Amanda's POV

"Let me at least clear my point ", I thumped my toes and caught his walking speed. Suddenly we heard the leaves moving like someone was stepping on them slowly and carefully. I examined our walking style to figure out whether it was ours but my mind was blown to the fact that it wasn't our footsteps. 

"Ow, my leg ", I acted like there was a sprain on my leg to check out whether we were being stalked.  I cornered my eyes towards the direction of the noise and not to my surprise I saw three humanly figures behind the tree, not specifically their bodies but the shadows formed out of reflection from the sun. After talking further, I saw four more figures behind the back of the tree which was distanced from us but visible to some extent.

My heart almost plummeted on the ground and then regained back its original position as an outcome of terror. I widened my eyes but then resorted back to normal trying to act sane. "Are you doing fine ?", Mr. Reynolds inquired.

"Yeah. What will happen to me, I'm fine, thanks", I stood up and stayed more active than usual. 

I had to tell Mr. Reynolds about it, I just had to think about a clever plan to explain the situation to him without making the hooligans aware.  I pulled Mr. Reynolds extremely close to me and thought for a while to pick between hug or kiss. If I hugged him the hooligans would figure it with my lips moving. That just left me with the last option.

Our nose touched and our eyeballs met, I knew that he'd definitely judge me for a while for this action but what mattered was him knowing the truth about this moment. I balled the back of his head with my palms making a movement with my fingers through his hair.

I uplifted my cheek as he was bigger in height.  I pressed my lips against his lips without wasting a second. I could sense his astonishment, I made sure my face wasn't visible to the hooligans so I parted my lips away for like 0.000001 inches. "They're here. We've been spotted Mr. Reynolds ", I whispered extremely softly, my lips collided with his lips after every movement of mine. 

He pushed my back towards the closest tree pressing his lips hard to mine. I knew he did this so that the stalkers didn't get the clue of us talking in between. He pressed his lips harder this time asking permission for entrance, I permitted. Our tongues collided with each other roughly giving us a feel of each other's mouth. His hand lifted me up as I twirled my legs around his waist continuing the kiss. 

We parted away to breathe, I let out a small moan. He unplugged my back from the tree and slowly and steadily started to walk whilst kissing me harder every time. Yes, his kisses raced my heart like no one ever did before but maybe this time he was carried away with the moment and was charged to inevitable pleasure.

His hands moved throughout my hips. He parted his lips again and placed soft kisses on my cheeks, licking it a bit. I could feel my cheeks turning wet. He continued this action and pinned me towards the other tree which was pretty much at a great distance away from the old one. His hands traveled through my breasts.  A little amount of moan escaped my lips, my eyes were straight in position with the hooligans who didn't dare to move after our make out as my face was in contact with their direction this whole time.

He sucked my neck, I pulled him closer to mine interlocking my hands against my neck.  His lips traveled from the chin to my mid-neck. He pulled my dress a bit down which showcased half of my cleavage. "Are they looking at us ", he questioned while sucking the top of my cleavage.  

"Woah! yeah. ", I signaled him.  "Let's move on to the next tree then ", he came extremely close to me before kissing me down my throat after uplifting me again. We were now inches away from them, he pulled me apart and later on the ground. His hands were placed on my waist now, we kept walking slowly.

"so, are you ready Miss Waters?" he questioned moving his hands away and breaking his touch over me. 

"I am", I turned a bit to inquire about them, they were yet very far away from us now. I took up the position of get-set-go and ran as swiftly as I could. Mr. Reynolds's speed was obviously faster than mine but I did my best to catch up with his. I took long strides than usual to match his race as best as I could. 

Mr. Reynolds turned around to check the status of the stalkers. "We left them behind, I guess, keep running ", he focused his attention. I paused for a while to breathe as kissing already took half of my strength. I could feel his taste yet in my mouth. My mind didn't overcome his kiss yet, flashbacks surrounded my thoughts whilst running, "I guess they're way behind now ", I broke the silence.

"Shouldn't stop you from running Miss Waters ", he paused for a while "they're seven and it's just the two of us ", he took my hand and dragged me again. I was tired now, tired of running away without doing something bad. I felt like a prisoner who runs for life when he gets a chance to free himself. Every joint in my body was paining but considering this pain relevant against the fear of death made sense somehow.

I ran without considering the surrounding, I just ran as the hare did in the initial race when with tortoise. I heard a slow thud from behind, I turned around to inquire about the noise. To my extreme agitation, it was Mr. Reynolds on the ground. His left leg was drowned in a puddle, his head collided with the stone causing small red droplets of blood to form across that area.

