Chapter 25 (CPOV)
"There was a gunshot on the 28th floor!" the man yells as my heart sinks. "Ana, please…no, we've already been through so much. I can't lose her!"Is my only thought. Suddenly I see Gideon sprinting toward the elevator. I follow closely behind him and come to a halt as the doors open.
"Taylor!" I yell and try to hide my relief. "I'm so sorry sir, she shot me before I could even enter the room." I nod still recovering from the initial shock of "shots fired". "They're in room 2815…here take this." He whispers as he hands me his gun. I really don't like guns…at all! After staring at the damn thing for a few seconds I decide to man up and just take it from him. Once I have it in my hand I realize that I'm in way over my head.
"Seriously? Give me that!"Gideon says as he snatches it from me and sticks it into the waistband of his pants. Once Taylor is loaded into the ambulance we head straight to the elevators. With all the chaos going on, the cops don't even notice us. As we wait for the elevator to come back down I turn to Gideon.
"What the hell was that?" "What was what?" he says as he glares at me. "You…with the gun. I may not know much about them but I'm pretty sure I can hold the damn thing without shooting myself!" We step onto the elevator and I'm so mad at this point that I tune out most of what he's saying in reply. That is until I hear him say "it has no safety" and something about me shooting myself in my Johnson. Suddenly I remember Ana telling me about Hyde's gun, what seems like forever ago. My mind is filled with Ana and all the memories we've had together. I can't lose her. I should've never let her go with Eva to the restroom without Prescott. Then I remember how upset Eva was how Gideon was nowhere to be found.
"Where the hell were you earlier?" I say breaking the silence. "I told you I had to take a call. It took longer than expected." "You had to take a call…for two hours?" I am so calling bullshit on this one. "I don't care what you were really doing, but you should know no "call" is ever that important." He turns to me "Please, it's not like you're some angel here." "I never claimed to be." Deciding to change the subject I ask "Did you ever hear back from Cary? Eva still couldn't get a hold of him earlier. Do you think Corrine got him too?" He simply shrugs not really answering any of my questions.
Great…just freaking great. Gideon is acting weird again plus he's disappeared twice on us tonight. His hotel catches fire, Cary goes missing, Nathan is dead and my wife and sister-in-law are in the hands of a psycho. This day has been a fucking disaster! With all of these thoughts running through my head, I barley register when the doors finally open. As we step out we hear a woman screaming. "Shut up or you'll make it worse!" Gideon stops dead in his tracks. "Corrine?" he whispers. It's at this point I can hear Ana crying so I sprint down the hall with Gideon hot on my heels. I can hear Eva crying as we get closer. I round the corner expecting to see Ana but the sight before me shocks me to my core. All my thoughts shift and disappear leaving me with nothing…almost nothing. One single thought starts to scream at me. "How can this be?" I think to myself as my feet seem to sprout roots and plant me to the floor.