10 Who was that guy?

" Woah?!" Vanessa woke up to a blinding light, her eyes stared at the white ceiling over her head for two seconds as she tried to recall what just happened to her, there was screaming and then there were curses that echoed in the bar following that was a blood bath and what was even worse was that she was hit twice on the back of her head when she wasn't looking out for herself and if that wasn't enough, she was also shot on her shoulder and thigh. If not for her father who made her grind her ass every day, she would have been dead by now.

Though Vanessa hated it, she had to thank that old bastard for pushing her so hard.

" You are making a scary face, thinking about dad?" Derren entered the hospital ward with his hands in his pockets and his grey overcoat draped over his wide shoulders, it gave him a sort of crazy, overlord look which would explain why so many nurses were peeking inside her ward. Seriously, she was injured so badly but her brother was impeccably dressed to impressed.

Vanessa rolled her eyes, as she sniffed the air and furrowed her brows. " Jeez, have you been smoking? I told you to quit it long ago."

" I did." said Derren as he took out a nicotine gum and popped it in his mouth, " But then I heard that a group of knuckleheads dared to assassinate my sister and hurt her quite badly, do you have any idea, how high my blood pressure rose? If I hadn't smoked, I would have popped a nerve or two, to think that crazy-ass Diego will have the guts to send his men after you!"

Derren's face twisted into something that could only be called a malevolent spirit as he harshly clutched the small gum box in his hand. " To harm my sister is like trying to harm my heart and soul, I will definitely get that ratass coward and then twist his neck and then gut him alive, I won't do that in just one single blow, I will look for a blunt knife and butcher him slowly, let's see how he will like that! Coming for my baby sister that's a low blow now!"

Ah, so he was angry after all. That would explain why he was acting like this, Derren had a severe case of OCD and that would get even worse if he got stressed.

Vanessa shook off her shoulder and winced when she felt a sharp sting shoot through her body. " Oww, that hurts!"

" What are you doing?" with his brows furrowed Derren pushed her down gently though he looked like a rough man, he was exceptionally gentle with his sister. " And of course, it hurts, the bullet didn't just graze your skin, it was stuck deep in your flesh took three hours for the doctor to take it out, the same could be said for the one stuck in your thigh. Diego seemed to have gone all out, the gunmen he hired weren't rookie, and their plan to take you down was also well thought, I have to say that Diego seemed to have gotten smarter."

Vanessa subtly inhaled a steadying breath as she tried to snap out of the pain that was throbbing in her shoulder and thigh. " Or maybe he got a new advisor, one who is very familiar with our daily routine and knows what we do, where we go and when we are at our weakest point, the men knew that I was alone and didn't take my men with me, knowing that I wouldn't be able to fight properly against a handicap fight like that. I don't think that Diego who is in country An knows what's going on here, he must have someone who is always looking at our tracks and relaying it to Diego, since the Interpol is after him, he wouldn't make such a stupid move as getting inside the country."

Her words seemed to have knocked out Derren of his balance, he gaped at her for two minutes before shaking his head. " There is no way, I took care of everyone, no one survived, Vanessa. I wiped all of them out with my own hands."

" Not everyone," she breathed in as she closed her eyes and tried to suppress all the bad memories that were trying to get out of the box 'that should not be touched'. " You showed mercy to one," she turned her head sideways on the pillow so that she was looking at him, and smiled, " I told you not to show mercy to that son of a bitch but you did, now look at this Derren, he is back to bite us in our asses when our backs are turned."

" He was just a kid."

" A kid whose mother you killed!"

Derren stared at her and she stared right back, the two of them glared at each other before Derren looked away and ran his hand through his hair. " F*ck, that bastard, I gave him the money to start anew and he returned with vengeance huh? Very well, then I will deal with him just like I have dealt with everyone else, lets's see how long he will be able to hide behind Diego."

He fished out his phone from his pocket and called Nolan alerting him to be on the lookout for the one brat that escaped their clutches back then all because he was a child and yes, even made men didn't kill children unless necessary. Of course, that wasn't the case for Derren and Vanessa, they lived by their own rules—— they swore never to kill any innocent until of course their hands were tainted by blood.

" I told Nolan, he will be looking out for that brat. Can't believe that he came back all to get vengeance for his slut of a mother, if my mother went around seducing married men, I would have simply said ' well deserved' and walked away after wiping my hands clean. Eh, anyway there are all types of people in this world and by type I remembered——" drawled Derren. " Who was that man, you saved by putting your life on the line?"