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Mikey suddenly woke up from his sleep when the alarm bells started ringing as he heard the gunshot. What the hell? He could see the doctors and nurses running towards him but they were about twenty meters back as he quickly thought of Casita.

“Shit!” He ran as he saw a lady masked fleeing from the room holding a gun. Panicked he stepped inside the room and was taken aback by the blood. In panic he thought that he was too late but he saw that it was the nurse who was shot and Casita was still fine.

He quickly squatted on the floor as he tried to hold pressure on her wound and see if she was going to survive it but her eyes just kept staring at him as her mouth moved slowly,

“I know who shot Casita.” She mumbled as Mikey just shook his head.

“Don’t bother speaking now. You need all your strength. Damn it, I need a doctor in here.” Mikey yelled in anger. Just then the doctors and nurses rushed in taking over as he saw that she was in safe hands so he left and followed the same path that the killer had taken.

He reached the rails and saw that the killer was in a transparent elevator going down and decided to use the stairs so that he could cut her off. He was going so fast that even the Flash would be shocked. There was no way that he was letting that woman escape. Finally getting to the final floor, he saw that the woman had taken the back exit which was free as he chased after her. As he was leaving, he could hear the screaming of some nurses and turned back as he saw a dead nurse with her neck twisted almost 360 degree.

Damn the woman was definitely not a rookie. But he wasn’t planning on giving up now, as he renewed his vigour and chased after her. Even the guards were still confused in the commotion and none of them had even bothered trying to see if they could see a suspect fleeing the scene. Where the hell did they hire the guards from?

“Hey, you stop!” He yelled as he ran after her regretting why he didn’t carry a gun. He didn’t want to touch a gun again after he fired his gun at Black but fortunately Michael took the hit and survived. He feared that he was still under the hypnosis so if he held a gun, he was scared of what he might do.

He was almost gaining up to the lady. He had caught her and was holding a knife in her face threatening her silently not to move or she was going to get injured. The lady still struggled as the knife cut her when she was struggling to get her gun and shot him at point blank range twice, which slowed him down as he fell to the ground groaning.

He was hit in his stomach and lap. The lady picked up the knife as she shoved it in her bag and used her handkerchief to smear the trickle of her blood that was dropping. She knew that they could find her using her blood, and she didn’t want to risk that chance. She looked at the bleeding Michael and wanted to shot him in his forehead this time around but she had run out of bullets.

“Fuck this.” She cursed as she took off running leaving him behind.

He watched as a black SUV car stopped in front of the dumpster and the woman entered the car and it zoomed off as he screamed in annoyance. He had tried looking at the license plate but due to the fact that it was 4am in the morning and there was no good lightning in the street, he wasn’t able to get a reading and he was bleeding a lot to even think of following them. He could feel the waves of dizziness flooding over him but due to the fact that he was trained and was a Mafia Lord, he wasn’t going to pass out like a chicken. No he had strong resistance, besides he had to let Black know what was happening.

Groaning in pain, he struggled to stand up as he brought out his phone to call Black. He had to report to him what just happened, his hand was shaking and his vision was going dark but he still managed to dial his number as he waited as it rang. He could feel his white shirt getting filled up with blood every single minute now. At the rate he was losing blood, he was sure that he had lost up to 3 pints of his blood.

Black was watching his wife sleep as he played with her hair. He wasn’t able to sleep because he was still thinking about his sister Casita in the hospital. He was worried sick about her and he was waiting for morning to reach so he could get back there and stay with her until she woke up.

He was having this nagging feeling that something was wrong but he was just trying to calm himself down saying that he was just overthinking things. He had leaned in to kiss his wife on her forehead when his phone rang startling him. Luckily Riona was very exhausted so she didn’t even stir as Black quickly picked his phone and saw that it was Mikey.

“Yo, Mikey. Why are you calling by 4am as if you were my mistress?” Black said as a joke but soon got on high alert when he heard Mikey’s labored breathing as he sat upright on the bed and said,

“Mikey, what happened?” He said as Mikey took a deep breath and said,

“You shouldn’t panic but someone made a move on Casita tonight. You shouldn’t panic, she is alright. She wasn’t hurt.” He said as Black stood up from the bed completely as he walked to the bathroom and closed the door.

