Chapter 6

                               Rose's P.O.V.

   

   

   I heard faint noises all around me each time I went in and out of consciousness. Pain struck my entire body. My body was still pressed onto Samuel's as he shielded me, protecting me.

    

    I passed out a few times, only jolting back with every gun shut sound that exploded in the air. At some point I found breathing hard and all I wanted to do was just make the pains go away.

    

    "This isn't a game, Curtez!" I heard a deep, intimidating voice from a distance I couldn't pin point. My mind was clogged. Who were these men shooting at us? Did they ambush us with the accident? My heart picked race at the possibility of losing my life. I know being with this man was the last thing I wanted for myself but dying this way was no preference to being with him.

    

    Samuel's arm circles around my side again and I looked up to see his hardened jawline as he focused ahead, one hand bearing a gun pointed out to the front from behind the Summersaulted car. I saw a blurred vision of blood trickling from underneath his hair and seeping down his cheek.

    

    As if he sensed that I was watching him, he holds fire and looks down at me, as if he were making sure that I was still alive. I hadn't realized that I was losing consciousness until the lines of his face started to mix up and fade quickly. His eyes were red and glassy as they poured into mine.

    

         

         

        5 HOURS LATER.

        

        

        I peeled my eyes open to the burning of the light against my eyes. I groaned in pain and shut my eyes close again, only opening them squinted after a second later.

        

        The brightness of the room was too much for my eyes and I tried to adjust to it. I was laid down on a soft bed, in a room that seemed to be completely made of white.

        

        I looked to the side to find someone's back turned to me as he faced the table, doing something over it.

        I winced in pain as I tried to help myself up, calling his attention.

        

        "No no, you aren't fit to move yet " the strange man calls as he quickly runs over to me and helped me to sit up against the bed board.

        

        I watched his face but couldn't recognize him. He's dressed in a doctor's coat and has a stethoscope around his neck.

        

        "Where am I?" I managed to ask.

        

        "You're back at the mansion, Rose. Samuel brought you to me and left immediately." He replied quickly 

        

        Samuel.

        

        The accident .

        Everything flashed back in my eyes like it was happening all over again. I saw the big car ramming into Samuel's car . I remembered the blinding light that flashed through my eyes followed by my body being thrown onto the road.

        

        The memories caused me a different kind of headache so I reached for my head and groaned in pain.

        

        "Yes, you're suffering from a terrible margarine as expected," the man said and I looked up to him strangely. "Sorry for my manners, my name is doctor Eugene. I'm Samuel Curtez's doctor."

        

        I looked back on the bed, a hand still holding the side of my head.

        

        "You hit your head very badly after the accident. Samuel had his men brought you back to the house on time."

        

        "Where is he?" I asked, cutting him off.

        

        He goes silent for a second, only speaking after I looked up at him, expecting an answer to my question.

        "He didn't come back yet, Rose," he replied uncertainly "his men has returned to him and I still haven't heard from him."

        

        My heart did something that surprised me in that quick moment. My heart made a painful beat. I remember that Samuel had been on his feet quickly, protecting me against the bullet being fired by his attacker. He had been there all alone, all by himself. Before I lost consciousness he was guarding me and still protecting us from the incoming gunshots.

        

        I wondered what happened to him. How he managed to get me moved back to the mansion safely and why he didn't come with me. Was he hurt? 

        

        I found myself feeling worried for him. Samuel Cortez may be many things, he may be scary and he may have forced me out of my house but after our last minute conversation on his car before being pushed off the road, I felt that he still had some good buried inside of him.

        

        Growing up, all I've heard about him was the bad things he did. The people he trafficked, abused, killed, the drugs he dealt and all that. 

        

        But my father wasn't a saint too. He did all of these things and yet I managed to love him.

        

        

        "He killed your mother" Samuel's words resounded in my head, and I winced in pain. 

        

        "You need to rest Rose," doctor Eugene said as he moved over and tried to get me to lay back "Mr Samuel Cortez will never forgive me if something happened to you."

        

        As I laid back all I thought about was Samuel Cortez. He'd said he didn't want anything to do with me but he still saved me. I remembered how he shielded me from the bullets, not caring if he caught one. But he'd said he didn't care for me. Yet he protected me and brought me here first to get treated.

        

        I didn't want anything to happen to him. Because I will still escape from here and show him that I am strong enough to live with my father's secret. And to be strong on my own.

        

        

        

        ONE HOUR EARLIER.

        Samuel Curtez's P.O.V.

