bullets and bouquets

40

"What the fuck? Where am I?" Bella shouts. The last thing she remembers was going to take a shower. Now she's tied up and in some sort of room, much like the one Sadie had her in before they started dating.

"Finally awake I see," a man's voice says. She can't see him, as there's a single light bulb above her. He stands in the darkness outside of the ring of light.

"Who are you? What do you want?" she asks.

"You know what I want."

"Uh, no, the fuck I don't," she answers sarcastically. Bella feels a sharp shock to her abdomen, "Ah! What... what the fuck?!?"

There are two pads connected with wires to her stomach. They administer an electrical shock when the man presses a remote.

"I'm not playing games," he says. The brunette pants, groaning from the shock.

"Okay, okay," she sighs.

"Where is she?"

"Where is who?!?" he gives Bella another shock, "Ahhh! Jesus Christ!"

"I can do this all night," he threatens, "where is Sadie?"

"Sadie? What do you want with Sadie?" another long shock courses through her body and she fights against the binds to try and ease the pain, "Ahh, fuck!"

"I'm asking the questions here. Where is she?"

"I don't know, I don't know... I'm serious..." Bella gasps, "please, don't."

"I know you know where she is..." he almost presses the button again.

"No! I swear! She told me she was 'taking care of business', that's it! Didn't say where!" Bella exclaims. The man goes silent.

"You mean a lot to Sadie?"

"Uh, yeah, I think so," she answers, still recovering from the amount of electricity that has run through her entire body.

"Good. Then she'll come to us," the man says. Bella hears a door open.

"Wait, wait, wait! What do you want from her? From me?" The door closes, leaving Bella talking to the walls.

***

"How the fuck did they get in!?" Sadie yells as she and Jenna walk into her mansion.

"Cinna heard shouting but by the time he got in there, it was too late. They must have breached the cameras," Trent explains. Sadie paces back and forth, putting her hand on her forehead.

"Whose hit lists have I been on recently?" she asks. Trent hands Denmar a stack of files.

"Adeline Ciccone."

"No, she doesn't know about Bella," Sadie says. They flip to the next file.

"Giorgio Romani."

"No, he's just mad I beat him in poker and he owes me."

"Luka Roland."

"No, it wouldn't be him," Sadie thinks.

"Emilio Toscani."

She stops walking. The name sounds familiar, "What do I have in his file?"

"Killed his senior, Emilio Toscani the First," Denmar reads.

"Do I have a location?"

"Relative, not precise."

"I don't care, I'm not letting them take Bella. Prepare the cars," she orders. Jenna stays at the Estate as she's supposed to be 'dead'. Denmar, Trent, and a couple of other men take off in the SUVs for Emilio's warehouse. She arrives at the warehouse in less than an hour.