Chapter 38

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I keep my eyes closed, the knowledge of the gun right next to me makes me hold my breath in pure fear. My hands sweat and and my eyes are screwed shut but a red light makes me open them, I blink to see a dot move from me and land on Theo. When I look up at him he doesn't seem to notice and I look back at it, tilting my head. Everything that comes next moves in slowly motion.

"No!" I hear Ramsey yell and pushes past my father and over to us

He opens his arms and tackles Theo just as a loud sound exploded through the room and rings in my ears. The sound of shattering glass from the small window mixes with a high pitch swirling ringing and I blink slowly shaking my head as I shrink away in my chair and try to register what just happened.

I look down at Theo and Ramsey on the ground, gasping for air. Ramseys' laid on top of Theo, practically covering him, he looks slack and when I look down his body, blood coats his side and I see a small hole on the upper side of his side, near his armpit. Blood pools over Theo and the ground. When I look back at his face his eyes are wide open and glazed over.

He's dead

I scream and Theo pushes him off himself "shit" I hear Tommy says just as a loud crashing sound comes from the door

Next think I know men with guns pour into the room. Each are wearing helmets and vests with yellow lettering, I continue to scream and so does my mother.

"Hands up now!" They all yell harshly in unison holding their large guns up on their shoulders, aimed at us

I place my hands up and look at Theo who's eyes are wide and his body is petrified as he stands beside me "you little bitch! What did you do!" He yells as two men come over an push him down forcefully to the ground, slamming his face hard against the ridged splintered wood of the floor and aiming there guns at him, yelling things

My brain's mush as I look around, my head spinning and eyes fuzzy as I try to catch up. Men push down Tommy and he yells random things, his golden tooth shining off the light as he growls. Rico is on the ground and being handcuffed. My eyes travel to Vincent and he looks just as confused as me.

Someone unties him and he immediately goes over to Marie and unties her, hugging her and as two paramedics walk in the door he sends her off to them, she looks around frantically but he calms her down enough to go with them, all voices are muffled. Vincent unties Annie and she wraps her arms around him, automatically hugging him and finally breaking into the sobs I know she was holding back.

My mother and father get untied and walk over to me. So much chaos is going around I don't know where to look. Two men drag out Theo as he walks out with tense shoulder and a face that could kill with a single look. Rico and Tommy are dragged out as well and other people walk in, mostly paramedics. They walk over to Annie and sit her down as they look at her face. My breath comes out in slow heavy pants and my heart pounds.

My mother hugs me and I groan in pain and fear "shh it's ok" she says

Three people walk over to Ramseys' body and scoops him into a black bag, I look away and burry my head in her shoulder. My body continues to shake as the adrenaline still rushes through my veins. I try to calm my breathing but my minds racing so fast my brain forces my lungs to suck in and exhale to quickly, causing my vision to blacken.

My mom pulls back and steps sideways allowing me to see around me. My eyes lock with Vincent and with some hidden power in me I stand on shaky legs. My mother helps hold me a little, Vincent stand there and I cry as I walk over to him. I jump in his arms and he wraps me strongly to his chest. I cry into his shoulder, still trying to get over the fact of what just happened...I was almost dead three minutes ago.

He whispers calming things in my ear and holds me tight, my shakes lessening at the strength of his arms around me, holding me so tight I can hardly breath. I feel his tears fall on my shoulder as he buries his head in my neck.

"I'm so sorry" he chocks out but I shake my head

"No I'm sorry" I tell him and kiss his bloody cheek

He holds my neck and kisses all over my face, repeating he loves me and how sorry he is. His arms never leave my body and his head stays laid on my shoulder. We stay like this for I don't know how long before he slowly sets me down in a chair and calls over the paramedics.

There voices are still muffled as I look around, I try to listen but I'm in shock. My eyes lock with pale green ones standing at the door and I gasp. Officer Bailey stands there looking over everything and then at me. How? How did he know? At the sight of him more tears fall.

"We're going to have to get her to the ambulance...we have more supplies and she's in shock, we might have to give her something if she doesn't calm down" I hear one of the paramedics says, I shift my gaze to a pretty brunette who lifts a small flashlight to my eyes "and sir you're going to have to get looked at too" she says but Vincent shakes his head looking at me

"I'm fine, check her first" he instructs, more like demands

The male paramedic goes to pick me up and take me away but I shake out of his arms as he leads me to the door "no I'm not leaving him" I say almost in a panic and the man holds up his arms

Before he can speak Vincent comes and picks me up, I lay on his chest and let my breathing calm as I clutch to his crimson stained shirt. As we pass officer Bailey in the door, his eyes stay on me and he nods sympathetically. Vincent carries me out and into the dock where I keep my eyes closed until we reach the land. He carefully carries me up the stairs and I see the two paramedics follow behind us.

