Chapter Sixty Two

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Surprise surprise!! This chapter is not as long as all the other ones, but I think you guys are gonna like this one, enjoy babies ❤️

Hailey's POV

My eyes immediately begin to glister with tears as I turn around and find Isaac standing at the end of the alley, his gun also in his hand like every other guy from before.

He smiles faintly and my heart instantly warmth's, "hey beautiful, miss me?"

"Matteo," Axel sneers, quickly latching his hand onto the back of my neck, yanking my head back, digging the barrel of his gun under my chin. "Why must you always insist of sucking the fun out of everything?! We weren't quite ready for you yet."

"Let her go," Isaac growls dangerously low and surprisingly calm, pointing his gun in our direction.

Axel quickly scoffs, "drop it," he points to his gun.

Isaac hesitates for a couple seconds narrowing his eyes, he shoots harsh glares in our direction, eventually setting his gun on the ground slowly.

"Kick it this way," Axel commands and Isaac does.

The gun stops sliding a couple feet away from my feet and Ax nudges me forwards, while still keeping his tight grip on my neck. He walks us up to the gun, kicking it away from us as well.

"Happy?" Isaac grumbles.

"Not quite," Axel replies. "Your pockets, empty them. I know you have another one stashed somewhere."

Isaac scoffs and shoves his right hand into his right pocket, pulling out his cell phone he waves it at Ax. Ax removes the gun away from my face again, but only for a second, he tilts it to the side and Isaac tosses his phone. He digs into his left pocket pulling out a set of keys and tosses those to the side as well, along with a folded knife that he had. He pulls out the inside of his pockets indicating that they are empty but Ax isn't sold.

"Lift your shirt," he snarls and Isaac does, exposing his bare stomach to the cold air and only his bare stomach, there's no gun. "Where is it?" He continues to grumble.

"I don't have anything else on me," he grits loudly in between clenched teeth. "Come on, Ax, it's freezing out here, just let her go. We'll all go home, we'll pretend like this never happened, any of it, the both of us.."

Axel shakes his head, pulling me in closer towards him. "I can't," he chuckles softly. "She's my one way ticket out of your shadows."

"My shadows?" Isaac retorts, clenching his eyebrows together. "What the fück are you talking about?"

"You really don't have any idea, do you?" Axel slowly tugs me to the right as he waves his gun at Isaac for him to walk to his right.

He continues moving us slowly while speaking to Isaac, "even after all the bull shit my father is going through, he still won't stop fucking comparing me to you! Gloating about you, telling all his friends that he wishes I was more like Matteo's kid. Do you know how fucking hurtful and disrespectful that shit feels? I mean the fuck am I good for if my own father doesn't even believe in me!?"

Isaac clearly doesn't hide the smug look on his face. "That's sad and all, really, believe I have my own set of daddy issues, but what fuck does Hailey have anything to do with any of this?"

"SHE HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THIS!" He shouts, yanking my head back, causing me to whimper and Isaac's immediately taking a step forward. Axel points his gun back up to my head causing Isaac to come to a quick halt.

"See," Axel gloats. "Your love, your attachment to this girl, it's what makes her the most important piece! Taking her out of your life, out of your world, out of the picture, it'll completely destroy you. You don't think we hear things on this side of the city, that news doesn't travel, Issac. She's the reason you've changed, she's the reason for your growth, she's the reason why father is so obsessed with you, and she'll be the reason why you fall!"

"Fine," Isaac snarls while slowly shaking his head. "You win, Verdino, let her go and take me."

"What are you doing?" I quickly mumble underneath, finally finding my voice, coming out of the deathly silence I had fallen into.

Isaac looks over at me but doesn't utter a single word.

"This isn't a negotiation, Matteo."

Isaac glances back at Axel, "leave her and take me," he repeats himself. "Take me to your dad, kill me if you have to, torture me, I don't Fücking care, just leave her out of it, your problems with me, not her."

Axel begins to chuckle wickedly, "this is why he admires you, why everyone admires you," he says bitterly. "Matteo's come a long way, he's always putting others before him," Axel continues to ridicule him. "Always looking out for what's best for him and the family. Yet, I'm the selfish one, all I do is think about myself, I'm still the brute no matter what I say or do. I'll never fully win the trust of the family, better yet, I'll never be able to run the family like a real Don is suppose too. There's no point in killing you, he's still gonna hold you up to that petal stool somehow, I'm still gonna be a disgrace to him. This is my one chance, she's my last chance. I need to show him that the big bad Matteo's aren't anything without their queens, you're nothing with out her, and if I have to kill her to prove my point then so be it!"

