Chapter 1
Niccolo
"What if it's not her? What if it's a trap? Why would she text you all of a sudden? It just doesn't make any sense." I said my thoughts out loud.
Fuck I want it to be her, I want to find her like a lost man in the desert wants to find water. It's been 14 fucking months and not a day goes by without us trying to find her.
Andrea is in a bad place, the guys are okay, I guess this didn't affect them as it did to us. Every time I close my eyes I see her, and the possibility of my baby.
My feelings for her didn't change, I mean they did, I fell deeper. We didn't have time to explore this, we didn't have time to explore 'us'.
When Andrea got that text we immediately found the location and jumped into cars, we expected someplace in Italy, or any other country, but no, it's half a drive from my house.
Is it Julianna?
I got thirty more men following us, I couldn't come without backup, Silva parked the car, we are close to the industrial zone, there are no family houses or tall skyscrapers here, it's just warehousing or factories left and right.
We got out of the cars and checked our guns.
"I want ten guys going around and checking the perimeter, ten go through the back door and the other than come with us through the front," I ordered and they divided into 3 groups.
"Niccolo..." Andrea called me from behind, I took a deep breath and turned around to face him.
"I know brother, I know. Don't worry if she's here we'll find her and bring her home. " I said.
I fell in love with this girl in days, shit I probably fell in love with her 4 years ago when she saved me. Maybe that's why I 'hated' her in the first place. Since I laid my eyes on her for the first time she makes me feel.
She made me feel more.
Andre always talked about her even before she saved me. I would always listen to him talk about how she was, what she liked or didn't like, I was always interested in her.
Everything happened very fast between us, I know that, everyone knows that. But it felt right at the time. What didn't feel right was having her away from me, from us.
Those 14 months were torture for me too, 14 months filled with questions.
Is she alright?
Is she being tortured? Raped?
Was she pregnant?
Did she have the baby?
Does she think about me?
Does she love me?
Is she alive?
The thought of what might be behind those warehouses walls is terrifying and exciting at the same time. But it's time to find out.
Once everyone was ready we made our way to the location, the first group went around and found nothing. No cameras and no one. The parking lot had 4 SUVs parked and a rolls Royce, the kind of car that a boss would drive.
Marcello?
Is he here?
I fucking hope so.
I want to kill him, for pretending to be a part of us and for stealing my happiness
We got in position and kicked down the front and back door, and what we saw made us stop in our tracks. The stench of blood was strong in the air, there was blood on the walls, on the floor, and in front of us at last 10 dead bodies.
We kept our guns up and continued our search, the dead bodies didn't stop there, the floor was slippery with dark red blood, some already dry on the walls, and some still shining in the light. We got in a room that looked like an office.
Marcello was there.
But I never expected to find him like this, the sight in front of me was terrifying, his body lay on the floor, eyes, and mouth open, his pants on his ankles and his shirt open, but there were thousands of stab wounds on his torso.
I could see his guts through the gashes.
There were small footprints on the blood that was around him and I made a signal to Andrea and we started following them, we passed more bodies.
Who did this?
Another mafia?
We stopped in front of another room, with our guns ready to kill we opened the door. Tears filled my eyes with the sight in front of me, Julianna, my Julianna was in a corner, with her back to the door, naked, rocking back and forward.
Her pale skin full of beautiful ink wasn't pale anymore was red, blood, she was covered in blood.
"Julianna?" Andrea was the first to break the silence, she stopped rocking, her back straightening up and tensing. Her bloody hands went to her ears and she covered them, then she started shaking her head.
"No, no, not real. It's not real." She was saying over and over again.
"Julianna? Ju?" I called and started walking slowly to her.
Andrea had tears running down his face, and I was also on the break of tears, seeing her like this is breaking me, breaking my heart. What happened to her? Is she hurt? Is this her blood? Did she kill Marello and the others?
I reached to touch her shoulder and when I did, she look over it at me. Her once bright eyes were full of pain, so much that brought me to my knees.
"It's over Ju, We got you. I'm here, Andrea is here." I said.
Her skin was cold like ice, her muscles so tense that they felt like a rock, there was so much blood on her and the room was dark I couldn't see if it was hers a not.
She looked like she was in shock.
I took my jacket off and put it around her. She just kept looking at me without moving, blinking, is he even breathing?
"I'm gonna carry you out of here okay?" I said and got closer to her and that's when she finally moved.
"No, No, no more get away from me. Don't touch me." She started trashing around and I decided to give her space, I looked over to my brother, and with my hand, I called him to come to her.
I don't even know where are the others, I don't even care. Her head turned to me and Andrea, her eyes filled with tears now.
"They took her." She whispered and passed out.
