Is Trust Really Earned?

Chapter 6

Morgans POV

I was sitting in the café waiting for Savannah to arrive and I know I was 15 minutes early, but she seems to be really late, I try calling her a couple of times but it’s just ringing off. I’ll give her 10 more minutes and then I’m calling her father, no doubt he has some form of tracker on her. The next 10 minutes seem to drag on as I sit and watch the clock on the wall, I get to the eighth minute and think f**k it. I grab my phone and call her father; I explain what is going on and how late Savannah is.

She’s never late and if she is she always lets you know in advance, and if she didn’t, she would always answer her phone. I can hear her father tapping away on something while I explain why I’m calling “I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about but I’m tracking her now, where are you again?” he asks, “The café down the street from her therapist.” I inform him.

I hear more tapping “Hmm, that’s strange. According to her tracker she is there.” He said confused. I looked around the café and she definitely wasn’t inside “She’s not inside, hang on let me check the street.” I say getting up and heading outside, I look up and down the street “I can’t see her anywhere, are you sure her tracker says she’s here?” I ask.

I hear her dad grumble before he says, “She is definitely in the vicinity and she’s not moving, hang on let me call her see if you can hear her phone.” I try to listen, but the street is noisy, I walk up and down the street but don’t hear anything. Her father huffs through the phone “It’s gone to answer phone, did you hear anything?” he asks starting to sound worried “No I didn’t, try it again I’m going to try across the road.” I say crossing to the other side.

I hear it straight away “Hang on I can hear it, it’s….” I say as I walk down the alley it’s coming from and freeze at the sight before me. Savannah is lying in a bloody heap on the floor completely unconscious and naked, I wasn’t even sure if she was breathing. I could hear mumbling beside me not realizing I had lowed my phone from my ear in shock, I quickly come to my senses and run to Savannah putting my phone on speaker and dropping it next to me.

Before doing anything else I check she is breathing, thankfully she is “Rocco you need to get to my location now and bring the best doctors and f*****g HURRY.” I scream the last part as I am wrapping my jacket around her body.

I hear shuffling down the phone “Why, what’s happened?” he replies in a rush “I DON’T f*****g KNOW, JUST GET HERE!” I scream back. I hear Rocco barking orders “Get her in your car and bring her here, it’ll be safer.” He rushes to say. I look at her almost lifeless body “I can’t move her there’s too much damage, please Rocco she looks like she’s been kicked in the head and face repeatedly.” I whisper the last word. I hear her father gasp “We will be there in 5 minutes max.” he said, “Please hurry.” I plead as my phone goes dead.

I sit on the ground and gently lift Savannah’s head into my lap cradling her tightly, I notice her gun just out of reach and her phone underneath her leg. I reach for her phone “What the f**k happened to you?” I ask out loud as I grab her phone and turn the screen so I can look at it, I unlock it and notice that it is on her camera app. Looking at the last thing she recorded I want to throw up and then murder someone after seeing what that cunt did to her, I will find out who it was, and I will kill him in the most painful way imaginable.

It feels like hours before Savannah’s father turns up with several medical people and loads more of his men, when he enters the alley and sees me sitting on the floor cradling her face he freezes. I look back at Savannah but am startled suddenly as Rocco roars “AHHHH!” before I hear footsteps running towards us.

I look past Rocco to see Enzo’s father Lorenzo running towards his best friend “Brother I’m….” he started putting his hand on Rocco’s shoulder, but he freezes when he sees Savannah in my arms. He looks at me with pure rage in his eyes “YOU…” he roars pointing an accusing finger at me as he starts walking towards me with menacing steps.

Lorenzo is seething and I don’t blame him, but he is seething at the wrong person again. By the time he reaches me the doctors have taken Savannah from my arms, I stand up to let them work on her “Whenever something happens to her you are nearby, I don’t know what your…” his rant was cut off by Rocco.

“STOP IT NOW. This is not the time but make no mistake I will get to the bottom of this.” He growls as he stepped past us and towards his Daughter. Rocco’s main doctor turns to him with a grave expression “We need to get her back to the house she’s not stable, and I need more of my equipment to monitor her heart rate.” He explains.

Rocco looks at Savannah giving the doctor a deflated nod, the doctor jumps straight into action getting everyone ready to move her. Rocco grabs her hand and stays by her side as his men lift her as gently as possible, Lorenzo grabs my shoulder hard “You’re coming with me.” His snarls in my ear.

I know I have done nothing wrong, so I grab mine and Savannah’s phones and follow him to his car. We follow Savannah and Rocco back to their house and when we arrive there are people rushing everywhere, I spot Dante standing behind a tree watching Savannah with a scowl on his face. I don’t have time to worry about him, not when Lorenzo grabs my shoulder again and leads me into the house.

Savannah is rushed off to be seen to while Rocco stands in the hall consoling his sobbing wife, when he sees me, he hands his wife over to Lorenzo’s wife and indicates for Lorenzo and me to follow him. We go to his office and sit down, Lorenzo with a hateful look in his eyes directed at me.