Take Me A Dark Billionaire Mafia Romance - Faith Summers Page 0,97
past me, heading toward Lilly, gun raised ready to kill her.
Adrenaline blasts me forward and I push with everything inside me to go after him.
I throw myself through the air and land on him, knocking him to the ground but the fucker is holding on to his gun for dear life with the mission to kill my girl. I can’t even tell her to run. There’s too much fighting. Too many bullets in the air.
It’s too dangerous.
Like a beast Miguel kicks at me, but I hold him down, trying to hurt him where I shot him. He howls with pain but he’s still able to fight me. we end up rolling around on the ground in a heap of fists and bullets flying.
What I don’t like now is that we’re too close to Lilly. Far too close.
This fucker has to go down.
There’s only one thing I can think to do.
I need to get a clearing, but that leaves me open.
I release him to his surprise and move forward toward her.
I turn just as he fires the shot meant for her. It would have gotten her too it I didn’t throw myself in the way and take it.
It hit me in my chest and the pain that crushed me is enough to end me but I need to end him first.
I fire the bullet from my gun and make sure I get him in the head.
As I do Miguel flies backwards to the ground.
I’m sure he’s dead.
I think I will be too.
Lily screams and I can feel her hands on me but I lose focus.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Lilly
I cried all the way to the hospital and right through his surgery, my soul weeping, holding to hope.
The doctors managed to get the bullet out but because it was near Christian’s heart he’s not out of the woods yet. And he’s in a coma.
Christian’s in a coma and attached to all sorts of tubes and life support.
A week passes and then another.
I hardly leave his side. Vera takes care of Rosie in the days while I go to the hospital to stay with Christian. I’m here first thing in the morning and last at night.
His family and friends come and go too. All of them.
When the time gets close to a month and Christian’s still in a coma, serious talks start happening that I’m not privy to but I don’t need to be told how serious his condition is. His family’s faces are enough.
I blame myself as always. It was me he came for. He came to save me from the biggest monster of all and I never got to say thanks. I can’t believe the last time we spoke we argued.
It’s morning again and I’ve been sitting beside him for the last hour. The doctors just came to check his vitals and left.
I watch him in a deep slumber and wonder what I can do to reach him.
At midday Vera brings Rosie to see Christian. She said she wanted to see him and the way things are looking she probably should.
We stand together by the bedside watching him. I place my arm around Rosie and she rests her head against my leg.
“Mama will Christian wake up soon?” Rosie asks whispering. She knows to keep quiet when she sees someone asleep. She came to see him once before a few weeks back. Worry is on her pretty little face.
Vera looks visibly crushed at the question and a tear rolls down her cheek.
“I hope so. I hope he does,” I answer. “He’s very sick so it’s a little hard to wake up.”
“I miss him,” she says with a nod.
“Me too.”
Rosie reaches into her little bag and I smile when I see she brought the little egg Christian gave her. The gift he was given by his high school girlfriend. It still grips me to think of the story and the look in his eyes as he told me what happened will always stay with me. I think of it now and how he valued the gift. I think of that side to him he kept locked away and only showed me shimmer of it.
“I want to give this back to him,” Rosie says.
“Why baby? He would want you to have it.” I nod.
“He said it’s something I didn’t have and it would bring me luck. I think he should have it for good luck,” she answers and my heart squeezes.
More tears stream down Vera’s cheeks as I look to her and I can’t hold my own.