The shot was aimed for Maria but she quickly hid behind Sebastian on the couch so the bullet met with the couch pillow spilling the feathers and Maria shrieked in fright.
She is afraid of guns.
Sebastian quickly took the gun under the pillow beside him.
Of course he has guns everywhere around the house for unwanted guests like these.
He shot at a pillow on the opposite couch and the entire couch region exploded, they was a bomb in the pillow.
The attention of the men went straight to the burning couch and that gave Sebastian and Maria the time to escape.
"Why is there a bomb in your couch pillow" Maria whispered and Sebastian glared at her.
"Sebastian, just hand over the woman and everything would end" the man yelled as he signaled his men to search the house.
"Can you use a gun?" Sebastian asked Maria and she nodded negatively.
She hates guns, they trigger her trauma, Sebastian sighed.
"stay here, don't move no matter what unless you want to die" Sebastian said and Maria nodded in response.
One of men was coming close to where they hid behind the kitchen counter but Sebastian came out of hiding and knocked him out.
Some of the men who saw that, shot at Sebastian but he shot back killing them all.
Maria was sitting on the ground behind the counter covering her ears with her palms with her eyes closed.
She fuçking hate the sound of guns.
"Demasiado Fuerte (too loud)" Maria muttered as she bit her lips wishing the sound would stop already, but it was getting worse, her brain spined.
No...no...no.. not again.
She fell into another traumatic episode.
*
8 year old Maria was in her room sleeping when a loud gunshot woke her up.
"They are at it again" Maria muttered as she tried to cover her ears with the pillow.
It didn't change anything though cause she kept hearing the gun shot, it got even louder seems they're coming close.
She quickly stood up to make sure her door was locked cause she can't risk them coming into her room, she sighed in relief seeing the door was locked, she went back to the bed.
Her parents are always like that, they quarreled at every single chance they got and each quarrel leads to shooting of guns at each other.
They were supposed to be three children but Maria's twin brother was shot by their father while he tried to stop his parents from fighting with guns.
Eight years old Maria cried by the thought, she just hope her little brother was okay, she specifically told him to lock his room door but she's not sure that stubborn boy would listen.
She was still thinking when the door burst open, why is it open? She thought she locked the door.
"You're awake?" Her mom said to her, a cigarette in her mouth, the smoke made Maria cough loudly.
"Fuckiñg shut up, do you want your father to find me?" Camilla yelled at her daughter whose eyes were red from all the coughing.
"Camilla!!" Alvaro yelled as he walked up the stairs. He walked through the broken door and met Camilla, his eyes didn't even see Maria cause he was angry.
Alvaro pointed his gun to Camila and she did the same.
"Why didn't you ask me first you bitçh?" Alvaro yelled and Maria shrieked in fear.
She didn't want to be caught in their crossfire but she was too scared to even move from where she sat on the bed, Camilla was right in front of her.
Alvaro shot his gun at Camilla but she moved so it met with Maria who was sitting on the bed and she screamed loudly.
*
Maria eyes opened as her body shook, she was sweating badly and tears ran down her eyes, she was still sitting on the floor behind the kitchen counter and Sebastian was standing in front of her.
"Are you okay?" He asked with furrowed eyebrows.
Mafia stood up and hugged him tightly like she was going to break his bones as more tears ran down her eyes.
Sebastian was shocked, he had no idea what to do cause he doesn't know how to console someone, he didn't hug her back but he stood still as she kept crying hugging him tighter.
They were like that for two minutes before she finally let go sniffing and Sebastian just stared at her quietly.
"Sorry" Maria said still sniffing while she looked around. There were dead bodies everywhere.
"It's over already?" She asked but he didn't answer her and got a cup of water for her.
"Thanks" Maria said and collected the water drinking it.
The door bell rang and Sebastian went to get it, it was the cleaners. He had killed all the men but the man who shot at them first escaped.
He was on the phone with the cleaners when Maria screamed and he went to her immediately to meet her crying.
Maria watched amusingly while the cleaners did their job, 'they are good' she thought. She would definitely ask them to help her clean her house every once in a while.
FEW HOURS LATER, 5PM
Everywhere was now sparkling clean even the windows that had been broken was now fixed, the house sparkling clean.
"They are amazing cleaners, what company are they from?" Maria asked curiously.
"Not the kind you would want to know" Sebastian said as he drank the beer from his tumbler.
"But..."
"Why do Felix want you dead?" Sebastian cut her off.
"I don't know, how do you know his name?" Maria asked suspiciously.
