Why?

Sixteen

Sergio POV:

When Anibal called and said that I needed to get home and Raquel wasn't answering her phone I was scared shitless. I tried to call Anibal back but he had his phone turned off as well, I tried Alicia next, then Silene, and then Andres all had their phones off. I told Brady to take me directly to the house hoping that someone could tell me what was going on.

When we pulled into the driveway, not one light in the house was on.

"What do you want me to do boss, wait with the car running incase their not there?"

"Yeah, I'll come back out and let you know either way," just as I was about to get out of the car my phone beeped alerting me to a text.

Come to the hospital room 1422 ~ EMC it told me, I told Brady to step on it and we headed that direction.

Brady dropped me off at the emergency entrance and I ran the whole way to the elevator and waited impatiently for the door to close, I must have hit the 14 button many times before they finally closed and we were off, luckily we didn't need to stop on any other floor.

When I was at the right floor, I searched frantically for room 22 when I found it the door was closed but I didn't care I barged right in. What I wasn't prepared to see was Raquel lying there covered in bruises. I dropped to my knees upon seeing this, I didn't even notice when Anibal came up to me and helped me to a chair that was sitting next to her bed.

"What the fuck happened while I was gone and how long has she been like this?" I demanded to know.

"It happened earlier today, we were out shopping when we were attacked." Silene said quietly it sounded like she had been crying. When I looked up at her, she had tears running down her face. Her hair was a mess and her clothes looked like someone had tried to rip them off of her. I looked at Alicia next and she was the same way but she had bruising on her face and arms. Silene didn't have any bruises.

"I tried to help the best I could, I'm so sorry Sergio." Alicia told me while she was crying. I got up from my chair next to Raquel and pulled her and Silene into a hug, I knew they did what they could to help.

"I'm not angry with you; I know that all of you did what you could to help each other out. I'm glad that you two are safe. Where were the guards at while this was happening?"

"They have been disposed of, apparently they thought Alberto, paid better then we did." To say that I was mad would be an understatement, its better they disposed of them and not me.

"What happened?" I asked, nobody said anything other then they were attacked. I looked at Silene first, she was the one who told me that much.

"We where out shopping, she wanted to get something to surprise you with, Liam and Kate where in the store with us, but Liam was a bit shy? I guess would be a good word for it, the store we where in was Fredrick's of Hollywood and he was a bit uncomfortable in there so he stayed by the door. Monica was browsing the clothes with us, making it look like she was going to buy something you know. I'm not exactly sure what happened then to be honest, we where getting ready to go back and try things on when someone hit Monica in the head causing her to fall, I don't know which one it was because I only heard her hit the floor. Raquel screamed Monica 's name as I turned around to see, Raoul and Austin standing over her. I thought at first they were going to help her but Raquel, the stupid girl, walked right up to them and slapped them both. Next thing I know they have her pinned with her hands behind her back and are leading her to the dressing rooms, well there was no way in hell I was going to let that happen to her. Raquel fought with everything she had to get free but it wasn't enough, Alicia came up behind Austin, her guard, and kicked him in the knee from behind causing him to let Raquel go. When he tried to reclaim his hold on Raquel she kneed him in the nuts, hard too. He went down like a brick. Raoul, my guard, started to hit her with his fists on the back of her head so I jumped on his back hoping to stop his attack. He did for a short time, until Liam got there. Liam put him in a choke hold to give us time to get help but it didn't work for long." She had to stop there because she was crying so hard, I kept my arm around her and took her over to Anibal where she just collapsed in his arms and sobbed.