His protection program

Six days of hell

Luca's pov

It had been six days since we broke the Russian mob. It was in all the newspapers, they refer  to the night as a "vigilante group uprise" I'm thankful as I don't need them sniffing around us. Six days of having my sister back, she spent the first night at my house but immediately went to my dads house when he arrived. Six days since I last saw her alive.

Well she's not dead dead, thank god, she's just in a coma. Since I can't really walk her in to a hospital with all her marks and things I have set up a hospital in my house with everything from monitors to doctors and nurses.  I spend at least half my day sitting next to her waiting for her to wake up.

Isabella comes to visit everyday. She makes me eat something and go shower and get an hours sleep while she sits with Emily. I appreciate this. Isabella wasn't treated as bad as girls like Emily. They were planning to sell her back to me at some point so they couldn't break the merchandise. They whipped her and made her preform oral on them but they never raped her and for that one small fact I am very great full.

Ian survived but has been placed in maximum for the rest of his life, apparently he can't pee on his own and needs the help of a bag attached to his bladder to relieve himself. This makes me happy.

"I think when you wake up we should go away together. Hawaii, Bahamas or Saint Martin. What do you think? Me and you with just the beach." This was my every morning with her. I sit reading the newspaper as I told her all my ideas for us while holding her hand.Isabella comes walking in and grabs the seat next to me giving me the opportunity to grab a quick shower.

I walk into the medical room and see that Isabella is frowning. "What's wrong?" I ask her. "Nothing but I want to test something. Hold her hand and talk to her." I move over doing what she asks and we both watch the heart monitor pick up a little bit. I let go and take a slight step back watching as the numbers go back to slow.

"She knows it's you how cute is that!" I can't talk as I'm doing everything in me not to cry. She's there, my girl is in there just waiting to come out. Every night I push a mattress to next to her bed so that I would be here if she woke but tonight I can't even stand that distance. I move her up a little bit so I can push in next to her on her medical bed without hurting her. I wrap my arms around her holding her tight.

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Emily pov

I can hear everything but I just can't convince my eyes to open. Luca has been with me every moment. His voice is my light in this dark and I try hard to follow it but so far it has not worked.

I hear him say goodnight and I'm sure he is in bed with me and I hear a kissing sound and I try to open my eyes but it's not working. By the time I finally get my eyes to open up early morning light is starting to color the sky outside my window. Little snores fill my ears and I look over at Luca fast asleep on the bed with me. I try to speak but my throat is to dry and I end up going into a coughing fit and waking him up.

His eyes light up as he realizes I'm awake. He sits up quite fast pressing two buttons before grabbing a glass of water. Suddenly my bed starts to move into more of a sitting position and he hands me the glass of water.

"I'm so sorry that I wasn't there faster, that you had to go through all of that again." I start to cry, honestly I'm not even sure why I'm crying. Somewhere between knowing what Ian did to me again and knowing I survived. "You saved me." I choke out but my voice is still raspy. He shakes his head and looks down and I know he is blaming himself. I reach out pulling him in for a very tight hug.

Our hug is interrupted by a knock on the door and Luca tells them to come in before moving himself off the bed. The door opens and in walks a doctor a nurse and a very happy to see me woman. I know it's Isabella, I saw her briefly when we were forced into the room together when Luca came for us.

"I'm so glad your awake" I can see the smile is real but I can also see all the signs of not sleeping. I remember looking like that. "Isabella let me introduce you this is Emily. Without her I would never have found you." We greet before the doctor ushers both of them out the room to run some tests.

"You are a very lucky lady" that's not something I've ever been called. "The bullets went straight through only grazing a couple of organs but not rapturing them. You lost a lot of blood but we have daily been giving you new blood." He nods looking down at his flip chart. "I asked them to leave because of two things firstly I know what he did to you before Mr Remora found you. The evidence was still there." He took a breath I know he means the rape. "I want you to go see a gynecologist as soon as you feel up to it, just to have a check if there is any permanent damage." I nod knowing full well I don't have the type of money that needs.

Luca comes in carrying breakfast. I've been unhooked from all the wires and been cleared to walk around the house as long as I take it easy. He places the tray between us on the bed "fuck I was worried about you. How did you get it right in less then a month to become the most important thing to me?" I blush at this. Maybe a happy ending for me was possible.