• Pain •

Layla's POV

I stood still, feeling my heart beating in my throat. There was a commotion happening, but everything was a haze.

All I could see was the blood in Sinn's hand.

Before Papa Don could shoot another bullet, Sinn raised his sword and sliced the skin from his chest to his torso, making blood ooze out of him.

He fell to his knee in front of Sinn, looking up, reaching his hand.

He took hold of Sinn's coat and looked up one last time, pain lacing his face as his veins were showing through his neck.

Sinn looked down at him and took a step back, making Papa Don fall face front. His body did not move another inch.

Sinn turned towards me, and when his attention wasn't at Papa Don anymore, I saw his body move an inch, which could've been my brain acting up.

But it was proven when his body rose up from the ground, and I saw his gun pointing at Sinn's back when every cell in my body leaped forward and pushed Sinn away.

I kicked his gun away from his hand and smacked the heel of my boot repeatedly on his skull, not caring anymore.

My eyes were bloodshot, and the anger that built up in me came all out on him, for he dared to touch the most precious thing to me in this whole world.

He dared point his gun at my Sinn.

My body couldn't stop as I repeatedly kicked his head till his skull smashed and his blood spilled everywhere, with his brain almost minced.

But I still didn't stop till I felt an arm pull me away.

"He's dead." Sinn's voice took me out from my trance, and I looked down at Papa Don's decapitated head laying in a pool of his blood and his crushed skull.

My eyes glanced over my boots, which had his blood and pieces of his brain sticking to it.

Feeling disgusted by the sight, now that I was back to my senses, I felt bile rush to my throat as I couldn't contain it and emptied my insides on Papa Don's dead body.

Sinn rubbed my back to soothe me and held my hair back for me. But the more I saw his bloodied crushed head, the more it made me throw up on him.

When there was nothing in me left to vomit out, I wiped my mouth with my sleeve and stood up, my breathing heavy.

"Are you alright?" Sinn asked me as he had concern lacing his face.

I nodded my head and tried to steady my breathings. I heard Yuri gasping in awe as Leo followed behind him, scanning Papa Don's body with a head crushed to an extent that even his brain was out.

And over it, I had puked on him to present a spactacular dead body belonging to a man who once ruled the Three Devils.

What a fitting end to someone so cruel and as disgusting as him that I could throw up all over him and crush his skull again if I could.

"Oh my Layla, what have you done. I knew you were badass, but not to this extent." Yuri laughed, and Leo was still scanning the body.

"To top it off, she even vomitted on him to honor his life." He got up and joined Yuri, laughing.

"You really gave him a befitting end, Layla. I'm proud of you." Yuri said, putting his arm on my shoulder and giving me a squeeze. His action made my wound from before sting, making me wince from pain.

"You're hurting her again." Sinn told him sternly, pulling me away from him. Yuri looked at me apologetically.

"Did I? I'm sorry, Layla, I couldn't contain my excitement." I waved at him in response telling him it's no big deal, while Sinn examined my body and then the opened skin on my arm, outlining the wound with his fingers

"There's no bullet inside, but you'll need to get stitches in order to heal." He explained, but then he opened his mouth to continue.

"Who did this?" He asked calmly, but I could sense the threat behind it.

"My father. But don't worry, I dealt with him. He's dead." I told him, giving him a weak smile.

I didn't feel it before, but now that it was over, I could feel the exhaustion burdening my body, wanting to make me lay it down.

Sinn reached his hand out to my face and wiped my cheek. It was the blood that spilled on me while I was disintegrating Papa Don's head.

"You've done a lot. It's over." He said in a soft voice as he cupped my cheek with one hand, and I leaned in to his touch.

Yuri and Leo, who were busy in their conversation and were now standing at the outside gates, looked over at us.

"Come on, love birds, it's time to go." Yuri yelled, and I gave Sinn a pointed look.

"But first we need to talk about him. I thought he was really betraying us and ready to kill me."

Sinn shook his head, smiling while coming to stand beside me and placing his hand gently at my back, motioning me to walk with him.

"Leonardo came up with it to mess with Papa Don. He wanted to make him feel like he had an upper hand when infact it was just us making a fool out of him."

We took steady steps, walking towards the gate, all while his hand remained at my lower back the whole time.

"I didn't know you would be pulled into this. Otherwise, I wouldn't have agreed to it. I'm sorry you must've been shocked."

He looked down at me, and I waved my hand, "I was just, flabbergasted." I managed to find a word to express my feelings at that time.

"I never imagined Yuri betraying us. Seeing as he's so close to you and Leo."

Sinn looked down as I saw a faint smile on his face. "You're right. Yuri would never betray us."

I smiled back at him when a realisation dawned on me.

