C10 Chapter Ten

Michael gave Mc a ride back to his house and they parked right in front of the building to say goodbyes before Michael leaves. “You know it's best if you tell her how you feel right?” Mc said to his best friend in continuation to the long conversation they've been having on their way.

“Bro I know right? I know for real. But it's so difficult to tell someone how much you love them when deep down, you know that they've heard that a thousand times from people who actually lied to them.”

“I understand Michael, but you gotta tell her. If she's heard a thousand lies before but she needs to hear your own lies too.”

“Alright man, you're really good at this, it's a pity that you and Melissa couldn't work out.”

“oh come on,” Mc smiled, reaching for his phone from his pocket.

“Honestly bro, one day Melissa's gonna sit down and regret why she didn't hold on to you and why she didn't love you back or learn to love you. She and her family will regret it.”

The two friends were yet to get out of the car before Mc noticed something suspicious and their conversation changed.

"Look right there Michael, there's a car parked beside my house."

"Are you expecting a visitor?"

"Nah man, not anyone at all."

"What if it's Mr Khan from your dad?"

"No it can't be him, that car is too cheap for someone from Ethan Milburn."

"Yeah that's very true but who the hell is this person?" Michael wondered as he loosened his seat belt.

"What the...?" Mc noticed someone was watching him from the window of his own house. "Simeone's in there, someone broke into my house and they're waiting for me to go in so they can have their way with me. Damn man!"

"Oh my days, it must be John's handwork right here, that piece of shit ain't giving up is he?"

"Tighten back your seat belt Michael, we gotta pop out of here real quick."

Just before Michael got his hand on the seat belt, the two assassins in Mc's house came out, they knew that their targets had noticed something strange and were about to run off, so they had to come out quickly before Mc and his friend got away.

Thaw! Thaw! Two bullets hit the front of their car and Michael's heart sped up its beating.

"Shit man you gotta start the engine!" Mc shouted as they both buried their heads down trying not to get hit by a bullet.

"Oh my God! Oh my... Oh oh!" Michael couldn't even get the keyhole right as he struggled to put in the keys.

"Come on Michael start the damn engine right now they're getting closer to us."

Just after that, the car started and the bad guys ran quickly trying to get closer as they fired shots on the car, thaw! And that one hit the rear mirror. “Jeez man that was close, roll up the glasses”.

Michael made a quick reverse and drifted out of the house through the sharp bend leading out to the main street.

"Hey Alberto, let's go after them." one of the bad guys said and they rushed into their black SUV, started the engine and zoomed off right after Mc and Michael.

"Oh yeah there they are, but don't shoot!"

"What do you mean don't shoot? Let's end these M-fuckers real quick!"

"Are you crazy Alberto? You think this is some Hollywood movie stuff? You shoot right here and the cops are all over the streets, is that what you want? We already made a mess!"

"Oh shit...! Alberto screamed after their car almost hit an approaching bus, "goddammit just follow your fucking lane would you?" the truck driver cursed angrily.

Michael's car was faster and they kept getting out of sight quickly before being seen again.

"They're just gonna keep running after us? Mc why don't we lead them to the train station where there's no people and then beat the hell out of these guys?"

"I've been thinking about that, but the problem is they got guns and we don't, we can't fight them, this ain't John Wick shit!"

Alberto and his man already knew this was going to be another disappointment, they could see Mc and Michael's car vanish down the deep road and there was no way to catch them.

"How long will he keep getting away from us?" Alberto was frustrated.

"This was our best chance, if only he didn't know we were waiting for him in his house."

"Best chance wasted, now we gotta find another plan. But at least I got something interesting in Mc's house."

"What did you find man?"

"I found this!" Alberto brought out a small camera from his jacket pocket. It was a camera given to Mc by his best friend Michael, the camera had all the sex tapes of Melissa and Jeremy, all the tapes that were secretly recorded by the chef who was paid by Michael.

"You found a camera? How is that even important? man?"

"This is not just any camera, this camera has every single thing it takes to blackmail a beautiful woman in a secret affair!" His smile was devilish and it came with so much confidence, if he couldn't do away with Mc and get paid for it, he was definitely going to black mail the woman in these videos and make a lot of money. More problems for Melissa.

*****

Gabriel and Paula lay in bed on their backs with their eyes on the Ceiling as they got lost in their thoughts while talking to each other.

"The scars on Amanda's hands and her neck, there's something about them that I just can't let go." Paula broke the silence.

"Yeah, I've been thinking about it too."

"It looks like she went through a hell lot of abuse as a child."

"Exactly my thoughts honey, exactly my thoughts." Gabriel was happy to find out he and his wife shared the same feelings about this.

"The couple who adopted her didn't really love her because she wasn't their real child after all and they maltreated her. That's what I think." Paula's voice was weak.

"And that's why she seemed to be less interested in topics that involved her parents."

"Yeah and she's been away from them for over three years and she doesn't even care."

"There's alot about Amanda that we need to know. But right now, we're going to see Doctor Pulisic, he's going to tell us why he lied to us and stole our baby and he will surely face the consequences of selling someone's child to another family.