Chapter 168.
NIKOLAI’S POV
I woke up to the heavy footsteps resounding, all around the tunnel. I startled up
of the room and so did Marko. me. I immediately ran out
“Marko, what’s happening?” I asked.
“I don’t know, Nikolai. I don’t know!”
from my bed and looked up at the ceiling, the dust fell all over
“Who is that? Are the people Leah was talking about finally coming to get us?” I asked as the hope of getting out of this second tunnel ignited.
The words hadn’t fully left my lips when several gunshots rang throughout the tunnels. I screamed and stepped back, I looked up at the trapdoor and saw it being busted to the floor.
Sunlight illuminated the tunnel, it had been a month since I have last seen the sunlight, I haven’t breathed in fresh air. This is the worse kind of isolation I ever had to endure. Every time I feel like I’m finally gonna be free, I end up in a way worse confinement.
My mouth went bone dry as Marko pulled me in his arm. Fear became a tangible, living force that crept over me like some hungry beast, immobilizing me; my brain, holding me captive.
A few men jumped down the ladder and into the tunnels and then I saw black shiny shoes, they slowly stepped down the stairs. I know who those shoes belonged to.
I wanted to run, I wanted to hide but I had nowhere to go except for hiding myself in Marko’s arms.
“No, please, no!” I cried, hard.
“I won’t let anything happen to you!” Marko kept repeating these words.
Slowly, his face became visible as he jumped down the ladder. The men took off their masks, Vladimir, Antonio… and behind them stood Alessandro.
Another gunshot rang through my ears, and a warm liquid sprayed all over me. I looked up and saw a bullet hole, just like the one that was on my Sabrina’s forehead. It was in the middle of Marko’s forehead, his arms went limp around me.
“NO!” I screamed, holding Marko’s dead, limp body, “No, please, no! No! No! No! Marko!”
The next second, I was ripped away from his body. Someone grabbed me by my arm and slammed me into a warm, hard body.
I looked up and my eyes met with Alessandro’s feral ones, “You think you could escape me?” he pointed a gun over my forehead, “Stupid little Nikolai!”
“Let me go! LET ME GO!” I screamed at him.
“You betrayed me, Nikolai. You knew how much I hated traitors,” he sneered at my bloodied face.
“Kill him, Don Alessandro,” Vladimir’s voice echoed.
“Give her what he deserves,” Antonio added,
“No, please, no! Let me go, please!” I sobbed but Alessandro didn’t seem to care.
“This is what happens when someone betrays me, Nikolai,” saying that, he pulled the trigger of the gun that was pointed over my head.
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Chapter 168
Shit!
I stood up from the bed, screaming and crying and moving my limbs around. Tears were running down my face. The room’s door burst open and Marko ran in, “Nikolai?!”
I jumped into his arms, frantically, “He was here, Marko, he was here, he killed you, and then he shot me!”
‘No one’s here, Nikolai, it’s just the two of us. He didn’t find you, He didn’t find us! You are safe, we are still here in the tunnel. You were having a nightmare,” Marko’s words soothed me, he rubbed my back up and down and pulled me closer to his body, “You’re fine… he kept repeating.
I’m not fine…
I’ll never be fine.
I know how this will end, it will end with a bullet hole in my chest.
Nobody gets away from him, the only way out is death. Maybe, it’s not today or tomorrow. Maybe I’ll be alive for a few more months.
