I closed my eyes and held my hands on my ears not wanting to hear the screams of the people who were dying. Just because of me.

　　"No! No! No!"


　　"Stop it!" I yelled.

　　"Ma'am!"

　　"Ma'am!" I opened my eyes and looked at the man next to me who was wounded earlier on his shoulder.


　　"Look outside! It's our man! They are here" he said and I couldn't believe what he was saying.

　　I could hear people screaming and the gunshots. I thought that they reached here and they killing Zachary's man.


　　Gathering up courage, I looked through the space between the door and the hinge to see several men firing from the other side of the road.

　　They were shooting at the man who were near us whose intention was to harm us.

　　"It's our boss!" I heard Willi and hope lit up inside me when I got up on my feet and looked towards the way where Willi was looking.

　　Sure enough there he was. But he was wearing a mask on his face covering his face and he was wearing a black jacket covering his body.

　　I would never have recognized him if it wasn't for Willi. I guess Willi was accustomed to Zachary's way of fighting and showing up in public.

　　Then it clicked me. According to public, Zachary was a billionaire businessman but they had no idea about his dark side which was a mafia leader.

　　Obviously, he would never show up his true self before the public. He was shielding his face and his identity from the ordinary people.

　　"Take it losers!" I heard a man from our side screaming in victory.

　　Our enemies were circled from all the direction by Zachary's man. And this time they were the one who was out of bullets. I looked as Zachary walked aiming his gun towards the hoody man from before. I had no idea what was Zachary thinking or doing.

　　"Surrender yourself if you want to live," a man from Zachary's side said to the enemies.

　　"You wish!" the hoody man said and pointed his gun directly at Zachary's direction. Immediately, several guns were aimed at him by Zachary's man.

　　But it was Zachary who stood there calmly and patiently with no hint of fear in his body. He crossed his hands over his chest and waited for the hoody man to take his next step.

　　I wanted to scream.

　　Its funny how I am the one who doesn't the same person who killed my love die before me. I prayed internally and hoped that Zachary would step out of the way or he would get hurt. Worst, he would die.

　　The hooded man laughed. A good throaty laughing before he pointed the gun back at his direction and bam.

　　I closed my eyes not wanting to see what happened.

　　It happened so quickly that nobody got any chance to do anything. The man killed himself.

　　"But why?" I thought.

　　I breathed in and out and then in and out. It was too much for a day. It was my first time encountering so much death and blood before me.

　　I felt nauseous now, so I leaned back at the wall to save myself from tumbling down.

　　I could hear their footsteps. He was coming.

　　I kept my hand on my eyes shielding them from seeing any more blood. It was just enough for a day or should I say lifetime? I don't wish to see blood even from a small cut on my hand or anything. It was enough.

　　I felt his cold hand on mine and I felt him removing my hand from my eyes. But I refused to open to open my eyes. I refused to see any more blood or pain.

　　I felt him wrapping something around me and my head was covered using a cloth. No words came out of my mouth when I felt myself being scooped up from the ground into his arms.

　　I couldn't see anything and I was glad that I couldn't. I clutched tightly on his shirt while he carried me back towards where I guessed was the car.

　　"Boss!" I recognized that voice as Willi's.

　　"Destroy the CCTV," Zachary said.

　　"And provide them hospitality," he said and I guessed that it was for his man who was hurt saving me.

　　I felt myself being kept inside the car. The cold leather seats made me squirm and I felt his arms encircling around my shoulders pulling me next his warm body.

　　"What is going on?"

　　"Why am I leaning against him as if my life depended on him?"

　　"Why am I not pushing him away?"

　　"How can I like the warmth of his body when I knew he was a much cold and ruthless man from inside?" I thought and clutched tightly to his hands that encircled me.

　　"How can I be relieved when I should be running away from him for he was the reason of all this which was happening to me today?"

　　"Like I have said before," I heard him speaking for the first time.

　　I waited for him to complete was what he was saying.

　　"I leave you for a minute and you end up getting into trouble" he finished and as much I denied that my inner-self agreed with him, which was disturbing.