L'amante dei serpenti

Chapter 8

Seunghyun

My car came to a screeching halt and I threw it into the park not even bothering with turning the damn thing off or shutting the door. Just as I was getting to the building entrance I saw Alex running towards the building. We both entered the building pulling our guns from our holster and rushing to Sofia's office. When I received the phone call from Jiyong my heart stopped and it felt like the world around me was moving in slow motion as I pictured what might have been going down here. We finally reached her office door to find it open and no sounds coming from the room. We slowly entered the room with our guns drawn to find two men dead on the floor from gunshot wounds. Alex went to check their bodies as I ran around the desk to find a bloody and injured Sofia sitting on the floor leaning against her desk with a gun in her lap. She had her eyes closed and I dropped to my knees reaching for her, the worst possible scenario...the thing I feared the most had happened. My hand shakily moved to her neck to check for a pulse and I was startled by her raising the gun to my face and her eyes wide open looking at me.

"Baby it's me."

I said quietly as my hand slowly went to the gun to take it and place it on the ground. She looked at me as if she didn't believe that I was actually here. I moved closer and placed my hands on either side of her face and looked into her eyes. Tears started to form in her eyes and I pulled her into me as she broke down crying.

"It's ok baby, I have you."

I picked her up carrying her in my arms and walked behind Alex out of the office and to my car. I sat her down slowly in the passenger seat of my still running car and buckled her up before shutting the door. Alex stood by the driver side with his phone out sending out text messages.

"I will have someone here to clean this up. We need to take her home right now and she needs to be looked over."

"Call Jiyong and tell him what's going on, tell him we need a doctor."

I got in the driver seat and drove right to her condo with Alex following behind us. I kept glancing over to Sofia who was unconscious and looked to be having trouble breathing. When we arrived, I parked my car and gently pulled her from the car and back into my arms carrying her into her condo. I laid her on the bed and turned to Alex who was rummaging around in her drawers before finding whatever he was looking for. He turned and had a change of clothes in his hands.

"The doctor should be here any moment, please change her before the doctor gets here."

He set the clothes down on the bed before turning and leaving the room and shutting the door behind him. I slowly and carefully as possible undressed her, as I was pulling the clothes from her body I got to see just how badly injured she was. She had small slash marks on her body that weren't deep but her body was covered in bruises as was her bloody face. She didn't wake the whole time I was moving her body and that worried me. A light knock at the door caught my attention.

"Come in."

The door opened and walked in Jiyong, Alex, and the doctor that normally attended the Kwons. I got up from my spot on the bed to allow the doctor access to her. I walked with Alex and Jiyong back to the door but stayed in the room.