Elise and Miranda had been relaxing with the girls while playing a game of cards when the door bell rang
¨Do not think about cheating! I´ll go see who it is¨ Miranda said chuckling at the girls and her friend and was surprised to see Mary at the door
¨Oh hi, come on in, is everything alright?¨ Miranda asked
¨Hey, I'm so sorry, everything´s ok but I forgot my dressing case on the bedroom. Or at least I hope I did¨ Mary said shaking her head a bit ashamed
¨Oh, that´s alright, come on in so we can check¨ the older woman said while leading her back to the bedroom where said case had fallen next to the bed
¨Thank god, I was starting to get hysterical, I'm sorry I bothered you again¨ Mary said with relief
¨You don´t need to worry, we were simply enjoying ourselves; Would you like to join us?¨ Miranda said softly, she could see the brunet was really desperate to get the dressing case back. She had an idea why but she would never ask her directly
¨I… Miranda it´s your time with the girls, I do not want to take any time from you with them¨ Maria said softly smiling sincerely to the woman
¨Oh, come on, you would never interfere; you´re part of the family!¨ Miranda said while leading her downstairs
Both made their way down the stairs while speaking about their plans for the rest of the day when the sound of screaming and barking resounded on the house making them run towards the noise
The living room was a mess and Patricia was barking madly in front of Elise and Caroline at two men wearing masks and knives on their hands. One of them was closer to the garden´s door while the other one had Cassidy near the other end of the room with a knife towards Patricia
¨Cassidy! Please let her go!¨ Elise was yelling madly
¨Oh god Cassidy!¨ Miranda said stopping shocked at the scene along with Mary who was assessing the different entrances to the room and possible scenarios
¨Step back! Take the dog out of the room or I´ll kill her!¨ The man said lowly while Cassidy had tears streaming down her eyes
¨Ok, ok, please just let my baby go! Elise take Patricia and Caroline out¨ Miranda said desperately and insisted given that the woman didn´t want to go
¨Go ahead, I'm staying to help¨ Mary said softly to Elise while discreetly handing her cell phone and whispering ¨Don´t tie her¨ and earned a nod while leaving
¨What do you want!?¨ Mary asked the men with murderous eyes while standing on a place where she was between the man and his partner
¨This girl is coming with us, you can let the princess know she´ll get her back when she declines publicly. Now move out of the way¨ the man closer to the door said while getting closer to Miranda ¨And if you don´t cooperate her mommy is coming along¨
¨Why are you doing this?! Leave my daughter alone, she has nothing to do with this! Please!¨ Miranda said with tears in her eyes and plain desperation
¨She leaves if you come with us!¨ the man holding Cassidy said strongly putting the knife to the girl´s throat which made Mary intervene and step a little closer
¨Hey! Hey now, that´s not necessary! I´m sure we can arrange this in another way! Let the girl go!¨ Mary said strongly and a bit desperate
¨No can do! And you have nothing to do here! We either leave with the girl or the girlfriend so you decide¨ the same man said but the other one added moving closer to her¨Or we leave three corpses if you don´t move out of the way right now, either way works¨
That sparked Mary´s brain for an idea so she looked back at Miranda discretely while locking eyes hoping that the woman would understand
¨You can get the sister! Just leave the girl and i´m going¨ Mary said trying to convince the men who looked at each other confused while thinking so she made her way closer slowly to the man who had Cassidy while thinking quickly
¨Think about it! There´s a lot more money for you i´m sure¨ Mary kept trying highly desperate inside at keeping them safe
¨How do we know you´re her sister!? We were paid for a girl or girlfriend!¨ the same man asked distrusting while pointing the knife towards her which made both woman breathe a little
¨Well imagine how much more you can get paid for her sister, probably three or four times more, come on, think about it, just let her go¨ Mary said hoping to every god this worked and that the man kept the knife pointed at her
Thankfully both men kept looking at each other while thinking what was being said but had not realized Mary was, now, a really shorter distance from Cassidy. Locking eyes with the girl she tried to encourage her to trust her and mouthed, after making sure the man wasn´t looking, ¨run¨ before lounging forward
Taking the man by surprise she grabbed the arm with the knife and pushed it towards the ceiling and crashed the man against the wall knocking the air out of his lungs and disarming him before giving him a right hook. A cracking sound was heard making it obvious that something in the man´s face had been broken
¨Cassidy!¨Miranda kneeled down hugging her daughter and pushing her to run but stopped and hugged her to shield her when she saw the other man running to them
Mary was struggling with the man and threw him over her shoulder knocking the air from him yet again. At the sight of Cassidy and Miranda still in danger she, immediately, jumped over the couch to land onto the other man and yelled ¨Run! Patricia!¨ which they did and saw the Saint Bernard run like hell towards Mary and jump to bite the man getting near her from behind
Once Patricia showed all hell run loose since the man who had the knife started running away with the dog in tow leaving Mary to fight with the second man. Thankfully Cassidy and Miranda had left and weren´t witnessing the fight
¨You fucking bitch!¨ the man screamed when a fist connected to his face and kicked the latina´s side chest hard enough to send her flying back and away from him. Reaching behind his waist and he got a gun out and shot her on her left shoulder since Patricia had gone back in and jumped him from behind sending him tumbling forward towards Mary while shooting making him miss her chest
At this the Latina kneeled quickly to grab the man and knock him out with a right hook before saying ¨Patricia, sit¨ which the dog did but kept on growling at the man
Elise had made her way the moment the Saint Bernard had been called having left Caroline in her room locked and saw the scene with a paralyzing shock until the younger woman asked her ¨Girls safe?¨
Elise could only stare at the still kneeling Latina, Patricia growling at the unconscious man but still sat next to the woman
¨Did you call the cops?¨ and only received a nod
At the obvious shock Mary kept going, already feeling faint ¨get something to tie him and thanks for keeping Patricia accessible¨
Elise again nodded and found a rope before tying the man along with Miranda, who had gone to help her with tears in her eyes. She´d told her girls to lock themselves in their room while she went to help Elise and Mary
¨Do you think they´ll take long?¨ Miranda asked while walking closer to Mary who had sat down on the floor and was leaning against the wall with Patricia sitting next to her being pet
¨Oh god¨ Miranda said with a hand to her mouth at the sight of blood oozing from the girl´s shoulder
Before Miranda could say anything else she stopped by the sound of sirens and run straight to open the door and let the police in who took control of the situation immediately and called for paramedics so they could take Mary to the hospital and checked on them
The End...