I wince again as I feel Axel continued to tug on my hair, getting a better grip of it, making sure that I don't go anywhere. My heart begins to race with every second that goes by.

I can't leave with him, I can't let him take me, I need to do something fast, I need to think of something quick. I can't Isaac go with him either, I can't lose him, not again.

I look over at Isaac and notice that he's saying but no sound is coming out of his mouth, the only thing that I can hear is the loud thumping of my own heart in my chest. I try and glance off to the right, to where Isaac's gun is at and immediately want to cry when I realize that it's too far from us, I'll never get to it on time, I have to and try and get his..

The second that the thought crosses my mind I hear Ax's muffled voice over my own heart beat and he instantly loosens his grip on my hair. I immediately swallow any fear that I have and do the one thing that I can think of, the one thing that I did the last time that I was in this similar situation.

I quickly swing my head back connecting it with Ax's face, ready for the impact unlike last time. I quickly recollect myself not wanting to waste any time and turn around kicking Axel in his most sensitive area just like I did with his guy a few weeks ago. It's Déjavu all over again, just like last time Axel doubles over groaning in pain, falling down to his knee's actually and I quickly kick his gun out of his hand and run after it only I don't get far.

Ax quickly recovers and grabs onto my ankle, he tugs on it instantly knocking me to the ground. My eyes begins to water up as my head connects with the hard concrete and immediately begins to throb. I yelp as I feel my body being tugged then almost instantly feel Ax's hand loosen around my ankle and look up to find Isaac on top off him, the both of them fighting now.

I scurry up to my feet and instantly go fetch Axel's gun, running back over to him and Isaac, pointing it in their direction. I don't dare pull the trigger, afraid of missing and accidentally hitting Isaac. He no longer on top of Verdino, they're rolling around until Axel is now on top of Isaac, swinging his arms. Still afraid of using the damn gun I go up to the guys and immediately jump on Ax's back, attempting to pull him off of Isaac and I do so miraculously.

I don't realize that I've dropped the gun until Ax's is shoving me off of him and he's getting up to his feet, his gun back in his hand, pointing it in my direction. "Are you fucking crazy?" He shouts breathlessly. "Get up!"

Fear kicking back in I flinch at the tone of his voice and instantly get up to my feet.

"You know what, fuck this, fuck waiting!" He spits, pointing the gun in my direction and pulls the trigger.

I immediately shut my eyes the second I know he's gonna fire the gun and wait for the pain to kick in, but it never does. A couple of seconds pass by and my adrenaline immediately starts to die down when I feel a pair of arms around me and my eyes instantly snap open to find that Isaac is now standing in front of me, hugging me.

Where the hell did he come from?!

He lets go off me and is instantly cupping my face with his right hand, "are you okay?" He rasps.

I quickly begin to shake my head up and down, "I- I think so."

"Good," he smiles, only his smile doesn't last long it turns into a frown in the next second, and his face is instantly conturing in pain.

I slightly tilt my head to the side, "I- Issac?" I stammer.

He looks down at his body and I immediately gasp placing my hands over my mouth as my eyes begin to fill up with tears. I look down to where he's looking, to where his left hand is placed, noticing the dark splotch that's now seeping into the material of his shirt, it's blood.

He smiles weakly looking down at his body still, "that hurt a lot more than I anticipated," and staggers into my arms.

I try my hardest to hold him up steady, to hold both of us up, but I'm not strong enough and his heavy weight causes us both to slowly tumble to the ground.

I immediately start tearing up while clutching onto Isaac's now bleeding body, "what the hell did you do!!" I exclaim.

He looks up at me, his breathing starting to grow unevenly and ragged already. "I t-told you," he stammers. "I'd protect you with my life."

I instantly starts balling my eyes out when I realized what he's done and reality starts to set in as I continue to stare at the blood in his shirt. "You're so stupid, why would you do that, Isaac!!!"

He doesn't say anything in return, Isaac simply smiles when I hear heavy footsteps in front of us. I glance up to see Ax making his way over towards us and focus my attention back on Isaac.

I hear Axel's deep venomous voice a second later, "well that was pretty stupid, Matteo, I'm still gonna have to kill her though," he says. "At least now I get to watch you bleed out and take your last breath."

I know for a fact that Ax is probably pointing his gun down at me, my head to be exact, but I'm completely terrified to look in that direction.

I squeeze my eyes shut, holding Isaac closer to me, trying to prepare myself for what is to come, praying to God that I don't feel anything, that it just happens quick.

"I love you," I whisper into his ear.

Isaac scoffs softly as I hold onto him, "you're gonna be okay," he whispers back, when the gun is suddenly going off, causing me to jump, but I don't feel anything again, nothing happens, or at least I don't think so.

