*Ella*

"OKAY" I yelled "OKAY!" I said once more, looking up at Jack who dragged Josh's body inside my penthouse. "I'll abort the baby"

"Funny you'll give up an innocent for an abusing lover" Jack laughed.

"Just get him help, please"

"Two bullet holes within him isn't going to let him live to see another day, even though one of them only looks internal"

"I told you I'll get rid of the baby, what else do you want?!" I panted, on my knees beside him as Josh positioned ahead of me, almost unconscious. "Please"

Although Josh's back faced Jack, Sylvester and I, I could almost see myself completely losing him and for good this time.

"All those anonymous skype messages and your ignorant self would always stumble back to him"

"That was you?" I frowned looking up.

"Does anyone else need to use you to destroy Josh. Nobody cares enough like me" he shook his head beside me.

"I don't care" I honestly said, "What do you want now, why aren't you getting him help?" I whispered, wishing Josh would turn around to face me for just a second.

"You've always been stupid" Jack sighed "My plan is to have him dead and your baby is just an add on to our troubles" Jack looked at Sylvester "Josh is only meant to die for making us lose too much profit chasing you" he lied, knowing it was never to help Sylvester, but just to get revenge for his cousin and uncle.

You never know when you're falling for the wrong person, however when you do, it's impossible to recover from it.
I fell and I keep falling over and over again almost like I never did at first.
Watching his figure lay there, physically hurt and yet mentally, I was scared.
I was scared that my heart will somehow follow, that living whilst looking over my shoulder for the rest of of life will be a tragic reality.
I had numerous fears and the most important of them all, is the innocence of an unborn baby.

"Move" Jack kicked me, forcing me to crawl and drag myself towards the couch, away from Josh. "Watch this"
He walked over towards Josh and kicked straight in the stomach, where the bullet went through.

Josh groaned and coughed, gripping his stomach tightly.
Jack kicked him again, this time causing him to roll over and face me.

I held my palm over my mouth as I shivered and sobbed lightly.

Josh's weak eyes attached to mine, smiling weakly before being kicked again and groaning in pain.

As his blood ran in-between his fingers and passed his hands against my floor, I silently begged God for help.

"Please" I stood up off the couch "Please, whatever you want" I took a few steps towards Jack.

Jack held up his gun, pointing it right at me. I shook my head in tears and rushed over. I grabbed either side of his gun and shoved it against my stomach as Josh laid beside us.

"Do it" I groaned in pain "Do it"

Jack looked deep into my eyes and gulped lightly, keeping his hand wrapped around the gun.

"DO IT!" I yelled.

"Ella" Josh called from beneath us, coughing numerously as blood appeared by the side of his mouth. "Let it be me...this time" he coughed, groaning.

I gripped Jack's gun tight and refused to let it go.
"Prove the type of man you are and do it" I leaned forward towards him.

"Enough" Sylvester walked over towards us. "You're saving the man who supported your parents killers"

I frowned, slowly releasing Jack's gun. "What?"

"I have a past Ella" Sylvester took a deep breath "And unfortunately your parents were one of my victims"

"What are you talking about?"

Josh wiggled beside us until he laid up against the wall, keeping his hands against his stomach.

"Your parents were killed by my order"

Josh chuckled lightly against the wall, coughing as he rubbed his hand against his mouth.
"Our lives run on lies" he groaned, looking up at us standing beside each other. "You're here to get revenge for your family" He looked at Jack.

Jack shrugged "And I'm almost done"

Josh laughed in pain once more before shaking his head as he painfully laid up against the wall.
"I was the one who killed Josh..." he panted "Gregs father"

"I know!" Jack aimed his gun right at Josh.

"Sylvester was the one who...gave me...the order to...do so" Josh coughed with slight gasps. "Did he not tell you that?"

Jack frowned, keeping the weapon at Josh as he looked at Sylvester. "What is he talking about?"

"A fool" Sylvester laughed "Trying to save himself"

"No" Josh chuckled "You were too weak...to do it yourself...calling me to-"

"ENOUGH!" Sylvester yelled.

"He handed me the weapon to your uncles death-"

"ENOUGH!"

"It's a shame...he had to die knowing...you turned on him-"

"I SAID ENOUGH!" Sylvester grabbed Jack's weapon, aiming it at Josh.

"Shoot me" he smiled, so proudly. "Shoot me knowing you were the reason behind his revenge" he looked over at Jack "Do it"

"Wait" Jack grabbed Sylvester's hand "What is he talking about?"

"He's trying to turn us against each other" Sylvester groaned.

"17-17-17" Josh whispered towards Jack.

Jack frowned and took a step towards him "How?"

"You're dads keep safe code, the day you were born, the day you grew your first tooth and the age of when you got your first gold medal in school"

"WHO TOLD YOU?!" Jack leaned down and grabbed Josh by the collar as he remained up against the wall.

