I swing around ready to attack again before I realize who called out my name. Sitting there, side-by-side tied up on the floor is Izzy and Mia. Each are looking at me with wide eyes as their gaze flicks between myself and the man on the ground.
“What are you guys doing here?” I half yell in a panic.
“Shhhs.” Izzy scolds. “Check his pockets. He has to have a knife or something.”
I turn back to the man and kneel down into the pool of blood that has started to surround him. I start to feel into his pockets. The first pocket has keys and a wallet. I shove those in my waist band the second pocket has a pocket knife. I breath out a sigh of relief. I continue to search his other two pockets and find a cell phone. I feel around the waistband of his pants and find his gun. I pull it out and take it over to the girls.
“Turn around.”
They each move to turn around and I use the knife to cut them each free. They stand and rub their wrists and turn to me. I hand Izzy the gun while I wipe my hands on my pants. The blood wipes off, but my hands don’t come completely clean. As I stare at them, they start to shake.
I just killed someone.
“Sofia. Come here.”
Izzy pulls me over to Mia and all three of us hug.
“You did what you had to do. Stop thinking about it. We aren’t safe yet. Break down later. Right now, we need to get out of here.”
Izzy’s words calm me. She’s right. I need to focus.
“How did you get here?” I ask.
“In the trunk of a car of course. This time with Mia shoved in next to me. I don’t know what is up with these gangsters and the trunks of their cars but the next one who tries to shove me in one is going to die.”
I snort. Thank God she is able to keep her humor in this situation. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t make it. The panic of seeing them is replaces with relief. While I wish they weren’t sucked into this mess, I am glad that I am not in this alone.
We all pull back.
“What do we do next?” I ask.
“Well what did you see? You were out there?” Mia questions.
“Not much. I was being held two rooms down. I did see the way out when Luca brought me in.”
“Luca? You mean your body guard Luca?” Izzy is pissed.
“Yep. Seems he doesn’t feel Bash is his boss. He wouldn’t tell me who his boss was though.”
“Fucking asshole. He is going to die today. No one fucks with my girl and gets away with it.”
“Whoa. Chill Iz. We need to make it out first.” I pat her shoulder.
“We need weapons.” Mia draws my attention to her.
“We have a knife, a gun, and my metal shank I made.” I point to the metal piece still sticking out of the man’s neck.
“That’s a good start. Who is the best shot?” She looks to me.
“I am terrible at it. Don’t look at me.”
Izzy sighs.
“I am a pretty good shot.”
“Good. You get the gun. Sof, you take the knife and your weird metal shank.”
“What are you going to use?”
