Damon

The moment I saw Russo, everything went blank. I couldn't see anything but Laeila's tattered body, I couldn't hear anything but her screams.

I closed the distance between us and held him by his throat, "You asshole" I tightened my grip but I was pulled off by Enzo. "Don, wait. We need to be careful." he said "Listen to your friend Caprio, maybe I will reward you with an easy death." said Russo creasing his shirt. "You are dead Russo, nothing will stop me today. I will end you. I WILL FUCKING END YOU" I shouted and charged at him when one of his men hit me with the back of the gun that made me fall on the ground. I pulled out my gun from the waist and shot him dead. "Hold now, no one has to get all worked up." Russo said stopping his men to shoot me.

I know the rest of my team is on their positions but we are way too less in numbers. These men with him, none of them are the people I knew. They weren't Miguel's men. He took his support off him since my visit to Mexico. This, this must be his alliance with the Irish Mafia, probably given them some fake promise to get their support. I must say I didn't think Russo had the capability to stage this. I haven't expected so much. That was my fault.

I need to have Russo fight me. Just me and him else it is a lost battle. No I can't loose today. If Russo wins today it's over forever. I can never forgive myself for what happened with Laeila. I need to finish him before this finishes me. "You can't win today Caprio. I am the real Don and you will kneel in front of me." he retorted and I scoffed. I don't give a damn about being or not being the Don, all I want is him dead. I pulled my gun at him "Just one bullet between your eyes and game will be over, you may have thousands men surrounding me, but guess what Russo, I don't give a fuck if I walk out of this factory alive or dead, only if you are not breathing. Killing you is the only thing that matters" I said agitated. "That is your problem Caprio, you don't think, you are so blinded by your rage. Poor Sophia" he said and I shot him. My bullet hit him right in his chest just a millimeter away from his heart. I didn't want him to die yet, he hasn't suffered enough but he took her name and that boiled my blood. In a moment there were raining bullets.

I rolled over and rested my back against a wall, breathless from running from the bullets back and forth the warehouse. My men were fighting, his men were fighting and Enzo was fighting with me over the Bluetooth for my reckless move that led into this haywire firing. "Seriously, how stupid can you be?" came his blasting voice amidst the firing. "I know, but I couldn't control when he took her name, he was testing my nerves-" "Then you should have killed him" he cut me off in between disapproving that I didn't shoot to kill him. "No that would have been too easy for him." I retorted. "Well good luck with that" he said in annoyance.

All of a sudden the firing got still and I heard Russo's whistle "Yo-hoo anybody home? Look our Donna came to meet us" What the hell! How this happened where is Ric. "Come out Caprio, I thought you were intelligent enough. I didn't need to voice it out." He said proud of himself. "Ugghh fine. Seems like Master will come when his Pet will call. C'mon Donna do the honors. Call him." There was silence. "I said call him" he said with gritted teeth and I heard her scream. "Find Ric" I said to Enzo from my earpiece because I needed my brother safe too. Enzo is the only one I trust and right now only one who can save him if he is in danger. "You are not going out alone, Soph-" "I will finish Russo, you save Ric." I cut him off and I saw him sneaking out slowly.

I stepped out. He was standing there holding his wound the blood was oozing out but he composed himself good enough for someone who is just shot. I saw one of his man holding Sophia with her arm and gun at her head. Her hands were still tied with my tie. They have untied her from the steering but kept her hands tied. There were bruises on her forehead and jaw. The bruises that were not given by me. They touched her. They touched my Doll. Where the hell is Ric? I thought, how is this possible that he got hold of Sophia with Ric guarding her.

The man holding Sophia nudged her to him "Take your hand off her." I bellowed with sheer anger. I can't tolerate anyone touching her. "Russo, ask your filthy dog, to stop touching her, NOW. " I shouted and I saw Sophia's struggle to release her hand, she understood my threat. Russo just laughed and I shot at that man, he dropped to the floor dead and Sophia shivered. Before I could take hold of Sophia Russo shot me in the arm. "Don!!" Sophia shouted and lunged towards me while Russo held her from her elbow to stop her. I held my arm with another but it wasn't something I was not used too, I could take a bullet and stand. "Do. Not. Touch. Her" I said making every word loud and clear, pointing my gun at him and to my surprise, he left her. Though his gun kept her in place but he left her hand, that's all I wanted right now, to have his filthy hands off her. I brought my gun down as he removed his hand. "Wow, you are a real psycho!" he exclaimed and laughed. "Anyways coming to business, now you see I have your whore, can we end this charade, where you think somehow you are going to win and move on" he said. "Russo, its between us, don't drag a woman in it. Be a man and fight me" I barked at him and he laughed "How is this possible Caprio, after all this feud started because of a woman. Remember young, naïve, hot and ripe Laeila" he said with his disgusted smile and my grip tightens around my gun. "I am sure this one won't be as ripe as her but then again with the experience she has, she must be an expert in pleasuring men" said the degraded bastard. "Let her go" I said, I was failing. I couldn't let any harm come to her. No, I can't fail her too like I failed Laeila. "Give me what I want, and I will leave her. I give you my word." he said. "Not that your word has any value, still fine, I will give you. You can be the Don." I said, because nothing matters more than her and right now, she needs to come to me. I will handle him later. I saw Sophia's eyes went wide on my decision, silly girl, she doesn't know what will I do with the kingdom if I lost my queen. She is everything to me and I love her more than I hated Russo.

