Filed to story: Dumped by Scumbag Adored by Billionaire
Maggie was the first to get off the bed as more gunshots were heard.
“I think there’s a shootout, what’s happening?” She asked with a trace of worry.
Andrew got his walkie talkie and tried to make contact with the others and one finally answered and gave him the bad news, “Mikhail made an escape,”
“Shit!” Andrew cursed and then reached under his desk for a gun magnetted to the furniture and pulled it out, stuffing the weapon in the waistband of his jeans.
“You’re staying here,” He commanded her yet Maggie glared liquid fire at him.
“Are you kidding me?”
“Look,” He told her, “I can’t be on the lookout for Mikhail and protect you at the same time!”
“Like I need your protection! I’m not helpless, Andrew! I can protect myself and that’s what I’ve been doing all these years,” she defended herself.
“Look, it’s not that I doubt your capabilities but it’s dangerous right now and I think one of our own must have betrayed us for Mikhail to have escaped this easily. I just don’t want you to get…..” Andrew trailed off when a gun dangled from Maggie’s hand with her brows arched arrogantly,
“You were saying?”
Andrew’s eyes widened and he at once reached for the gun in his waistband only to come up with nothing.
He sighed in defeat, “Fine, you can come along but stay behind me where I can protect you,”
“And who would protect you?” she asked him.
Andrew’s mouth remained open, unable to answer that. She rolled her eyes, “Males, so egoistic,”
But he said, “You got my back, don’t you?”
Maggie’s heart flustered. Seriously!
“Go,” Was all she said but her expression has given Andrew all the answers he wanted.
They first went to the meeting room where he saw that the both men that had escorted him were dead. There were supposed to be three in total left to execute Mikhail but with only two bodies seen, that confirmed his suspicion – he betrayed them.
“Lets go to the control room,” He said to Maggie and together they arrived at the surveillance area only to see that Emerald was already before them.
“We were betrayed,” Andrew informed him.
“I know,” Emerald said calmly.
Andrew then looked at the screen that showed their people battling it out with what’s left of Mikhail’s men. They were the ones who released the shots they heard.
“They’re not here,” Andrew said as he glanced through the numerous cameras all at once.
“Yeah, our member with him must be good at evading cameras since he knows this place well,” Emerald then pointed at one of the screens, “This was the last place he was last seen,”
“If that’s the case…” Andrew rubbed his jaw, thinking hard, “Then he must plan to go out through the forest and that can only be achieved through the secret passageway and the fight outside -“
“Was him buying time to escape,” Emerald figured out as well, “You have to get him,”
He didn’t need to be told twice, Andrew turned at once only to go make his gang proud only to discover that Maggie was gone and one of them here was missing a gun.
“Oh shit,”
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The third point of view:
He must have been crazy to think that he could go up against the Falcon Gang, Mikhail thought. The whole place was swimming with their members, well, it was their base anyway.
The member of the Falcon that had turned on his members was the one who led the way while Mikhail was in the center with his remaining bodyguard behind him and watching his back. It was an intense shootout however Mikhail was skillful in the first place else he wouldn’t have killed his former boss and taken over the Blood Cobra.
“This is not the way to the entrance,” Mikhail noticed after a while of running and shading from bullets, “You said my men would make a way,”
“I said your men would be a sacrificial lamb,” The betrayer pointed out, “You don’t really think that Sakuzi would let you pass through his front door alive?” he sneered at him.
“Then, my men….” It dawned on Mikhail.
“They are a distraction,” his guard was the one who figured it out, “They are the only reason this place is not overflowing with his men,” He already saw through the plan when he was asked to give the order – a death sentence – to the others.
“We’ve avoided enough cameras so far hence it would be a while before they catch up to us,” the betrayer pointed out as he stopped at a door.
“And then what…?”
“And then we pray this tunnel entrance hasn’t collapsed. This was one of the oldest secret ways we used in our underground transportation of firearms, however, it was closed down when the others were constructed in later years,” He explained while hurriedly trying the lock that had rusted from neglect.
At once, Mikhail gasped in disbelief,
“So in a word, you brought me here when you weren’t even sure of your escape route, “
The arrogance! The betrayer felt like pumping his bullets into his body, however, he couldn’t do that since that woman needed him.
“No,” he spoke through gritted teeth, “In one word, the only reason I haven’t blasted your head off is because of that woman. So don’t think for one moment that you have any privilege here because honestly, your offer was bullshit,”
The threat in his tone was obvious and Mikhail knew better than to push his luck.
When the betrayer couldn’t struggle with the lock anymore, he pulled his gun and fired twice at the lock and it finally opened. However, the gunshots gave out their location, and almost immediately, they could hear the sound of approaching footsteps.