Page 33 of Bullet for My Good Girl

Nineteen

Vitto

The woman breaks me down like no one else.

Never before have I been so drawn to someone even when she's questioning and annoying the holy shit out of me.

I was in deep sleep when I heard the shots going off. Fear doesn't even begin to describe what was going through my body. Especially when I reached over for her and found that she wasn't there. I walked out of the bathroom to see her with a shotgun in her hand and a dead body on the floor. She could've ended me right there but she didn't. Instead she stared in shock at the dead body on the floor.

The innocence and purity radiating off her body as she nearly suffocated with the guilt of what she'd just done. The complete opposite of me. She's just perfection and fire. A flame I want to consume me by any means necessary.

"Are there any more?" Stella asks as she attaches Chance back to her chest and gets ready to leave the small hunting cabin. She coughs hard and inhales deep to calm herself.

"I don't know. More than likely though. If he found us here there's no reason why the others shouldn't be on their way." Pinching the bridge of my nose, I fought the migraine that was threatening to take over.

When my brother told me to up the price on her I didn't think that it would garner this much interest. I figured I'd have to contend with one or two assassins but it seemed like the entire forum was coming for Stella.

I'm good at what I do but even I can be overrun. Which is exactly what would've happened tonight if Stella hadn't saved our asses.

"I don't want to keep him outside, is there somewhere we can go?" Stella rubs the back of Chance's head and I look up at the ceiling. There's nowhere for us to go, nothing I can do besides showing proof that Stella is dead. I'm fucking screwed.

We were in the middle of nowhere.

"How did he get in?" I ask, the beginning edges of a way out inched into my mind.

"What do you mean? He walked through the door." She answered.

"No, I mean did you hear him drive up or something like that? There's no way he was just walking around in the woods. It took me a while to find this place."

She shrugged, "I didn't hear anything but I wasn't really paying attention. I thought it was a bear or something trying to get in."

"Are you strong enough for a little bit of hiking?" If it were just me I'd already be on my way but now I have to worry about her and the baby. I'm not used to it.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She says and sniffles a little.

I walk over to her and hook my finger under her chin to lift her eyes to mine. "Don't lie to me, Stella."

She lets out a deep breath before she answers, "I think I'll be okay for a few minutes. Maybe you should just leave us here."

My eyebrows jump up to my hairline. "No way, what if someone else comes while, I'm gone."

She smirks and tilts her head as if I'd just said something funny.

"What?"

"You realize your first response wasn't what if I try to run away but what if someone else comes while you're gone." She purses her lips for a second, "If I didn't know any better I'd think you were starting to trust me."

The weight of her words hit me like a brick upside my head. I'm so good at what I do simply because I don't trust anyone. I'm always on edge, always looking over my shoulder. But she's right. I am starting to trust her a bit.

"I trust you only because I know I'll be able to find you. There's nowhere in the world that you could hide where I wouldn't be able to track you down."

"Perverted stalker." She chuckles and turns away going to sit in the corner.

"You've got no idea," I reply. "Still I don't like the idea of the two of you hear alone. I wouldn't be able to protect you."

"In case you hadn't noticed, I've been able to protect myself just fine without you before." She squints her eyes at me.

"And in case you haven't noticed, that was before an army of assassins were coming after you."

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