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I can’t fucking believe this. Things are starting to look up.
Chapter 47
Julissa
I’mstartingtothinkthat even with my recruits, we’re no match for Evelina’s army. We’ve been fighting for what feels like hours and although we’ve managed to get past a lot of her team, we still have so much more to go through and I’ve already lost a few recruits, some of them are injured and they have an unfair advantage as the more of her soldiers we come upon, they’re fit and ready to fight since they’ve just been standing there waiting for us to get through the others to get to them. On top of that, I’ve gotten some kick to my already tender ribs and taking that much meth is beginning to have the opposite reaction of making me feel amazing right now. I’m breaking out in cold sweat and my heart is beating so fast, I think I might have a heart attack. My chest hurts like a motherfucker and it’s like I’m just now starting to feel the magnitude of pain that comes with my ribs being broken.
To make matters worse, I don’t even see the bitch. I thought she’d be brave enough to face me but the coward is hiding behind all of this. With the severe pain that I’m in, I can’t run from my emotions anymore and I’m fucking freaking out about the fact that I’ve managed to drag even more people into my fucking mess. Recruits are dead because of me and I can’t escape the flashbacks of the car crashes from earlier. I don’t do good things. Terrible things happen when I’m around and it’s not worth risking the lives of the remaining recruits. There’s no way we’re going to get through this alive and if I want to make sure that they live, I’m just going to have to let myself be killed. It’s not worth it for me to keep going.
I’m preparing myself to make a deal with these fuckers, if I can trust them, offer to surrender myself over to them if they promise to spare the lives of my recruits when I see the sea of soldiers begin to part before my eyes. I grow agitated by the shift and confusion about what the fuck is happening. At the head of the soldiers closer to the house, I see Mafia leaders. I can tell that’s who they are because they’re dressed differently. The soldiers are uniformed but these other guys look like money.
They fucking part as well and I’m starting to understand that they’re getting instructions from their earpieces. The door to the mansion opens and out steps the redheaded bitch with a smile on her face.
“Julissa Burns,” she says aloud and my recruits raise their weapons, so do Evelina’s people. I wave at my recruits to not shoot and she does the same.
She walks down the path opened up for her with her gun held to her side. She wore a fucking suit to the war? I don’t know why but that level of cockiness is making me defensive. She’s smart enough to not get too close, just close enough that I can hear her clearer as she shouts.
“So, you’re the infamous whore who was stupid enough to come after my family,” she says. She looks at me and I’m clearly not doing well at the moment. “I gotta say, I’m disappointed.”
I fake a smile, biting my tongue, reminding myself that it’s not worth it. The bitch can taunt but it’s not worth the lives of the rest of my recruits. She doesn’t shut up though. “By the looks of it, it seems I could’ve done without bringing in the surprise I have for you,” she says.
What the fuck is she talking about? My antennas perk up. I don’t say anything, I just stare at her to continue. “Here I was thinking I’d have to use him as leverage as some shit when you look like you’re about to fall over.” She laughs. “I guess if he won’t be useful, I’ll just kill him.”
She whispers something into her earpiece and I watch as out of the house comes an armed man and behind him Calder follows with another man holding a gun to his head. Oh no the fuck she didn’t. I see red, looking at her like she’s lost her damn fucking mind. I can’t think straight and as she continues to blabber her fucking jaws off, I’ve found my reason to keep fighting. All of a sudden, it’s like my body works better too as I’m pumped with adrenaline. I give my recruits a signal to shoot, which causes her people to shoot back, distracting them and her as I reach for another fucking grenade and throw it toward her army, killing everyone within 5 meters and injuring others within fifteen meters.
My team pumps hers full of bullets as she takes off running. My eyes are focused on her and I charge through the smoke, tiny pieces of metal still flying from the explosion lodging into my skin. I push through the pain, coming up behind her, taking my gun and knocking her in the head. She falls to the ground and I rip her fucking earpiece out of her fucking ear as she kicks me in my ribs. I grit my teeth in pain because I’m not giving up. This bitch is fucking dead. I can’t see past the clouds of dust and I’m terrified that something has happened to Calder. I need to get to him. Evelina jumps to her feet, her gun no longer a few feet behind her. My gun was tackled away from me when we were wrestling on the ground as well. I reach for my handy dandy karambit, dancing around her and to my surprise, she knows the snake style kung fu as well. Fuck it. Taking her out is going to take longer than I thought.
