Vengeance Is Beautiful

Chapter Twenty-Seven

1) Who kidnapped Catalina and why?
2) What did Charlie tell the FBI?
3) What's going on with Lola's pregnancy?

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Narrator's POV

She couldn't breath, it felt as if someone was choking her. Her heart was racing and all she wanted to do was curl up into a ball and wait for someone to save her. But no one would, no one was there. A choked cry for help forced itself up her throat, and she felt a drop run down her cheek. It seemed as if this was the end of the road for her. She'd been there for about four hours. The window showed that it was dark and her hands were wrapped securely around her stomach. I'm pregnant. I have two babies inside of me. Was all that kept going through her mind. As much as she didn't want to accept that fact, the fear of losing them was face front on her mind and she didn't care about anything else anymore.

She sat on the bed crouched in the corner and looked towards the window, listening to the sky.

A deep wound is sliced in the flesh of her upper right arm. It's heavily oozing out blood and there's a bluish-purple bruise forming around it. She lightly presses her index finger against the center of the cut and sucked in a sharp breath as the pain spirals all across her body. Colorful spots contour the sides of her eyes and bites her lip from the pain of it all. Then the doors open and she sees two men walking in.

One of them is tall and noticeably walks like a robot. The other is walking more relaxed. She breathed softly until the lights switch on and the two faces register.

Catalina's POV

Suddenly all I see is Charlie, literally. Everything else falls away. I no longer hear cars speeding through the window or the cop beside him.

My eyes narrowed as the man continued walking toward me while Charlie stayed behind.

He was tall and handsome, but a pretty face wasn't going to get him out of this. "What do you people want?" I asked, fisting my hands. The man looked unimpressed.

A cruel sneer formed on his smooth face and he leaned forward, eyes bearing straight into mine. "I ask the questions around here. Now I'm sure you know my partner or should I say you're friend, Luke Jones a.k.a Charlie Vega."
My hands twitched and I could feel a vein pulsing in my forehead. "My friends don't betray me"
"Sorry kid, that's not how this world works. Especially-"
"Charlie you dick!" I exclaimed back in English, my anger and hatred getting the better of me. I closed in the distance between the man and myself. I glared at Charlie with teary eyes, accepting my fate.

My voice lowered, almost to a whisper. "You can do what ever you want to me. Just don't hurt my babies"
The man's eyes widened for a second before narrowing in suspicion.

"You have kids?"

"I'm pregnant with twins. I found out today before you kidnapped me", I said softly. My anger being replaced by defeat. This is my karma, my actions are coming to bite me back in the ass.

I lower my eyes and crawl back in the corner as the man eyed me for a moment before walking back out. Charlie walks up beside me and I lift my hand before he could talk. "You're a cop? So this whole time you were spying on me. You let my boyfriend beat you up? You weren't actually my friend?"

"Not at first...but then I started to like you-", he pauses when he sees my shaking head, "I know. But what i'm trying to say is that I actually grew to genuinely like you, Catalina. And we were just trying to get information on Lino"

"So you want me to what...testify against him...and this all goes away? You let me go?" I ask. A hopeful look spreads across his face and he nods.

I look back at him straight for a moment then send him a smug smile. "I will never betray the people I love. I'm not caught up in his business but you're gonna have to ask him yourself if you want anything."