CHAPTER TWO

SCARLETT'S POV.

My heart was pounding so loud, I thought it was going to burst right out of my chest. I couldn't believe this was actually happening. Why had fate decided to play such a sick game on me like this?

With shaking hands, I looked up at the men standing beside Luca and their faces were far from nice.

"What are you going to do to me?" I asked, lips trembling.

Luca didn't say anything, he just kept staring at me with a cold, hard expression on his face. I could see the anger in his eyes, and I knew that he was furious.

Soon my whole body started to shake with fear. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't move. Couldn't speak. I was just frozen in place.

Luca took a step towards me and when I looked hard, I saw that he was holding a gun. He pointed it at one of the men behind him, using it to motion for them to get Henry out.

Quickly the men opened the door and pulled him out. Henry tried  to fight back, but they were too strong. They dragged him out of the car, threw him to the ground harshly and immediately started to beat him up badly.

My screams got lost in my throat as I watched them. "Leave him the hell alone, what is your problem? Somebody help," I screamed at the top of my lungs but the road was dead silent and I knew I wasn't getting any help sadly.

One of the men with ginger hair landed one last kick towards Henry before abandoning him there, grunting in pain with blood all over his body, and bile rose up in my throat.

I felt like throwing up as I watched Henry all bloodied and beaten up all because of me. And my blood boiled with fury as I thought of the way my life was about to change all because of Luca.

I looked up at him, and I could see that he was smiling. It was a cruel, twisted smile like he was deriving immense joy from seeing me scared and in pain.

"You thought you could get away from me," he said in a deep manly voice that sent chills down my spine.  "But you were wrong. You all must've been stupid to think I was going to sit down and watch you run away."

All of a sudden he rose the gun and pointed it at me and I took in a sharp breath.

"Please, please I beg you," I jammed my hands together, pleading. "Please don't hurt me, I'm sorry."

"You're sorry?" Luca scoffed, playing with the gun in his hands as if deliberating if he should pull the trigger or not. I hoped he didn't.  "Why did you try to run away, Scarlett? Do you think I'm a fool? Or you just haven't heard of the type of man I am?"

I thought about everything I could lose if he took my life, and tears started rolling down my face. There was my education which I'd put so much effort into, there was my family whom I loved so much, and then there was Kevin, the love of my life. I couldn't bear to lose all of that, I needed to find a way to convince him to spare me.

"You and your bastard father really wanted to act smart right?" Luca aimed the gun right at my forehead and I swallowed a huge lump in my throat. "Well, I'll show you who the smart one is," I saw his hand around the trigger and my body went frozen.

I closed my eyes and waited for the impact.

But then, I heard a loud noise with the sound of grunting and when I opened my eyes, Luca was suddenly on the ground. Someone had tackled him to the ground, but I couldn't quite make out who it was that was now struggling to get the gun out of his hands because of how dark it was.

I looked around and saw that the two men in suits were now lying unconscious beside Henry and I gasped in shock. What the hell had happened?

Luca and the man who had a face cap over his head kept struggling until Luca managed to get on top of him and started to throw hard punches at his face, knocking off the cap from his head.

I took a bold step and went closer to observe who it was who'd come to my rescue and my eyes went wide when I saw him. It was Kevin, my boyfriend.

What was he doing here and how did he even know I was here? My question however got answered when I felt my phone at my back pocket and I remembered how we'd both installed a tracking app that allowed us to know where we were at anytime.

Tears burned at the back of my eyes as I thought about his intentions. He probably heard from Mum and Dad that I was running away and decided to come with me, but then he'd seen Luca and his men and decided to try to save me.

As much as I was grateful for the app and for Kevin's grand heroic gesture, I couldn't watch him continue to get mauled by Luca, so I grabbed on Luca's broad shoulders and tried to yank him off Kevin but his body was just too firm and huge, it was no use.

"Let go of him now, you monster," I resulted to pounding my fists against his back as he continued to throw punches at Kevin. My heart crunched with every punch he threw and how Kevin's handsome face turned into a bloodied mess.

I broke into sobs as I watched the scene unfold before me, not knowing what else to do to stop him until Kevin garnered strength all of a sudden and landed a strong punch that had Luca falling back to the ground.

Kevin tried to get up and continue fighting, but I stopped him, crouching down on the ground before him. I wiped off the sweat from his face and let out a sympathetic smile as I took in his battered up face.

"Why did you come, Kevin?" I asked with tears in my eyes. " I was going to come to you after everything ... Y-you didn't have to do this."

Kevin managed to let out a grin but there was blood in his teeth that made it obvious there was nothing to be smiling about. "You remember the promise we made to each other right? We would do anything for each other? I wasn't kidding when I said that, baby. I couldn't watch you go all the way to California without doing anything."

"I'm so sorry, Kevin," I cradled his face in my palms, feeling my heart break with the way his body looked strung out. "I'm so sorry for bringing you into this mess... I was going to tell you after I'd made it safely there, but then—"

He cut me off with a chaste kiss that had me tasting the blood on his lips. "I heard everything from your parents and I'm not mad at you at all... I'd do anything for you because I love you, Scarlett and as long as I'm alive, I'm not going to watch that asshole take you away from me."

I'd never loved him more than at that moment. To think he'd driven all the way here just for me and taken all that risk just to save me. No other man had ever cared about me as much as he did, and as I stared at his swollen eye, I knew I couldn't let him hurt anymore because of me.

I quickly scooped the gun from the ground and pointed it at Luca who was now glaring at me, he looked like he'd fully sobered up from the beating Kevin had given him, and I felt shivers down my spine as he got up slowly.

I didn't know how to use a gun, and I'd never thought of using it before but right at that moment I was sure I was going to shoot Luca to save myself and the love of my life.

"Say goodbye Motherfucker," I said, getting ready to pull the trigger but then two things happened.

I saw Kevin's face fall before he said, "Scarlett, no, behind you!"

And then suddenly I felt my knees fall to the ground and the gun fell out of my hands, and I watched it slide all the way into the bush at the side. I wiped off the dirt that had covered my face and opened my eyes to see the two men who'd been knocked out now standing above me with nasty scowls on their faces.

Luca stood straight now,  dusting off his suit and arranging his hair, looking beyond pissed with everything that had just happened. He came towards me and knelt down in front of me while the two men started dealing with Kevin.

"You just made the wrong move, Princess," he grabbed my chin with venom in his eyes and in that moment I knew I was truly doomed.