The Mafia's Daughter

Chapter 23

Chapter 23

The four us scanned the hallway before starting a light jog. Luke stayed silent as he carried a now unconscious Serenity in his arms bridal style. We stopped at a corner and caught our breaths. I turned to Luke only slightly hiding my annoyance about how dependant we were on him right now. He didn't need anything else feeding his ego.

"Where does Anne keep her weapons?" I asked.

Luke adjusted Serenity and peeked around the corner. "If you go straight down this hall and make a right there's a metal door on the left. Second door."

I took out my gun and lead the way. It occurred to me that I had three bullets in my gun and that was not getting anyone out of here alive. My aim was great but it's not perfect. We needed weapons soon or else... well we really needed weapons.

I followed Luke's directions and found the door. It was locked. How shocking. Luke typed in a code wrong first but got it right the second time. The door started to slide open achingly loud. We all rushed inside the dark room and turned on the light.

"Wow." Eva gasped.

"Seriously?" I groaned.

The walls were stacked with pistols, handguns, ammo, rifles, and so much more. There was hand grenades in a box to one side. Explosives sat in another in a different corner. I pointed to the rocket launcher and glared at Luke.

"Really? Why does she have this?" I asked paranoid. Why does she have it?

Luke shrugged and walked over to the medicine area. He placed Serenity on the floor and opened a first aid kit. Then he began to tend to her wounds. When he started to clean them with alcohol, Serenity barely flinched. Luke started with her face and made his way down to a cut on her on her arm that I didn't notice. When he finished with her completely he turned to Eva.

He gestured to her silently asking if she wanted him to help her out with her side but she huffed and grabbed her own kit. She shoved it into my hands and stared into my eyes.

"Whatever you do, don't stop just because it hurts me." she said.

I nodded and watched as she slowly took her hand away from her side and sat on the floor. Luke spread a blanket for her to lay on. The least he could do apparently and went to stand by Serenity. I slowly raised Eva's shirt and sucked in a deep breath almost gagging. Right under her ribs was a deep gash that was clearly infected due to its stench and red coloring.

Luke covered his nose but couldn't look away from the bruise. I, on the other hand, felt sick to my stomach and got up.

"Eva that thing is infected. I can't do it. I mean I thought I could clean it then stitch you up but this... this is different." I said. I may have had a strong stomach for nasty sights, but this beat all levels of grossness.

"I know it's bad. Please Addy just cover your nose or something. I'll walk you through it, okay? Just listen to me." she said softly. I hadn't noticed how pale she was or that her forehead was damp with sweat. She was obviously sick and in a lot more pain than I thought.

I nodded and knelt down beside her again. "Okay. What to do?"

"You need to rid my body of the infection by cleaning out the wound. Grab a sharp knife from the rack and come back." she said calmly.

"Don't you want to numb it first or something?" I stalled.

"No time for that. I'll just bit on my shirt to muffle any sounds." she painfully did as she said she would and gestured to the rack.

I gulped and did as she said. I grabbed some gloves as well because there was no way I was doing this without it.

"Good now cut open the wound and drain out the p-"

"Okay I get it." I could stand to hear anymore. I just wanted to do it and get it over with.

Luke stepped forward. "Addy if you want me to do it I will."

Eva flinched at the sound of his voice. "If you come near me I will jam this knife into your neck."

Luke stepped back to where he was standing, defeated. I grasped the knife and held it over Eva's side.

"Okay. Here it goes."

I began to cut the wound and barely kept myself from vomiting when pus, blood and some clear fluid seeped from it. Eva screamed into her shirt and cried. I continued to cut the rest of the wound and watched as more blood and pus seeped out. Luke dry heaved in the corner and started gulping down some water.

I asked him to bring me one as well. Eva looked like she was on the verge of passing out any second now. I pressed down on her side until the cut was only giving out clean blood. I poured some water on it and ripped out an alcohol pad. When I began to clean to outside of the wound, Eva started to calm down a bit. I felt so bad for her at this moment.

I took the needle and thread and got to work on her side. When she was all patched up I wrapped gauze around her and hunt for some antibiotics to rid her of any infection already traveling inside her. I found some and gave them to her and two bottles of water. She needed to replenish all the fluids she just lost.

"Thanks Addy," she said weakly.

I rolled her over onto a cleaner blanket and cleaned up all the blood and gloves and tossed it all into the trash. It made no difference trying to hide my traces now. Before long, Eva was knocked out on the floor and I knew there would be no waking her up anytime soon. I looked to Luke who looked a little pale.

"You okay?" I asked him.

He swallowed hard and shook his head. "I can't believe she would do this. She knows I truly am in love with Eva. She promised me she wouldn't hurt her."

I saw tears form in his eyes and looked away. My heart reached for him but my mind wouldn't let go of the fact that he betrayed us. I simply nodded and started to load a gun before stuffing it into the back of my leggings. I wasn't wearing one of my dad's jackets anymore so I threw on another black one I found next to the rifles.

"You can't always believe what the enemy says Luke. And you knew your mother was the enemy." I said loading a few more guns. Without the big jacket I had on it would be obvious I was armed . My waist was extra bulky now.

"She's still my mother sadly. She's the only family I've got left." he said loading up his own gun.

I tried not to think about the fact that he had a weapon of his own. I looked at Serenity and Eva. They both looked peaceful. It was going to be hard to move both of them. Especially Eva. I didn't want to hurt her anymore than I have today.

I looked to Luke to ask what he suggests we do when Serenity started to stir. We rushed over to her and knelt by her side.

"Serenity?" I probed.

She blinked a couple of times and pushed herself up so that her back was completely against the wall. Then her eyes caught mine and held. I pulled her into a hug and squeezed gently. She hugged me back and whimpered.

"Shh, it's okay Renny. I'm here. It's Addy. It's me. I'm gonna get you out of here and back home okay? Come on." I helped her stand and gave her an extra jacket with a gun in the pocket.

She continued to stare at me wide-eyed.

"What's wrong?" I asked her.

She shook her head. "The woman told me you were dead. I heard you screaming and stuff. On the phone. Then there was this boom sound and then silence. I feel like I'm seeing a ghost right now."

I turned away. She had to be talking about when Anne tried to drug me the second time. Hence all my unknown bruises. I shook my head. "It's really me, Ren. But we really need to get out of here and soon."

I headed to the door with everyone following behind me. It was time to get Anne once and for all.

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