Chapter 9
CHAPTER
NINE
LUNA
I have no idea what I am doing but I know I can't let him go. Even though I didn’t say it back, I am in love with him as well and when he mentioned me possibly being pregnant, my mind for one second allowed itself to believe I could have this.
“Is this good?” he asks, pulling up to a Mexican restaurant. I smile realizing he remembers me saying my favorite food was Mexican.
“Smells delicious.” Oh man, I smell Birria. Grabbing my hand, he laces our fingers together and we walk side by side into the restaurant. Immediately my stomach begins to rumble.
“Welcome to Birria Paradise. What can I get for you?” I basically order all the things and tell him I will split it with him. Laughing he pulls out his wallet and pays. We find a table and sit in front of one another. He grabs my hands and pulls them across the table toward him.
“So…” he says, kissing my hands. “If you could choose a life what would it be?”
“A life without this. I have always been a little unsure of my path, but I knew without a shadow of a doubt that I would be a mom and a wife.” he nods and rubs circles around my hand.
“What would you say I want those same things but with you?” Tears form in my eyes because that is music to my ears, but I don’t see it.
“I am in love with you Wictor. There I said it. But even with those words spoken, we are enemies. For fuck sake your family is…” he stops me with his fingers over my lips.
“My cousin Jakub…” My eyes get big realizing what he is about to say. Surely he is not talking about the Jakub married to Giulia’s sister Chiara. “Yes, that Jakub.” he says, reading my mind. “He asked me out here from Poland to take down the rest of the organization and dismantle it once and for all. I am not here to resurrect anything, Mi?o??. I am here to stump it into the ground.”
My mind is buzzing putting the pieces together of what he is saying. If he is telling the truth, in a weird sort of way we are on the same side. “I don't have a comeback for that. I wasn’t expecting.." Before I can finish my thought, a whizzing sound goes past me and then I hear it, gunshots. Wictor and I look at one another for a second before we are screaming at everyone to get down and we do the same. “Are you packing?” I ask him, reaching for both of my guns, one from my ankle and the other from my back.
“You fucking know it.” Then we nod at one another and sit up. Standing, he walks toward the hail of bullets and begins firing on them. I swoop in from behind catching them in their blind spot and fire into the car. Speeding off they try to evade. “Get in.” Victoria says, opening his car door. Around us there is mayhem people screaming, blood everywhere, but our eyes are zeroed in on the car trying to get away.
“Can you get us closer?” I ask unbuckling my seatbelt. He nods but he also grinds his teeth pissed because he knows what I am about to do. I pull my body out of the window and sit on the sill with my legs inside the car. “Closer.” I demand. When he is close enough, I feel the bullet soar past me. “That’s right motherfuckers. I’m coming up on you.” I growl before both my hands point to the car and I begin firing at the tires.
“Damn baby, your aim is amazing.” Smiling to myself I tell him.
“Yeah my dad taught all of us to shoot and how to evade.”
“Well good for him.” he shouts. Finally with one concentrated aim I hit one of the tires and the car began to stumble back and forth. With one last shot I hit the second tire and Wictor pulls back when the car begins to flip.
He pulls over to the side of the road and we exit. I refill my clip, and he takes out his other gun. We move closer to the car, and I hear Wictor yell. “Get the fuck out the car, slowly.” I creep up on it not sure if anyone is alive. “Out assholes. Now!”
When I make it to the car, I see all of them are alive. “We need one alive babe.” I called out to him.
“You got it baby.” He grabs the one by him out and begins dragging him to the trunk. Sneering and over it, I put one in between the heads of the other two and spit on them before making my way back to the trunk.
This is going to be fun.