Hired

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Eva

I made sure Nate was safe and settled before muttering,

"We need to go back there."

Diego almost choked on the food he was eating, I rolled my eyes and waited for him to get his ass together and once he did, he dropped everything and dragged me to the corner.

"Do you have a death wish or something?"

"We can't just leave her there, she could be in trouble."

"Or dead." he added and my body clung in fear. I shook it off, I can't be thinking that right now, I have to be positive, I have to believe she's alive.

"What if you go back?" I suggested,

"Gabriel and his men must have accessed the CCTV cameras by now, I'm in as much shit as you are."

Fuck!

I paced around the frustratedly,

"We need to come up with a plan, we can't just leave her." I huffed, running my hand through my hair.

"Unless." He said and turned my eyes to him, waiting for him to speak, "We let Carlos in."

"What?! No." I shook my head, "No, that's not even an option."

It's bad I tried to kill him, I don't know what he would do if he knows Aurora is in danger because of me, he could kill me or worse Kill Nate.

"We need to come up with another plan."

"We are out of plans, Eva. We don't even have money or passports. Aurora was the lead to this whole operation but now she's gone and we are stuck, we need to act fast or we would all die."

"No, don't you have connections, friends or people you could call for help, I mean you are in the Mafia, aren't you?"

"Yes, Carlos."

I whimpered looking over at Nate who was sleeping, "Look." Diego made his way over to me and made me look at him,
"This is the only option right now or this whole plan would have been for nothing..."

I sighed in defeat and he went over to make the call.

I couldn't breathe properly, what was I going to tell Carlos? How am going to look at him? Would he ever forgive me?

I paced around the room as Diego made the call. He was speaking in Italian so I couldn't understand anything.

Eventually, I stopped pacing frantically and took a seat,

Diego ended the call and turned to me, he doesn't say anything, "Well.." I rushed him for answers.

"They are coming to get us." He said and my heart skipped, "You should get some rest, I'm going to stand out to look out for them." He said and left me to my thoughts.

I sat there rocking in silence until I heard Nate whisper,

"Eva?"

I quickly got up and went to him,

"Hey, sorry I woke you." I tried to smile, but I was failing miserably at it,

"Water." He let out dryly.

"Okay.." I hurried over to the small fridge in the room and grabbed him a bottle of water. He took it from me and gulped everything in one sip. "Are you hungry? Do you need anything?"

He shook his head with a sigh,

"What?"

I know Nate enough to know that there's something on his mind, "I can't believe you'd risk our lives again."

"It's not like I had much of choice, they were about to kill you."

"No, they said all you had to do was follow orders and everything would be fine, but as usual you had to do it your way and mess everything up."

I faltered,

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"That this is just like back with the Millers, you didn't have to kill Joe, it's not like I hadn't taken a hard beating before."

"I was trying to save you, Joe could have killed you that night." I couldn't believe the words coming out of his mouth.

"Yeah, at what cost, We got separated at the end. You left me and went to jail, I had to suffer in that stupid detention because of what you did, you could have just looked away, but you had to meddle just like you're doing right now." He spat and just then the door burst open, I couldn't move I felt numb.

"Help is here, we need to leave."