' What? What? What?'
Nick immediately let go of the blonde girl who was unconscious in his arms and raised his hands in surrender. " L…Li…Listen, I don't think that you have gotten the right man, I am not the one you are looking for, I for one would like to tell you that I am just a nine to five worker and my family doesn't even own farmland and any antiques. Even …even if you kidnapped me, I will not fetch you much money and I—- I am really boring, I won't be able to become an escort either and my body organs —— My body organs are failing as well…" when he felt that the notch of the gun was hitting the back of his head even more furiously, his fear level went up another level as he shouted, " what I am trying to say is that I am completely useless, so please let me go!"
" Tsk, he speaks so much." snapped the voice behind him as the man started poking his head with his gun. " are you sure we picked the right man? I don't think that D——"
A rock flew straight at the face of the man and hit him with a loud thwack, Nick was stunned as the cold touch of the metal disappeared from the back of his head, stunned he looked at the woman who was unconscious just a moment ago. The blonde angel was still grimacing with pain but at least her arctic blue eyes were open, she was staring right over his shoulder and then with a righteous ( Through Nick's filter, Vanessa is angry) expression shouted at the goon behind them. " don't you drag innocent netizen in a gang war, even if you are a made man, don't you go shedding the blood of the innocent as you wish, you idiot."
Through Nick was in a very dangerous situation, all he could think was —— an Angel, an Angel has descended upon earth. Even her scolding voice was so charming! However, just as he was going to get crazy over Vanessa, he immediately shook his head like a dog trying to get rid of the water in his ears, that was close —— he almost slipped. Uwaaa, though the girl was pretty cute, he knew nothing about her. How can he just go all cray cray over her, like this? He has to control himself, yes control——-
The rest of his thoughts were interrupted when somebody caught hold of his wrist and started running in the opposite direction as the goon. Surprised, Nick looked at Vanessa who was dragging him away from the so called made man, his lips twitched as he looked at the tiny hand that was holding onto his wrist…hmm, her skin wasn't as soft as those girls who came for arrange marriage meeting with him. Was she some kind of athlete? Since her hand had so many calluses maybe she was used to doing some kind of weight lifting.
Because Nick was paying more attention to Vanessa's hand that was holding his than the road on which he was running, he tripped and fell midway on their escape route.
" Ah jeez, now what?"
Listening to his angel's annoyed voice, Nick was really embarrassed, if there was a hole he would have loved to crawl into it. They were running for their life, what was he thinking about at such an important time?
Because he was ashamed, he didn't lookup. He was afraid that if he raised his head right now, he will have to look at his angel's annoyed face, instead, he lowered his head even more and somewhat embarrassingly spoke, " I— you can leave me behind, I will follow after you," he said that with great determination but just as he went to stand, he felt an extremely excruciating pain shoot through his foot and he fell with a yelp.
" Did you twist your feet?" asked the blonde beauty and Nick felt even more ashamed, what —— what was the god of Manliness trying to pull here? He was making mess after mess in front of this angel-like beauty? Good thing he wasn't trying to impress her or else he would have been rejected on the first try.
From somewhere above he heard a sigh and then two pairs of arms locked around his waist before he was picked up. It was humiliating enough to be picked by a woman but then being carried in a princess carry was completely a different level of humiliation. " Wait—-Wait —- Wait," he tried to stop her but the woman was like a Wonder Woman.
Though her vision was blocked by the blood that was flowing down the back of her head and there was also a bullet hole in her right arm, she was still holding him quite stably as she ran through the alleys, ignoring the shouts and the loud sound of the gunfire behind them. Nick who was reminded of the incident when he was a child, immediately turned silent as he closed his eyes and tried to ignore the sound of the gunfire that was echoing in the alley behind them.
He couldn't hear it, there was nothing —— yes, there was no one. As long as he keeps his eyes close and doesn't look, nothing will ever happen to him, yes that's right.
" Hey?"
" hey??"
" HEY, MAN CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
Nick's eyes snapped open as he looked at the blonde girl who was looking down at him with a scowl though she looked like she was annoyed, her brows were furrowed with concern. " are you okay? Is anything broken?"
He wanted to speak but when looking at her up close, he could see the blood that was dripping down her forehead and if it was limited to just that he would have been fine, but the thing was he could also smell the scent of blood and that was just too much for him! He tried to suppress his nausea as he fished out his handkerchief and handed it to the blonde girl and said, " You —— You are bleeding, please take care of yourself and th..thanks for saving me."
Vanessa took the handkerchief unconsciously, her vision was completely blocked by the blood and all along she has been relying on her instincts and senses. When she heard the wimpy man asking him to wipe the blood off her face, she was surprised. Huh? He wasn't scared of her? Should he not be running from her after watching her act like such? Why was he taking care of her?
A bit curious, she wiped her face and eyes, so that she could have a good look at this weird man.
And the second her gaze landed on him —— ZING! Something shot through her heart as she blinked her eyes and said, " Now that I see, you are pretty cute."
" What—" before Nick could answer what she was talking about, Vanessa fainted.