"Who did he trust most?" Josh coughed in pain.

Jack stood up and walked over towards Sylvester, shaking his head "You lied to me"

"No!" Sylvester yelled, aiming the weapon at Josh "YOU KILLED HIM!"

"WITH YOUR ORDERS I KILLED GREGS FATHER AND JACKS!" Josh yelled back, coughing numerous times after that. "I needed the code to his safe to his treasures and you were the only one with access"

"So?!" Sylvester tried to cover his tracks.

"You're the reason?" Jack asked Sylvester.

"No, he's just trying to turn you against me" Sylvester frowned.

Josh laughed and spat blood across the floor "We've all heard that before"

Jack pulled the gun out of Sylvesters hand, fixed it within his own and aimed it right towards his forehead. "You lied to me"

Sylvester gulped and took a step back. His men all raised their weapons at Jack and Jack didn't hesitate. "Both of you will pay for this" Jack whispered. "But first you" He aimed his weapon at Josh.

Within a heartbeat, my wall long window shattered to pieces and the the entire penthouse blacked out.
Someone groaned aloud and hit the ground.

I took a deep breath as guns went off, falling to the ground and I didn't know which way to crawl.

A figure reached for my arm and I tried pulling away but a wet feeling covered my arm and clothes as the figure climbed above me.

"No!" I panted, shoving roughly.

Guns fired and glass continued shattering.

At first I thought a dead body fell above me, leaving me out of breathe beneath.

Within several minutes the lights came on.
The figure above me wiggled away and I sat up.
My penthouse was ransacked as bullets, glass and bodies covered the ground.

Josh laid beside me, finally knowing it was him who laid above me, shielding me.

I turned around, watching Nicolas aim a gun to the side of Jack's head and within another hand a gun towards Sylvester.

Everything seemed slow motion, everything seemed like a nightmare whilst asleep.

"Josh" I whispered, noticing him on the ground, this time without a sound.

"What do you call this entrance?! Huh" Nicolas chuckled "They should've chosen me to act assassin creed"

"Josh" I said a little louder, sliding across the floor towards him.

"Oh fuck" Nicolas gasped "Don't move or i'll blow your brains out!" He yelled before running towards us.

I flipped Josh over to lay on his back and grabbed either side of his face "Josh, Josh"

Nicolas tore his shirt wide open and a bullet hole was too deep to even realise anything around it and another one that just appeared above his skin but midway through.

Nicolas began to shiver lightly but remained focus. He dialled 911 and directed them to the place.

Josh still had a pulse but so much blood remained leaking that his mouth was also about to give up.

I turned him over, having his side towards me as I slightly opened his mouth and allowed blood to escape his lips.

"Josh" I whispered.

"Won't be long" Nicolas groaned. "You fucking bitch" he stood up.
Within a split second and within a blink of an eye, his gun fired straight in-between his eyes and Sylvester hit the ground.

Nicolas aimed his weapon at Jack and I stood up. "NO" I placed my hand onto Nicolas' gun.

Nicolas huffed and puffed, with death roaming his eyes.

"Leave him for now"

Nicolas remained there as I ran towards Josh side once I heard him cough.

"Ella" he shivered.

I leaned down beside him, mouth near mouth and eyes within eyes.
"Josh" I placed a hand against the side of his face.

"I'm sorry" he whispered, faintly.

"Sh" I gasped, "save your breath, we're going to get you home"

Josh gulped then spat more blood. "I'm sorry"

I shook my head and licked my lips in fear, "Sh, it's okay, it's okay"

"Don't tell our child..." he coughed, feeling shamefully sad and powerless he said, "Of our nightmares or about me"

I breathed weakly as a tear left my eye. "We won't tell it about our past, you can tell it about our beautiful times"

"Like what?" he asked, full of shame and weak.

"When his drunk mother tried to pee in the bathtub" I whispered "Or when you caught me several times eating late night ice cream" I smiled weakly "Maybe about the time you showed me the City and bought me things I didn't want"

Josh gulped.

He struggled to keep his eyes open and was slowly running out of breath.

I grabbed his hand and squeezed it tight. "Please hold on, pull through"

Josh gulped and took one deep tight breath.

"You have a family to come home to now" I whispered "Please, Josh" I sobbed lightly. "For your child"

He squeezed my hand tightly once more before it fell loose and his eyes shut.

"Lets go home" I whispered with a tear that fell against his pale cheek.
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Jack should've have left Josh's back facing him coz Josh has access to a phone stupid boy!!

Red roses or black roses to a funeral my people

UPDATE:
IM SORRY this chapter was published 8/8/18 but wattpad had issues & today was the day yu can finally view it!!!

Mia. xxxxx

There will be a squeal maybe lol otherwise TEMPTATION BOOK is coming!!! R rated be careful!!