Princess by Blood

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Giovanni's POV:

I hear her scream before the line ends.

"Anna!" I scream out before slamming my hands on the car steering wheel. I message Angelo, Luca and Juliet to meet me at the private jet and step on the gas.

I'm at the plan within minutes and Angelo, Luca and Juliet all arrive together. Without saying a word, I rush them all on the plane and the plane takes off for Rome.

"Care to explain what's going on?" Angelo questions from the seat in front of me.

I play the recording that I took of me and Anna's call for them and they all look shocked. Juliet starts crying and excuses herself for the bathroom and the boys just stare at me in horror.

"Did you know your father made this deal?" Luca asks and anger rises through me at the thought of my father doing this. She is his goddaughter. How could he do this?

"Do I look like I fucking knew? She's in danger." I feel something in my pocket under me so I reach my hand in my pocket and pull out a USB. We all stare at it confused before Angelo plugs it into his laptop. 

He opens the file to find security camera footage of Nicholas beating Anna with the baseball bat and more footage of him raping her. My heart aches at her scream and cries. I can't believe I let her go through this all. I quickly wipe away a tear before Angelo closes the file.

"She must have put it in my pocket during the gala." No matter how devastating that was the watch, I'm glad she gave it to me. I know she isn't happy and I as soon as we get her back, we are going to destroy Nicholas. 

"Can you track her phone?" Luca turns to Angelo and he stares at him confused.

"What? Why?"

"Because she is probably being beaten and tortured right now. I want to know where the fuck she is so I can slit all of their throats." Luca slams his fist down on the table and glares at Angelo.

Angelo quickly types something up on his computer before turning it around to us. It shows the location of a house in Rome which I'm guessing is where they were staying.

The plane lands and Angelo comforts Juliet as she sniffles on the way to the house. I break multiple laws, speeding down the road and once we reach the house, Luca, Angelo and I all jump out of the car, pulling out our guns.

"Stay in the car." I order Juliet and she willingly abides, nodding her head.

Luca and Angelo look in through the windows before giving me a nod and I kick down the door. We hold up our weapons as we walk in through the house. Suddenly, a blood curdling scream comes from somewhere in the house and we follow it all the way to a basement.

We carefully walk down the stairs until we reach the basement floor, ready to shoot. I see Anna tied up with metal chains in the corner, cuts and scrapes all over her. I run over to her and cup her face, tears streaming down her cheeks. I rip the tape off her mouth and kiss her forehead.

"Baby I'm so sorry. I've got you now." She looks behind me then looks back at me, stress on her face.

"Look who decided to show up. The whores side piece." I immediately stand up and hold up my gun. I look to the side to see that Luca and Angelo are being held down by guards.

"You know, I was going to kill you a couple of months ago, but Anna, sweet Anna, decided to give up her freedom for yours. How nice of her." My heart breaks a little knowing that Anna put herself in this position for me but I keep my gun raised, aiming it at Nicholas.

He smirks as he walks towards us then stops in the middle of the room.

"I would put that down if I were you."

"Give me one good reason not to shoot you." He laughs.

"I have none. But I have many to shoot her."

"You will not lay another hand on her." He chuckles and shakes his head.

"I won't, but they will." The guards quickly pin me down and hold me to the ground. I watch as more guard come in and pick up Anna, untying her chains. She screams and cries as they carry her up the stairs. 

I yell and kick as the guards take me, Luca, and Angelo up the stairs too. Anna gets taken outside onto the grass where she is placed on her knees and guards keep her down by her shoulders. I continue to yell until a guard pushes me onto the ground and stops me from yelling.

"You guys are lucky. You get front row seats." All three of us start to kick and scream as we watch another guard raise a gun up to Anna's forehead. Anna screams and cries and my heart breaks watching this knowing I can't do anything about it.

Nicholas bends down to my head and forces me to look up by my hair. I continue to fuss about as the guards finger gets seriously close to the trigger. Anna's eyes meet mine and tears stream down my face.

"Say goodbye." I scream out as I hear to bullet ring. Time slows down and I feel my whole world falling apart as I watch Anna fall to the ground. I swear my heart stops for a minute before my vision blacks out and I rip the guard off me, snapping his neck in one movement. I take a sword from the knight decoration next to us and behead the guard on top of Luca.

I then turn to Angelo's guard and slash it down his spine, killing him instantly. Luca and Angelo pin Nicholas down as I storm outside. I pull out my gun, shooting all three guards in the heart and rush over to Anna.

I'm shocked when I see that Anna isn't dead. Instead she is hovering over Juliet's dead body. I fall to my knees beside Anna as she screams and cries, holding Juliet in whatever way she can.

"No! Juliet! Please come back." I feel useless as Anna continues to scream. Luca comes running outside to us.

"More guards are coming. We have to leave now." I nod and pick up Anna. She screams and thrashes her arms about.

"Giovanni, let me go! I can't leave her here." She continues to scream and cry, refusing to leave.

"We have to go Anna." She plants her feet in the ground, screaming as she attempts to push past me. 

"I need her Giovanni! I can't let her go. Juliet!" She continues to scream and cry so I force her back in front of me.

"She's dead Anna! She's not coming back. We have to leave." I was probably a bit harsh, but there is no other way to get the message across. She falls to the ground sobbing, unable to stand or even move.

I pick her up bridal style and run back inside the house with her. I run us out to the car and Angelo opens the back door for us to get in. Once we are in Luca step on the gas and speeds us to the plane.

Anna continues to sob and scream in the back of the car but she manages to calm down a bit by the time we get to the plane. I walk her up to the plane and she sits in the back all by herself, silently sobbing.

Luca gestures for me to console her, so I walk over to her and sit down next to her.

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