His Ruthless Redemption (Isabella and Dominic) novel Chapter 99

Chapter 99

Isabella’s POV

Nico hit the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.

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One second he was standing, alive, furious, and dangerous, and the next he was on the asphalt, his body twisted unnaturally, a dark pool spreading beneath him.

Blood.

So much blood.

I stared at it, my mind refusing to catch up with my eyes.

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His chest wasn’t moving. I could see it clearly even though he was a few feet away from me.

He wasn’t breathing.

I had done that.

I had pulled the trigger.

I had killed a man.

My fingers were still wrapped around the gun. I didn’t remember deciding to keep holding it. I didn’t remember lowering it.

I just stood there, frozen, my ears ringing so loudly I thought I might be going deaf.

His eyes were open.

That was the part that wouldn’t leave me.

They were staring at nothing. At the sky. At me.

I took a step back, then another, my heel scraping against the pavement. My stomach lurched violently, but nothing came up. My body couldn’t even manage that.

Dead.

A human being.

Because of me.

“This isn’t real,” I whispered, though I wasn’t sure my mouth had actually moved.

Someone shouted my name.

I barely heard it.

Footsteps thundered into the parking lot. Voices. Chaos.

“I heard a gunshot,” Eduardo said sharply. “What the hell-

He stopped.

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could tell withow–looking that he’d seen it. The body. The blood. The gun.

Everything I had done.

Dominic moved.

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I felt him before I saw him, his hands on my arms, firm but gentle, grounding me in a way nothing else could. We had been fighting a few minutes ago. How had that turned into this?

“Isa,” he said urgently. “Are you hurt?”

I didn’t answer.

I couldn’t.

My gaze was still locked on Nico’s body, my mind looping uselessly around the same thought.

I killed him. I killed him. I killed him.

“Isa,” Dominic said again, softer now. “Look at me.”

I didn’t.

His hands slid to my waist, and then suddenly the ground dropped away.

He picked me up.

The movement startled a sound out of me, a broken, breathless noise, but I didn’t resist. I didn’t have the strength to.

“Eduardo,” Dominic barked, his voice cutting through the fog. “Handle this. Now.”

“Yes, boss,” Eduardo replied immediately.

I heard doors opening. Voices shouting. Orders being given.

None of it felt real.

Dominic carried me to the car, holding me like I weighed nothing, like I was something fragile that might shatter if he set me down wrong.

“It’s okay,” he murmured, his voice low and steady near my ear. “You’re safe. You did exactly what you had to do.”

I wanted to scream at him.

I wanted to tell him that nothing was okay, that nothing would ever be okay again.

But my body wouldn’t cooperate.

The ride back to the villa blurred together, streetlights flashing past the window, Dominic’s arm locked around me, his thumb tracing slow, repetitive patterns into my skin like he was trying to remind me I still existed.

Nico’s eyes kept flashing behind my own.

Open. Empty, Lifeless,

By the time we arrived at the villa, I felt hollow.

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Domini didn’t take me to my room.

He took me to his.

I noticed only distantly, the darker walls, the heavier curtains, the faint scent of his in everything.

He set me down gently and began removing my clothes with careful, deliberate movements. Not rushed. Not frantic. Almost like he was afraid of breaking the.

“It’s okay,” he kept saying. “I’ve got you. You’re here. You’re safe.”

I wanted to disappear.

The shower was already running by the time he guided me inside. Warm water cascaded over my skin, but I barely felt it.

My hands hung limp at my sides.

Dominic washed me like he was worshipping me, slowly, and reverently. He shampooed my hair, his fingers massaging my scalp, rinsed it carefully so water wouldn’t sting my eyes.

“You’re doing great,” he murmured. “Just breathe.”

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Breathe.

I tried.

The water carried the blood away, real or imagined, I couldn’t really tell, and somehow that made it worse.

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