Chapter 36: Power Of The Look

Nick has never felt defeat like that. He felt stupid, vulnerable and most importantly he felt that he's not being the protective husband and future father he vowed to be.

He had to watch Olivia beat up his wife hurting her and their baby and he had nothing to do about it.

He didn't know if Miley was okay, Olivia is not letting him see her face, all he knew was that she was completely vulnerable as the two men held her tightly and Olivia had the freedom to do anything to her; and she didn't hesitate once to hurt her.

It wasn't until that man came that he felt a little bit of relief. He knew he had Joe and Demi in his back; they were here and they were following the plan.

"What are you saying?" Olivia narrowed her eyes.

"I went to get him as you told me, but I found him on the floor, bleeding from his back and I quickly got him the doctor."

Olivia signature for the young man to go and slowly turned towards Nick with a glare, "What did you do?"

"Me? I just walked through the door in front of you…"

"WHAT DID YOU DO, NICHOLASE?"

"Let go of me, Olivia." He said sternly.

"Nick," she closed her eyes annoyed trying to calm herself down. "I like you; don't make me hurt you."

"You already did." He hissed with hatred as she widened her eyes,

"What? No, I didn't."

"LET GO OF ME!"

"Don't save her."

"Are you crazy-"

"I'll let you go if you won't HELP HER."

"Just let me go." He told her almost whispering as she sighed and clicked a button in the chair and instantly the iron belts disappeared from around his body and limbs.

He stood up and found himself facing her as she put a hand on his shoulder, "Why did you do this?"

"Do what?"

"You tricked me."

"Olivia, you were nothing but a mission!" He made himself clear.

"Liar!"

"Olivia, cut the act!" He snapped her hand away from him. "And let go of Miley, she has nothing to do with this shit."

"She has nothing to do with this?" She laughed sarcastically, "She stole you from me!"

"I have been always hers."

"Then she doesn't love you; she let you be with me!"

"She's not stupid; she knew you were nothing to me!" He spat hurtfully; he hated her! He hated her and he didn't care about her feelings as a woman anymore!

It was obvious that she was boiling with anger, "How can I be nothing?" she threw her hands in the air, "You don't want to cave in, Nick? Fine, I'll make you."

"Make me what?" He screamed back finding no sense in her words in general.

"You want her out of here?"

"Yeah…"

"Fine." She smiled, "Only on one condition,"

"What do you want?" He narrowed his eyes.

"Be mine." She said and before he could agree or disagree she spoke again making herself clear, "Or, I'll slay her right there in front of you."

"Yours as in…?"

"Forget all about her and just be mine."

"No, Nick! I'll never forgive you if you agreed." Miley said weekly from on the ground there. He looked at her to see she was in a desperate case.

"And you'll immediately let her go?" He asked Olivia who smiled victoriously.

"Yes, immediately."

Nick took in a deep breath before making up his mind…

XxXx

The young man that Olivia previously dismissed stood awkwardly outside his master's door. He didn't know what happened to him or how he got stabbed, but Olivia seemed to know more and so, he was waiting for the doctor inside the room to fix the old man.

He didn't know what was happening, but he was beginning to worry. Those new people in the house are not comforting when he thought about it.

Suddenly the door next him opened and he looked towards it expecting the doctor to come out of it, but much to his surprise it was Alfonso.

"Sir…?"

"What do you want?"

"You… you're fine?"

"Of course I'm you idiot!"

"But… you… the doctor fixed your injury?"

"What injury?"

"You were stabbed. You were bleeding." He said with some confidence gaining.

"Have you gone crazy?" He growled at him.

"You… You're not my boss!" The young man frowned but Alfonso didn't rely, which made his idea sound more realistic. And when he widened his eyes and got ready to scream for other guards to help him, his eyes rolled back and he quickly fell to the ground.

Alfonso looked up at where the man stood just seconds ago and smiled widely, "Good, job, Dem." He high-fived her as she put her gun back in her pocket.

"Come on, quickly, we need to tie him up." She said and stared dragging him to the room they just got out of.

"No, not here."

"Why?"

"Do you want them to operate and escape together?" He made a point.

"Alfonso and the doctor are there!"

"Alfonso is tied in the closet while the doctor is tied under the bed." The disguised Joe smirked at her.

