Matteo’s POV:
Everything is a bit of a blur after that.
There’s a lot of pain involved— both receiving and inflicting it. Matteo thinks there’s a cut on his forehead or something, blood oozing out of it, dripping into his eyes and making him see everything through a red haze.
Or maybe that’s just his anger.
It’s unfortunate, really, that they caught him outside of a place where he never goes in armed, not wanting to risk his high-end clientele catching a glimpse of his weapon. Unfortunate— perhaps that’s not the right word. Calculated is more like it.
Matteo fights hard until he manages to get a hold of the rifle that one of them is carrying. After that, it’s not so hard. He sprays the six of them down, and their bodies crumple to the ground, riddled with bullets.
Matteo uses th
