Drops of rain start falling down as I am sitting in the garden of Castello di Fiamme, the coldness of the water cooling off my burning skin. I stare straight ahead of me, but my gaze turns towards the entrance when a car enters the driveway followed by a few security SUV. By the looks of it Greyson left the mansion and is just coming back now.

He steps out of his car, balancing multiple pizza boxes in his hand and I realise that I haven't eaten since yesterday morning. Greyson spots me and indicates for me to get inside, but I don't react and just turn my head, shifting my gaze towards the garden I have been looking at since an hour. I have a lump in my stomach and just thinking of eating makes me want to throw up at this point.

A few more minutes pass in silence, until I hear footsteps coming from behind me and in the corner of my eyes, I see Tucker sitting down next to me with a few slices of pizza on a plate.

"You need to eat J." He says as he shoves the plate in my hands and I immediately want to hand it back to him, but he holds it in its place, already aware of my plan. "Dude, you haven't eaten in days, it's no good for you. Magnolia wouldn't be happy, seeing you starve yourself like this."

Tuck knows damn well what he is doing by evoking her name. I fucking hate him.

"Fuck you Tuck." I utter the words, before grabbing a slice of pizza, which owns me a winning grin from the leader of the Devil's Sons. With that being done, he leaves me to myself again.

Hours pass, and I check on Magnolia regularly, always trying to enter her room to get to her, but Leo knows me too well and waits for me outside of her room, guarding it like a fucking dog. Only after a day of us roaming around the house, we are allowed to see her.

Leo lets Blake and I go in first, the sight of her leaving us both frozen in the entrance of the room for a few seconds. The flashback of seeing her on the floor of the vault flashes back in my mind, stabbing me right in the heart, so I have to push myself to make a step forward.

Her white face is painted with dark blue circles under her eyes, her cheeks hallow which gives in her tiredness that is eating her up.

"Motherfucker." Blake spits out next to me and goes to one side of the bed and takes one of her hand in his. This movement makes her green eyes flutter open and her gaze falls on her brother. Her lips tug upwards just in the slightest, but uttering a word already seems like too much.

I can't see her like this. Fuck !

She hasn't seen me yet, so I carefully turn around ready to walk out of here, but a small whisper makes me stop dead in my tracks, as I barely manage to recognise the voice.

"Jace."

It's her. Asking me to come back to her. Slowly I turn in her direction again, and immediately our eyes meet and my breath is taken away from me. Still so beautiful.

I make my way towards her, apologising for walking away from her, but instead she just swoops my mistake away and extends her hand for me to take. Her grasp is weak and I make sure to not press her hand to forcefully in mine, but feeling her hand in gives me immediate calm.

"I want... to go home... Bee." She whispers taking breaks between her words for the lack of oxygen that pass through her lungs, because of the virus that attacked specifically these organs.

I knew she didn't want to stay here, I knew she would hate it. And now she wants to leave, but cannot because of her still fragile state, anything could happen in the blink of an eye.

"We can't Lila, I'm sorry but it's still too dangerous for you to be transported. We will have to wait-" Blake begins, but gets cut off by Magnolia lightly squeezing his hand in order to make him stop speaking. Tears brim in her eyes, unwilling to hear the rest he has to say, because she is aware that she would be stuck here.

"Soon love. I promise." I give her a gentle squeeze to let her know that I am by her side and not leaving. "You still have to fight okay ? Keep on fighting like I know you can."

"I'm... so tired... of fighting Jace." She voices her thought and closes her eyes, which makes a tear roll down her cheek. Her thinking like this makes my heart shatter, not only because having a mindset like this is mentally destroying, but I can make such a big difference in her current state.

"Don't you dare say those words Magnolia !" Blake angrily utters and let's go of her hand to bake away from her, which clearly affects her. I know he can't deal well with loss, especially not with losing her again and again. Therefore he always tends to let his anger take over so it would hurt less, but ends up hurting the others more.

I shake my head with a clenched jaw to make him understand that he shouldn't shut her out like this, but he ignores me completely. At least, Leo barges into the room to tell us that we need to let her rest, which is the perfect timing.

Blake leaves without uttering an other word, but I land a quick kiss on her forehead before following after the twin.

Once the door of her room is closed I turn towards Blake, clearly annoyed by his attitude in there.

"What the fuck was that Blake, seriously ?" I shoot containing my anger as much as I can. "She doesn't need that right now."

"Just fucking leave it be Reed !" He spits back and walks away from me, knowing damn well he pissed me off.

"No Blake ! Stop pushing her away just because you are scared of losing her. I am telling you that if this goes in the wrong direction you will regret not staying by her side, don't make that messed up mistake."

His face pales when I mention the fact that it might not go the way we wish to, but we cannot afford to not look at every possibility.

"Who are you to judge ? YOU are the one that left her in the first place by faking your death which left her alone. You have no idea how it felt for her so Fuck you !" Blake grits out through his clenched teeth, hitting a weak spot of mine for paying back the fact that I exposed his.

