A Mission to Save Her

Ten minutes before

Xavier's P.O.V.

I was beyond livid. My hands were itching to kill that bastard. How dare he even think to lay his filthy hands on my Rosebud.

Antonio even made a fucking deal with that trickster without even checking his past history. How irresponsible of him! I will definitely deal that idiot later.

When Antonio told me about Rosaline's disappearance, my heart forgot how to beat. I couldn't breathe. All I knew I failed. I failed again in protecting the only source of my happiness. While my whole team was engaged in searching Rosaline, I kept calm. I knew my behaviour was at odds with the seriousness of the situation. I could feel that by their weird glances and annoyed faces but it was necessary. I knew that bloody traitor was present in the room itself. Sophia had passed out so her being involved in Rosaline's kidnapping was totally out of the picture but I had my doubts on Katherine.

I only made a wild guess and tried to scare her but her excessive fear and blanched face made me confused. And guess what? my surmise proved correct as she confessed everything. She was a bloody snake in the grass. But the thing which was bothering me the most was that where did I lack?

I mean how can I? Where did I miss? First time!! First time in my life, I made a mistake in recognizing a person. First time I wasn't able to see someone's true face.

Fuck that, I made a blunder. An unforgivable mistake. Nope in fact it was a sin and just like every time, my Rose had to deal with the consequences of my mistake.

She is in a grave danger because of me. Again because of my fucked-up mind and my poor judgement in trusting people.

When she needs me, I am not there but when I need her, she had always been there for me. Either by her own will or by force, it doesn't matter.

She left me, I abducted her. She again ran away from me, I again captured her. But when she needs me the most, I always leave her in a lurch.

I wasn't like this before. I don't know where did I go wrong? Rose was right, keeping her in dark all these years and me, breaking the promises which, I had made to her again and again is only responsible for our separation. We have been at loggerheads only because I hid my true identity and forced her to accept me. I didn't even hesitate in using violence as I just wanted to keep her by my side. Whether she likes it or not!

Still, she ran away. I regret, I realised my faults and even assured her that I will make everything right. But see?

'See? I am still such a BASTARD THAT EVEN AFTER ALL THIS, I KEEP REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES AGAIN AND AGAIN!! FUCK!!'

Reaching the basement, I immediately started looking for the room.

"ROSE! ROSE!!", I yelled as I looked here and there in panic. But...

'There was no room. Forget about the room, there was nothing except huge pillars and a concrete floor.'

"No, No, No", I shook my head frantically.

'That bitch fooled me? No, she doesn't have the guts to play with Xavier Knight. There must be a room. My heart says, my Rosaline is here.'

"Katherine told me that there was a room. BUT WHERE THE HELL IS-",

"ARGG!!"

'That voice'

My blood turned cold. Words died in my mouth when all of a sudden, I heard a shrill.

'Rose?'

My neck snapped in the direction of the voice.

'That was definitely my Rose.'

My feet on their own dragged me there and took me inside an empty lobby. It was too dark and creepy. I decided to turn on the flashlight of my phone but instantly dropped the idea as it could be risky.

I flinched when again a loud scream reverberated through that abandoned lobby.

'THAT RASCAL!!'

Anger flooded in my veins like a burning lava. My eyes blazed with fury. My anger knew no bounds. I immediately cocked my gun and ran inside the corridor by following the voices that echoed in that empty hallway. Her painful screams kept becoming louder and louder with my every step. My mind turned blank. All I could see was red everywhere.

"Hell will break loose tonight. I will give that fucker the worst possible death of the history."

Finally, I reached the door. It was only stuck on the wall and was loosely dangling around the hinges. That means Rose had tried to break the door but got caught by that fucker.

The door had a crack. I peeped through it and tried to look inside but all I could see was black.

"Just play the ball kitten and nothing would happen to you. Before dying at least have some fun."

His nasty words worked as a kerosene in my blazing fire which was about to take the form of a gigantic volcano. My inner beast wanted blood and I would give him that tonight.

I immediately raised my right leg in air and was about to kick the door when all of a sudden...

"NO XAVIER DON'T!!"

My earpiece buzzed. It was Noah. I immediately retracted my leg and stepped back.

"What are you saying Noah? I have to save Rose.", I gritted.

"Wait Xavier. That motherfucker is actually a human bomb. An explosive is surgically hidden inside his body and your one mistake can take Rosaline's life."

The ground snatched beneath my feet. My vision turned blurry as I clutched the phone tightly with my trembling fingers.

