Chapter 4: Pulled the trigger

Mabel was still making her way to the car when she felt something graze her arm, causing her to cry out in pain. When she looked at it, she saw her clothes had torn and her skin was very red.

She immediately turned and found the man pointing a gun at her with a crazy look in his eyes. This man was crazy! All she wanted to do was to help him and the asshole actually shot at her.

“Are you crazy?!” She yelled at him.

“I won’t be nice and miss next time. Apologize for puncturing my tyre,” Christian demanded.

“You really haven’t gotten it through your thick skull that I didn’t puncture your tyre. It was a darn coincidence that I showed up,” Mabel scoffed as she stretched her hands towards Rufus.

“You have five seconds to…” Christian couldn’t complete his words as he felt something graze his arm and he felt a slight pain. It all happened so fast that he didn’t see it coming. When he looked down, he saw a graze on his arm. She had actually shot him, well, grazed his skin but still. 

“You’re lucky I missed at the last minute,” he heard her say, which made him raise his head to look at him. “Don’t glare at me. I basically grazed you like you grazed me,” she scoffed when she saw him glaring at her. She did the same thing he did to her, so they were on even terms.

She actually shot at him, was what was ringing in Christian’s head. He was no stranger to being shot, but this circumstance was shocking to him, even though the bullet had barely touched his skin. 

He didn’t have any intention of shooting her, and he just wanted to scare her into apologizing, but the darn driver had a gun, which he gave to the woman. It seemed she wasn’t an ordinary woman, as she shot without hesitation and with precision, as she was able to make the bullet graze him without actually harming him. 

“Sir, are you oka…” he heard his driver say, but he raised his hand for the driver to stop talking.

“You shot at me,” he said coldly. This was the first time a woman shot him, much less one he was just meeting for the first time.

“You also shot me,” Mabel retorted. 

“I grazed you,” Christian corrected. 

“It still equals being shot at,” Mabel shrugged casually. The next thing she saw was Christian raising his gun back at her, and she didn’t hesitate to point hers back at him.

Mabel felt grateful that she had secretly learnt how to fight and how to use a gun, as it proved very helpful in this situation. “See here’s the thing, you seem like a rich man and so, my life is nothing compared to yours. Are you willing to lose your life?”

“Many have tried to kill me but it’s not that easy. If it was, I’d be dead,” Christian retorted as he cocked his gun. He didn’t plan on shooting the woman earlier, but that plan flew out the window, the moment she pulled the damn trigger to scare him.

“So you plan on killing me?” Mabel raised an eyebrow as she also cocked her gun, ready to fire.

Rufus and Hank both held their breaths at this point as they wanted to see what would happen next between the two stubborn people. They were too scared to interfere, as they didn’t want to be at the receiving end of the bullet.

Meanwhile, Mabel and Christian stared fiercely at each other while trying to figure out what the other was thinking. Neither was ready to back down. 

She hadn’t planned on shooting at him but the way he was arrogant reminded her of her father and brother which made her unable to hold herself back from actually shooting him as she imagined she was shooting either of the two men. Thankfully, she was able to come back to her senses and graze his arm, instead of actually shooting his arm.

Seeing that she wasn’t backing down, Christian lowered his gun, and so did Mabel. His eyes never left her, and hers didn’t leave him. He saw her eyes move to his gun and upon seeing it still in his hand, she gripped hers tightly.

A phone suddenly rang and this distracted Mabel as she turned to look at her driver who was getting his phone. Seeing that she was no longer paying attention to him, Christian took advantage of that opportunity, and he pointed his gun once again at her and pulled the trigger.

Mabel flinched when she noticed what had happened, and she froze, waiting for the pain to hit her. When a few seconds passed, and she felt none, she looked down at herself and saw that she wasn’t shot.

She raised her head in confusion to look at the crazy man. Did he miss again? She wondered, but she noticed him staring behind her. She followed his line of sight to the tyre of her car and to her horror, she saw he had shot at it.

“You asshole, this isn’t my car!” Mabel cursed in anger. Her father wouldn’t spare her for the damage done to his car, even though it wouldn’t dent his finances in the slightest.

“You punctured my car’s tyres and now, I’ve punctured yours,” Christian answered calmly. He saw anger in her eyes, and her chest heaved up and down. Good, now she knew how angry he felt.

“I didn’t fucking puncture your tyre, you fucking asshole!” Mabel yelled and as she did, she shot the two front tyres of Christian’s car.

“There, I finally did,” she exhaled as her eyes became watery due to her wanting to cry. She was already thinking of her punishment and it terrified her.

Christian turned to look at his deflated tyres, his blood boiling. He couldn’t remember the last time anyone openly challenged him like this. Was this her own game plan to get her to fall for him? He wondered.

Without thinking twice, he moved to shoot at the other back tyre of the car. However, the woman was already standing in front of it as she had envisioned his move.

Mabel was prepared to take the bullet as that would make her father reduce her punishment but Christian had other plans as he shot at the rear wind shield of the car. The glass shattered immediately, much to Mabel’s horror.

It was official, her father would kill her. Her entire face went red, and she pointed her gun at the crazy man’s head.

Damn the consequences, she was going to kill him. All she wanted to do was to help him and it had cost her so much. If she managed to survive this, she was never going to help anyone ever again. Not only would have father have her head for destroying the car he so ‘benevolently’ sent to pick her up, he would cremate her body and scatter her ashes.

Christian in return pointed his gun back at her, ready for whatever was to come. The next thing that happened, however, shocked him as tears started to drop from her eyes.

“I only wanted to help and look at what you’ve fucking done!” she yelled. “I swear, you’re going to regret this!” 

“Mabel,” Rufus called when he realized that she was actually going to pull the trigger. He had been quiet, as it wasn’t in his place to intervene, but if he didn’t come in, her life would be ruined.