He is right, but it was the best option to keep her safe, everyday she spend with me and Burning Heath was endangering her even more and I couldn't risk losing her because of me. In the end I am just like Blake...pushing her away so it won't hurt as much.

I watch as he leaves the mansion through the garden and seconds later an engin roars in the drive way, before the sound slowly disappears in the distance.

At this point a small idea makes it's way through my mind, a grin forming on my lips , as I think of making a plan to work my idea out. I'll just need to make a phone call with someone right away so I could arrange a few things, and maybe just check with Leo quickly to get an opinion about it.

So for the next ten minutes I speak with Leo, developing my idea along with him and to my surprise he seems rather in agreement with me.

"We need to let her rest first Jace, I can't risk anything right now so you'll just have to wait. It doesn't stop you from organising a few things already though." Leo says as we both sit down on a couch a glass of whiskey in our hands to ease of the tension that has been building up for weeks now.

With that being done, I take my phone out and start dialling a number.

"Jace ?" The familiar voice responds on the other side of the phone and I realise how I long I haven't talked to him. " You finally decided to make a call you fucker."

"Good afternoon to you to0 Gab, it's to hear from you again." I say, slight amusement in my voice. "I hope you haven't completely destroyed my gang, while I am here in Italy."

"Don't worry, I just blew up a few warehouses of yours while you are away without giving us any news of what is actually happening." He says dead serious and I sigh, realising that it's just his way to make me pay back the fact I haven't given him any news. Speaking off... he has no clue what actually happened over here. "Is Magnolia okay ? Out of the hands of the Italians ?"

My throat tightens when I realise how much my right hand man actually missed and has no idea what happened right here.

"Yeah we got her out. I'll have to tell you more about it, when I am back. But she is pretty sick Gab... I don't know if she will make out of this right now." I explain, not giving much detail about the situation, which earns me a bombing of questions from him that I try to answer without telling too much either. He deserves to know as my best friend, my right hand and Magnolia's best friend, but I don't want to tell him through the phone.

"By the way, is Will with you right now ? You send him with you, but the fucker decided to stop answering me thinking he can ignore me just because he is in an other country."

The world stops for a second, as the air doesn't reach my lungs. He doesn't know...

I actually haven't told anyone from the gang about this, only his brother the only family he had left... how could be so fucking careless ? One of my closest friends died and I couldn't even do the least to honour him... too much shit happened and I didn't have time to say a proper goodbye to him or even less realise that he is actually gone. I took no time to take care...

"Gab..." my voice cracks and I have to clear my throat to tell the news I dare to actually say, because it would just make it more real. "He was on the mission to take Magnolia out of the warehouse of the Italians...but he... he didn't make it out alive Gab."

It feels as if the world goes silent, as I don't hear Gab's voice over the ringing sound in my ears.

His shock is clear which I can't can only understand, as Will was one of his closest friends too. We all became so much closer, when he volunteered to watch over Magnolia right after I faked my death. He knew what he was getting himself into, but he didn't care. He was so loyal to me and the gang that he would do everything for it, saying that he had nothing else to live for as an orphan.

"I- I can't believe it..." Gab's cold voice takes over and rings through the phone, before he asks for the some explanation on what happened. That's when I start explaining everything, because he has the right to know. The vault. The keys. The virus. The Italians. Will. Us getting her back, before she leaves again. Everything.

Gab listens carefully, sometimes exploding out of anger for not telling him everything straight away, which is more than understandable so I let him yell at me to get the anger and sadness out for losing his best friend too.

"We will get him the proper funeral he deserves once we are back, I promise." I say as I recall the day we once all talked about how we wished to have our funeral, knowing damn well that this job was risky and everything could go down hill in a second. Which is exactly what happened for Will.

"So you want me to just wait here and you expect me to do nothing, while Magnolia is still fighting for her life the second we speak. Fuck no !" Gab yells, unable to contain the anger he has against the situation and me.

"No I am not Gab." I tell him sincerely, which seems to immediately calm him down as he waits for my explanation. "I want you to come here to Italy and take Rage with you. Magnolia needs to have something she can hold onto to keep fighting, so I thought that what could be better to bring you here and the passion she has for racing."

"I'll make that happen." Gab says a little hope distinct in his words. "Anything for her."

"I will tell you when. Magnolia is barely able to move right now, so when she gets better, I will tell you, and we can make it happen." I utter to Gab that is completely on my side with this and before we both hang up, he orders me to call him every day for the following days to let him know what goes on here.

"I'll let you know Gab." And then we hang up and I am left with a myself again, thinking about how stupid I could have been to leave him for so long in the dark, as he does everything for me on an other continent.

Jace and Gab... love them both. I missed Gab to be honest and I realised how he had no idea about Will's death...

It's just unfair and he had to be told by Jace.

Magnolia makes it out okay, she will also be able to grab onto her passion for illegal racing again !

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