“WHAT? How could you let this happen? What happened? Give me everything.” He demanded as Mikey chuckled and said,

“I doubt I have the time to tell you everything. A nurse got shot, so I don’t know the state of her well being but I confirmed that Casita was safe and sound before I chased after her.” Mikey said as Black did a take back.

“Wait, what? Her? A female? Who was it?” He said as Mikey replied,

“I don’t know man, she escaped. She got into a black SUV car and left, I couldn’t get her.” He said as Black ruffled his hair and said,

“You let a woman outrun you, dude! I am so going to make sure you are humiliated after I get more security for Casita, where are you? Meet me in the hospital, I am on my way.” He said as Mikey replied,

“I don’t think I have that much time. Besides I am not sure that I am moving from this position anytime soon.” He said as he laughed too.

“Why are you laughing? What do you mean by you don’t have much time, what is happening? Talk to me.” Black yelled in anger as Mikey said,

“Um, I was reckless. I got shot…twice. And I don’t think it is possible for me to survive. I just had to call you, and let you know. Also I want you to do something for me, tell Michael that I….I….damn this I am a dead man, tell him I love him.” Mikey said as the phone slipped from his hand.

“Mikey? Mikey?” Black yelled as he got no response and he disconnected the call. He quickly called the customer call center in the hospital as one of them picked up and said,

“Customer call center, how can we help you?” A woman said as Black replied,

“This is Mr Black and you listen good. There is a wounded man in your hospital block, search the whole block and neighboring block till you find him. He has bullets in him and know this, if he is dead, I am going to go on a killing spree. Am I understood?” Black said as the woman nidded her head shaking as she replied,

“Y-yes, y-es. We are on our way.” She said as Black disconnected the call. He quickly washed his face and brushed his teeth. He couldn’t afford to take a bathe now. There was much larger things at stake. He came out of the bathroom and ransacked his clothes picking the first casual wear he could find as Riona stirred in her sleep and opened her eyes.

“Black? Is everything alright? What time is it?” Riona said as she struggled to sit up as Black quickly wore his clothes and walked to her as he stopped her from getting up.

“Take it easy, just rest. You are exhausted. Everything is fine. I have to go to the hospital now, it is very urgent. You on other hand, come later okay. But sleep now, I promise everything is fine.” He said kissing her on the forehead as Riona laid back on the bed and nodded her head slowly. Black didn’t want to let her know because he knew that she was going to insist on coming and with a killer on the loose, he couldn’t afford to make that calculated risk.

He quickly left as he took the elevator down to the first floor and he got in his car. Luckily the gates were automated so they quickly opened as he got to the gate and he drove off. It was already dawn as he stepped on his accelerator. He was going pass the speed limit but he didn’t care. The cops were going to have to chase him till he got to the hospital.

He was thinking about Mikey and tried dialing his number again and again to see if he would pick up, but it wasn’t even connecting. Damn it. He yelled hitting his steering wheel as he was very angry.

Why did bad things always seem to happen to good people, first he lost his dad, then his wife was lying in the road almost dead, then Michael getting shot, Casita getting kidnapped and shot at, Mikey getting shot too. All in the matter of days. It was almost as if someone was playing with their destiny. And this time he was going to take the fight to them. Mikey had mentioned that it was a female who had attacked so that crossed out his rival Klaus who used the commotion in the warehouse to escape, so that meant he had another enemy or an accomplice working for Klaus, But who could she possibly be. Nevertheless, he swore to get to the bottom of this and he was going to make sure that they payed for what they did.

He remembered that Michael was getting discharged this morning so he decided to call Michael and see if he was awake. He was having double minds about pulling Michael into this fight considering the fact that Mikey was shot at and was possibly on the verge of death because he tried to help, he didn’t want Michael or any other person he cared about getting shot again because of him. But he knew deep down that Michael was going to hunt him down and put a bullet in his head for not telling him about this. This was to show how tight their bond was, that they would always stand for each other through thick or thin.

He called Michael and connected it to his blue tooth as he saw the hospital in sight and exhaled. Finally he was here, and he was going to figure out how this happened.

“Wow, I was expecting Mikey to be the one calling this early in the morning. Or when did you start to like me more?” Michael said as Black switched off his ignition and said,

“I have bad news about Mikey and it is bad.”