Deception - A family Affair (#sytycw15 #superromance)

Chapter Eleven - Part 12

Once inside she started to fill the tub with warm water so she can get Mace in the tub to soothe his ache and get all this paint off his fur. The door bell now rang and she grabbed her shot gun she kept by her side since entering the house and closed Mace in the bathroom. Thank God she didn't have her shot gun close to her when the attack occurred who knows what could have happened. She went to the front window her body shaking as she was peeking through the blinds and she saw Marco standing on her porch. She let out a sigh of relief and quickly opened the door. The confused look on his face was priceless when he caught sight of her.

He saw her holding her rifle as it hung from her hand, his heart automatically stopped beating and coldness crept through his body at the disturbing sight before him. She was filled in splatters of red coloring and her face was swollen. "Marisol, what the hell happened?" And she fell right into his arms and began to cry uncontrollably. She couldn't be strong any more she felt fragile and torn. He took the rifle from her and placed it on the sofa as he held her with his one arm trying to calm her as he kicked the front door closed. He sat her down and there was no sight of Mace but the sounds of his growling were near. "Marisol where is Mace?" All he could understand was bathroom and water. "Sit here; let me go to the bathroom and check." Once he was able to get her to sit up on her own he went to the bathroom where he could hear water running. Mace was sitting up with red paint all over as well. He turned off the water and patted Mace to let him know it was okay. He returned to a shaken Marisol and put her on his lap and soothed her as best as he could. He wanted her to feel safe as he held her until she was ready to talk. He was filled with rage and wanted to kill who ever did this to her. She was trying to catch her breathe as she kept gasping for air.

"Sweetheart, just relax I'm here now. Tell me what happened."

"I'm okay now. I'm so sorry I just got overwhelmed." She tried to get up but he held her tighter to stop her from moving.

"Overwhelmed is an understatement seeing that you were used as target practice. What the hell happened? Who did this to you?"

"I was outside killing time because I was asked to take a mandatory vacation which is a whole other story. One moment I'm bagging my dead weeds and Mace started barking and I heard shots and Mace yelped and when I ran towards him I was bombarded with paint ball shots. It continued for a few minutes and I couldn't move they kept aiming for my legs and face so I hovered myself down to the ground and they shot up my back and then Francisco came and scared them away they had a pick up truck waiting for them as a get away so to speak."

"This just happened? Did you see who they were? Did you call the cops?" he asked not hiding his anger at all.

She nodded expressing no. "I just got into the house through the back when you rang the bell. They were kids wearing camouflage clothes and those mask knitted hats used for hunting so no I don't know who they were and please no cops. I can't have my name involved with another issue with school. Please."

"This infuriates me, I was held up with Charley otherwise I would have been here during that time. Marisol, you should really consider calling the cops at least to have it documented incase another incident occurs."

She shot up from his lap. "No, please it's just probably a prank and I can't please."

He saw fear in her eyes which makes no sense but to appease her he'll let her have her way for now. "Okay, but lets get you cleaned up and see what damage is done." She shook her head in agreement and it hurt him to see her looking so fragile he is use to seeing her so strong.

"Let's take care of Mace first. He is limping from the one leg where they shot him multiple times. I couldn't even protect him." Her eyes began to fill again feeling helpless.