Amore In The Shadows

Love and other words

Chapter 13

Sadie

It took me 2 hours to find a hotel within my budget, without turning up to my jobs again I'm pretty much broke with only 20 Venite left in my bank. While Issy is occupying herself with the work from school I head out to hopefully get my job back in the warehouse but I'm not counting on it. I walked 20 minuets to the warehouse spotting Darel loading on boxes on the van. "Need a hand?" I question buying me time to come up with a viable excuse as to why I haven't shown up in months. His head snaps towards me and anger etches into his face "well look what we have here, you finally decided to show u have you?" I grimace at the way he spoke to me. My mind goes blank as I spot dark bruises spotted across his arms faded but still there. "What happened to you, you do too much working?" I hold back a grin at the hard hit I threw back at him. He looks at me confused before a smirk takes over. "No, the person who gave me these said never to touch you again and to never treat you the way I did when you worked for me" my mind swirls with possibility's, it can't be him why would he do that? How did he know? "I believe his name was Enzo" all anger I felt last night returns in a blistering pain. Without saying a word, I turn my back and leave, rage and fury blinding me.

Weeks passed and I haven't heard from Enzo directly. Rico called me a couple times and asking if we were safe and if we needed anything but he only ever got one response from me and after that I only got a grunt then the click of the end button. Ryka had found out where we were staying and shower up last week begging us to come back and that Enzo was miserable without us to the point, they barely seen him. He ended up staying the night drinking and ordering a take away before leaving and begging me to come back with him. When I relented he wished us good luck and that they wouldn't give up to get us back. Is that what I want, or do I want them to leave us be?

Enzo

I haven't heard from her in weeks, I've tried calling her but she's blocked my number, Rico and Ryka have both spoken to her and they say she's fine and that she seems happy, that's all I've ever wanted for her, happy.

I've been in my office all day working on keeping eyes on Sadie at all times, the person behind all these attacks is still out there and recently we learned he has a daughter, one a couple years younger than me and if we can capture her, we can use her as leverage for our safety. A soft knock sounds at my door and my hopes that it will be a certain redhead is crushed when Ryka walked in the office. "Dam I have that affect on woman to, maybe it is me who's the issue" he stares down at his feet mixed emotions crossing his face before he looks back up at me "sorry to disturb you boss but we going to a party down town you want to join us?" just as I'm about to refuse and get back to my work Ryka says the one thing that would change my mind. "I heard your redheads going to be there" he says wiggling hi eyebrows as he knows either way ill turn up. Without even debating the matter I tell him ill meet him by the car in 20 mins. I shower and dress in my white dress shirt and black jeans, putting my hand gun in the hoister. Its time to get my girl back.

The smell of stale beer and cheap takeaway food invalids my nose as we walk up to the front porch of the house, we enter and Ryka splits off to find the beer and Rico's attention is on the many women ogling over him. I roll my eyes and head towards the whiskey behind the bar, instead of using a glass I take a swig out the bottle before a warm body presses up against me, a foreign hand slides up and down my bicep before I pluck the hand off me and walk away, disgusted on how people act when they have had too much to drink.

A certain redhead catches my attention out the corner of my eye, everything around me quiets and a small smile tug at my lips. she's dancing and swaying to the music, bringing a red cup to her lips every once and a while. "Go over there man instead of staring at her like weirdo." Rico yells over the loud music. Confidence overtakes my body and the rest of my whiskey goes down my throat in a burn, I make my way over to her taking in the way her body moves to the beat. i go behind her and tug her to my chest, dancing with her to the music. She stiffens. "Thought you could run and I wouldn't find you" she relaxes slightly before her body vibrates with anger. She goes to pull away but I pull her back in tightly so she can't slip my grasp anymore. "Just one dance" she huffs and gives up fighting me. Her body following my rhythm to the music. "I never meant to hurt you baby, please forgive me" I whisper down her ear. Her whole-body shudders before she pulls away from me, anger clear as day wrapping around her body "so what you thought you could her my old boss, treat me like shit before you leave for a mission and come back covered in blood and everything would be fine because you arrived at one party id be at, if you think that then you don't know me or what I would want."

She walked away from me. She yelled and walked away. The rest of the night I kept my eyes plastered to her, she was continuously dancing and refilling her drink. By the end of the night she was a blabbering, stumbling mess. That's it, I made my way over to her, flung her over my shoulder and carried her out the party. "ill see you at home" I tell Ryka as he throws the keys into my hand. she's slapping and hitting my butt as we exit the building. I throw her into the passenger seat of my land rover and start the ignition. She throws herself out the door landing no her knees. "Dam it Sadie stop it I'm trying to help you" tears roll down her cheeks while I gently pick her up and place her back into the car. I round the other side and jump into the driver seat and turn to her. "Can I see your knees; I need to make sure you're not hurt." As a response she lifts her dress over her knees giving me a clear view of her knees and further up. I stifle a groan at the sight and mt eyes drop to her knees. Blood trickles down her legs, both knees grazed up and cut open.

 I drive as quick as I can back to the house and open the front door to be greeted with a very happy bullet. As we enter the kitchen, he follows us whining. "it's ok bud she's ok" I place her on the sofa and go to the kitchen to grab the first aid kit that she used on me. I return to see bullet cuddled into her side and Sadie fast asleep. I pull out the gauze and wipe the blood away before wrapping her leg up and grabbing some water. I shake her awake to drink water and she drinks a couple of mouthfuls. She grumbles something I don't quiet catch. "What did you say love" she grumbles again making me think she wasn't even saying anything of the English language. But what she says next shocks me more than anything ever has. "I love you Enzo"