"I sure need more experience in this job!"

"Sure you do, come on." He said and they held the man together to another empty room as they tied him up. "Come on, now, you disappear and I'll walk around. Once I distract them, you interfere, deal?"

"Alright, let's do this." She sighed and they started putting action into their plan…

XxXx

"NO, NICK!" Miley screamed as he ignored her screams and walked towards the door with a smirking Olivia, once at the door, he turned around and gave her one last meaningful look that instantly made her stop her screams for him to stop what he's doing. She was now gaining more energy and was standing between the two men, and most importantly, she understood the look.

"As you said, Miley is getting examined by your doctor and then you're letting go of her," Nick told Olivia.

"Sure thing, baby." She smiled and caressed his cheek as he argued the urge to snap her hand away.

As for Miley, she waited until she was alone with the men and she then threw her body on the floor and buried her face in between her hands and started crying.

"Get up woman; we need to get you in an isolated room until the boss determines what she's doing with you." One of them said as he harshly grabbed her hand.

All of a sudden, Miley was on her feet, and was sending a punch towards the guy pulling her up, then she turned around and kicked the other struck guy between his feet; she knew it was a lost battle, she's fighting two strong men and she's already tired, but that look… it gave her hope and it gave her power.

"You, bitch!" The first one cursed as he held her by the waist and lifted her up only to gain an elbow in his left eye. "OW!"

He let go of her and Miley took a run while the second guy tried stopping her from his position on the ground by grabbing her leg but she jumped over it and ran towards a window there. She quickly opened it and jumped to the garden as she disappeared in the darkness while the two men painfully followed her.

At the same time, Nick was climbing up the stairs with Olivia who was over the moon, "You're not fooling me again, are you?"

He sighed, "You have my wife; how can I fool you?"

She laughed, "That's the only reason?"

"What else could be the reason?"

She shook her head, "You'll never regret this." She promised getting dangerously close to him.

Nick caught a glimpse of Demi and Joe from the hallway behind Olivia as Joe gave him a thumb up and Nick quickly restrained himself and looked at Olivia again, "I hope not," he whispered huskily and crashed his lips on hers feeling disgusted with himself…

She closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around his neck as Nick kept looking at the other two who slowly tip toed towards them and raised their guns to hit the back of her head instantly.

Once they were inches away, Olivia opened her eyes and Nick got shocked and she quickly turned around. Analyzing the situation, she saw the gun falling down towards her but she quickly kicked it from Joe's hands and Demi was behind Joe so she couldn't act fast.

However, Olivia forgot for part of the second about Nick. He intertwined his hands together in a strong fist and strongly hit the back of her head making her fall to the ground unconscious.

"Good one." Demi complimented.

"Are you guys done?" He asked them.

"Well, there's generally a population of ten persons inside the house including Olivia and Alfonso, and we took down eight just now. Aside from the six in the garden. We took down only two." Joe informed.

"Yeah, the other two inside are with Miley!" He said as they were already tying Olivia up. "That was easy!"

"Yeah, it was!"

"Alright, come on we need to go get Miley. Demi, you make sure no one escapes! Especially Olivia; she's smart." Nick instructed as Demi nodded although she had no idea how she's supposed to take care of all the eight and make sure they're not conscious and are planning to escape.

Nick and Joe- who dropped his disguise and looked more like himself now- ran towards the room Nick left Miley only about fifteen minutes ago. Only to find it empty with an open window.

"She's escaped." Nick muttered.

"Come on," Joe said as they jumped off the window.

"God, she doesn't know what danger is waiting her here!" Nick whispered to Joe.

For a while they wondered in the dark garden carefully with no luck until Joe nudged Nick and pointed at something, "Over there,"

It looked like two bodies on the ground not moving. They shared a quick look before carefully hurrying there; the first was a body of a huge man, he looked dead already and looking closer they figured he was shot on the back of his head… the other body was Miley's.

"Miley!" Nick hissed worried as he knelt down next her unmoving body hoping for the best, however, both him and Joe noticed the dark liquid, that was no doubt her own blood…

A/N: I had no idea how to put out this chapter for a while until suddenly it all came flooding out :) What do you think? Is Miley okay? Will she be okay? And the baby? What about Olivia and her troubled mind?

Thanks for your comments, please keep telling me your thoughts :)