Hope

|Chapter 22|

Daya was truly sorry that she wasn't there for me and even cried in my shoulder feeling that if she punched them or even kicked one of them would have been great rather than me taken away for hours. Tony texted her in between I slipped down to ask Ezra about my parents. They hated me but after all they're my own parents who raised me once.

"Ezra?"

Walking around the house and found him nowhere so he might have left to station or went out with Connor, I think. I blushed thinking how I said those two words and what does he think about that? Is he feeling weird about me saying such silly things. I gulped cold water from fridge and about to run up when I heard yells from the door beside the stairs. 

Those shouts sound like Ezra. Is he wounded or something bad... stop making your own end Valeria and check what is happening there. I pushed the door open, and it was dark. I switched my flashlight on and called his name few times but only heard yells. 

I saw light coming from the corner and placed my phone to my pocket and walked to that place. My heart beating double the speed and I peeked in to see Ezra punching a boxing bag and his knuckles are bleeding. Is he angry because of me? I made him angry again and again like always.

"THIS IS FOR HURTING HER."

His wrist flowing with deep red liquid then it dropped to the floor. I wanted to go clean the wound, but he reminded me of my dad who pop up anytime and finish the anger on me or mom. I stayed there and watched him scream his anger out.

"WHY THE FUCK DID YOU MAKE HER CRY?"

He shouted making me flinch. I lost my balance and fell. Damn the timing. My phone lying in front of him, and he could see my clearly now. He stopped punching the bag and walked around it to me. I wiped my tears and felt arms wrap around me. He picked me up and made me sit on the side bench.

"S-Sorry...I heard you y-yell and thought y-you're-"
"For what?"

He gave me a towel to wipe my face and I tried hard not to cry anymore but these tears are free flowing object inside me. 

"Why were you s-screaming and it made me worry."
"Sorry. I-this is how I get rid of my anger, and I am sorry if that scared you, love."

He hugged him and I wrapped my hands around him feeling better. He is trying to cool off and my mind thought something big and bad. I pulled back and saw his hand covered in blood and he didn't show any pain about that.

"We need to clean that."
"Not needed and-"
"Yes, so come with me."

He nodded and got up with me and I switched the lights off then closed the basement doors. Daya was sitting on the couch munching chips and watching something. I pulled Ezra to kitchen and went to up to take the first-aid box from the bathroom and rushed back go as fast I can because that bruise is much worse than.

"Stop rushing around."
"You are bleeding and asking me to stop rushing around? Stay still and listen to me."
"Valeria it's fine and-"

I placed my finger on his lips, and he went zip-tied mouth but kissed my finger making me blush. I took that sting liquid and applied it on his knuckles, and he didn't even flinch with that sting. Then I took the gauze and wrapped it around his hands.

"Way better."

I kissed the wound making him blush. Again, I made Ezra blush twice, but he won't admit he blushed and hides it from me. Clearing the counter, I saw Daya leaning against the wall and watching us.

"The love you two have is another level."
"Good hearing that Daya."

Ezra kissed my crown and left saying he would return late. I waved at him and searched for something to eat because I am starving. I opened the freezer to see ice cream and Daya is already with spoon in her hands. She might have booked the tub for us.

"He will kneel for you Val."
"Stop saying nonsense and eat that ice cream before it melts."
"Bullshit. The way he obeyed you and even blushed when you kissed his wound."
"Twice. I made him blush twice if counting."
"Woah girl, I missed those scenes, didn't I?"
"We didn't do such things and stop blabbing."
"You're in love Valeria and let it fly than caged because that doesn't suit."

|PRESENT|

'You're in love Valeria and let it fly than caged because that doesn't suit.' 

Daya once said these words to me and on the same day I let everything free because I wanted them to be free than chained to me itself. Connor kept on mumbling, and he hated the idea of including Miles in this job. We were sitting at the hotel room when he started complaining.

"Ria, what if he betrays us and shake hands with Drake?"
"Then we kill him like others."
"Miles? That gangster you saying?"
"Duh, he is just a human flesh, right?"
"Chilling when my brain exploded millions of times."

Like always I made him quiet, and he ate some dry fruits with soda then dozed off. My eyes weren't ready to close so I opened my laptop and logged in to Ezra's account while he was working for FBI. I hacked each and every ID and by hearted every passcode he owned. The screen opened again and that G8 case then another one popped up under his name which had no name but had numbers.

 NAME: EZRA ALDER CHARLES
AGE: 25
CODE NAME: KAI

//G8 UNDERGONE VARIOUS LASPING AND REOPENING WHICH FOLLOWED WITH KAI AND OTHER TWO MEMBERS OF THE TEAM//

//84726912309: coded ID by KAI//

CURRENT STATUS: DEAD

My eyes read the last few words and his death have been totally marked in the site making me close the laptop and lay there itself. He said was true and his words would make me love him again and again or even I wish to die with him, and Connor said,

"Go on kill yourself."
"I had enough of these plays."
"THEN FUCKING DIE VALERIA."

That made me drop the gun and him to hug me tight enough to break my bones two years ago. If I died than who is there to kill all those who ended our bubble, then Connor would follow me too. For every life he took I won't spare him and if needed I would burn his skin alive.

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