CHAPTER 52: NEW MISSION

Nat's POV

It broke my heart to see Leo go away.

Every step he took forward was a step towards crushing my heart into smithereens.

It was as if someone had sucked all the air out of me and taken it away from me.

Every step forward was a step away from me and that thought as if someone spilled two buckets filled with ice cold water on me.

Watching him walk away was turning harder every second, so I tried to look away but I couldn't. I couldn't steer my stupid eyes away from his retreating back and how stiff he looked.

How his head, which was always held high, was bent down low.

How dejected he looked.

I probably couldn't see anymore because of the tears that were blurring my eyes, making it hard for me to look.

I wiped the tears off my face and turned away.

But the tears kept flooding down on my face and I finally broke down.

My knees gave away and I hit the ground, hard.

My sobs had turned loud that even Leo stopped for a second but didn't turn around, it made my heart break even more.

I tried to stand up and wipe the tears off my face.

It took some time to finally stand up, but I did.

I try to stand up on the tip of toes to search for Leo or even get a glimpse but he was gone and I was left alone, all over again.

Clutching my heart and trying not to fall apart.

I turn around and decide to go back into the house.

I don't even know why I kissed Marco or why the hell he kissed me.

Doesn't he get it that I don't want to be with him!?

It's Leo I'm in love with.

Not him.

It wasn't ever him.

I couldn't even look Marco in the eye of see him at all.

Thankfully even he left shortly after that kiss.

Seeing him only made me more mad at him.

I'm glad that he was there but I want him to be there for me as a friend and not some lover boy.

People say that you only have two people you truly fall in love with. One's yourself and the other your better half.

Your soulmate.

I could never love myself no matter how hard I tired and honestly I don't know why Leo even has feelings for me.

People like me don't deserve it.

My other love had been Marco.

And when I gave him my heart he just shattered it into pieces because he wanted some information I didn't even have. To him that mission his family mattered more so he mercilessly beat me up and hurt me.

It's only a few times a person can handle their heart being broken.

Not always.

So leaving him was the second best choice I'd ever made.

The first best would be being with Leo.

He makes me wanna love myself again.

Make me wanna be eternally happy.

Makes me hopeful.

And if he hadn't answered to the countless voicemails I'd sent him I would have just disappeared even if I can't afford to.

But he did answer and also forgave me.

Nothing could ever make me happier.

I don't even know where he went.

As I'm sitting in my room, day dreaming, a scream breaks my chain of thoughts and I run towards the living room where the scream is coming from.

As I enter, all air leaves my lungs, as I see Marco pointing a gun and Sophie.

"NO!"I scream but all too soon Marco had already pulled the trigger and shot her straight in the chest and she fell down in a pool of her own blood.

"Why?"I run to him with tears streaming down my face.

"I had to, "he says , like always, and leaves without another word and I just stand there, dazed and confused, at what had happened.

All the sense has been lost inside of me.

Why would Marco do this?

Why?

As more blood starts to gush out of Sophie's body, something clicks inside of me and I quickly call the ambulance and tell them our address and try to shake some life out of the lifeless body that is lying in front of my eyes.

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"How's she?"I ask as soon as the doctor comes from the operation ward.

"She's lucky that the bullet missed her heart. She's doing fine. She's expected to wake up in the next five hours"

"What if she doesn't?" I can't help but ask.

"She will, "he says and leaves.

It's been a nightmare.

Seeing Sophie fall down like that just reminded me of the time when Luca fell in front of me in a pool of his own blood.

Thank god she'll live.

No matter how matter I hate her, it still doesn't give Marco any fucking right to shoot her in our house in front of me.

I've tried calling him again and again but he's just vanished.

I know for a fact that he didn't shoot her because of my enmity with her but for his own sake.

Like fucking always.

As I'm roaming around the hospital waking for Sophie to wake up my phone starts ringing and when I see the caller ID I nearly drop it.

It's Aunt Susie.

The leader right now.

The mother of Sophie.

I pick up the phone and she she nearly gets me deaf because she's literally screaming into the phone.

'Hey,'I timidly say.

'Hi?Fuck off!'she says.

Okay.

I'll gladly.

'You couldn't even look after Sophie!'

'She's a grown up for christ's sake and your daughter can't keep her fucking mouth shut. That's what landed her here'

'Shut the fuck up!'she screams and I have a strong urge to hang up on her.

'I have a new mission for you'

'What?'I say curiously.

'Don't kill Mario kill him'

Now she's just being vague.

'Who?'

'Marco. I give you three days' she says and hangs up.