Devil's Snare by Sruthionyx (top 100 books to read .txt) 📕

Rafael was in a meeting when the door burst open and Silas entered, he whispered something in Rafael’s ears, and this made him jolt right up from his chair. He didn’t care about anything at that minute, not the million-dollar deals nor the connections he could lose if he left that meeting, leaving his investors high and dry without an explanation they both rushed to the hospital. Blake was sitting in the hospital chair waiting for the doctor’s response.

Silas and Rafael walked into the hospital building searching for her, as soon as they reached the ward, they saw Blake sitting there with a sad expression marring her face. Rafael and Silas walked to Blake; Silas was the first one to question.

“Silas Quinn and this is my Capo Rafael Cavallo, what happened? How is she?” he genuinely wanted to know what happened.

Blake was shocked to see Rafael standing before her, “Rafael? You meant THE RAFAEL?” Blake asked forgetting where she was. Rafael and Silas looked at her expressionless which made her snap back feeling embarrassed.

She composed herself, “I don’t know, I was working at home when I received an SOS from her, and I immediately rushed to the spot to see her in the pool of her own blood.” She said making Rafael’s heart hurt, he was hurt, and his heart had this gnawing feeling, he had no idea why, but one thing was sure, her getting hurt was causing him pain, why?

“What did the doctors say?” asked Silas wanting to know what was going on

“They said it was a third-degree burn and they might need to do a skin grafting, she was suffering from an infection due to knife wound and burn wounds, but they couldn’t tell anything for sure”. Said Blake feeling bad for her friend.

As soon as they stopped talking a doctor came out and informed them that Alzea needed a procedure and that she is slipping in and out of consciousness. “The wound on her chest melted her skin, someone burnt her with something, and then there are some lash wounds on her chest as well. She is in a stable condition which I would say is out of sheer luck. Her wound and infection are under control, luckily her skin was still intact, and we could restore it with invasive procedures, but the scarring will be permanent, if she has to get rid of the scar, we will need a plastic surgeon to get involved”, the doctor said leaving them to wonder.

“Do you know who could do something like this?” this time it was Rafael who turned to Blake.

“I don’t know!! she is new here, it had only been some time since she had been here, and she doesn’t have enemies, I have no idea what happened”, Blake said trying to think about even a single clue about why this would happen.

Soon, a police officer came in and inquired about Alzea. Silas and Rafael were racking their brains as to who would be responsible for this. The girl would never even raise her voice at anybody let alone gather enemies. They needed to talk to her to know what exactly happened.

Rafael looked at Blake and asked, “where did you say the wound was?”

“On her chest, why?” Blake asked.

“Was anything of hers stolen? Her phone, laptop? Something?” asked Rafael trying to narrow down the possibilities of attack.

“Yes! They stole her bracelet”, Blake said not trying to understand where Rafael was getting at.

“What do you think Capo? Do you think this is random?’” Silas said knowing what was going on in his boss’s mind.

Rafael thought for a second, “could this be Matt?” no he doesn’t have the guts to do it.

“I don’t know Silas, but this was specific, they targeted a specific spot. If someone robbed her, they would at least harm her in more than one spot which they didn’t, I am sure she must’ve put on a good fight, her fight must’ve at least made him or her hurt her somewhere else on her body, but they didn’t. I don’t think it was one person either, it takes time to do burn your skin off, and one person couldn’t have held her down to cause enough damage to send her to the ER. She had her phone and laptop, but they did not take those, seems like a big risk just for a bracelet. They wanted to get rid of something, or this could be someone sending a message or asking to stay away from their path, whatever it is we need to find out, whatever it is, I am sure it is more than a robbery and definitely personal”, he said, to which Silas agreed.

Rafael walked into the room where Alzea was lying and it made him want to burn them alive, she was attached to tubes and her cheek had finger marks on them. His heart was hurting seeing her like that, he had this uncomfortable feeling inside but no idea why. Why was he feeling bad for a low life? Not giving much thought he came outside of his room and instructed Silas to post someone to watch over the girls.

Blake stayed with Alzea all night. It was morning and Alzea woke up trying to get an understanding of what happened to her., she was in an unfamiliar spot, with white lights surrounding her and beeping machines everywhere. Then it hit her like hail during a hailstorm, she was attacked, she was burned, then like a roller coaster coming down from its first bend, her pain returned, and she hissed feeling something on her chest. She looked at it and found a bandage on there.  

Blake woke up listening to Alzea’s hissing, “omg! Alzi, you scared the hell out of me, I was so scared and had no idea what to do, what happened? Are you in pain? How is the wound?” She kept asking questions without giving Alzea a chance to answer.