The Mafia's Daughter [ON HOLD]

Chapter Eight

The moment Charles felt the impact car against side, he grabbed onto the edges of the seat to stabilize himself.

He heard Josephine scream next to him and he hoped the seatbelt did its job. The airbags released instantly and the windshield shattered the moment the car flipped over.

The car slid down to the ditch and halted to a stop against a tree trunk.

Charles felt a throbbing pain on the whole left side of his face. He tasted blood in his mouth and his whole body felt shaken to the core. However despite the pain and protest on his body’s behalf, he unbuckled his seat belt and reached over to Josephine.

“Hey, Josephine” He gently nudged her and she groaned in response.

Charles let go off a breath he didn’t know he was holding. He was trained to handle an impact of such nature but Josephine on the other hand was lucky to be even responding.

Charles quickly inspected her face and visible body for any sign of bleeding or serious injury. He felt her pulse which as a little fast but steady.

“Hey can you feel your arms and legs?”

“They pain like hell” Josephine groaned out.

“Good” Charles muttered. That meant her spinal cord was intact. Now he needed to get her out of the car. He crawled out of the over turned car and went over to her side but before he could reach out to her, he heard a gunshot ring through the air.

“They are alive!”

“Fuck” Charles cursed and dropped to his knees. He removed his gun from his shoulder holster and unclipped the safety.

Another shot rang out and hit the tree trunk just above his head.

Charles had to move away from the car and take cover somewhere else or Josephine could end up getting hurt.

He looked at her once again. Though she had a cut on her forehead, her breathing was even.

“I will be right back” He whispered to her and only got another groan in response

He took his chance as he hurriedly ran and dove behind a fallen tree, his entire body reverberating with pain.

“Jesus” Chares winced and steadied his breath.

He heard the footsteps heading his way. He calculated a total of four men from the fall of their footsteps

“You are dead asshole, so don’t even try” One of the men yelled and Charles rolled his eyes.

“You wish” Charles muttered as sprang to his feet, aimed and fired instantly killing the first two men with a perfect shot between the eyes.

“Go check whether the girl is alive or not. I got this one” the bald man said as he faced Charles.

“DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE!” Charles roared as he aimed and fired at the man heading towards the car.

The moment his shot rang out, the bald man jumped and tackled Charles. Both the men fell to the ground.

Charles landed quick three precise punches against the bald guy’s ribs, effectively knocking out the air from his lungs and grabbed his gun. The baldy managed to land a punch against Charles gut but Charles blocked his next punch and shot him through his heart.

He got up and quickly headed towards the car, shooting the guy in the head who was going to go check on the car as he was still on the ground groaning.

Charles pulled Josephine out of the car and did a quick examination of her body for any injuries he missed before. Besides the bruises and cuts which covered a good portion of her body, she seemed fine.

“Charles” She groaned

“Yes, I am right here. Are you okay?”

“Everything hurts” She sobbed out from the pain.

“It’s alright. I am going get you to a hospital as soon as possible. We are safe.” He reassured her as he pulled her up against his body.

Charles looked around and realized they were out in nowhere with four dead bodies, one over turned car and a pick-up truck, which had T-boned them.

Charles wondered where the hell did the other men go which were following them before they exited the highway.

Charles lifted Josephine and carried her to the pick-up truck. He gently buckled her in and walked back to the crashed car to look for his cell phone and see if it was still functioning.

He found it stuck under the brake of the car and pulled it out. The screen was cracked but still functioning. He dialed Jacques number and waited for him to answer.

“Bonjour” Jacques answered on the third ring.

“It is me, Charles.” Charles ground out. He wanted to throttle that man. What kind of man involved his own daughter in dealing with the Russian mafia? Charles headache’s intensified as the unclear facts revolved around his head and the biggest one was, did Josephine know of her father’s mafia activities?

Charles explained the whole episode to Jacques only to be interrupted by his curses.

“You both get to the St. Vincent’s hospital. I will meet you there.” Jacques instructed and hung up.

Charles clenched his teeth and was about to enter the driver’s seat when he saw the same blue SUV heading towards them from a distant.

“Oh! for fuck’s sake!” Charles growled.

He grabbed his gun and stepped onto the middle of the road. The SUV was heading straight towards him. He took a deep breath and tuned out of his surrounding as he aimed for the front tire of the SUV.

He fired and the tire ruptured, flipping the SUV over. Charles dove out of the way and the SUV continuously flipped over and screeched across the road, coming to a stop a few meters away from them.

“Fucking kids” Charles muttered and without a backward glance got into the pick-up and drove off towards the hospital.

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