"What? What should I do now? Rosaline will die either way. That bastard will either rape her or kill her. I will lose her in both ways.", my voice trembled as tears gushed out of my eyes.

"I know Xavier but you need to stay calm. Nothing would happen to Rosaline. Keep your head. Think like Venom not like Xavier Knight."

With that he ended the call.

My body started shaking like a leaf. Rosaline's cries and screams kept ringing in my ears. I fisted my hair and started pulling them in frustration as I was so pissed.

'Think like Venom not like Xavier Knight.'

My body turned stiff. Noah is right. I need to think from my mind not by heart.

I immediately wiped my tears hastily with the back of my palm and fished out my phone from my trousers. I closed my eyes and took deep breaths.

'I have to save Rosebud.'

I opened my orbs and glared at the broken wooden door for around five minutes. Suddenly an idea popped in my mind.

With stealthily steps I got away from the door and then turned on the flashlight of my phone. I groaned in frustration as there wasn't any window in the room through which I can enter. I quickly started looking for another entrance. I ran in the opposite direction of the corridor which I assume was the dead end. I increased my pace as the hallway was too long.

Reaching there I found another room but without any door. I quickly entered the room and luckily there was a window at the opposite wall. I quickly opened the window and jumped from it.

My feet landed on something hard. I looked down; it was the road. I turned back and found myself outside the hotel. Suddenly it dawned on me.

'The room has only two exits. One is the door which opens at the corridor but entering from there is too risky while the other is a window which is at the opposite side of the room that opens at the road. I can easily enter from there.'

I immediately sprinted to the room where that fucker had captured my Rosebud. My earpiece buzzed. I clicked it.

"Xavier, I am on my way to the basement. What's the plan?"

"Noah, there aren't any cameras in the basement that's why Elijah was not able to track Rosaline. Now listen to me carefully, reaching the basement, you will find a corridor at the east side. Rosaline is inside one of the rooms of that lobby. The room has two exits. One is the door and the other is a window. We both will attack Ashton from the window itself. Right now, I am at the west side of the hotel. I need you to immediately track my location and come along with a sniper rifle. Tell Emily to carry a Bryna HD and a camera. Jennifer and Emily will attack from the entrance. The door is partially broken. As soon as the girls reached there, Jennie will stick a camera on the back side of the door cautiously. Make sure Ashton doesn't notice that. After that everyone of us will switch off our earpieces and connect directly to Elijah who will become our eyes. Both the girls will stay at the door and will wait for his order. Copy."

"Wilco.", Noah replied and ended the call.

My breathing turned ragged. I was completely drenched in sweat. Rage kept taking control over my body but I forced myself to stay calm. If I fly off the handle then things will take a devastating turn.

'Hang on a bit more my Princess. Keep fighting like a fighter. Your Xavier won't let anything happen to you.'

I kept calming my inner beast down which was ready to claw out any second. Finally, I reached the window. Luckily it had a small hole. I could hear their voices from outside. I swiftly turned around and closed my eyes.

I can't hear her broken voice. My patience was running off with every second. I don't give a tinker's curse if that fucker kills me tonight but my one silly mistake can jeopardize the life of my love.

My grip on the gun turned deadly when I heard the sound of slaps. Sheer rage coursed through my veins. I was dying every ticking second.

'NOAH!! WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU MAN!!'

"Just wait Ashton Fucking Finn. I threw your brother off the terrace but I won't give you such an easy death. I will torture you so brutally that you'll beg me to kill you. Don't worry Rosebud. Just wait for your gallant Knight. I will literally burn the whole world if anything happens to you.", I snarled with clenched teeth.

"Xavier?"

Noah's worried voice pulled me out of my trance. He came to me closer and handed me the sniper.

"You can't kill him, Xavier. He will explode any moment. We don't know where he has hidden the explosive in his body.", Noah warned me. I smirked.

"Don't worry. I am not in a mood to kill him either. If he is out on a mission to kill me tonight then he fucking knows that I will come here to save Rosaline. He's planning to kill two birds with one stone.", I replied him as I cocked the gun.

Noah looked at me in shock. "What? Then what are you gonna do?" I took a deep breath and looked at him.

"A person can't die on his own, Noah. Though that bloody Finn has a surgically implanted bomb inside his body but someone or something is required to trigger that bomb. It may be either a bullet or some inflammable device or he can even die by a phone call.", I explained him while we both jogged to the window.

"Xavier. I have placed the camera.", I heard Emily's voice.

"Copy."

