Chapter 15: On the line

The gun glittered in the sunlight and I reached into my pocket, the button weighing against my hand. I was about to press it when Harold raised his hand and pushed the gun back down to the thug's side. "Now, now, let's not all get too crazy, I didn't bring you hear to harm you Allison, I just want to talk. To explain my intentions, and the reason's for wanting your brother dead." He looks sternly at me.

"I already know, he hurt your daughter in high school and now you want revenge on him." I looked straight at him with confident eyes, even if my stomach was in knots.

His laugh vibrated off the building's walls and my look turned confused all at once.

"That's not the reason Allison, you're brother ruined my life dear. Your brother exposed my relationship with your mother to Lester and my ex wife. She kicked me out and your mother chose Lester over me. I had nothing and it was all Elliot's fault. If the little ass had just kept his mouth shut then I wouldn't have had to kill your mother and we would be happy right now." His voice slowly rose as he ranted and I gasped. I couldn't quite process what was going on right now. My mother was cheating on my father and this man just admitted to killing her in revenge. The shock of what I heard caused me to clench my hand and press the button that alerted Austin of my distress.

What happened next was a blur of movement; a car came swerving into the lot, Austin and Elliot racing from it. Strong arms wrapped themselves around me and the familiar scent of my husband surrounded me, the body of my brother blocked my vision and Harold's thugs raised their guns at us. The silence around us was heavy as a tense stare off began.

Suddenly the whole world goes into slow motion, everything around me a mass of hysteria. I loud bang bounces of the walls of the buildings and I see my brother fall to the ground in front of me. from the space that is cleared I see the gun of raised towards me and I knew that was next, I start preparing myself for the pain that was to come. I close my eyes and pray that it will be a fast death, I pray that Austin will get away and get help, maybe he could save my brother if they got help quickly.

A scream falls from my lips and I feel a push from Austin as he forces me to dodge a bullet. I whip my head around to see the love of my wince in pain and as he falls to his knees. He raises his gun and I watch as he pulls the trigger, a look of pure hatred gracing his beautiful face and I hear the sound of another shot going off. From the other side of the lot the man that caused all the destruction of my life falls to the ground, unmoving. His thugs take one look at me and then run in the opposite direction, disappearing.

I stand there for a moment taking in what just happened, looking at the destruction around me and then I fall to my knees by the body of my husband. and clutch his head to my lap, grabbing the phone from his jeans pocket.

"911, what's your emergency?" The operator's voice came over the phone.

"I need an ambulance, my husband and brother have been shot, I'm at Marchin's warehouses 51st Avenue. Please get here soon." I begged down the phone and held the hands of my brother in mine, and a tear slid onto the head of my husband in my lap.