JASMINE’S POV

"I’m here!" I called out to the men letting them know where to go.

"Jasmine!" Louis said relieved as he reached me. "Oh my god you’re alright!"

"Help! I need help! Keith’s been shot!" I told him.

"What?!" he said. surprised.

I told them which room he was in and they rushed towards it.

I watched as paramedics carried out Keith’s from the room. They were performing first aid on him, trying to resuscitate him.

Kolton was pronounced dead on the scene, however.

Louis explained that the paramedics were alreadly on the scene. The had been called early to deal with the injuries of the police as well as the men of Keith, Louis, and Kolton from the shoot out.

"Let’s go," Louis told me as he brought his arm around me and had head for the exit.

Outside Kolton’s property I was met with bright flashing lights from several ambulances. There were several injured parties being attented to but there were also several being put in body bags. It was hard to see.

It was now early in the morning with the sun starting to shine. It felt strange it after the nightmare of a night it had been.

"Mum!" I heard Tony yell from outside. He was seated in one of the cars parked on the estate yard next to Marco. He jumped out and ran towards me,

"Tony!" I said and let Louis go so I could hug Tony.

"Are you okay?" he asked me concerned.

"Yes," I told him. "Are you?"

He nodded.

"What happened to dad?" he asked as he looked at the medics a short distance away working to stabilize Keith.

"He was shot, they are trying to save him," I explained.

The paramedics came to me to attend to my my wounds. They had me sit on a stretcher. Louis and Tony stayed by me during the process. I had a cut on my forehead. I had a concussion from from when Kolton slammed me hard into the wall and I banged my head. The rest were just minor bruises and cut all over my body.

Keith was dead pronounced dead as well with paramedics unable to resuscitate him. At first I felt awful hearing the news but there was a part of me that also felt...relieved.

And with that relief came massive guilt. I still didn’t know whose shot had killed Keith.

Tony was shocked by the news. I hugged as I helped him process the situation.

The police began finishing their investigation. They searched the entire mansion and began questioning everyone who had been in the home during the shootout.

In particular they wanted to know what had happened to Keith and who shot him. I recounted what had occured but left out my final argument with Keith. I just told them there was a shoot out among Keith, Kolton, and I. With the two of them losing their lives in the end.

They were going to look at the crime scene in the room. I wondered what conclusions they would draw from it.

They also asked Marco and Tony to recount what had happened to them in the past weeks whilst staying with Kolton.

I saw them bring out an unconscious woman with red hair out of the house. The paramedics attended to her soon after. She was confirmed to be Edward’s girlfriend.

Apparantly, she had been kept sedated and unconscious for weeks.

Keith’s father, Henry arrived about 20 minutes later on the scene.

"What happened!? What happened?!" he asked as officers rushed.

He was soon informed of what had tranpired and what had happned to both his sons.

The yell scream and cry he let out was unlike anything I’d ever heard before. "Keith! Oh god, Keith!" he yelled out. I had my reservations about Henry but I could sympathize with the fact that he was a parent who had lost his children.

By the end of it the police concluded that an intense shootout between the two brothers is what led to their deaths. Further forensic analysis of the crime scene and the bodies of Kolton and Keith were going to take place and I was worried of those results.

"Let’s go," Louis said to me after the police finally dismissed us. "It’s finaly over."

It was finally over. I couldn’t believe it. It didn’t feel real at all. I had so many mixed emotions. I had saved Tony but the path to get here was so difficult and taxing.

My mind went back to the moment I locked eyes with Kolton as he pointed the gun to Keith.

Tony, Marco, Louis and I went home together. I would take care of Marco for now as we sort out what to do about his living arrangements.

The car ride home was quiet. The boys didn’t cry but they were visibly distraught. They also seemed confused, as if unsure how to process the situation. They had both lost their fathers. Meanwhile I was stuck in my own head also processing everything.

When we arrived at Louis’ home I was so exhausted. The weight of everything finally hit me.

I looked at the boys as they walked ahead in the home. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Boys come here," I said to them.

Both Marco and Tony came to me and I gave them a hug. "We’ll get through this I promise."

Louis helped comfort me.

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DO NOT READ

I felt irritated at how I should be with my lawyers in person right now instead of looking for Jasmine. I’m doing this for our son and you choose to be so reckless! I approved for the lawyers to finalise the papers and I would see them by tomorrow before we sent it off. I finished the call as I exited the apartment building and headed for my car.

A few moments after the call I received another call. It was my mother I realised as I read the name. I let out a tired sigh. This was not the time talk to her.

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