"I ask the questions and you answer them" Sebastian said with a serious tone.
"I don't know why? Someone probably payed him to kill me, I have people that hates me for no damn reason even my brother has enmity towards me, maybe he hired the guy to kill me" Maria said nonchantly
"How do I know you didn't send those men to kill me?" Sebastian asked his eyes staring coldly at her.
"Why would I do that? I know I said I wanted to kill you but not anymore" Maria smiled.
"Why?"
"Because your blood is beautiful, I haven't seen someone with such a beautiful blood for a very long time" Maria said excitedly.
Sebastian noticed that anytime she talks about blood her eyes lit up for no reason, she definitely needs help, it's obvious she's afraid of guns, shouldn't she be afraid of blood too?
He wanted to ask her about why she cried before but why should he?
He doesn't care.
"Aren't you leaving?" Sebastian asked with a poker face.
"Are you pushing me away?" Maria spoke and her phone rang, she picked it up and after a while she hung up.
"Emergency, I have to go" maria said standing up but Sebastian didn't say anything to her he just relaxed on the couch drinking his beer.
"Don't miss me too much" Maria smiled and he scoffed.
"You only bring trouble" he said and she chuckled.
"Thank you seb" Maria said and walked out, Sebastian hands tightened on the tumbler.
Damn you Adrian!
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UNKNOWN LOCATION, 8PM
"She didn't die?" The familiar voice spoke in the dim lit room.
"She was with Sebastian, calm down Fernando" another man spoke.
"Calm down? I can't calm down, you said she would be dead today Mario, who is this Sebastian fellow" Fernando asked angrily.
"He is the best killer the falcone has, Felix stood no chance against him, I was hoping there would just kill her and leave but Sebastian was protecting her" Mario said pinching the bridge of his nose.
"How did Maria get involved with him? Does she know our parents got all their money from the falcone" Fernando asked fearfully.
"I don't think so, if she does do you think she would let you take the family business knowing it was part of the falcone, who would give all that money to someone else" Mario said and Fernando nodded in agreement.
"I wouldn't have to kill her if I wasn't owing Miguel so much" Fernando complained.
"Just ask her for the money since we can't kill her and take everything she has" Mario said.
"She won't give me such huge amount of money, I asked her for money not too long ago, we need to find a way to get money out of her" Fernando sighed.
Mario looked at his idiotic friend in anger, this brainless môtherfuçker inherited all his parents fortune but still couldn't take care of it and end up in millions of debt with Miguel.
That scary member of the la gente that won't blink before killing him, if not because they have been friends for a long time he would have abandoned him or maybe there was another reason he was still with this fool.
"We would think of something, there's still time" Mario said.
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SAFE HOUSE, 11PM
"Did she die?" Yolanda asked the girl beside her.
"No ma'am, she came out of the house a few hours later, she seemed pretty alright cause she was smiling" Bianca replied bowing slightly.
Yolanda squeezed her fist tightly and her nails dug into her palms injuring her but she was too angry to feel it.
Felix won't have the guts to go after Sebastian so he definitely went there for Maria and the fact she was still alive meaning Sebastian definitely protected her.
"Why!!!???" Yolanda screamed and Bianca flinched.
"Ma'am..."
"Isal (get out)!" Yolanda yelled cutting her off and Bianca bowed before leaving.
What does that worthless doctor have to do with Sebastian, he even invited her into his house?
She did a background check on Maria, even though most of her information wasn't on the Internet, Yolanda dug deeper to find out who she was and she found nothing, nothing at all, just the fact that she was a very good doctor, there was nothing special about her.
Yolanda was burning with anger, she only entered Sebastian's place once and that was when her father had business with him.
"I have to do something about her" Yolanda muttered.
OUTSIDE
Bianca sighed, Yolanda was angry again meaning there are all in trouble, Yolanda takes her trouble out on every single one of them anytime she's angry but her problem was why Maria Vicente?
Bianca adores Maria Vicente.
Bianca left the safe house and went out into the streets, she reached an alley and looked around before removing the mask she was putting on, revealing a totally different person.
She joined the falcone three months ago for extra cash to fend for herself and she rised up to Yolanda's personal assistant here in Spain cause of how good she was but she didn't want her life in the falcone to mess with her personal life so she uses a disguise.
It was quite easy cause she was in charge of everything concerning Yolanda here in Spain since Yolanda hardly comes to Spain for anything at all, hence no one would prey on her too much.
She walked out of the alley and stopped a taxi getting inside.