Even in Death not to Part [18+]

Chapter 35 - Lorenzo

"You need to let her go Son" her father tells me, his voice is level and calm.

But I can't, I can't let her go. I nearly lost her once I won't let her go again.

"NO" I growl. I don't know how I am still holding her, I should be passed out unconscious or dead but Her and my fear is the only thing keeping me going right now.

Marco bends down next to us

"Don Martello, You need to let her go"

I see her eyes close slowly. I panic, I start to scan her chest to see if it is moving up and down, I lift her face to my ear and head her breathing, I feel the warm breath against my cheek. Thank fuck!!

"Don Martello! She is alive but we need to get her to the hospital, she looks like she has lost quite a lot of blood, she needs medical help! And so do you" Marco tries to reason with me.

I glance up and see her brothers standing over us, waiting to take her from me, my breathing becomes heavy, it's stupid they are her family but I am so afraid.

"Lorenzo!" Marco snaps at me

"Call Sarah" I demand my voice is hoarse, a few seconds later I hear Vinny on her phone to her

I look up again at her brothers "I go with her" given as a demand not a question

They look to their father, he nods and they bend down to pick her up. Her eldest brother held her arm under her legs, another under her back. As soon as she leaves my arms my heart starts racing, panic floods through me like a virus.

She looks so fragile her limbs hang down freely, it's like there is no life in her. The stabbing pain inside my chest is back, the feeling of loss, of grief.

Marco bends down and pulls me to my feet, I swing my arm over his shoulder leaning on him as we follow them and Emilia down to the cars.

I hold onto her hand for the whole journey until we arrive at the hospital. We pay them enough each year for them not to ask questions when we arrive.

Sarah comes out to meet us at the entrance

"FUCK Lorenzo!!" she says as she looks at me rushing towards me grabbing my face gently, slowly assessing the damage. I pull my head out of her hands.

"Not me!-" I step to the side and reveal Emilia in her brother Joseph's arms "HER!"

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST LORENZO!!" she shouts at me and goes straight to Emilia

"This way" she ushers Joseph into the hospital I follow closely behind them

"Put her on here" Sarah brings a bed to Joseph and he carefully lays her down.

I stand at the opposite side to the bed watching as Sarah checks Emilia for a pulse and glances over her wounds

"What the fuck Lorenzo! What the fuck happened!?!" she asks with a hint of panic in her voice

"My father" I say through gritted teeth

"FUCK!! Look Lorenzo, she has lost a lot of blood from that knife wound in her leg, I need to set her up with a transfusion and get x-rays done of her whole body to assess the damage"

"Fine, I'll come with you"

"Lorenzo!! Have you fucking seen the state of you?! From the looks of it, you have a broken wrist, potential broken ribs, a fractured jaw and that's only the fucking start you need your own x-rays and maybe fucking surgery - you need fucking help too Lorenzo-" she looks around and finds who she is looking for "Dr Henson" she calls out

A doctor glances over and sees myself and then Emilia on the bed and rushes over

"What's happened?" he asks in haste

"Dr Heson this is my cousin Lorenzo, he has confirmed broken wrist, potential broken ribs and jaw fracture please could you attend to him" Sarah reels of quickly

"Okay, Sir please come this way" he holds out his arm directing me to doors at the end of the corridor

"NO! I will stay with her" I growl

"For fuck sake Lorenzo now is not the fucking time for your bullshit!!-" Sarah glances back and see Marco and Joseph "MARCO! And you" pointing at Joseph "Yeah you the one who carried her in both of you come with me -- she has Marco and this guy with her Lorenzo, let her go!! when she wakes and you are dead then what? what the fuck was all of this for?! you need help! she will be safe!" she says more firmly than she has ever spoken to me before

"I won't leave her side for a second" Marco reassures me

"No one will touch my sister as long as I still breath Don Lorenzo, I assure you" Joseph adds.

"Fine" I reluctantly have to let her go, I know she needs help and as much as it kills me I can't help her how she needs right now.

I turn to Dr Henson

"make this as quick as fucking possible and you will never need to work another day in your life your time starts now!"

He nods and leads me through doors at then end of the corridor.