Filed To Story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
“Yes, you’ll blast my head off but I would have taken one of your loved ones,” Deborah had a maniacal look in her eyes and she seemed determined to do so.
“Not if they’re smart enough to dodge and I have nimble fingers than you,” Isabella hinted at the failure of her plan.
“Yeah, you’re right,” Deborah acquiesced to Isabella’s surprise and that made her brows furrow the more. What crazy plan was Deborah conjuring in her head?
“I can’t win this fight,” Deborah finally realized that fact and let go of her guns, although Isabella didn’t.
“But I won’t go alone!” Deborah yelled and suddenly took off and that was when it hit Isabella.
“Everybody duck now!” Isabella fell to the ground, the others coping her gesture without asking just as an explosion rocked the house.
For a moment it seemed as if the world had gone up in flames until the boom ended and now it was nothing but smoke, fire, and soot.
Theodore was the first to rise to his feet before helping his sister who was coughing persistently. It was comforting to know that everyone was fine, the blast wave having lost its energy easily.
However, Ailee was not in the best form plus the fact the heat was increasing. If they don’t get roasted by the heat of the flame, the smoke would do its work.
“We have to leave, I’m slowly losing Ailee,” Allen warned Isabella. The bleeding wasn’t stopping soon even with the pressure he applied. Nor was the smoke helping matters. Ailee needed clean air free of carbon monoxide concentration.
“We can’t go through the entrance, we can’t survive the fire without getting burned nor would Ailee,” Pedro pointed out, “We can’t stay here either,”
“The roof would be much better,” Theodore said.
“Not there, Deborah lined it with a bomb which I’m sure our people are working on already. They just need time which we don’t have,” Isabella said.
“Let’s move out of here first!” Jennifer said in between a bad cough, “That is if you don’t want to be buried, and trust me, none of you knows what a flame is like,”
Thanks to that comment, Isabella took a good look at Jennifer and that was when she discovered the burn marks on her neck, her clothes hiding the rest of the burn scar. What happened?
Thankfully, Natasha’s room was upstairs and far away from the burning entrance and living room.
It was safe from the flames but not the smoke.
“Get clothes, wet them with water, and press it to your nose. And?close that door!” Isabella barked orders here and there while Neon and Allen carefully placed Ailee on the bed.
While they were following instructions, Pedro observed the window and thankfully there were no protective bars. He easily kicked the window open and looked down to discover there were indeed activities down here.
A crowd had gathered, although from a distance since there were threats of other bombs still there. Ambulances were not left out as well for the victims. Quite unfortunate, Deborah has been blown to bits.
“Help is here,” Pedro announced and though no one said it, there were signs of relief on their faces.
Almost immediately, a helicopter came into view and Pedro could see Julie waving to them from it, the landing light focused on the window.
It all seemed like a dream to them when a rope dangled from the helicopter and they were commanded to alight. The bomb hasn’t been disarmed and it was risky for them to experiment with it when they’re stuck in the house. Niles orders were to get them out alive and if the bomb becomes a problem, just trigger the release?- after they’re safe.
Ailee was the first to be sent out and that was done with a collective effort to pull her through the window. Allen had his arm around her all the while they dangled from the rope, the whole of her weight resting on him, yet he didn’t mind. It took her being close to death for Allen to realize how much he loved his sister.
Just like that, Theodore and Eve were the next to leave, leaving just Neon, Jennifer and Isabella, and Pedro.
“I think Jennifer should leave next,” Isabella said.
“So you can capture me? Hard pass,” Jennifer stood her ground.
The third point of view:
Isabella didn’t trust Jennifer behind her especially when she had a gun with her. Just because circumstances forced them to work together doesn’t mean they were friends now. Jennifer still pretty much hates Reina – she set her up in an accident -?and what better way to have revenge on Reina than to end her.
Jennifer didn’t trust Isabella. She was Reina’s daughter and would want to hurt her for trying to hurt her chosen mother, Reina. Even while she had been engaged to her father, Niles in the past, Isabella never liked her. She only tolerated her.
Suddenly a boom came from downstairs and they all shook unsteadily on their feet, smoke slowly filling the room.
“We can’t stay here any longer with the fire increasing. Also, what if it triggers the rest of the bomb and then, we’re good as dead,” Neon hoped to talk some sense into them.
“Fine, I’ll go with Jennifer and then you go with Neon. That way if she does something to me, you’re free to harm Neon as well,”
Pedro suggested.
That was unfair, Isabella knew she could never harm Neon, however, there was one thing she could think of and that was keeping Neon away from Jennifer forever. She knew how crazy that drove Jennifer and even as they agreed to that suggestion, Jennifer could see the threat in her gaze.
Touch Pedro and your son is gone forever. At Least both of them had someone they cherished.
Pedro was the first to leave through the window carefully and then grabbed onto the rope while Jennifer followed slowly and soon the helicopter dropped them carefully on the floor, meters away from the burning house.
However, as soon as Jennifer’s feet touched the ground, riffles upon riffles were pointed at her and she quickly grabbed a hold of Pedro from behind, placing her own gun on the head.
“Don’t shoot,” Pedro commanded them, his hands raised in the air to show her he was defenseless.
It didn’t take even a minute for Isabella and Neon to land and her gaze hardened at the scene.
“Let him go, Jennifer,” Isabella said in a cool tone, “You know that you can’t win against us,”
However, Jennifer simply pressed the gun closer to Pedro’s temple yet pleaded, “I know what I did to Reina was bad but I’ve changed now and I just want a simple life with my son, Neon. You just have to let us go,”
But Isabella laughed, “Did you hear her, Neon? Your crazy mother wants to live a quiet life with you,” She turned to him, asking, “What do you say to that?”
“Yes, I would,” Neon said to Isabella’s shock.
Isabella looked shocked, as if Neon had broken her trust or something. Clearly, she had not expected that. Isabella thought Neon would be on her side.
“What did you just say?” Isabella was deeply offended.