Chapter 14

"Fuck!" Seth cussed.

He ran towards the shot he heard in the hallway, his hands were getting numb as he suffered from the bullet wound on his shoulder. "You better not fucking die, Macy," Seth picked up his pace, he hoped that the shot he just heard was Macy blowing Griffin's brains off.

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Macy knelt in her pool of blood, she tried to stay strong, her body was heavy and she wanted to go to sleep. Everything went mute in her ears, the room was spinning and her vision got blurry. Macy wondered what Griffin was saying, he brought out a knife using it to tease Claire.

"What good did you do by shooting yourself? You're both going to die here," Griffin said as he laughed manically.

His words muffled in Macy's ears, she tried to summon the strength to protect Claire, Griffin licked the knife with a mischievous smile on his face.

"Very well then," He pierced the knife below Claire's rib cage, Claire screamed, and her voice jolted Macy back to reality.

"NO!"

Claire fell to the ground, her blood came out like a flowing stream, tears rolled down her cheeks and she slowly closed her eyes. Macy reloads her gun and shot at Griffin as he made a run for it. She crawled to Claire and put pressure on her wound, Claire's pulse was weak and her skin was getting paled, she needs medical attention soon or she'll die.

Macy was also losing blood, the gunshot wound was deep. She carried Claire and ran down the hallway.

"Macy!" Seth called out her name.

"Help her,"

Macy stopped and placed Claire in his arms, his eyes went cold. "Griffin?" Seth whispered, and Macy replied with a nod.

"I'm going after him,"

"You look fucked, you can't take him on alone," Seth wondered how Macy was still on her feet, looking at her condition she won't last four minutes fighting Griffin.

"I know,"

"Lorenzo is outside, I'll leave Claire in his care, by then, try not to do anything stupid," Seth was dead serious, Macy raised her eyebrows and laughed.

The anesthetic she took before encountering Griffin was fading away and Macy could feel a slight pain in her abdomen, Lidocaine. A numbing medication use to numb the body from pain, with the right amount of dosage Macy was able to numb a gunshot wound.

Macy saw Griffin's footsteps heading towards the rooftop, his shoes were stained with blood giving Macy a better chance of tracking him down.

She opened the door slowly, and saw Griffin already in a copter, he looked down and smiled at her. A bullet buzzed past her, and Macy took cover. She looked down and saw more men coming through the front gate.

"Fucking back up!"

Bang!

She shot two men down, Macy improved her combat skills with Sensei Yen, hoping to have a showdown with Angela someday.

Griffin's men sneaked up on Macy on the rooftop, she had her focus on the men below.

Boom!

She turned her head and saw the men on the ground lifeless, Macy was stunned as she saw who the shooter was.

"Here I thought the only thing you could hold properly was a cock." Macy laughed as she teased Ava.

"Still dirty-minded?, Did you fuck a hobo? Cause you look fucked," Ava crouched beside Macy.

"The med is fading, I'm not sure I can last much longer." Macy touched her wound that she wrapped with some clothes she found on the floor.

"Seth called a copter, we should try to hold off the men coming through the front gate," Ava looked through her scope, "Lorenzo is taking care of Claire and he needs time to get her stable,"

"And Seth?" Macy asked.

"I've no idea,"

Bang!

Some of Griffin's men noticed them up in the building and were releasing heavy fire.

Ava shot multiple bullets, Macy crawled to the other side, she just had a pistol with low ammo.

"I'm almost out," Macy yelled, her skin got paled. She rested her head on the wall and coughed out blood.

"Shit!"

Ava crawled to Macy and brought out a first aid kit from her bag. Macy opened her mouth and Ava slipped in an intravenous cephalosporin pill, an antibiotic for bullet wounds.

Griffin's patrol kept shooting at the rooftop, and most of them entered the mansion, but the mansion was huge, and Ava was sure they won't find the rooftop entrance so easily.

"Hey?" Ava turned to Macy.

"Hey," Macy replied with a weak tone.

"I'll be right back, don't move okay?"

"Yeah, no shitting,"

Ava stood up not minding the bullets darting past her ears, she noticed a marksman on the treetop and wanted to take him out. Before Ava went to college her dad thought her self-defense to protect herself from bullies, and that involved gun training.

She shot the marksman down with a single trial, Ava stared at Macy and wished she had backup right now.

The door slammed open, Ava glanced at the lady who took a few steps before she popped her bubble gum. Her blue hair matched perfectly with her orange jacket, she looked at Ava and Macy but didn't alter a word.

"Ixora!" Ava whispered the name written on her jacket.

Ixora walked towards the other side of the roof and cocked her sniper rifle, the way she held the gun amused Ava.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

She had a big smile on her face, her blue eyes lit up in excitement. Ixora was fast and steady, she wiped out half of Griffin's combatants.

"Pff... Amateurs," She scoffed. "Hey!" Ixora turned to Ava. "The copter is almost here, I need you to hold on a little longer... Can you do that?"

Ava nodded.

"Good,"

Ixora and Ava released rapid fire from the rooftop, it was raining bullets. Ava heard the helicopter coming, she grabbed Macy holding her waist to support her.

"Get in," Ixora yelled as the helicopter sound was vanquishing her voice.

The pilot landed nice and easy, Macy got in with the support of Ava, and Seth already had medics in the copter waiting for them. They attended to Macy immediately after she got in, Ava stared at Ixora, "Who the fuck is that?" She wondered.

Ixora saluted the pilot, he responded with a slight nod and took off.

"Let's play fuckers," She unpinned her grenade and tossed it down the building.

Boom!

The building was covered in smoke.

* * *

City hospital; The doctors attended to Macy and Claire, Seth paid for the best medical service he could get in the city.

Seth sat in the waiting room, he waited for Ava who excused herself minutes ago to take a phone call. Seth wanted to terminate the contract he had with Ava, he believed that was the only way to keep her safe. Griffin is a madman, and Seth doesn't want to pick between Ava and Claire, in case Griffin decides to play Russian roulette someday.

Seth finally embraced himself, and admitted that Ava was the one his heart sprung on, he waited impatiently for her because he can't keep his feeling caged anymore. She has to know how he feels.

Ava sat close to Seth as she placed her phone on the chair.

"Well that was long," Seth said.

Ava kept quiet but had a smile on her face, Seth didn't want to pry but he was curious about what got her so excited and happy.

Ava clenched her fist, and the smile on her face expanded, she looked at Seth and was ready to tell him. She was so excited that after so many months he decided to come back, Aiden. Ava's boyfriend finally returned to America.