He wiped off the dripping blood with the sleeves of his shirt and tried to pull his leg out of the puddle, his every attempt failed miserably. I ran towards him and pushed him upwards taking possession over his arms. We finally succeeded in our attempt, I was perturbed by the injury which was now visible to me on his legs.  

"Oh my God, it's bleeding so hard ", I covered my mouth as an outcome of shock. I straightened his left leg tearing off his pants so that I could take a deeper view of the wound. I could see small pebbles perforated inside the wound, I took a briefer view of them after placing his legs on my lap.

He tried to move them away "Hey-hey its okay ", I tried consoling whilst yanking the small pebbles slowly so that it doesn't cause him any pain. "Can you walk ?", I questioned.

"I can try ", his voice was courageous but his eyes showed the pain he was hiding from me. I tore off a little part of my cotton floral dress making it 3 more inches shorter. I tied the cloth across his wound striving to stop the never-ceasing blood. 

"Come on now, get up ", I tried to motivate him after lowering my hands towards him. He interlocked his fingers with mine to take support. His other hand took the support of the ground. He stood up for a while but then collapsed again "they really hurt so much Miss Waters, it's like every nerve close to that wound is electrified with pain "

"It's you, Mr. Reynolds, nothing in this world is more electrified than your courage", I praised him to raise his guts. 

"Oh no, they're here", I heard loud footsteps so I revoked our conversation and pulled him towards the back of a huge tree through his shoulders. "This is scaring me now ", I l focused towards the direction of the noise.

"Run, Miss Waters .", he interrupted the silence.

"What?", I interrogated.

"Run for your life Miss Waters ", his command felt like care for a change.

"Are you insane. Stop speaking shit. I am not leaving without you, its either us or no one ", I said the words in one single breadth out of annoyance. 

"You dumb idiot, don't you get it. I can't run for fuck's sake. Why do you want to put your life in danger for m-m"

"You? Yes, I want to risk my life for you just like you did for me ", I cut his line and continued mine dominantly. 

I pulled him up with all my strength placing his right arms across my shoulder to get a grip over his body. I caught his right hand with my right hand and locked my left hand across his waist. "I guess it's time for me to reciprocate those lines ", I raised both of my brows.

"and that is ", he looked perplexed.

"That maybe you should eat less or book yourself an appointment with some good nutritionist ", I laughed out loud and made the first walking move.

"Not again, Miss Waters", he matched my step with his.

"A bit faster Mr. Reynolds', I gave him a certain push so as to walk faster, not that I didn't understand his condition.

"I am trying very hard. I did tell you to leave me behind", he offended.

"Let's not discuss it ", we kept walking. I witnessed an increase in his walking speed now. I let go of him for a while to inquire about the hooligans, I couldn't sense any clue or movement of theirs. "Maybe they changed their direction", I curled my hands around his waist again.

"Let's play safe which means let's keep walking", he ordered as usual.

"Never asked you to stop", I offended faking out a smile. The next few moments were surrounded by silence. No one among us dared to speak and interrupt the silence. Our legs just marched without having any idea regarding the direction. I had a few awkward eye contacts with him, every time my eye met his. I felt clingy, I had no answer why. I just felt that way.

I heard something, I focused my attention towards the noise "Oh my God, Mr. Reynolds", I side hugged him as I already was tangled with him. "Oh my God  ", I repeated the words out of happiness. 

"The horns and the beeps eh. We're very close to the highway.  We completed nailed it, Miss Waters "

"Like a team", I continued his sentence grinning.

Every beep of the horn sparked our courage with enthusiasm. With every step, we were closer to the highway. "Look they're there", I turned around and saw a man pointing towards us to his other two fellow mates. 

"Jimmy, go and inform everyone that we found the fugitive couple. We'll take care of the couple till then", the Jimmy guy ran off track as per instructed to inform his mates. 

"I guess we're now to the dead-end where there's no escape", I whispered in Mr. Reynolds's ears.

"Stay assertive", he replied calming me down. He caught my hand tightly which shivered at this moment. In fact, my whole body was trembling out of terror. Even if they did nothing to me, they'll be running after Mr. Reynolds's life.

"Hey -hey, let's resort to something by peaceful means", Mr. Reynolds didn't look really happy with this action of mine, I could make that out from his facial expression.

