Mafia Collateral: A Deal With The Devil

Stay With Me

Luca

Red. That's all I see when I walked down the hallway. Phillip had Olivia pinned against the wall with one hand clamped over her mouth and the other in her underwear grabbing her ass as tears fell from her eyes.

Pulling the trigger on him after he slapped her and assaulted her like that felt justified. Her screams and sobs will forever be etched into my mind and haunt me for the rest of my life. I hated seeing his hands on her like that. I told him not to touch her and here he is a few hours later ripping her clothes off and shoving his hands into her panties.

"It's okay Liv." I whispered carrying her down the hallway, passed her room and towards my own. I don't usually stay here very much. I usually go to my house off grounds but since she has been here I have stayed here more than usual.

I open my bedroom door and carry her inside before I shut the door and lock it carefully not to drop her. I walk into my en-suite bathroom and flick on the light. Her sobs have quietened but the tears keep falling.

"Olivia I need to clean you up okay?" I sit her on the counter upright. She answers me simply by nodding. I make sure she is sturdied on the counter before I walk over to my shower and turn the water on hot and wait for it to heat up. 

Sticking my hand in the water to make sure it's warm enough I walk back over to her. I place my hands on her sides and attempt to pull her off the counter but she is so wobbly I don't trust her to stand on her own. I step back and quickly unbutton my shirt and pull it off along with my undershirt and pants leaving me in my underwear too. I grab the sleeve of my jacket and slowly pull it off of one of her arms and then pull it off of the other. Her body is covered in blood reminding me of the events from just minutes ago. I don't stare at her exposed chest like a man normally would I frown her perfect body is covered in blood. I scoop her back into my arms and walk over to the shower and step inside.

The minute the hot water touches her body she starts sobbing again. I sit on the ground with her in my lap and let her fall apart. This is too much for her. Hell this is too much for anyone who isn't apart of this lifestyle and whose never seen something like this before. I reach up and grab my loofa and pour some of my body wash on it and start to scrub her body watching as the blood is mixing with water and sliding off of her creamy skin. I pour more soap on the loofa and scrub her again to make sure she is as clean as she can be considering.

I poured some shampoo into my hand and work it into her long brown hair making sure it's clean before I turn slightly to rinse it out and then do the same with the conditioner.

"I'm sorry." She whispers speaking for the first time since everything happened.

"For what?" I ask frowning. What in the world does she have to be sorry for?

"Everything that happened with Phillip." She whispered again not able to use her full voice.

"Liv you have nothing to be sorry for. I gave him an order and he disobeyed me. Plus he assaulted you." I frowned. I hated seeing her so broken so upset. It made me a mad man willing to do anything to fix her, to make this any better for her.

"But you killed him!" She gasped and tensed in my arms. I started rubbing soothing circles on her bare back hoping to calm her down.

"I've killed people for less than that." I shrugged and she just nods understanding.

"That doesn't make it okay though. It's my fault he is dead." Fear and panic swam in her eyes and her voice cracked threatening to fall apart again.

"No it's his own fault. Don't blame yourself for that mans mistakes." I wanted her to know this wasn't her fault that it was all his own doing. Yes it doesn't make it right but I don't tolerate that kind of behavior not under my command. It had to be done or next time it would be worse and I can't stand the thought of anything worse happening to her.

"Thank you for saving me. I'm scared to think about what would have happened if you wouldn't have came when you did." It was my turn to tense. If I wouldn't have came when I did God only knows what would have happened. The images whirling in my brain make me want to vomit. I can't stand the thought of another mans hands on her, forcing her to do something she doesn't want to do, hell even if she did want to do it I wouldn't be able to stand it. Her cries and screams it's just too much.

"Me too." I whispered and she buries her head into the crook of my neck. We sit like this for a while before the water starts to turn cold so I reach up and turn it off. I rise to my feet with her in my arms still. I carry her out of the shower and grab two towels and sit her on the counter wrapping her in a towel before wrapping myself.

"Can you walk?" I ask her quietly and she nods before jumping off the counter reaching out to grab my arm for support. She sturdies herself before locking her knees keeping her upright. I take her hand into mine and led her into my bedroom. I open my drawer and pull out a pair of boxers and one of my T-shirt's for her and a pair of boxers for myself.

"Here put these on." I hand her the clothes before I walk back into the bathroom. I quickly pull off my wet boxers and dry off before slipping into my clean ones.

When I walk back into my room Olivia is sitting on my bed in my clothes. A sight I probably would have enjoyed if the circumstances were different. I pulled the covers back and gesture for her to lay down and she quickly curls into a ball. I lay the covers over her and walk over to the wall by the door and turn the light off.

"Will you stay with me?" She mumbled quietly. As if she even needs to ask. I wouldn't be anywhere else. I walk around to the other side of the bed and crawl under the covers and she curls against my body. I hear her let out a relieved sigh when she laid her head on my chest.

"Goodnight Liv." I placed a lingering kiss on her temple pulling her closer to me if that was even possible.

"Goodnight Luca." She mumbled and seconds later her soft snores let me know she is sound asleep. That moment I realized I would do anything to protect her, to keep her safe.