Tattered Love

Chapter 30:

The three males are standing in the back. Without any hesitation, all three of us fire our weapons. Alex's target hits the ground with a soft thud. He has a bullet hole in the center of his forehead. Zek's fallen target has landed softly into his partner. He landed with a hole in the right side of his neck. Right where his jugular vein is. My person was further back in the corner. I hit my mark in the center of his chest. He fell down quicker than the one with a permanent hole in his head. Alex looks over at me with an unknown expression dancing on his face.

"Dude, Alessio is going to kill me." Alex whispers as he shakes his head. I follow behind Alex as he peeks around the doorway. He nods his head and we begin to follow behind him as he exits into the main hall. As we get to the second room, we come face to face with a mini army. One that will give away there's company. Standing in front of us is ten unknown people dressed in black from head to toe. Zek quickly pushes me behind him as Alex and him open fire. Our enemies guns begin to make commotion.

"What is that?!" Andre's voice echoes in the distance.

So much for clearing out rooms one at a time. We just cleared out every single room on the third floor in a matter of seconds. My instincts begin to kick in. Instead of going in a room with Alex and Zek, I flew back to the previous room that's occupied by three dead bodies. I quickly dart under the office desk by the door as more footsteps are heard within the main hall. More shots are fired outside in the hall.

"Where is Issy!?" Alessio's voice booms.

"She went that way. She might be downstairs!" Alex's voice echoes. Footsteps echoes down the stairs as I wait under the desk, cowardly I know.

"She better be safe Alex." Alessio's voice sounds dark tone. The noises from upstairs has died down and more gunshots are sounding from downstairs. Without looking, I make a run for it. As I make it to the three way intersection of hallways, I'm grabbed from the side.

"You fucking bitch!" Ana screeches out as we hit the floor. As she sitting on top of me, she brings her face too close to mine. Without thinking, I smash my head against her nose. A crunch noise can be heard as she buckles off of me. I quickly get onto my feet and charge at a disoriented Ana. I spear her to the ground and the air leaves my body. It feels like my soul has exited me. I groan in pain as she stumbles up from the ground. Ana begins to wrestle with me near the railing of the third floor. She has me bend backwards against the railing. I use my free hand to push my palm into her chin, knocking her backwards. I move to the right as I begin to punch her in her jaw. It's like she's a robot because she instantly jerks me back into the railing and begins to try and push me over. Just as my body begins to topple over, I wrap my legs around her waist. If I'm falling to my death, so is she. With my arms wrapped around the lower part of the vertical pole, we both flip over. My hands slowly begin to slip with her weight on me. I open my legs to let her fall to her death when she grabs ahold of foot. I grip tighter on the pole as I shake the leech off my foot.

"Hold on!" Alex screams out as his head is visible at the stairs. With every step he gets the looser my grip gets. I fight harder to get Ana off of me. With one last ditch effort, I smash my heel of my free leg into her face. Her grip loosens and the weight is finally off of me. Just as Alex is close enough to me, my grip loosens completely and I'm free falling down below. The sheer horror on Alex's face will be the last thing I see before I meet the ground floor below.

"Issy!" Alex screams. Just as I make it to the second floor opening, two arms reach out and grab me. One hand is on my forearm while one hand has a hold of my hair. Just as my savior is about to topple over from the momentum of my fall, he's quickly pulled right back to safety. Now I have two pairs of arms pulling me over the railing. The one hand that was tangled in my hair is now pulling on the same arm he's holding. As my body comes over the railing, I crash into my first savior.

Alessio.