Smoke and secrets | 18 +

XXVIII

Tori and I left incredibly early to the gun range.

The whole way there my hands were shaking. I was scared. I didn't want to do this but I know I needed to, Tori made sense yesterday.

What if everything went really badly in the meeting and guns were drawn, then what? I get shot and let Tori and everyone else in Sicily hear I'm on a death bed?

I wouldn't do that.

"Just a few hours bambina, we'll take it slow and easy for today." Tori said before she kissed me at the red light on our way to the range.

"Okay." I answered.

Once we got there Tori took my hand as we walked in. It was quiet and calm in the reception. If you didn't see the sign on the outside, you almost couldn't tell it was a gun range.

"Victoria." The man behind the counter said with a smile on his face.

"Elias." Tori said coldly.

"You know when you said you were coming I didn't think you'd actually be here. It's been a while." He said.

"It has. I haven't been needing the practice after all." She said.

"And this is? You hardly ever bring people here." He asked looking over at me with a smile. "Ella está guapísima, what's your name?" He asked me
(Translation: She's gorgeous)

"Belle." I said softly and he nodded.

"Should I put Vince down again?" He asked Tori.

She nodded lightly before he handed her a set of keys.

"I'll see you in four hours." He said with a smile before Tori nodded and walked through ahead of me.

We walked through a hallway that had a bunch of rooms on either side. We walked all the way through until the last one.

Tori unlocked it and held it open for me to step inside ahead of her. The room was big. There was a case of almost fifteen different types of guns. Two targets ahead of a it with a white line drawn on the floor with a table behind it.

Being here, in the room itself, somehow eased my nerves about some of this.

"Here you go bambina." Tori said as she held out a pair of ear muffs and protective glasses.

"Thanks." I said taking them from her.

"Do you want to choose one?" She asked pointing to the guns on the wall.

I turned around and looked at the sizes of all of them. I wanted something small, something I could hide just in case.

"That one." I said pointing to a small one on the bottom row.

"A hand gun. One of my favourites." She smiled taking it out

"Love, you have a favourite kind of gun?" I asked her as I walked closer to her.

"Just the ones I'm good with. This one, was my first and it's still one of my most preferred." She placed it down closing the gun on the table below it.

"It's small but can cause a lot of damage when placed in the right hands." She added as she picked it up again. 

"Here you go." She placed it in my hands. Before standing behind me.
The gun was heavy. Heavier than I thought.

I walked over to the shooting second. "Okay first of all, both hands on the gun when shooting."

"I thought it only takes one hand." I said.

"Not yet, that takes a lot more power than you think." She said softly.

"Right." I smiled at her.

"Make sure you're standing with your feet a good distance apart for now, it gets easier over time." She said moving my feet apart with her leg.