~Magnolia Knight~

As his warm lips crash unto mine, he automatically garbs my waist to pull me closer to him. He is soft and gentle, as his lips search contact with mine, but in the back of my mind the only image I have is Jace. The face of him smiling weakly at me.

This sets me completely of guard and the only reflexe I have is to push Elijah away from me. I breath heavily as I close my eyes to try and forget what happened just now. I betrayed him. Elijah garbs my face in his hand to make me look at him, but I stumble back, my alcool glass in one hand while my other hand slightly grazes my lips. He looks so confused at what just happened, and he is about to ask what he did wrong, but I interrupt him.

"I-I'm sorry I shouldn't have..." I whisper, before turning on my feet and walking away of him in a fast pace. I hear him call my name, but I ignore it and keep on walking.

You fucking betrayed Jace, Magnolia... how could you ?

I feel as tears slowly trickle down my cheeks, but this time I let them do and finish my new drink in one go, resulting in a burning feeling in my throat. I toss my empty glass aside and start to walk upstairs to find a bathroom that isn't occupied, so I could lock myself inside for a few seconds to calm down and digest what the fuck I just did. He is your brother's best friend and a fucking Mafia boss. Gosh, why do I always get involved with people I really shouldn't ? I stumble a little when I reach the bathroom and slam the door shut with a little more force than I should have.

I grab the sink with my hands, while putting all my weight on it and take a look at my face that is completely smudged with mascara. A feeling of dizziness washes over me, making me nearly fall over, but I weakly grab the sink in time. I blink a couple of times to try and get this nauseous feeling away, but I have no chance. Something isn't right. I shouldn't feel so dizzy, not after the few drinks I had. There already has been nights where I would have way more to drink than now, and still I never felt like this...

I take a deep breath and splash some cold water onto my face, but slowly my vision becomes more and more blurry, making it nearly impossible to distinguish the things that surround me. As I want to move the hair out of my face, my hands feel numb and I can barely even lift my hand up to brush a strain of hair out of my face, as if it was impossible to make a simple movement. This isn't right.

"Magnolia ?" A voice yells on the other side of the door and it looks like the person tries to open the locked door. "Please open up ! Are you okay ?" Now I distinguish the voice as being the one of Elijah. I sigh in relief, because for a second I though someone was trying to kidnap me or hurt me. It takes me a couple of tries to try and unlock the door and once I do, I lose complete control of my body making me crash down towards the floor. Luckily, Elijah catches me in his arms in time to avoid of me getting hurt.

"Goodness, we should get you out of here" he mumbles and I want to reply to him that he should get me to my brothers, but my mouth doesn't cooperate and it only comes out as a whimper. My mind is clear and the thoughts are running through like crazy but it seems like my brain is completely disconnected to my body. The only reasonable explanation for me to react like this is that someone must have drugged me . But who did it ? The drug must have been in the last cup of mine...

Elijah picks me up bridal style and starts walking down the stairs in a rushed manner. I hear him utter some words, I don't know if they are addressed to me, to someone else or maybe even to his phone. I can barely keep my eyes open, but I fight to keep them open, because my gut tells me that something bad is about to happen. But on the other hand, everything feels so heavy and I just want to sleep, to rest my mind and my tired body. Well the bad thing is maybe already happening.

My head numbly falls to the side and I watch with half open eyes as Elijah walks towards what looks like a door. I hear the door nob wiggle, but it seams as the door remains locked, which makes Elijah curse under his breath. He turns around still keeping me in his arms, and starts to walk towards an other direction, but my head is spinning so wildly that I can't even distinguish where we were at that moment.

"I am sorry Magnolia..." I hear Elijah whisper quietly. Sorry for what ? What is he talking about ? I wanted to tell him that it wasn't his fault that I ended like this, but I was simply numb and unable to move. It seemed like a huge effort to even open my mouth, so I let it slip. At that moment I hear a loud noice. An alarming noice, it wasn't just a simply loud crash of a vase falling, because of drunken teen. No. It was a fucking gun shot. You heard me. a gun shot. Which only meant one thing... Trouble.

It takes me all the energy I have, to fight against the drug that was poisoning my muscles to roll out of Elijah's grip, so I could defend myself from what was happening. Except that I almost fall over, because of the numbness in my legs, but I somehow manage to grip onto the edge of a table that happened to randomly stand there. Other gun shots could be heard and I suddenly feel the arms of Elijah around my waist again. I want to protest, but I get cut off by the sound of Blake's voice calling out my name.

"Fuck"I hear Elijah mumble, again, and I intended to turn my head around to see my brother who called out my name, but the tight grip of Elijah blocks me to do so. Let me fucking go ! I wanted to yell at him, tell him that I could take care of myself, but that was a big lie. I wanted nothing else then to be with Bee at that moment. Somehow my gut told me that I needed to get out of this situation and fast.

"L-let...go" I slurred out to him, but he didn't seem to care, he completely ignored me, as I kept trying to wiggle out of his grasp with my weak attempts. Seconds later I feel as Elijah bumps into someone and I mentally let out an excitement scream, when I recognise the voice.

"Fucki- Elijah ? Mags ! what the fuck happened to her ! Was she shot ? Are you hurt ? Give her to me ! She needs to get out of here" Blake's voice was angry, but I could still here the panik in his voice. But at this momen, his voice is a comforting sound to my ears. I feel as his fingers caress my cheeks and I automatically lean into his touch to find the brotherly comfort.

"Not now Blake, she could get hurt, we first need to take her away from this. I'll take care of her. What is happening ?" Elijah doesn't seem to want to let go of me, which is adorable, but on the other hand, I want nothing more than to be with Blake now. Everything is blurry for me and I have no idea what the hell is going on, my senses don't work anymore.

"It's the fucking Italian's man. I don't understand. These fucking bastards dare to show up at our house right now, I swear I am gonna kill them." Blake spits those words out like venom. "I don't know where the fucking backup is. Something is wrong. Grey and Ethan are already trying to keep them out of the property, but they are getting closer and closer. It doesn't look good. Bring her to the safe room."

I hear Elijah mumble a yes, and just before he leaves I let out a small whimper and catch Blake's wrists just in time before he leaves. Soon, his face is in my vision, giving me small worried look, before placing a gentle kiss on my forehead.

"I changed my mind. I'll stay with you, I can't bare leave her side when she is in that state." As my brother finishes his sentence, multiple gun shots are fired and glass shatters, before voice shout to tell us to get down. I, still unable to move by myself, am put down by Elijah, with a gentle move, before I feel a body covering mine without the feeling of any weight crushing me down on the floor. Silence. Everything feels so gentle in this chaotic situation and I hate it. It's like the perfect image of my surface unknown of any trouble, while my inner self is screaming for help.

My mind freezes, when I hear a gun cock right next to me.

"What the actual fuck are you doing here ?" Elijah growls, as I hear some movement beside me, which I assume is him standing up from his laid position.

"Believe it or not, but we are here to help you." A familiar voice speaks up, making my mind go crazy to reconize this voice. " We were aware of the attack and were able to kill the Italians that intruded themselves into your property Blake. We heard your back up didn't show up. The Burning Heath gang is here to help, like it was scripted in the contract." He finishes, but I can't even memories what he said after he mentioned the name of the gang, because That gang is the one Jace was the leader of and where Gab is currently the right hand of.

But then it Clicks. The voice I couldn't seem to recognise is Gab's ! What the actual fuck is he doing here in my house, next to his enemy and my fucking brother ?

A/N : How did you like it ? Was is exciting ? Do you want to know what will happen next ?

I still have a loads of things planned for this book, so don't give up on me now.

Kiss Kiss !