Heartless Soul Book 2 of the Heartless Series

Chapter 2 - Fight with Anger

Carmela's POV

I woke up from a peaceful and pleasant memory dream as the sunlight beamed over my face signalling the start of another day. I smiled remembering the night before and moved my hand from under my pillow to look at my ring to clarify that it actually happened, it felt like so much of a dream come true that I couldn't believe something good was finally happening to me. Let's face it, my life has been pretty tragic in the past that it was about time something good happened.

I rolled over only to find an empty bed, I was disheartened by this but I know Romeo had a lot going on at the moment and finding out how his shipping route was found out was at the very top, he had lost good men and wanted revenge, but he knew he would have to get in line, my grandfather was all mine to take revenge on for what happened to me.

Instead of staying in this comfy bed the thought of revenge made me get up and want to start training again as soon as possible. I needed to go back to my apartment to my training room, but I knew Romeo wouldn't let me, he doesn't want me out of his sight or estate because of what happened. He had confessed to me that losing me would break him. If I would have tried to comfort and reason with him, he would just get angrier andmore and more unreasonable, so I didn't bother, not yet anyway.  

I changed into my gym clothes and headed down to his gym, there wasn't much I could do there to enhance my skills, but I could still work out. I pushed the door open and found yet another empty room. I pushed the button for music to come on and was met with some angry metal music, definitely not the way I motivate myself. I used the search bar to find workout tracks that were motivating and upbeat and set to work on the treadmill.

I was getting better and running for longer every day and building my core back after my injuries following the beatings and torture I'd sustained when I was kidnapped. The music was that loud that I didn't know someone was in the gym with me as I continued to do pull ups on the bars in the south corner of the room. I screamed as someone grabbed at my waist and shouted 'BOO' at me. I dropped to the floor and instantly turned round to a hysterically laughing Enzo, I was so mad that he had made me jump that I punched him in his jaw. It startled him to say the least as he rubbed at the stubble of his jaw. He throw a punch in my direction that I only just managed to dodge, he was fast I'll give him that. He smirked in a challenging way and backed up into the middle of the room, while in a boxing stance.

I advanced forward taking my own position, reflecting his boxing stance. "Are you sure you want to do this Enzo? Wouldn't want you crying now, would we?" He laughed at me taunting him and countered. "Don't worry princess, I'll go easy on you." He teased. "I won't go easy on you though." I said and stepped to the right. He followed my movement and throw a punch that I again dodged and quickly countered with my own punch that caught his arm. I saw a shift in Enzo's eyes that showed me the time for talking was now over.

We both started a little easy just throwing punches which quickly escalated to kicks and we were currently on a mix of MMA and kickboxing styles of fighting, we both were bleeding from a few places where we had both landed punches to each other's faces, my ribs were screaming at me from the pain where Enzo had landed a body kick and I was panting for breath. "You give up princess? You look tired." Was his last taunt before I ran at him, he was readying a final blow when I slid through his legs and jumped onto the weight bench, span my body around as he had turned to face me. I clamped my thighs around his head, through my body weight backwards using its motion and momentum to flip him over. He landed on the hard floor with a loud thud, shouting from the pain that shot through his back as he hit the floor. I was sat on top of his chest looking down at him as he scrunched his face up in pain. "Do you give up princess?" I spatEnzo's words back at him as he opened his eyes nodding and tapping my leg in defeat. I rolled off him and onto the floor. We were both exhausted from our fight and panted heavily.

Clapping made us both aware someone else was in the gym, we looked for where it was coming from only to see a pleased looking Timo, applauding our flight and of course Enzo's defeat. "Look who's fighting fit. That was a slick move you just pulled there Cammy." I laughed at his praise as he helped me to my feet, I was aching everywhere and was definitely going to feel that for the next few days. Enzo was less than pleased he lost, and got himself up before storming out of the gym muttering profanities under his breath as he disappeared. "You okay? I saw that Enzo wasn't going easy on you." I was stretching out the ache in my shoulders as I started walking to the door. "Yea, I'll be fine, unlike Enzo's ego."

I went for a long soak in the bath following my gym session and impromptu fight, the warmth of the water felt good on my skin and muscles as I relaxed. After I'd finished, I got dressed and went downstairs to the dining room to eat, I was starving. A few members looked at my bruised state without concern and continued eating. I sat with Enzo, Timo and Amy and began eating and joined the conversation easily, we weren't talking about anything specific just random stuff, but it was nice to have some normalcy.

The door slammed open to a very angry Romeo shouting for Enzo and Timo to follow him to his office. They got up immediately and left the dining room. "What was that about?" Amy asked me, I didn't have an answer for her so just shrugged, but immediately regretting it as pain shot through my right shoulder.

For the next few hours more and more members became busier, running around and moving stuff, making calls as orders were flying everywhere. Enzo found me and Amy in the living room and told us to go to our rooms and start packing and not to ask questions, I wanted to know why, but he wouldn't tell me, he just looked serious which wasn't like him.

Myself and Amy parted ways at the top of the stairs to go to our rooms to pack. As I walked past Romeo's office, I heard loud shouting in Italian and could only presume it was a heated conversation. I pushed the door open only to find Romeo dressed in an expensive blue suit shouting down the phone at someone. His nose twitched with anger, that was never a good sign. Once he was off the phone, he took a big gulp of whiskey and slammed the glass down. "What's going on?" I asked as I approached him. His eyes were a deep black colour that was intimidating and stern. "Go to our room as I ordered you to." I was surprised at the hostility that he replied to me with. "No, I want to help." I placed my hand on his arm, but he clearly didn't want to be touched as he shrugged out from under my arm and walked towards his desk and away from me. "Just do as your told." That's it. I snapped and stormed over to his desk bringing my fists down to the hard wood. "Don't you dare talk to me like that, you do not own me, I am not one of your employees." His eyes darkened even more as he rounded his desk and grabbed me by the wrist towing me towards his room, I struggled under his grasp and was shouting for him to let me go. As I struggled against him, I knocked a few files over along the way and as they went sprawling all over the floor so did I.

Due to my fall Romeo had let go of my wrist,allowing me to fall to the floor and just stood over me, staring down at me. "What is wrong with you?" I shouted up at him as I rubbed my wrist. "None of your business." Romeo spat back at me. "As you clearly stated you're not a member." I was taken aback by his response. "No, but I am your fiancé." I replied to him with a small voice. His eyes flickered and he sighed. "I just need you safe." He shook his head. "From what?" I really wanted to help, deep down he knew I could help, he only had to ask or at the very least tell me what was going on. "I think your grandfather has put a bounty on your head. The bounty is set at 10 million dollars. He has given everyone this address as yours so every criminaland assassin from the underground will be coming here to kill you. Cammy I can't lose you again, so I need to get everyone to safety including my mother and secure this estate before they all come. The bounty has been live now for 4 hours."