The once abandoned parking lot from when we first got here is now coated in blue and red lights flashing against the asphalt and trees around us. Cop, S.W.A.T, and ambulance cars line the parking lot. I look around and by the S.W.A.T van is Theo laid out on the ground. Next to and around him are at most 5 more of his men laid out on the ground, including Tommy and Rico, there faces pressed against the ground and hands behind there back.

But I see more people on the ground spread out, white sheets cover them and black bags are placed beside them...they're dead, Theo's other men. I turn my head away when my eyes lock with Theo's, my heart beating faster at the look in his dark and evil blue orbs. I stay close to Vincent when he sets me down in the back of the open ambulance.

The paramedics come and look me over again, they place a shock blanket over my shoulders. They lift my shirt and press on my ribs and stomach, asking if it hurts. It's sore but my eyes are still on Theo who stares at me, never blinking only looking at me with pure hate. Vincent seems to notice because he steps in my line of vision of Theo. And when I look up at him he nods and I smile weakly, thankful for him.

They clean the cut on my lip and eye, and give me some ice for the swelling. And after a couple of minutes my eye slowly stars to be able to open wider. The other paramedic not working on me asked to start working on Vincent's injuries but he said they couldn't until they finished with me. I was slowly coming out from shock, the blanket, being near Vincent, and knowing everyones ok helped me calm down immensely. They gave me some pain medication and something that soothed my nerves. They said I'd be fine just to keep the cut on my lip clean and my black eyes should go away soon. For the burns on my wrists and ankles they said to go to a local pharmacy and get some cream, for now they have it wrapped in gauze.

It's over. Now I just need to know how.

"Babe?" I hear Vincent say and I look up from my aimless stare

"Yeah?" I ask looking over his face, I think he'll need stitches for the cut on his cheek, his face is covered in blood and discoloured with bruises, his wrists are cut up and the skin looks red and irritated

"I'm going to check on everyone else" he says placing his hand on my cheek but I stand and shake my head

"No, let them check you out first" I plea needing to know they didn't do any damage to hurt him to bad

He stares in my eyes, and I stare into his making sure they plea to him. He sighs and nods. The woman looks over his face and the man presses at his already bruised ribs and stomach as he sits down where I was. I have to look away when they start cleaning his wounds and press on his stomach like they did to me...he looks in pain and I don't want to see that, not after what just happened. I hold the blanket to me and look around, they still have Theo on the ground but they forced his head down...his icy blue eyes not being able to pierce into me.

People start walking up the hill from the stairs leading to the dock and shack. I spot officer Bailey and slowly start walking over to him but Vincent's voice holds me back "where are you going?" He says in a hurry

I turn back to him, they cleaned the blood from his cheek and forehead and he looks a little better. His skin is pale besides the purplish bruises forming all over. "I'm going to talk to officer Bailey" I tell him but he tilts his head "I'll tell you later" I say turning

In a second flat he pushed through them and grabbed me, turning me back to him "I don't want you out of my sight" he says towering over me, lowering his lips to me

"I'll be fine" I say softly "it's over" I tell him and reluctantly after staring at me for a moment he nods and limps back to sit in the ambulance while I walk over to officer Bailey

He talks to another officer but he's not in uniform, he's wearing jeans and one of those vests "officer Bailey" I say softly, holding the blanket up on my shoulders

He turns to me and dismisses the officer, taking a step to me "it's actually Detective Bailey" he tells me looking down at me with pale green eyes

"Oh" my eyes widen as I look up at him "how-?" I shake my head having so many questions

"You might want to sit down" he sits on a small bench and I follow, keeping my distance

