Cold episode 6

Cold episode 6
Having bitten her way through the gag, she grabbed his ear with her teeth, the man scre-med out loud and managed to pull his head out while Nancy pulled a good chunk of his ear off. She spat the bloody flesh out and scre-med help. Mad with pain and the blood oozing from his ear, he rushed at her and landed her a heavy slap which sent a mad sting through her flesh and drew the blood from her nose and mouth, raising his hand to hit her with the butt of his gun, she kicked him on his scrotum and he bent from the pain while she landed him another kick on the chest which sent both of them crashing on the floor, Nancy landed on the floor with a thud that broke the chair she was strapped to. They both lay on the floor too exhausted to make a move.
From outside, Jaycee had heard the man’s scre-m and Nancy’s shout for help and so also did the other 3. The one on the wall came out into the road exposing himself, Jaycee moved swiftly, cuddling against the wall, his gun up, he took a good aim and shot him down.
The other two seeing their colleague down open fire at Jaycees direction, he dropped on the floor for cover as the bullets flew over him hitting the walls and dropping some debris on Jaycee. Their bullets exhausted, one of them moved to where Jaycee was while the other rushed into the house each replacing his empty mag with a full one. He got to where Jaycee lay before Jaycee could pick his gun.
 
“Put your hands where i can see them ” he said pointing his rifle at him as he kicked his gun away. He made Jaycee stand up slowly and surrendered him.
“Don’t try anything funny or i will blow you open”.
Jaycee with his hand up smiled and shrugged, his eyes cast on something behind the gun wielding man. The man followed the direction of his eyes and turned, before he could blink, a blow landed on his face and he fell face down, the gun dropping from his hands, Joseph fell on him, grabbed him by the throat, clenching his teeth, they both struggled
Joseph tightening his grips and the man trying to tear his wrist off, Jaycee picked the gun and with a perfect aim,rammed the butt on the man’s head like a golf player, the pain stung him and he released his grip on Joseph’s wrist, slowly the blood came to his eyes and out of his mouth and nose while he gasped for breath, Joseph squeezed the life out of him.
 
Nancy and The man had jumped up from the floor when they heard gunshots outside the house, the man reached for his gun while Nancy pulled a piece from the broken chair, he swore and cursed as he made for Nancy in the dark room.
“Bitch, you are dead, i will kill you for this”. He pointed his gun in the direction that Nancy stood at the same time she aimed a sharp end of the stick she was holding and drove it deep into his belly, he let out a shrill cry and fell on his back, she picked another piece and raised it again to knock him out.
“Drop it now” a voice said. She turned in the direction of the voice and saw the third assailant pointing his rifle at her, she dropped the stick and faced him with a little bit of fear and a great deal of bitterness.
“Shoot her man, kill the bitch” his colleague yelled, wreathing in pain on the floor. The standing man c*cked his gun, Nancy closed her eyes in anticipation of what was to come, the man released the safety catch of his gun, Nancy’s heart skipped at the sound and the tears fell of her eyes, she thought of Jaycee as she waited for the bullets to come, she wasn’t angry at him, she loved him and didn’t mind losing her family and her self for his sake, she cried that she may not get to see him once again before she would be killed, all these thoughts went through her mind in a fleeting moment as she resigned herself to death and then the sound of a gun cackled, she opened her eyes, she felt nothing, just the hot tears in her eyes, She took one last look at the man and saw him fall on his knee with shock horror in his face and at his back stood Joseph clutching an Ak47 with Jaycee at his side.
Nancy ran to them, hugged Jaycee and broke down on him.
“Are you alright?” Jaycee asked as Joseph moved closer to the injured man who was still mo-ning on the floor. She clung to him without saying a word and sobbed.
 
“Who the hell are you and what do you want with me? ” Joseph asked as he bent low to observe the man on the floor.
“F-ck you” he said as spittle mixed with blood ran down the corner of his mouth. Joseph grab the piece of wood that was still stuck in his stomach and spun it around, he yelled in pain and coughed out blood bubbles.
“Who the f-ck sent you here?” Joseph yelled at him, he coughed with a violent jerk, threw his head back and slowly his eyes shut. Joseph felt his pulse and nothing came up.
“Is he dead?” Jaycee asked and Joseph nodded.
“Let’s get out of here” Joseph said leading the way, Jaycee held Nancy who was still crying and they walked sluggishly but steadily behind him, they walked a little distance to where he packed his car, he drove with Nancy in the back while Jaycee rode after them in his bicycle at an unusual speed.
The trauma on Nancy was too much, she cried all night in Jaycee’s room. She lost both her parents in one night because she was involved with a Donati, she wasn’t angry with them, she loved Jaycee too much for that, she was just pissed off for being born into all that hell.
She had cried herself to sleep in Jaycees arm. He gently lay her down on the bed and had gone out to join Joseph in the parlor. Maria was asleep in her room with August, they hadn’t bothered to wake her up when they came back not even when they were looking for pain relief drugs for Nancy.
 
“So what do we do next?” Jaycee asked taking a seat opposite the one Joseph sat on. Joseph shook his head in the negative.
“I don’t know, Nancy will have to stay with us but then, we are leaving here, it isn’t safe for us any more”
“Where do we go?”
“I know a place, the core of this hell fire where no one would like to come looking for me”.
“Okay bro, whatever happens, we got to be fast, you never know how they would come next”
Joseph nodded. Jaycee got up and went into his room while Joseph just sat there in the parlor stuck in deep thoughts. He smoked himself to oblivion while Jaycee slept on the bed beside Nancy.
The news of the death of Nancy’s parents only helped in freaking maria out the more. Everything connected the death to their family and it rekindled the fear she had for their safety.
The police had called in Nancy the next day over the bodies of her parents that was discovered, Joseph and Jaycee went along with her. After series of questions, she was allowed to examine the body of the alleged assassins, Joseph made sure he followed her in and got a clear look on the bodies again. After two hours of questions and answers section between the police and them, they were allowed to go on the promise that they will be contacted again. Seeing the body of her parents once more had brought out the emotions in Nancy and she cried silently for a long time refusing to be consoled even by Jaycee.
“Did you notice the tattoo on the body of that third guy? Joseph asked as they drove in silence.
“Yea, two little axes crossed together”.
“Hmmm” Joseph nodded.
“You think Roland is involved?”
“I don’t know, maybe we’ll have to find out from him” Joseph said as they drove home in silence.
Roland was a 31 year old gang leader. Born and raised in St Mathews, he was a core rival to Joseph and for a long time have shared a mutual beef. Roland wasn’t bold enough to confront Joseph despite being ruthless as he was and Joseph on the other hand never starts wars, he lets it come to him where he will be justified to treat it as he pleases.
They got home and Joseph called up Lugo. It didn’t take him up to five minutes to get to the house. Joseph detailed him about the events of the previous night and informed him of his findings at the hospital.
“I want to meet up with Roland”
“He would only be too glad to see you, he might as well finish you up himself” Lugo said
“I wasn’t planning on fixing an appointment with him”
“So you will just breeze into to his zone?” Lugo asked, Joseph looked at him and nodded.
“You are suicidal, do you know that?”.
Joseph nodded again. It was something he always did whenever he was hatching a plan in his head.
“We will be moving from here to our moms home at the fifth Avenue tomorrow” He finally said after nodding
“About time you did”
“Yea, then day after tomorrow, we pay Roland a visit”.