Sinn must've- no. He did infact hear the conversation with my father. Where I stated that I'm pregnant, didn't he?

I looked up at him, and he was looking forward. He had blood stains on his face, and his hair was disheveled from the continuous fighting.

My eyes lingered at his lower abdomen, where I could see a black spot on his black turtle neck.

"You need to get that checked." I said, and Sinn looked down at me, our height difference making him put such strain on his neck

"The bullet must be in there." I added.

"Don't worry. This isn't the first time I've been shot." I stared at him.

"This isn't something to be proud about." I gave him a look.

"I'm not being proud. I'm just telling you." He said, his eyes gleaming with a teasing smile.

I turned away from him and looked in front, muttering a "Whatever" as our vans came in view.

Sinn stopped us by Yuri and Leo, who looked as if they were waiting for us.

"Finally, the love birds are here." Yuri exclaimed, and Leo just had his arms crossed.

"We're taking that van. The rest of them are already seated. You both can take this one." Leo said, winking as he pointed at us, and I rolled my eyes at him jokingly.

We got seated. The drive back was silent with only the van's engine and the passing cars making sound as both of us were exhausted to even keep our eyes open. But knowing Sinn and how cautious he is, I know he didn't even blink an eye to sleep.

All I wanted to do was to take a long shower and scrub off all the blood.

We pulled over at the mansion, and everyone was gathered in the driveway.

"We'll have a feast celebrating our freedom!" Yuri announced receiving loud cheers from everyone. They were all still energetic even though they had been fighting.

All of them betrayed Papa Don as he, it's a no shocker, has been making them work under him against their will. Sinn reached out to them and told them that if they joined hands with the Three Devils, he would give them their freedom.

I knew Sinn was a kind person, I've experienced it first hand, but I'm still amazed every day by what a soft person exists behind his cold demeanor, which he has put on for others. And even for me, when we first met

Cheers were loud, and everyone was ecstatic, we have defeated two cruel beings who have been ruining our lives all this time.

It is all we've ever wanted.

I was standing beside Sinn when I started feeling an uncomfortable senstaion in my lower region.

I tried ignoring it, but it started increasing in intensity, instead of subsiding, that I was knocked out of breath.

Sweat started forming on my forhead. I tried taking deep breaths, but it wouldn't work. I was having a hard time standing, so I started making my way in. The loud cheering made me dizzy with the way my head was thumping.

I went past the crowd of people, which were mostly men. I finally entered the mansion gates. Their cheers faded, but the pain remained there, getting intense by the passing minutes.

I should go to my room, but all my things are in Sinn's quarter. Staring at the stairs to his place made me even more dizzy, but I braced myself and started climbing up the stairs.

I was halfway there when I started feeling pain, which made my legs tremble. It felt like intense period cramps, but I can't be having them for a while.

I held the railing with both of my hands when I was only holding it with one for support and stayed there for a second to let the pain go away.

It didn't go away but I came to bear it so I started to climb the rest of the stairs, and when I finally made it to his quarters, I went to walk to his room.

But I was stopped in my steps when I felt something trickle down my thighs. Something wet.

I touched the area where I felt it, over the pants I was wearing, but when I raised my hand to examine it, I saw blood on my fingers.

I felt cold sweats all over my body, and I could hear my own heart beating in my chest.

A ringing sound followed in my ear when I felt a warm hand on my shoulder pulling me out of my trance.

"I called out to you, but you didn't answer." Sinn.

"Is everything okay?" He asked but paused when he took one look at my face and knew I was everything but okay.

"Sinn." I breathed out his name.  His eyes landed on my hand with blood on it as they widened looking at me.

"I don't feel right." I said with difficulty, as a sharp pain went up in my lower body, making me hold my stomach and lose my balance, falling on my knees.

I let out a painfelt scream as the pain was excruciating, and it was beyond tolerable.

I felt Sinn holding me by my arm carefully so he didn't touch where I still had my wound untreated.

He held me so I didn't fall on the floor.

"Are you hurt anywhere else. Did that fucker hurt you somewhere else?" Sinn had a dangerous look on his face as he scanned my body.  The unbearable pain left my mind in a haze, not able to utter a word.

"The baby." I let out in between pain, my breathing heavy.

"I'm losing it."I grabbed Sinn's arm in desperation.

"Please help me. I can't lose it." I looked him with so much desparation like my life depended on it. It really did. I didn't know when, but I wanted to live with it.

"Please Sinn." I begged him, doing so for the first time in my life, but I couldn't think about my ego or pride in this moment.

I let out another scream as the pain intensified. I could feel water stream down my eyes, didn't know if they were my tears or sweat.

The last thing I remember is feeling Sinn's warm embrace, as I lost consciousness to the pain.