Eva had been seated at the back of a truck with no windows. She didn't know where they were. Her shoulders were coming out of their place from how tight they had tied her arms behind her back. Her lip was swollen and torn and her head had a big painful bump from where they had hit her with their guns. Damiens's unconscious form was in front of her eyes, making her feel nauseous from worry. She was praying in her mind for him to be fine. She was worried for her daughters and other sons plus Albert as well.

James and Jordan had silently sat on each side of her with their heads buried in her sides. Their hands were tied up as well. She could see red marks on their small wrists from the tight cable ties. She should do something to escape with the twins before they would reach their destination or only god knows what would happen.

"Please, the ties around their hands are too tight." she pleaded the man who was at the back with them. "It's hurting them. Took them off. They are only kids."

The man smirked sinisterly. "Really?" he mocked. "I have heard a lot about the youngest devils of the King's sons. They are wild like their older siblings. I'm not mad to let them lose."

"Don't talk about my sons like that." snarled Eva angrily and was rewarded with a hard slap. her head jerked to a side and so did her body and she hissed in pain as her hand was scratched by a sharp jag on the wall behind her. She glared at the guard in front of her and the twins growled at him as well.

The man pulled up his gun and pointed it at her. "Watch your fucking tongue." he said angrily. "I won't hesitate to kill you."

Eva leaned back and moved a bit and traced the jag with her finger and began to discreetly rub the tie around her wrists to it, suppressing the urge to hiss in pain with every movement of her hands.

After five minutes of struggling, she felt the tie snapping in half and she closed her eyes in relief. Her heartbeat increased as she came to the next part. Her distance from the man in front of her was not that much and a plan formed in her mind. It was then or never. She count to three in her mind and then with the speed of lightning balanced herself with her hands on her seat and hit the man with the soles of her feet right in the face with full force. His head hit the wall behind him with a loud bang and a nasty crack was heard and he fell to the ground unconscious.

The car stopped suddenly, but Eva didn't waste any time. She quickly grabbed the man's knife and cut the ties around the twins' hands. She then grabbed the man's gun, torch, and GPS that was dangling from his waist and didn't hesitate to shoot the moment the back door opened, showing a shocked armed man. She jumped out of the back with the twins as soon as the man hit the ground, dead.

They were in a parkway with forest on both sides of the three-line road. "Run!" she shouted at the twins and pushed them forward running after them, covering them the best she could with her body. She heard shouting from behind and a gun went off the moment she reached the lines of the trees and she screamed as a piercing pain shot through her entire back and clutched her shoulder.

"Mommy!" yelled the twins and turn to her.

"Run! don't stop running." she yelled as she found her balance, grabbed their hands, and ran inside of the dark forest. It was pitch black inside of the forest but she didn't dare to turn on the torch in fear of getting caught again. Miraculously, they didn't fall on the ground too much and didn't twist their ankles. When she couldn't hear the man behind them, she stopped to catch her breath. She was too dizzy and could feel the warm stream of blood running on her back. The forest was silent except for its usual sounds at night.

She fell on her knees and the weeping twins sat down beside her, clutching her arms. Now that the adrenalin had washed away from her veins, she was losing her consciousness fast.

"It's alright, dears." Panted Eva as she took the GPS and turned it on. "It's going to be alright."

She pinned their location and located the nearest place which was a gas station and pined it as well and the direction was shown on the map.

She then placed the device in James' hand and caressed their cheeks lovingly. "You should go alone. Follow the direction and stick together. Mommy can't come with you this time. Once you were there, tell someone that you are missing and ask them to call your dad or Mason. Do you understand?"

"But you are bleeding," cried Jordan. "We won't leave you alone."

"Go, now" whispered Eva before darkness took her and she fainted.

"Mommy!" Cried both boys and shook her body.

James quickly wiped his tears and began to turn Eva to her side and Jordan helped him. "Jordan!" He called. "Press your hand on her wound. We won't leave her. I'm going to bring help."

Jordan nodded and took off his shirt and pressed it to Eva's wound as James darted toward the direction that the map was showing.

His small legs were aching hard and his lungs were burning when he reached the gas station. He quickly spotted an old-looking lady who was coming out of a shop there and ran to her.

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"Sir! Something happened suddenly." Mason and Albert heard the lead of their tech team in their earpieces. "They suddenly stopped and changed their direction. They are now inside of the woods which is only 15 minutes far from you. I sent the coordinates to your navigators."

"They must have fled." Said Mason and clenched his fists. "I wish they are fine."

Ten minutes later suddenly Albert's phone rang. It was an unknown number. His heartbeat increased as he answered. "Dad!" Relief washed over him when he heard James' voice.

"James!" He said and everyone in the car became alert, watching him. "James, where are you? Are you fine?"

"Dad, I'm in a gas station. This lady will tell you the address, please come fast." Said James and Albert heard shuffling before he heard a woman giving him the address.

Albert's eyes grew wide when he saw they were passing the exact gas station. "Stop the car!" He yelled at the driver. "James is in this station."

They quickly pulled over and saw James jumping up and down and waving frantically for them besides an old lady who had held his hand tightly. He ran toward their car as Mason and Albert jumped out of the car and ran to him. He jumped into Albert's arms who hugged him tightly and showered his face with kisses.

"James!" called Mason urgently. "Where are Jordan and Eva?"

