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Maximus
As the SUV pulled up in front of the mansion, I couldn’t help the wide grin that spread across my face, knowing I was about to get a kiss from Cami. This woman had turned me into a soppy bastard from the moment I met her. Even being away from her for a few hours was torture.
Liv and I climbed out the car and made our way upstairs to find Cami and the kids. When we reached the playroom, Marco was being dressed up as a princess by a giggling Sani and Raya but there was no sign of Cami. Immediately, my senses were on high alert.
“Oh wow! You make quite the damsel in distress Marco!” Liv chuckled as she walked into the room.
I scanned it carefully and looked at the open bathroom door. “Where is Cami?”
“She is downstairs making the children’s lunch,” Marco replied in a professional tone that just seemed ridiculous as he was wearing a tiara, fake earrings and pink lipstick. I nodded with a smile and made my way down to the kitchen and that’s when I noticed something didn’t seem right. Apart from the men stationed at the front door, there were no soldiers around the lobby.
Picking up my speed, I rushed towards the kitchen, needing to see Cami. A strange, unsettling feeling was prickling across my skin when I saw the kitchen door was shut. It was never closed. Flinging it open, it took a second for my brain to register what I was seeing. There was Cami bent over the kitchen island, her dress up to her waist, arms being held behind her back, her eyes screwed shut in fear and pain. Standing behind her was Toni. I watched as he pulled his fingers out from her and started to unbuckle his belt.
RAGE.
I had never felt anything like it before in my life. I lunged at Toni, growling loudly as I tackled him to the floor in one violent attack. His huge frame smashed into the porcelain ground beneath me and I saw first shock and then anger in his eyes. But I didn’t give him a chance to react as my fist went flying into his face. Straddling his body, I pummelled his cheek, nose and mouth, blood squirting out in many directions. He managed to swing his own fist, connecting with my cheek but in my blind fury, I didn’t even feel its impact. He was built like a tank and I knew he would be able to dominate me if I didn’t get him into a delirious state quickly. Never stopping my vicious beatings, I thought he was starting to lose consciousness but he suddenly took me by surprise when he leaned up and reached behind my back pulling my gun out of my trousers. I reacted fast, grabbing his arm as he tried to bring the gun around to aim at my head. I slammed his arm down on the floor multiple times until the gun flew out of his hand and slid across the kitchen floor away from us.
I could hear Camilla crying behind me and the sound distracted me enough to give Toni the upper hand. He tossed me off him onto the floor, climbing on top of me and strangling my throat. His bone crushing hands were in a fierce grip as I tried with all my strength to pry his hands off me. I could feel my face turning red from the lack of oxygen as I stared up at his mangled, bloody face.
“Stop! You’re killing him!” I heard Cami scream and suddenly she had jumped onto his back, stabbing a knife into his shoulder. He released one hand from my throat, grabbing her hair over his shoulder and slamming her head into the marble kitchen island. She fell to the floor, knocked out and I growled, fighting back with the little strength I had left to kill this mother fucker. But he was too strong. I could feel my vision blurring as white dots danced across my eyes from the restriction on my throat. Panic started to set in.
“Get off him!” I vaguely heard a shout from behind Toni’s back but I couldn’t make out who it was. Then Toni’s eyes bulged. His hands loosened their grip as I coughed and wheezed for air. Blood seeped through his white top and I realised he’d been shot. Shoving him off me as he spluttered and choked on his own blood, his eyes wide, I wanted to make sure he died a painful death. Grabbing his face in my hands, I pushed my thumbs into his eye sockets until they popped and blood trickled down his face. His screams were silent as he choked on his blood and took his final breath.
I fell back on the floor and looked up for the first time at the person who had just saved my life. The gun fell from her trembling hands as she dropped to her knees.
“Is he dead?” She whispered.
I crawled over to Cami who was still unconscious, blood trickling down from a small cut on her forehead. I frantically checked for her pulse, bile rising in my throat. She was alive. She would be okay.
I looked back over at the shaken woman who had just killed a man for the first time.
“Yes Olivia, Toni’s dead and you just saved my life.”
Innocent Murder
Olivia
I– I just killed someone.
I just shot a man in the back twice.
My whole body shook with adrenaline and shock as I fell to my knees, eyes glued on the body of the man I just murdered. Murdered. I am a murderer. Blood started pooling from beneath his body, staining the porcelain kitchen floor.
“Yes Olivia, Toni’s dead and you just saved my life.”
I heard the words, but I struggled to process them. Toni? As in Sal’s right hand man? I am dead. I am more than dead when Sal finds out. But he was trying to kill Max. He would have killed him if I didn’t stop him. I had no choice.
I dragged my gaze away from Toni’s body and saw Max cradling Cami in his arms, her eyes closed and a trail of blood snaking down the side of her head. When I came down here to help Cami make the kids lunch and heard loud grunting and a woman crying, I immediately sensed danger. I ran into the kitchen and saw the huge man toss Cami off his back like a rag doll and she fell to the floor. That’s when I caught sight of Max’s face, scarlet red as the life was slowly being drained out of him. He was fighting against the man but he was losing. In a blind panic, I saw the gun near my feet and picked it up shouting to the man to get off him. But when he didn’t and I saw Max’s eyes roll into the back of his head, I pulled the trigger. The second time was an accident. I was expecting a loud noise but the gun was silent so I thought it hadn’t worked. It was only when the blood started seeping through the man's top that the magnitude of what I had just done hit me.
“Olivia! Liv!”
I blinked rapidly as my brain caught up with Max’s voice. “I need you to go and get Marco. Only Marco, okay? No one else can know about this. Got it?”
At that moment, Cami stirred in his arms and relief flooded through me. She opened her eyes, gritting her teeth as her hand went straight to her wound on her head.
“Cami, take it easy,” Max soothed as I watched him move slightly into her view and brush her hair from her face. Her beautiful blue eyes widened as she looked up at him and remembered what had happened. She burst into tears and turned into his chest, hugging him tightly as he stroked her hair and muttered something in Italian over and over. When she calmed down a little, she looked over at Toni’s body and then up at me. Her bottom lip quivered again.