Things start to grow quieter around us and I have the strange awareness that means the majority of fighters are dead and I’m just hoping that the majority doesn’t include my recruits because I need someone to rescue Calder while I’m doing this shit. She dodges every fucking blow, laughing like a stupid bitch and I’m not as fast as I usually am with my attacks. One of my kicks lands and she flies backward to the ground. I run toward her and as the dust begins to settle, I look ahead of me to see Calder wrestling the gun away from the armed person next to him as the other armed guard is lifeless at his feet. I’m relieved until I hear the gunshot and see Calder fall to the ground.
My heart stops beating and as I see Evelina moving toward her gun, I pick up one from the ground, unsure who it belonged to, cocking it and shooting her in the back of the head because nothing is stopping me from getting to Calder as fast as I can. I dash through the dead bodies littering Evelina’s estate and fall to my knees next to Calder, bawling. He coughs up blood, staring into my eyes and the whole world shakes as he tries to speak to me but can’t. “No, no!” I scream and start shaking him. “No!! Don’t die!! Please!!!” I yell, falling over his body, holding him, sobbing.
I jump as someone touches me on the shoulder. I spin around willing to die by the hands of whoever just touched me. I look to see Jaya and a bunch of recruits groaning in pain as they start to get up from off the ground. I now realize that some of the bodies weren’t lifeless and they had just been knocked out by the explosions which means that some of Evelina’s people may start to rise again soon. I don’t care because if Calder’s dead, I may as well be too.
Jaya starts pulling me away and I shove her off. “No! Leave me alone!!”
Another recruit comes hopping forward. “Have you checked his pulse?” she asks.
I stare at her trembling, unable to form words to answer her.
“May I?” she asks, leaning forward to place her ears against his chest. I stare at her without breathing. “He’s alive,” she says. “But he needs a doctor as soon as possible.”
Bitch, say no more! I race out of there to get my car, skidding across Evelina’s grass, jumping out of the car and rushing to Calder as the recruits help me to put him in.
I’m about to drive off when I realize that I can’t take him to the hospital. I’ll be arrested on the spot and they may not want to treat him because of me. I wave the recruits over. “One of you is going to have to come with me. Take off all of that gear,” I say as Jaya and the other recruit who checked his pulse jump in. “You’re gonna have to speak to them.” I start to shake.
“Let me drive,” Jaya suggests and I don’t waste time hopping over to the passenger’s seat because I don’t think I’m in a state to drive.
On the way to the hospital, snot is pouring out of my nose, I’m bawling and the only thing I can think is,Please, please, let him live. If there’s a God who gives a shit about us, please let him live. I promise if he lives, I’ll change. It’s not fair that he dies and I live. If he lives, I’ll give this shit up, I promise. I’ll turn my life around for real this time.
Epilogue
Julissa
I’msunbathingonabeach on a tropical island. I won’t disclose the location and I’m drinking juice out of a fucking coconut with an umbrella because apparently, coconuts get fucking sunburns too. I watch Mikhail and Axel, who’s visiting for the week, flirting with each other far away in the ocean, grinning as they try to see who can knock the other one off balance. Axel has decided to travel back and forth as he continues to pursue his B.A in psychology at his college so we all get as much of him as we can before he has to head back. Those two can’t get enough of each other and the only reason they’re not inside fucking each other’s brains out right now is because if I’m out here, they’re adamant that someone has to be out here with me.
I smile at the sight of them while I stretch and rest my drink to the side. The sun’s making me sleepy as well as the medicine I’m on to help my ribs recover. I find myself dozing off when a kid hits me with a giant beach ball. “Oh, I’m so sorry!” A lady who appears to be the kid’s mother laughs as she runs up next to me to collect it.
I smile at her. “That’s okay.”
