair in frustration, letting out an enraged scream. I knew the second I had let it out I shouldn't have. Gun shots fired at the car, glass shattering and falling all around me. I lunged out from behind the car running to my next hiding spot but this time I wasn't quick enough. The speed of the bullet was amazing and it's impact even greater. Thankfully instead of hitting my chest where it was aimed, it punctured my left shoulder instead but that didn't minimise the pain.
I fell to the ground gritting my teeth to refrain from letting out a strangled cry. The gang member who hit me was closing in on me fast, he was set out to finish what he started and that meant my death. I was just lucky to have those few seconds until he reached me as his aim couldn't be trusted from a distance.
It brought bile to my throat but I had no other option. I dug into my pocket to bring out the hand gun, fully loaded, aimed for the heart and pulled the trigger. Just like that, he fell to the ground, limp, lifeless...dead.
Killer, murderer, monster.
The last name stuck in my head. I was no longer innocent or good, I had killed a man. I was a criminal, a cold blooded murderer and the thought brought tears to my eyes. I didn't want any of this! I never asked for it! Was it too much to ask for to have a simple life? To spend the rest of my life with Louisa, have our children in a little house away from all this, the crime, the drugs.
The blood soaked my shirt and it clung to me. I was starting to feel light headed from the blood loss and knew I had to get out of there fast. The pain was blinding and intense, I had to somehow pull through it however. I couldn't stay here to be killed or kill - again. I don't think I could handle much more. How these men could take each others lives without so much as a bat of an eyelid haunted me, where was their humanity?
I managed to pull myself up so I was on my feet, but low enough so as not to be seen. The alley I had come in was a few metres away and the safety of my Aston Martin only a minute. My problem, was the uncovered distance I would have to run. I would be an easy target and an easier one still as I was already injured. It was a risk I had to take, however slim my chances. I found that everything I did these days involved risk, a big risk.
Taking deep, slow breaths, I counted down in my head. Three... Two...
"One!" I said aloud and sprinted in the direction of the alley, keeping pressure on my agonising shoulder. The gun fire was rapid hitting everything around me. I was lucky thus far, I just had to hope someone was watching over me right now to help me through this. One more bullet and I'd be done for, I couldn't keep moving with two in me, I was barely coping with one.
Not long now. Keep moving. Almost there. Right, left, right, duck. Almost there, come on Daniel, almost there. My brain kept screaming at me, my body obeying its commands. I was running on pure adrenaline, I was exhausted but the rush got my brain to process what was happening and my legs to move.
"Get back here you-" One of my dad's guys started to shout before he was cut off. I presumed he was dead but I didn't look back, he wasn't even worth it.
Just as I entered the narrow street, a bullet hit the wall exactly where my head had been mere seconds ago. I didn't think they would pursue me any further but I didn't slow down in fear that they would. No one could ever predict what they'd do next and my gut told me to keep going as fast as my body would allow.
Reaching the end, almost into the deserted town another figure appeared, my dad.
"Where the hell do you think you're going? Get back there, I want this cleared up!" He took no notice of my state and didn't show the slightest hint that he cared. Never did I expect him to, I had given up hope on that long ago.
"I'm getting out of here and I'm never coming back. I'm done old man, I'm through," I said, turning my back on him.
"The hell you are!" He shouted at me.
"I mean it. And this time, I think you'll get the message," I spat at him holding my gun to his temple. "You leave me alone or so help me God I'll do it."
"You don't have the balls," he sneered.
"I wouldn't be so sure," I challenged him, clicking the bullet in place. His eyes went wide and his Adam's apple bobbed as he gulped loud enough for me to hear. For once, I was the one who held the power. He held up his hands in surrender and I backed away, gun still pointed, ready to shoot.
"This isn't over," he said simply.
He disappeared into the war zone and I ran to my car fumbling for my keys with one hand trying to numb the throbbing in my shoulder with the other.
Once I had finally unlocked my car and got in I could feel myself slipping away, loosing consciousness but I forced my eyes open long enough to drive the familiar roads to Louisa's apartment.
I dragged my feet from my parking spot into the elevator where I found myself sliding down the walls, drained both emotionally and physically. The doors opened with a ding and I painfully dragged myself to Louisa's door banging loudly with all my strength then letting myself rest against it.
It opened causing me to fall forward into someone's arms, the perfume indicating it was Louisa. She stumbled with my added weight on top of her and I ignored the pain when she dragged me to her sofa. Only when I was laid there did she notice the blood on me and now her.
She screamed. It was terrified and strangled, her eyes pooled with tears before they fell down her perfect face.
"Baby what happened? Daniel! Please! Oh God!" I heard her scream. I tried with everything I had to answer her but all I could muster was a moan, it sounded painful even to my ears.
"Somebody help me! Help!" She sobbed and clung to me, holding my head to her chest. Her screams were permanently etched into my brain, they would haunt my dreams. They terrified me and I hoped I never had to hear them again, they were too painful.
"Don't leave me, please. I love you," she rocked back and forth and I felt so guilty that I couldn't give her a reply. I wanted to sit up, to hug her and tell her that I loved her and that she was everything to me but my body finally gave in and I blacked out.
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