And Then They Died

Chapter 7

Octavia's POV

Allegra stumbles back into the hotel room drunk at 6 am. She runs straight to the bathroom puking.

Did she just limp in her run? Probably if she walked all the way back here, but I'm pretty sure one of our guards would have driven her back here.

"Allegra? You okay?" I shout grabbing a bottle of water.

Leave it to me to sober up in 3 hours for the sole purpose of taking care of my friend.

"I'm fine don't come in". I walk in anyway to find bruises all over her body. I freeze in the doorway.

"Who? Who did that to you?" What happened to her?

"Who did what?" She mumbles standing up to finally look in the mirror and the shock on her face says it all.

She curses under her breath and stumbles towards me passing out. I caught her before she fell and laid her down gently.

I move the hair from her face and notice bruising around her neck. Like a handprint? Or hickies? The lighting in here is horrible.

My heart starts to beat faster and I run out of the bathroom to get my phone and call mom.

Pick up. Pick up.

"Hello?" A sleepy voice answers.

"Mom, I'm so glad you picked up. I'm panicking and I don't know what to do. We were supposed to stick together. That was the plan: stick together and have fun. I didn't though. I thought she would be ok and-" I say all in one breath.

"Octavia" She interrupts evidently more alert than before. "Slow down and tell me what happened."

I breathe in and out, calming the shakiness in my voice.

"Allegra and I went to a club tonight and I got home at 3am thinking she would already be here seeing as I couldn't find her in the club. I got back to the hotel and waited while trying to sober up because at least one of us had to be ok for the flight in the morning. She just came in a few minutes ago and she went straight to the bathroom puking." I breathe in and out again controlling my nerves.

"She has bruises all over her. Her neck, legs, her wrists... and". I was about to go on before she interrupted me again.

"Via, take her clothes off to see if she still has on underwear. Listen to me carefully. The mission is more important than this, I will deal with the situation when she wakes up. Wash up Allegra, and check for bleeding like I taught you. Ok? Don't jump to conclusions, we will hear what happened when she wakes up" I hear her sigh over the phone and I hear shuffling as if she was getting up out of bed. "We will talk about this more after she wakes up." With that last note she hangs up.

I go back to the bathroom and start to take off her dress. She doesn't have anything underneath and I carefully lift her and slide her into the tub.

She has a lot of explaining to do.

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Roman's POV

I'm slumped over Allegra's body as I finish. I pull out and move off of her.

Shit. What did I do? I wasn't planning on actually fucking her. But now that I have, I'm no longer looking at her like an object, but as a person. A person I shouldn't use just for sex.

I could kidnap her now. Tie her up and take her back to Italy, but that's not the plan. She needs to find the weapons and destroy them.