RESCUED AND RISEN

Chapter 3

**Lucas POV**

Looking at her passed out on the floor, seemingly so broken after the ordeal she just had, I couldn't just leave her there. After calling in the guys to do clean up, I went over to her; lifting her limp body in my arms and walking out the door with her.

I didn't know why I cared what would happen to her if I left her there passed out with three dead bodies but I somehow didn't want to take the risk of her regaining consciousness while cleaning up was in progress. And despite her being partially unconscious, there was a slight possibility that she could have heard or seen what happened. I was positive she heard some of what went down and if I left her there and later on she decided to talk, then that could cause more issues. It was that thought that made decide to take her with me—to make sure she knows not to open her mouth about what happened to anyone in case she saw. Also, she was most likely hurt and needed medical attention, I couldn't just leave her there unattended or not knowing the full extent of her injuries. I had my suspicions that what happened to her was probably because she didn't get through in seducing me.

Alfredo had owed us money for some drugs for months now. He was usually a regular customer for years and always paid back until a couple of months ago he started hitching on payment, double crossing and being disrespectful in addition. My boss Gio would have paid Alfredo a visit himself but he went on his honeymoon last week. As his second in command or right hand man, he left me in charge. Hence, me being there at that club tonight.

I had never really liked Alfredo because of how sketchy he was. But Gio had started doing business with him and I just did what I had to do. Alfredo had gotten the warning that his payment deadline was soon overdue but he chose not to repay the money to us. There had also been rumors that he had been making deals with other dealers and also buying girls for his club. Ads much as we were a part of a mafia group, sex trafficking or human trafficking was not something that our group supported whatsoever. And seeing how Alfredo moved, I had no doubts that these ‘rumors’ were true.

Earlier when I got to the club, his little steroid lap dog led me to a secluded room and asked me to wait there. I wasn’t expecting to have this dark haired stripper came in trying to seduce me. I immediately knew that this was Alfredo's doing and that he was trying to get me distracted and hopefully I'd left without the money but I was given one advice by Gio "Get the money or take him out."
After I had rejected the girl's advances and sent her to tell her boss that I wasn't going to fall for his trick, I decided to go and find the coward myself since he wanted to waste my time. When I reached what looked to be his office, I could hear someone crying and what sounded like someone being beaten. Upon listening more closely, I recognized the sound of a female and Alfredo’s voice. I decided to enter and check it out.

The scene before me was of Alfredo holding the dark haired brown eye girl from earlier by the neck. The difference now was that her hair was much longer and I realized that she must've been wearing a wig earlier. The girl’s face was bloodied and she was practically passed out as a result of how tightly he was holding her. He was obviously cutting off her air supply.

I withdrew my gun and aimed it at the back of his as I demanded he let the girl go. The minute Alfredo and his monster saw me they froze as if not sure what to do next. Alfredo threw the girl aside and she stumbled losing her balance and fell to the floor; her head hitting the ground in the process. That made me extremely angry-seeing them treating a woman like that. My newfound anger and the fact that he owed me and tried playing me for a fool caused me to lash out.

His monster tried to defend him when I approached Alfredo so I did what I had to do—I fired. Alfredo tried reason with me as to why he couldn't find the money to give me now and so I got rid of him as well. After all, he was a pig and a coward who abused women, he was better off dead. As soon as I had gotten rid of those two, another one ran in to attack me and so I shoot him as well.