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In that moment, I could focus on him, the man in front of me, and I let go of his wrist, smiling at him sincerely before opening my mouth and inhaling… And a split second before everything went dark, I saw the shock and panic that came over his eyes, forcing him to let me go.
I win. I thought happily.
GABRIEL
She was bloody insane!
Completely mental!
“Come on.” I pinched her nose before breathing into her mouth and placing my hands over her chest. “You’d really rather die? Is that what you’re saying? COME ON!”
“WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!”
BANG.
That was all I heard. It felt like my arm was on fire, and I was on my back beside the pool, the back of my head hitting the ground so hard my ears started to ring. When I opened them again, it was none other than the elder standing over me, rage in his eyes, a gun smoking in his hand.
Did he fucking shoot me? I thought, and got my answer when I tried to sit up and he stepped on my shoulder. No, the bullet had only grazed my arm but it still hurt like a fucking bitch.
“Ugh!” I bit my teeth when together he stepped harder.
“I gave you the benefit of the doubt for my grandmother’s sake,” he spoke above me. “But it seems that was mistake on my part.”
There was no saving myself from this apparently, so I tried to ignore the pain and looked up at him calmly.
“Is she alright?” I asked.
He pulled back the hammer of the gun; “What right do you have to ask?”
“She’s my fiancée.”
“And when did it become acceptable to try and kill the person you are engaged to?”
“Didn’t your mother shoot your father when they were engaged?” I asked, more than ready for him to get off my shoulder.
“Ethan.” I heard her voice call out to him and only then did I take a breath of relief. The voice was faint, but it was her.
He moved off me and grabbed on to my shoulder. Blood now covered the whole left side of me when I sat up. It wasn’t just Ethan; Wyatt was bent in front Dona and checking her pulse. Helen, her cousin, wrapping a towel around her, and Ivy, standing by the door. And most notably, at least twelve guards now in the pool.
“I wouldn’t move if I was you.” Make that thirteen guards, I thought, feeling the gun at the back of my head.
Well, this is a bloody mess, isn’t it?
Ethan reached out to help her up, but her legs wobbled and she tried to push him off. There was something odd about it…however Ethan just grabbed on to her, lifting her up. Wyatt stood up in place for a moment before looking to me, and I was sure as anything else in this world, he was thinking of a way to get rid of me.
“Lock him in his room,” Ethan said as they all moved to leave.
All of them were looking forward but her. Donatella, looking over Ethan’s shoulder, grinned brightly at me and winked… And the moment Ivy looked to her, Dona’s expression changed to pain…the witch.
She wasn’t trying to die. She was trying make sure I did! In the back of my mind I could see her laughing like the little madwoman she was…
This isn’t over, sweetheart.
“Get up!” they yelled, pulling me to my feet.
“Gentle, I bruise easily,” I joked. Apparently, they didn’t find it funny…and whatever they then hit me with made everything dark.
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