James quickly pulled away and shoved the GPS into Mason's hand. "They are there." he said and pointed to the device. "Please save mom. She is bleeding bad."

Mason, Xander, Ben, Alex, and Simon darted into the forest followed by a few of their guards. Albert quickly passed James to Tony and ran after them. Five minutes later, they found Eva on the ground with a top naked Jordan beside her.

"Jordan!" shouted Xander and Jordan turned to them. His eyes twinkled with hope. Mason quickly took off his coat and wrapped it around the trembling Jordan whose lips had turned blue from cold, but he refused to pull his bloody hands away from Eva's back. His small shirt which he was pressing to Eva's wound was soaked with blood. "She is bleeding," the poor baby's voice was shaking badly as he uttered those words.

"Jordan, it's alright. We got her. You can take your hand away." said Ben hurriedly as he checked Eva's puls. He looked up at Mason. "She is alive."

Xander took off his jacket and knelt beside Eva and pressed it to her wound but Ben quickly picked her up in his arms.

"We should quickly take her to doctors." said Alex.

"Jordan! Eva!" shouted Albert as he reached the area lit up with torches.

"He is fine." said Mason quickly as he hugged Jordan to his chest, trying to warm up his trembling body. Albert was beside Eva in a second. He took off his coat as well and throw it on her body. "Eva!" he said worriedly as he pulled her hair away from her sweaty forehead. "Please open your eyes, love. Please."

"Sir! forgive me, but she needs medics." said Ben as he took off toward the gas station followed by others.

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Hunter and Alison had stood at the front doors of the base with a team of doctors ready to take care of Eva. Alison was crying hard. Damien was still under surgery and Rich and Bella were there with him. His condition was unstable and now she had heard the news of her mother being shot.

A moment later cars entered the perimeter and their tires screeched as they stopped in front of the building. The doctors rushed toward the car that Albert was coming out of with Eva in his arms.

"Mom!" yelled Alison as she ran toward them. The doctors quickly put Eva on the stretcher and rolled her toward the sliding doors. Alison's heart skipped a bit when she saw her mother's deathly pale face. "Mom, please." she cried but soon she was engulfed in someones' arms who prevented her from going with the stretcher. She trashed in the arms that were holding her tight. "No! let me go!" she shouted.

"Alison! you should let them help her." Alex's deep voice whispered in her ear and she calmed down only to turn and cry her heart out on Alex's chest. "James and Jordan." she said between her sobs.

"They are fine." said Alex. "Mason and Ben just took them in. They are only cold and exhausted."

Alison visited James and Jordan and sat beside them on the long hours when Eva and Damien both were under surgery. Alex was with her the whole time, making sure she wouldn't pass out.

When she couldn't take it anymore, they walked to the surgery rooms and saw Albert, Xander, and Hunter sitting there. Mason, Ben, and Tony with everyone from Gray Wolves were trying to sort things out and secure their properties. Albert had his head in his hand. Alison walked to him and put a delicate hand on his shoulder. He looked up at her and smiled faintly but his eyes were full of pain. He grabbed Alison's hand and kissed it and pulled her into a hug which she gladly accepted. "I'm sorry, princess." he said. "I wasn't able to keep your mother safe."

"She is still alive." said Alison with a shaky voice. "She is a fighter. She will be fine."

Just as she said those words, the doors of the surgery room opened and Rich walked out in surgery blue robes. The King men were on their feet in a second and Alex stood beside Alison and grabbed her hand.

Rich nodded several times and smiled. "They are fine, both of them." he said and everyone sighed in relief. "They will live."

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Meanwhile miles away in a warehouse .....

Vladimir Volkov was circling the shivering man who was supposed to bring Eva King and the youngest twins here with two others of his men. A very simple task. They were only a harmless nurse and two eight-year-old little boys, yet they had managed to fail.

"I'm sorry, sir." said the man. "I don't know what happened. The car swayed suddenly and when Jackson went to check what's going on I heard a gun and when I went out I saw them running away. But I shot the woman. She must have died. The forest was too dark and they were only a wounded woman and two useless children. They must be dead."

"You know, Peter." said Vladimir in a cold menacing voice. "I didn't want them dead. I wanted to use them to bring the Kings down. But you failed me. Their dead bodies will be of no use for me but to only make Kings wilder. And You know what?" he said as he stood behind the man and pulled out his gun and shoot him in the head. "I hate failures."

"He was a loyal man." said Andy, Vladimir's right hand, in his emotionless indifferent voice.

"And I was angry and in need of killing someone." said Vladimir as he cleaned his face from the blood that has splashed to his face with his handkerchief.

"But you gained your goal." said Andy. "Now they know who much we are powerful and so every other mafia family. Now they will consider who they should follow. It's time you show your face to everyone."

"What do you mean?" frowned Vladimir but just then his eyes lit up with realization. "Uh, that ridicules mafia gathering in two weeks?"

"Albert King is going to announce his son as the new Don of America." said Andy and lit a cigarette and took a long puff. "We can't attack them there and ruin our reputation when we need other mafia families' alliance. Attacking is forbidden on that day. But It's not bad we show ourselves there."

Vladimir smirked. "You are right." he said. "I want to congrats Mason before taking down his empire quickly and label him as the most useless mafia Don in history." he said and his sinister laughter filled the warehouse.