Epilogue

Emilio

His Bella Isa

Emilio was tired of this school. Exhausted from the day-to-day monotony. He was ready to drop out and he would have years ago. If it weren't for her.

Isobel. His Bella Isa. Well, she wasn't exactly his, but he dreamed that one day she would be. Except in his family's line of work, he was afraid to ever bring her into the fold.

Instead, he tried his best to keep her safe from the shadows. She was being relentlessly bullied, but he could fix that. James finally let her be after he took matters into his own hands. After he beat the shit out of the sniveling teenager.

If James ever spoke to her again though? He wouldn't be walking away from the encounter.

Emilio thought that was all he needed to do to keep her safe.

But recently?

Something wasn't quite right.

Emilio had been around numerous soulless men; it didn't take him long to pinpoint his feelings of unease. Isa was spending more and more time around her teacher, Sebastian York. He seemed happy, jovial, good. Too good. The man was a rose covered in sharp thorns. Every creature in the wild that was purposefully bright and colorful was venomous. Sebastian was no different and Emilio knew it was only a matter of time before the teacher crossed a line.

Emilio was just finishing up a job for his family when he checked Isa's location and anxiety sunk into his gut. She was still at school. This late?

He cursed and ordered his driver to make a U-turn. Emilio knew he should have dealt with this problem sooner.

Upon arriving, Emilio heard it. Isa's quiet muffled scream coming from the roof. He wasted no time; he grabbed his gun and ran up the stairs.

Throwing open the roof's door he saw the disgusting man attacking her.

"Get the fuck off of her!" he yelled at the predator.

The man's dick was only inches from touching Emilio's precious Isa when he stopped. Emilio was on the predator before he realized what he was doing and pistol whipped him across the face. His driver had joined them at this point and pressed the barrel of his gun to the predator's head.

With the situation under control, Emilio examined Isa. He did his best to avert his eyes from her naked form. He found that her face was wet and the tears that streamed down her face, he wished to lick away.

He shook his head, clearing the thought. Later. He needed to help her now. To make sure she would be okay from this.

He might be a killer by default, but he would never attack an innocent. Never assault a girl.

Scalding anger shot through his veins as he shrugged out of his baggy leather jacket and handed it to her. He found her pants and helped her into them as she shrugged into the jacket. She was shivering but also giving him a hard look.

"Why do you have a gun?" she questioned.

"Later." He turned to his driver. "Take her to the car. Take her to my home, make sure she's comfortable."

Isa protested, "If you think I am going to a second undisclosed location after THAT, you are out of your goddamn mind."

Emilio pointed his gun at the teacher and gestured for his driver to hand his gun over. "Take this." He handed it to her. He aligned her fingers where they needed to be. "This is the safety and when it's off you just pull the trigger. If you aim, you must be willing to shoot."

Isa stiffened her shoulders and snatched the gun from him, she immediately pointed the gun in the teacher's direction, flicked the safety, and shot into the ground, inches from the man's dick. Sebastian attempted to jerk away, but Emilio stepped forward holding him in place.

"Okay," she agreed. She spared one last glance back before following his driver away.

"You don't know what you're doing," Sebastian threatened.

Emilio didn't bother arguing. His mind was made up the moment he saw the man on top of the struggling Isa. He waited until she was far enough away to not hear the noise before he shot the man in the chest.

He called his clean-up crew. "Party of one. No trace." He left the roof without a backwards glance.

That was the last he saw of Sebastian but later learned when the clean-up crew arrived, 20 minutes after he left to go after his Isa, the only evidence of the predator was a puddle of blood.

After that, Emilio waited until his targets stopped breathing. He never let another man survive his judgment.

Especially not when it came to his precious Bella Isa.