A CRIMINAL Is In Love With Me

Shot.

"Dawn Thorn."

I flinched when he said my name. He recognized me? Shit. My eyes flickered to all of the guns pointed to me. Some of his men lowered them hesitantly. I recognized Jason and Marquis. I saw Jazmine on to top of the tower of cars beside me. They all now know I am here.

I raised the gun higher and so did everyone else.

"What the fuck is going on here?"

My eye flickered to a Asian guy. His hair was spiked up with tons of gel and his eyes narrowed at me. 

"I'm here to kill Ace Elvonel." I said in a cold tone. Jason eyes widen and so Did Marquis. Ace didn't even look affected as he continued to stare at me with his cold eyes. He changed, I see. I glanced down at his fingers to see no ring. Weird. His hair grew longer, the stubble on his jaw making him look rough. His eyes were just colder. Almost stone like.

"Kill me huh?" He chuckled. "Why now?"

"Why do you think?" I snapped. Focus Dawn. My mind went to Allaric and I held the gun steadier.

"I hear you have a child now. Boy it is."

I gulped. "Shut up." I hissed.

He took a step forward. "Is it mines dawn?"

"No."

"So you've slept with someone else?" He continued taking steps towards me. "That would be extremely sad due to the fact of what we-"

I scoffed, the gun lowering a bit from my actions. "What we have? Ace, What we had. DO you know what you put me through?"

I ignored the stinging in my nose and eyes and continued. "You said you love me. You promised me I would be safe with you. I fucking loved you and what did you do?" A tear slipped down my cheek. "You injected me with some sort of witch voodoo and left me unconscious to wake up back home with my brothers!"

He showed no expression in his eyes. Typical.

"Weren't you happy to be back home? With them."

"Happy? Happy! I fucking hated it. You know why. Every time I see them they reminded me of you. What you did to me. What you made me do to myself and my family! I wish I never went to work that day, never met you! I fucking hate you but what I hate most is that deep down those thoughts and words can never become true."

I wiped my cheek. "You left me for 7 months clueless. You married that slut. Your probably fucked her for all I care. You did something to me and it can never be healed. So don't you fucking tell me shit about me moving on. Cause clearly you did."

I noticed his jaw twitched and his fist clenching by his side. Good I finally got a reaction out of him.

I raised the gun back up steady and hovered my index finger over the trigger.

"I do everything for a reason. And this reason will be worth every damn second!"

But I never did that. I never got to pull the trigger.

It happened so quickly. The pain that shot through me in my shoulder. The loud piercing sound echoing distantly as another pain shot in the side of my stomach. The another in my leg.

I knew the feeling. I recognized it. It even brought back memories when I jumped in front of a bullet just for ace.

And yet it turned out I was here about to pull a trigger on him.

My body crashed to the floor and my hands flew indistinctively to my stomach, where the pain grew and when I pressed on it, I gritted my teeth in pain.

"What the fuck did you-"

I blinked trying not to reach into the darkness. "Dawn stay with-"

It was so tempting to do so. 

"Fucking shit get the-"

My eyes closed but I felt another sharp pain and it flew back open. My eyes met another pair. 

It reminded me of Allaric since he had one eye of that person.

Ace. The father of my child.

"Dawn please stay with me!" He slapped my cheek. "Dawn!"

You never really know how much someone means to you until you lose them. I was about to loose multiple people.

Michael, Jazmine, Jason, Zara, Sincere, Alex, Carter, Brian, My niece or Nephew, Samantha, Toyin, Emerald, Allaric, Marquis, And then the last person.

"A-a-ace." I croaked out. My hands struggled to lift as I reached out to his cheek. I chuckled but hissed in pain.

"I-im sorry. " I coughed feeling a hot liquid roll down my chin. "M-maybe...Meant this way."

My eyes rapidly blinked as I struggled to stay awake. "Sh, don't speak. Your going to get through this. You have a child, a family that needs you Baby. Please."

Allaric. He needs me. I need him. But when I looked at Ace for maybe the last time I realized.

He needs a father too. And now he has him. So why am I here? My father is dead even though he deserved his death, I pratically killed my mother if not physically but mentally, I ruined my brothers lives even Michaels. 

They'll be fine without me. They always are.

I wanted to give into the darkness so badly. It hurted and the only way to sustain the pain was to give in. It sounded so easy but I knew there fine without me but am I?

Michael is the person I got to, to laugh when I need cheering up.

Without Brian, I can't let my true feelings out without knowing I wouldn't get judged.

Carter? He keeps me together when I get so frustrated!

Zara, Her smile could light up a room and she is so sweet, I know it would break her heart to hear me die, but doing that to her would break me even more. She doesn't deserve that. She doesn't. She helps pushes out the wild side of me along with Jazmine a girl who doesn't give a shit on what ever people think. She is the type that could wear a fucking paper bag and rock it because of her confidence. Its like when I see her and she pushes me, she is taking a piece of her personality and giving it to me every time.

Ace... I don't know what would happen to me if something happened. And that's because I can't say the exact reason why I fell for him. Maybe It was just in the moment and it lasted longer than intended?

Or maybe because his dark side made him all the most interesting and I realized, he had a harder past than me, losing people and giving up the dream he always had just to become the monster his father was. But I helped him, and he helped me in some ways. And together, I just saw us...free. Nothing could put a wedge between us, nothing. We would of grown old, have more kids, live, laugh, and most of all hope. He could drop the Mafia and become that doctor he always wanted to be...

But something did put a deep wedge between us.

The safety of his family. 

They always ask someone, 'Would you kill millions just for one person?'

Risk thousands of loves over one single person. And maybe Ace would just for me. And now I know, i don't want him to ever do that. If it comes down to me having to die just to protect him and his family. My people, I would let go.

And that's what I wanted to do so badly.

So I did.