With that all of us immediately turned off our earpiece and wore our goggles.

"Scorpions", Elijah's voice ranged in my ears. He was the one who will monitor us from now as he had linked our radios with him and cut our individual contact.

"Xavier, I am directing the images of the room on Noah's cell. Right now, Rosaline is tied to the bedpost while Ashton is sitting on her waist."

I immediately squeezed my eyes and clenched my teeth. Noah placed a hand on my shoulder as he heard my teeth chattering in rage. I exhaled sharply and gripped the gun. Noah immediately took out his phone and started watching everything what was happening inside that dark room.

"Listen Xavier. We need to get Ashton away from Rosaline somehow. Emily, now listen to me carefully. There are a lot of glass smithereens shattered on the floor on the right side of the bed. So, you have to shoot the gas in such a way that Ashton doesn't fell to his right otherwise he will explode. Therefore, you will aim the trigger at an inch away from his face. Make sure the bullet doesn't touch him. By this, Ashton will turn blind and would immediately try to move backwards. In doing so even if he fell on the floor, he would land on his back safely. As soon as Ashton gets away from Rosaline, Xavier will shoot the iron chains, breaking them and can save her.", Elijah replied. A reverent silence followed as he explained us his viable plan. He then guided me and Emily as we both took our respective positions.

I crouched down and placed my right knee on the ground. I pushed the muzzle carefully inside the hole and aimed at the target.

After taking the position, I looked at Noah and gave him a curt nod. He nodded back.

"Emily, shoot the gas. Now!!"

'BANG!!'

End of Xavier's P.O.V.

No sooner Emily and Jennifer reached the basement, they quickly rushed to the room where Rosaline had been kept. Reaching there they found the door was partially broken. Emily wasted no time and positioned her gun. Xavier deliberately made Noah bring a tear gas along with him. Being non-flammable, it can only be used as a weapon.

Emily shot the gas at Elijah's call. The room immediately got shrouded with a vexatious white cloud.

"FUCK!!", Ashton growled as he inhaled a huge lump of gas which burned his lungs. He immediately started wiggling like a dying fish as he felt a severe burning sensation in his eyes. Ashton palmed his eyes and tried to move back but in doing so he stumbled on the bed and fell down on the floor.

"Shoot"

'BANG'

Xavier instantly shot a bullet breaking the fetters of Rosaline. Noah broke the window pane and both the brunettes jumped inside the room.

At the same time, Jennifer kicked the door with full force that it came out of his hinges and landed on the floor with a loud thud. Ashton's eyes were squeezed tightly as he was trying his best to protect them.

The sound of gunshots and footsteps grabbed his attention. Ashton panicked and tried to look but he wasn't able to open his eyes. He quickly started roaming his hands on the floor when a sharp piece of glass made a deep cut on his left palm. He immediately grabbed that glass piece and tried to strangle his throat but Emily was fast enough. She immediately took it away from his hands and kicked him on his face. Ashton groaned in pain. Xavier's men then lifted him off the ground and held him tightly by his arms.

"NO!!! YOU BLOODY MONSTERS!! LEAVE ME!!", he shouted like a maniac but they quickly dragged him out of the room.

Xavier ran towards Rosaline but he stopped dead in his tracks when his eyes landed on her shivering figure. It felt as if someone had sucked the soul out of his body.

Rosaline was lying on the bed in a disconsolate state. Her body raked with loud sobs as she was crying silently. Her eyes were also burning like a bitch and her whole body was screaming with pain and need. Xavier's jaw clenched when his eyes landed on her bleak, bruised and bleeding face.

Noah immediately removed his coat and handed it to him. Xavier then wrapped her fragile, wisp of a figure in his large coat. Tears kept falling down his eyes as he couldn't bear to look at the broken soul who was crying on her miserable fate.

Rosaline slowly lifted her head and looked at Xavier with her half-opened eyelids. Xavier's red eyes met with her bloodshot ones which were pleading him silently to save her. Xavier slowly caressed her sweaty forehead with his trembling fingers. Her crestfallen face and her hollow eyes held too much pain that torn his soul apart.

"XAVIER LET'S GO!!", Noah yelled and immediately ran outside. The whole room got filled with that painfully itching tear gas so everyone had to evacuate that place as soon as possible.

Xavier instantly removed his goggles and made Rosaline wear them so as to protect her eyes. He then snaked his arms around Rosaline's back and knees. He scooped her in his arms like a baby and ran outside the room with full speed.

"I am here Rosebud. I won't let anything happen to you."

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