Betraying Giovanni

Chapter Twenty - Four : Sacrifices

Guns blazing, Chanel blinks and it was just gunshots, she was frozen in place.

"Julie! Come on!"

Chanel shakes her head and runs to Kat.

"Girl, if you don't get your act together, you'll get killed," Kat says harshly.

"I'm sorry" she whispers and follows Kat, they quickly run far from the shot out.

"Where are we going?" she yells.

Kat stops and turns around, "Far from here."

Chanel was confused, "Monica, stop!"

[Kat's real name is Monica, but I'll keep it as Kat to avoid confusion]

Kat turns around and looks at her best friend, "What?"

"What are you doing? Where are we going?"

Kat sighs, "To the getaway car."

Getaway car?

"What are you talking about? I thought we were handing then over to the police."

Kat shakes her head, "I can't Julie, I'm sorry but I just can't do that."

"Why?"

Kat looks around and finally lets out a sigh, "I'm pregnant."

Chanel is shocked, Kat was always the careful one, she always told her that she didn't want children out of the marriage but her she is pregnant with Gio's baby.

Chanel steps closer to her friend, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't know how to Julie, I haven't even told Gio yet," she says, "I wanted to, but it was going to put all of us at risk."

"Well, it's too late for that now, we are at risk, we just left the father of your child in a shootout Monica."

"We need to go back."

Chanel objects, "No, I'll do back but you need to stay here, I can't let you get hurt not while you're pregnant."

Kat sighs, "Fine, just make sure nothing happens to Gio okay, even if he does get arrested make sure he's not hurt."

"I will."

They share a hug before Chanel runs back to ship, guns are still blazing, Chanel takes out two of her pistols and starts shooting Vincent's gang members, Chanel was a trained guns woman, and she knew how to shoot to kill.

"Julie!"

She turns to her left and sees Johnson fighting with a man, she aims her gun and shoots him in the head, watching his body fall over to the ground, Johnson gives her a nod and continues.

Chanel had to find Vincent, she puts one gun away and cautiously approaches the ship and gets inside, she is suddenly grabbed from behind, her mouth is covered and then pulled deeper into the ship. She's released and thrown onto the ground; she looks up to see Vincent.

"Well hello, Julie."

How does he know my name?

"Vincent," she says as she scrambles to her feet, keeping her gun in her hand.

"Even after you've betrayed me, I still love you."

Chanel frowns, "I'm sorry but I had to do it."

Vincent laughs, "I know, why do you think I let you?"

What?

"I had to let you go through with the plan, just to humour you, do you honestly think that I, Vincent Giovanni would let you play me."

Chanel is quiet.

"Exactly," he chuckles evilly, "Gosh and here you are thinking that I had no clue of who you were and what you were up to, Julie amore, I maybe be evil but I'm not stupid."

"Vincent, I'm sorry okay, don't kill me. We can escape and run away from all this."

Vincent laughs and cocks his gun, "No."

He points it at Chanel and Chanel points her gun at him.

"You turn me on Julie, a woman after my own heart," he says lowly.

As crazy as it sounds, she was turned on too, he just looked so sexy, even with the mad look in his eyes.

"I'm not afraid to shoot," she replies.

"I'm not either baby, so whenever you're ready."

Chanel stares at him, was she going to shoot him?

Bang!

Vincent's limp body fell to the ground and right there behind was Johnson.

Fucking hell, she thought.

She resists the urge to cry and puts her gun away.

"You okay?" Johnson asks walking towards her.

She nods, "Yeah, thank you."

She looks down to find that Vincent was shot in the rib, his chest was slowly rising and falling.

Thank God.

"I'll go call an ambulance," she says and quickly rushes out.

She steps outside and finds Gio being taken away in handcuffs, he turns to look at her and he gives her a wink and a smile, and she couldn't help but give him a curt nod.

She was happy that they weren't dead, at least now her consciousness was clear, the man she loved was still alive and so was her best friend's boyfriend.

The place was filled with cop cars and paramedics, blue and red lights flashing all over the place, it was weird how this entire ordeal felt like an out of body experience for Chanel, it happened fast, too fast.

She calls for a paramedic and leads them into the ship, they put Vincent's body on yo the stretcher.

"Julie," he croaks out.

Chanel walks to the stretcher and glances down at him.

He takes her hand and kisses it, "I'll come back for you amore, I promise."

She pulls her hand away and orders them to take him away.

After 40 minutes the entire place is sealed with police tape, Chanel is standing with one of the FBI agents when she sees Kat walking towards her.

"Monica," she pulls her in for a hug, "Are you okay?"

She nods, "Thank you, Julie."

"You know I'd do anything for you."

She gives her another hug.

"Well ladies, I'm proud of you both."

"Thank you, Sergeant, but this will be our last mission."

The Sergeant is shocked, "But why?"

"This has been fun but a little overwhelming, we just decided that we'd lay low until the heat is over, maybe we will return," Kat explains.

"You deserve it girls and while we are still here, why don't you enjoy the rest of your stay here in Italy."

"Thank you, Sergeant."

He turns around and walks away, making them sigh in relief.

"Let's go home, Monica."

"I agree."

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