         

    

    As I watched over Rose's blood stained face, all that was running through my mind was that I wasn't going to let anything happen to her. I will protect her at all cost. Because this isn't her fight and she didn't deserve to suffer it.

    

    I saw the fear in her blue eyes as she watched me from below.

    

    "Sam..." She called but I quickly placed a finger over her lips, shushing her. I know that she was scared because of the enemies approaching but I wanted to show her that no matter how many they were, they have nothing on us. I will always protect her no matter what happens here tonight.

    

    So I gently reached a hand over her head and moved her onto my chest as I heard the enemy approaching. I didn't want her being scared of any of this. I would protect her. 

    Positioning my gun just between the open car door which was now upside-down, I let my eyes follow the shadow that followed the enemy.

    

    This accident was still a shock to me. I'd lose guard and they got me. That wasn't going to happen again. 

    

    They knew where I was and made a move at the right time. This could only mean one thing: there's a mole amongst my men. 

    

    "None of this is a game Curtez!" I heard a voice from the far front.

    

    

    I listened. There was at least five men there, all armed. I hadn't left home with much of my men. Id only left with the driver Ruzz and one guard, Leonard. I'd only intended to treat rose to a nice dinner tonight. After that we would head for the meeting at the hilltop hotel.

    

    "You can surrender now and we'll make it easy on ya!" He said again.

    

    From the way he took slow steps and talked so loudly, it was clear enough that he didn't know where my current location was. He didn't know if I was behind the trailer which stumbled on hitting my car, or if I was behind my capsized car.

    

    

    I could use this to my advantage. I looked down to see Rose was already unconscious. So I set her down gently and moved away towards the trailer.

    

    Once I had them at a distance and watched them carefully approach my car, I stood up with my gun pointing at them, and whistled.

    

    The moment the gang leader turned around and attempted to pull up his gun at me, I shot him on his forehead, taking out the rest of his four mates.

    

    I knew there were more and they would be trooping in here soon. And I'm not going to run off until I find the root of all of this, but I couldn't also leave Rose here after all that accident.

    

    I picked her up into my arms and laid her onto the back seat of the enemy's car. I reached for my cellphone which was still intact on my inner breast pocket and dialed Matteo's number.

    

    "Meet me at the first Alley, right now." I said as soon as his voice came on on the other end.

    

    "I'm almost at the accident scene, sir," he said as I heard a car approaching "we saw your GPS get compromised a few minutes ago and I knew something was up. So we started coming."

    

    Once Matteo's two cars came to a stop, my men stepped down immediately.

    

    "Take her and have Eugene meet you! She needs to be taken care of right now!" I said to Matteo as soon as he reached me. Without wasting a second, he picks Rose from the car and hurried back to the car, and drove off.

    

    Diego, my chief security walks over to me and watched the bodies I'd put down earlier.

    

    "Do you have an idea who these men are?" He asks me.

    

    I looked closely at the bodies laid down on the ground. At the nape of one of the dead men was a tattoo I very well knew. 

    The tattoo of a scorpion was the well known signature look of the small gang group that owned a few part of creshore, Japan. I didn't know what business they would have with me but I'm going to find out.

    

    "The feds will be pulling up soon," I said as I put back my gun where it belonged "you should go."

    

    "What about you?" Diego asks with concern.

    

    "These men are still close by. I'm going to get answers." I replied as I reached for a silencer in his hand and grabbed it from him.

    

    "We can't let you walk into another ambush boss, it's why we came prepared." Diego said fiercely.

    

    I shook my head in refusal "this isn't a fight yet, this is merely a stimulant. And I will deliver what they want. I need you to take care of all of this and the feds when they get here soon. Make sure these on lookers don't get a single picture of me from here okay?" I said to him.

    

    Diego nods.

    

    With my gun in hand, I quickly took careful steps towards the dark alleys next to potential buildings where these men could be hiding.

    

    I didn't need to walk far to know where the rest of my attackers were hiding. An old motel building that sat just in the middle of it all, giving view of the road and a perfect time to have taken my car with a bullet.

    

    As I climbed up the stairs to the upper floor of the motel, I tried to watch the spot where my car had been hit to see the perfect window where I was possibly hit from if I'd been taken out by a gun. And I found it.

    

    The moment I pushed the door open, gunfires started firing but I leaped inside on time to shoot one of the two men down, then put a gun on the second one's head and kicked the gun from his hand.

    

    Cracking my gun against his head, I asked him "who the hell are you working for?"