Chapter 7

It’s her. 

She was running towards us, tears streaming down her cheeks. Reaching us, she flings her arms at me, wrapping them around my neck tightly and I hold her close to me in a hug, and at that moment I feel her body shaking.

My hands protectively go around her, holding her close.

She looks up at me with tears in her eyes. The once daring gaze she held was gone, and seeing her like this tagged at my heart.

"Help me. Please." Her voice is shaky and her trembling hands tightly hold the back of my shirt, as if scared to be pulled away.

Putting a strand of hair behind her ear, I wipe the tears from her cheeks but they just keep on coming.

"Am not going to let anything happen to you," I say with promise in my words and I mean every word.

"Let's go." I immediately told Xander.

"Give me the girl." 

Turning I see one of the men from the restaurant.

The girl immediately goes behind me hiding and I feel her whole figure tremble in fear.

"Please don't let them take me." She quivers behind me.

"She's with me, so leave," I tell the man. 

Chuckling he takes a step closer. "You don’t want to get involved. Just give me the girl."

"Didn't you hear me?” I say. “She's staying with me."

"Look, we don't want to cause any trouble here," Xander says. 

"So how about you just leave."

The man takes a few more steps towards us, now standing in front of me and daringly holding my gaze.

"And I said give me the girl." He goes to touch her and I push him back.

“Back off.” My voice comes out rough.

With a snarl he comes at me, his fist connecting with my jaw and I stagger back losing my footing and the girl behind me gasps.

And just like that, a fight breaks out between me and the man. I lay a few punches on him but he seems determined as he comes at me. He put out a nice stiff left, which he planned to follow with a right cross. I slipped to the left, which threw him off enough so that I could step inside the right cross and get a handful of his hair. Pulling his head forward and breaking his nose with my head. My hand gripping his shoulders I knee him in the stomach and slam his head on the hood of the truck. He grunted and went limp. When I stood back, he slowly slid off the hood and lay on the ground with his mouth open.

“Now we just got involved in something.” Xander shakes his head in worry.

"Come on, let's go." I take her hand in mine.

Xander goes to the driver's side and before I even open the passenger's door, the sound of a gun fired in the air leaves us frozen in our tracks.

Two men approach us, both with guns in hand.

Who are these people? My brow furrows and I try to think of what things this girl is entangled in.

"Don’t dare take another step or I'll shoot." One of them says as he looks at his friend who was recovering on the ground.

“Stand up you idiot.” He orders.

The guy on the ground with a grunt stands up, spitting up some blood and whipping his nose, he walks up to me and the anger in his eyes says he’s probably going to kill me.

He reaches out to take the girl and I hold on tight to her other hand.

"Please no...." She whimpers. “Don’t let them take me.” never-ending tears trickling down her cheeks.

"I warned you not to get involved, asshole." The guy says throwing a hard punch at me causing me to stagger back but I still don’t let go of her hand.

He connects another punch with my jaw, then another, a hard blow to the stomach leaves me hunching over, the girl's hand no longer in mine. Xander takes a step to help me but he gets a gun pointed at him. 

"No!..." The girl screams as one of the men drags her away, he hoists her over his shoulder, carrying her away.

“You won't get away with this.” I spit out, standing up.

The man with the gun who seems to be in charge walks to me and points the gun straight to my forehead, a witty smirk plastered on his face.

“I could pull the trigger right now but you would just leave a mess in this parking lot.” he smiles. “ But we don’t want that, do we?”

Clenching my jaw I stare at him head-on not backing down and his gaze flickers as he takes a step back.

Laughing he says. “ You are not from around here, are you? Don’t get involved or you might just end up six feet in the desert.” 

“And if you don’t want to end up in jail, you should give the girl to me.” I threatened him.

With a chuckle, he comes at me throwing punches and I try avoiding my arms raised to block them. A hard blow to the stomach makes me crouch down, his knee connects with my face leaving me on the ground. He then repeatedly kicks me in my ribs.

This hurts like hell.

"Stop!... Stop!.." I could hear Xavier shouting. "Stop okay!... We won't get involved." He says he couldn't do anything because he had a gun to his head.

This situation made me realize these guys really would leave us six feet in the desert and that they aren't just any ordinary kidnappers, something big must be going on here because the people in the parking lot just stared, and walked passed not wanting to get involved.

My eyes are heavy and I look around trying to see where they took the girl, I catch a last glimpse of her still on the shoulder of the man who took her as he puts her in a USV.

"You should have just given us the girl." The guy says before I feel the butt of his gun hit the back of my head.

The pain at the back of my head surges through my head and darkness Immediately takes over.