"How about I tell you everything and you ask any questions you have left when I'm done?" He asks and I nod, he takes a deep breath and looks over the parking lot, turning his gaze back to me after a moment "well we know your husband is a drug lord who sells drugs by storing them in his computers" he says point blank and I gasp opening my mouth to ask a million questions but he gives me a sideways glance and I nod for him to keep going, swallowing my words "we've been onto him for two years, we're not sure how long he'd been doing it before that, we'd gotten a tip from the Russians, an enemy of your husband, and started looking into him" he says and I listen intently "we never got solid evidence, he has been very very secretive, using prepaid phones and using people in his group to do the drops and the dirty business" he says running a hand through his brown curls "one day we had paid off and said we wouldn't charge one of his producers if he dropped out of a deal, that was the first time we got anything from him, he went to the man and tried to beat him up, we couldn't interfere because we'd be caught but the producers men got Theo to leave" he says

"When was this?" I ask quietly remembering the night I came home to see him drunk, complaining about a producer that backed out due to his ambitious ways

"A couple of months back" he says and I nod, knowing in my heart that was the night he raped me

I wish I could blame them, they're the ones who dropped the investor and that's why he got drunk and raped me but I can't, Theo's the one who did this...all of it "when the local police got a call to report to your house after you went missing I went undercover-"

"I didn't know anything at the time...it wasn't until later that he told me about what he was doing" I tell him

"I know" he says "anyways, all I got out of that was he was a huge dick, we suspected you're parents were working-"

"They weren't I promise, they had no idea, Theo said if I told anyone he'd blame the drugs on my dad and he'd go to jail, Theo invested in my father's company and would keep giving him money only if he got to marry me, I was there bargaining tool so when he got made my father CEO it just added another contract to the lie, my parents wouldn't let me leave him because of the money but I wanted to especially when I found out about the drugs but I could leave or tell anyone plus I found Vincent-" I begin to ramble but he nods cutting me off

"That makes sense, but we figured it had to be something because when we looked into Royce Bentley there was nothing to tie him to the drugs except he was the CEO of Theo's company but he didn't show anything that would make us suspicious" he says and I nod letting out a deep breath "after you were put in the hospital we noticed some of his men had started getting closer and closer to you that's why I sent you those pictures, I don't think they saw you before them but they must have since this-"

"Wait wait" I hold my hands up "you're the one who sent those pictures?" I ask remembering opening that packet of pictures of me and Vincent and the message on the back telling me to be careful, I guess it was a warning

"Yes, and then I saw you in the grocery store, we followed his men in, you weren't supposed to see me and I think they knew I was a cop after you started talking to me so I knew I had to at least give you a number so you could call. I couldn't follow you after you left the store, I had to keep my distance. I had men on your parents but when you caught me I told them to back off a little, I didn't want to risk them getting too close that Theo's men would act to quickly and tell Theo to soon....turns out they did" he sighs "I knew after they saw you talking to me they would either act quickly or put it off, I thought the latter...I'm sorry for that" he says and I nod "my men on your father noticed he never left the office last night but figured he must have slipped by them, then Mr.King's mother went missing from the home so we immediately started looking" he says "we were going to come find you and tell you everything, and hopefully get you to help but you and Vincent were already gone before we could get to you" he explains running a hand down his face "we couldn't have told you anything any earlier because of his men watching..." He trails off "the hard part was finding you" he sighs

"But you did" I say softly and he nods, we sit in silence for a moment, me trying to work out everything he did "What's going to happen?" I ask

"Well, he's going to go to jail for a long time, we have enough evidence to put him away on selling illegal drugs to people out of the country and this kidnapping, all we need to do is get you and everyone else's statements and we should be able to put him away" he says and I smile for the first time all day

"Really?" I ask and he nods

I throw the blanket off of me and hug him tight, his body is tense at first but he soon relaxes and wraps his arms around me "thank you so much" I say against his shoulder

"Thank you too, for leading us in the right direction...I'm just sorry all of this had to happen" he says pulling back and I nod

"I'm just glad it over" I tell him honestly

He frowns for a moment but quickly recovers and smiles "it was very nice getting to know you-..." He cuts himself off "even if you didn't know I was" he chuckles and I nod with a smile thinking back on it all

Me being with Theo, me having to secretly sneak out to see Vincent, me having to look over my shoulder everywhere I go and having to protect my family...is finally over. I can live happy for the first time in my life. At the thought tears well up in my eyes. He wraps his arm around my shoulder and I lay my head on his shoulder while I wipe my tears away.

It's over

A/N
Hey readers so I didn't edit this chapter because I'm feeling lazy but hopefully it's mostly alright. Only one chapter left :) and then more than one part to the epilogue (four more parts in all! So that's good)
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