"Wow, trust me, when you killed Zack, I saw sheer vengeance in you. I thought this might backfire, maybe I overestimated. I really doubted her value. But for a whore you picked at an auction, this bitch really matter a lot, huh" he said sizing her up "But that's not what I want. You know the terms Don. Kneel." he said with smug lacing his voice.

I looked at Sophia, she was sobbing. She was worried, she was afraid and all her anxiety was coming to surface. She needs me right now, she needs to know that she is okay, that she will not loose me but if I knelt that means I surrender. Russo will kill me and my Doll, she will die if anything happens to me. And if I didn't he will kill her right now. It will take less than a millisecond for Russo to pull the trigger and I am too far to protect her. No I can't let her die. I dropped my gun. "No, Don no!! You can't, Don please!" Sophia screamed between her sobs. "Quiet Doll" I said and she went quite. I heard Russo's disgusting chuckle as he passed a degraded comment praising her obedience.

Her words stopped but her eyes, I saw her eyes became bigger than they already are. Her panic attack was taking over. It was my fault, I shouldn't have tied Sophia there, hell I should have known about Zack, this would have never happened. My Doll would have never have gotten into this danger had I knew who the rat is.

I smiled at her trying to tell her to calm down, trying to tell her everything will be fine. She will live.

I bend my knee and knelt in front of Russo.

I saw her and her eyes told me that her world has fallen apart, her faith is broken, like she lost and the broken pieces of her heart flew down her eyes in her tears as my Doll fell to the ground on her knees.

Russo whistled "Woah, now this shit I say is true love, huh. The mighty Don, the King is on his knees to save his damsel in distress. The obnoxious, arrogant son of a bitch." he said in disgust as he pointed his gun at me. "What up bitch, won't you brag how strong your Don is, look your God is now at my feet, soon he will be in hell." he bend down and another man took his place pointing gun at Sophia. Russo pulled me up and punched me in the jaw. He was hitting me and Sophia was sitting on the floor, she was too shocked to react. I guess I disappointed her. Maybe she trusted me too much. Maybe seeing me kneeling she realized I am not some God, she kept me higher than she should have.

Russo's punch brought me back from the abyss of her eyes I was lost in. I don't know how long he kept hitting me. I fell on my stomach as Russo's fist met my cheek.

The surroundings were fading now, I could hear his laughter, I tried to make out the words but couldn't. I was bleeding out slowly. Doll, I could see her hand stretching towards me. I smiled as I tried to held my hand up to hold her. But I couldn't, she was moving farther. Someone was dragging her. Away from me. No, she can't go away from me. "D-doll" I tried to speak but the sound didn't come.

"Damon!!!" I heard her scream and my eyes burst open. I saw Russo was dragging her to a table nearby. Laeila.

"Help me brother!" I heard her screaming from the table.

"Damon!!" I heard Sophia from the same table. I looked at her. She was wailing and Russo was on her while one of his man was pinning her down. "Damon!"

No!! Doll.

I stretched my hand to get the hold of my gun which was still in the place I dropped. It was far from my hands reach. I tried to stretch my hand but the bullet is making it impossible. I turned on my back and picked it up by stretching myself on my left hand.

"Russo!" I screamed as I got up and shot the bullet. Russo dodged the bullet but the man behind him died. I kept walking towards them and kept shooting. I crossed many dead bodies few of Russo's men and many of mine. I kept shooting and one by one they were dying. I shot Russo in the leg. I saw him falling and one of them lunged towards me and I punched him out of my way and then the other came. I bend so he fell over me and took out my knife. I slaughtered his neck as he tried to come at me from behind. I pulled the trigger and shot Russo in another leg.

I kept moving forward fighting the ones who were coming in between. They were so busy in devouring my Sophia that me getting up caught them off guard. The moment they took to come at me together was the moment of my strength. Till they were coming one by one. I was killing them. That didn't last too long. Six of them came at me together after I shot Russo in his arm. He was too shot to move but still not dead. I wasn't giving him a fatal shot yet.

His men held me from back and the one who was in front, I kicked him but his fall was not too far. He lunged at me before I could jerk the others but before he could have hit me he was shot dead.

His body fell to the ground and I saw Sophia holding my gun which fell in the quarrel behind him. She killed him. Surprisingly she was not shivering like its not her first kill. She might have killed before but that was an accident, this is deliberate yet she was not scared or anxious. She was angry. Only angry.

I was too caught up in looking at her when she shot someone else. I turned to see another man of Russo who was about to hit me with a rod is dead. I looked at her and she threw my gun towards me and I caught it.

She bend down and picked another gun from the floor to keep the others from coming at me when I kill Russo.

I shifted my eyes from her to my nemesis lying there. I took another step towards him and I looked at his pleading eyes but he knows there is no point in begging now. It's over for him.

I crouched down and pulled him up. He was too weak to make a move and I punched him. Again and again and again. I kept hitting him until the screams of Laeila started to fade out.

I punched him for the last time and his body flew in the air and landed on the metal rod piercing him from the ribs.

Sophia flinched and covered her eyes at the sight so did few others.

I however, couldn't take my eyes off his lifeless self.