"No whore, with all that escaping you've got yourself into greater trouble", He spiked his hair and tucked his shirt half just like how Mr. Reynolds's shirt was. "How do I look now?" he pulled me in his direction through his hand "I want to experience the same exact orgasm you gave this guy, I saw you make out, it was so intense and amazing ", he pointed at Mr. Reynolds and tore off the existing sleeve making my dress sleeveless.

I caught my dress and tightened it by knotting two of the ends after running away from these ugly men. "Dare you to do anything with her", he rushed towards the one who tore my dress and punched him right in his stomach. 

"You did decline war right away ", he saw the injury on Mr. Reynolds's legs and kicked over it twice or thrice in a row, a bawl escaped through his mouth. The wounded area started to bleed again, this time relentlessly. 

"Hey don't harm him we need instructions from boss first", his mate alarmed him, he took out his phone and kept it on speaker so that Jake's voice was visible to all of us. Within 3 bells, Jake received the phone. "Did you find them?" he had no manners, as usual, people pick up their phones with a simple hello.

"Yes, boss. They're right here in front of us-"

"Hey, James! Let's resort to something which is way more peaceful, which doesn't include shedding anyone's blood", Mr. Reynolds cut him off.

"Who am I? A kid from kindergarten?" Jake's voice didn't sound much satisfied. "I know you, Aaron, you're not among the ones who handle situations calmly. The moment you get in your territory, you're gonna hunt me down. I can't really take any risks with you. I thought things would be easier but you had to complicate it. My simple plan was to take your signatures deceitfully  without causing you any harm" 

"I'll myself hand you everything, let me come back there for once", Mr. Reynolds started using emotional tactics, everyone who knows him would know that he was clearly lying, he can never hand over his empire to anyone else in this world.

"James, don't be such a fool. Stop whatever you're doing right now. Stop playing these dirty game of yours. ", I couldn't control my anger so I raged in loud voice.

"Remember Aslan, when I told you to spare the girl ?",  he questioned one of them with that specific name.

"Yes boss, she's safe with us . Don't worry about that ", He consoled James.

"I don't want her safe anymore, kill her along with the man. Make sure you don't molest her, make their death seem more natural. Don't leave any clues, be safe  ", he canceled the phone giving them cut-clear instructions.

One thing which calmed me a bit was his statement 'don't molest her'. They first marched towards Mr. Reynolds who stood in front of them without showing any hesitation on his face.  Mr. Reynolds made the first move, he kicked the 1st hooligan who was extremely close to him and punched the other one on his face which started to bleed by now. 

Their leader stood behind giving each one of the instructions, Mr. Reynolds was clearly winning even with the injury on his leg. "Careful Mr Reynolds ", I shouted as the leader ordered his pal to attack from behind with the huge wooden log. My instructions were a bit late as due to forceful contact of the log on his head, Mr. Reynolds collapsed straight on the ground. 

They all gathered surrounding him in a circle and started to kick him ruthlessly . This view not only disturbed me but also made me realize how helpless I was in this situation. I ran towards him and tried to pull them away, they were so heavy and huge that no efforts of mine proved useful. I saw  a huge stone lying nearby, I caught it with both of my hands and attacked on the head of one of them. 

"Bitch ", their leader pushed me so hard that my forehead collapsed directly over the pointed stone. My vision blurred, I could feel the blood traveling across my face through my forehead. "Her chapter is over just with a small push ", they all laughed evilly after he completed his statement. 

I kept my eyes closed as my head weighed like 100 kilograms, small circles of blood was formed on the ground. I slowly opened my eyes to check upon Mr. Reynolds, they now stopped hitting him . His clothes were shredded with blood all over. "He'll be dead in a while  ", they walked away leaving both of us.

I tried opening my eyes, every attempt of mine failed miserably. I kept my eyes closed, it felt nice. I started to lose my senses in a while, the pain felt miserable.

I opened my eyes in a while realizing that I previously fainted because of the pain. I took shelter from the ground and sat straight. My knees hurt so much because of the injury. I turned around to have a look at Mr. Reynolds. He laid straight on the ground, his body did no movement. I gathered will-power and courage and marched towards him. 

He didn't seem any closer to normal, I could not feel him breathing. "Oh no, this is not happening. Wake up, Mr Reynolds. You can't leave me all alone here. Get the fuck up ", tears started forming underneath my eyes. I wiped them off to stay strong for both of us.

 I kept my ear on his chest to examine his heartbeat as the usual rate for a minute was 86 beats. Mr Reynolds heart was pumping slow , it was not even 50 beats per minute. This was dangerous, I knew his life was in danger, and if I didn't do anything his life could end right away.

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