I open my eyes when I hear the thumping of a body falling to the ground and realize that Axel isn't the one who pulled the trigger.

I see Ax's lifeless body on the ground a couple feet away from us, a bullet wedged into the back of his head now, when I see my dad standing at the entrance of the alley.

"D-dad?"

He immediately lowers his gun and runs over to us, crouching down in front of me, "are you okay?"

I start nodding my head rapidly holding Isaac even closer to me, "I-Isaac," I begin to cry. "He- he-"

"Look at me, Katherine."

I do.

"Breathe." My dad commands. "I can't have you freaking out, babygirl, Isaac needs you right now, you can not break down, you need to calm down and be strong, sweetheart. Can you do that for him?"

I nod my head rapidly, taking in a sharp breath

"Let me see."

My dad then inspect Isaac wounds immediately instructing me to take off my cardigan. I quickly do so and he tears it in half placing it on Isaac's stomach, telling me to keep pressure on it and Isaac immediately winces. My adrenaline way too high right now for me to feel the cold air of the night.

My father turns to Isaac for a quick second, "Matteo, listen to me. I know you can hear me, I need you to open your eyes, son, you need to stay awake, do not give up on me."

Isaac doesn't respond though, and I begin to panic a bit.

"Isaac!!" My father shouts, shaking his shoulder a bit, and he slowly starts to pry his eyes open. "Stay awake! I'm gonna call for help. Do not remove your hands from there, Hail, do you understand me?"

I nod my head and my dad quickly stands up to his full height, taking a few steps back and is immediately on his phone.

I look back down at Isaac as he continues to stare up at me, but there's a distant haze in his eyes and I can't help but cry harder.

"I'm so sorry," I cry. "I should've just stayed home, I should've believed you, I shouldn't have over reacted. I'm so sorry, please don't leave me."

Isaac slowly places his hand on top of my two own that are covering his lower wound, his lips slightly tugging to the side. "I love you so much," he murmurs.

"My life- it was dull before you came into it, Hail," he chokes, his eyes now barely starting to water up.

I start shaking my head mildly, "please don't do this."

He continues to smile weakly, "running into you that day in the hall way was the best thing that ever happened to me, baby. Falling in love with you was the best thing to ever happened to me." He coughs a couple times, starting to wheeze. "Y-you keep saying that I ch-changed your life, when in reality y-you changed m-mine," he rasps, tears spilling out from the corner of his eyes.

I immediately start to breakdown even harder. Isaac was one of the strongest person's that I've ever met in my life, I hated seeing him cry, seeing him like this was only tearing me up inside even more.

"I- i can't imagine my life without you anymore.. I-I am, im s-so sorry about e-everything." His eyelids slowly start to close and my heart starts to race.

"No, no, no, no," I shake him lightly. "Come on, Isaac, wake up, baby!"

He doesn't though, his eyes remain close no matter how much I try and shake him awake.

"Isaac, please!!" I cry, but nothing still.

I really begin to panic now.

"Dad!!!!!" I shout to get his attention, when I start to hear faint sirens at a distance, thank god.

My dad turns around, his phone glued to his ear still.

"H-he won't w-wake up," I stammer. "I- I don't think he's breathing!!"

"Fuck," my dad growls and shoves his phone back into his pocket, immediately rushing over to us. He crouches down next to me, "watch out, honey, let me see."

I scoot to the side, making sure not to ease up on the pressure on Isaac's stomach, and he quickly places two fingers on Isaac's neck checking for a pulse, and I pray to God that he still has one.

My dad shakes his head swearing under his breath, as the fire department and paramedics pull up, rushing their way over to us with a stretcher.

"Matteo?" My dad smacks Isaac's cheek lightly, and his eyes open about half ways. "I know you're hurting, son, but i need you to stay with me, Isaac!"

The EMT's then quickly make their way over to us, and my dad nearly has to drag me away from Isaac's body, as the paramedic's start doing their job.

I start to cry even harder when Isaac clings onto my hand, his eyes begging me not to leave him, but my dad continues to drag me away from them, away from him.

I start crying historically begging my dad to let me go, to let me stay with him, but he only pulls us farther away.

I hear one of the EMT's shout to another EMT, "pulse and breathing are low, loosing consciousness," and I really start to lose it,

I can feel my chest instantly starting to tighten up.

"Isaac, can you hear me?" The other EMT shouts. "Hang in there champ, we're gonna help you."

I watch them nervously as they put an oxygen mask over Isaac's mouth, praying to God that it'll help him breathe.

They then immobilize him onto a backboard and transport him onto the stretcher, making their way back over to the ambulance and I feel my world instantly start to crumble as they turn the sirens on and begin to drive away.

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