Chapter 25: Surprise Attack

“Why are waiting in such a lone, deserted place?” Angela enquired for the third time. His actions are getting more and more suspicious, I sense something bad.

Max lets out a defeated sigh, “You can be stubborn sometimes, huh. I think you won’t sit quite without a proper explanation.” He looks at her with an exhausted smile, eyes filled with love.

“Yup, that’s right. I want an explanation” she demanded, crossing her arms around her bosom.

“It’s nothing serious though. All these suspicious things I am doing right now is because of some security reasons.” He tried his level best to brush of the matter.

Security reasons? They didn’t suspect me, did they? She asked with a nervous smile, “It’s nothing for me to worry about, right?”

Max’s face lights up in a reassuring smile as he strokes her hair softly, “Of course not, I’d do everything in my power to keep you safe, my angel”.

Perhaps, I’d have felt relieved if he’d have actually suspected me, that he is wasting his precious time with his assassin. I feel like a bitch, playing with his feelings. It’s the first time I regret being an assassin. Her train of thoughts suddenly broke when a group of men appear from the dark.

“Don’t even think of running away, Maxwell Harrison” One of them spoke, pointing the mouth of revolver at him.

Ah, not now. Max ran his hand through his hair. I’ve to keep Angela safe, no matter what. His eyes casually skimmed through the group of men, assessing their strength and weakness. A nerve in his jaw twitched finding the gun in each of their hands. Looks like a plan, he swore inwardly.

“If you’ve any trick up your sleeve then I’d suggest you to drop the idea because you’re gonna fail miserably. You better surrender yourself to us” the man spoke again.

Max cautiously raised his arms in surrender, “Alright, I’ll submit myself to you but leave the girl alone”

All of them burst out cackling at his words, “You think we are fools? The girl is the witness now and criminals don’t leave any witness behind them.” The man said with a smirk.

“Give me a minute, I’ll convince her not to say a word to anyone else. Just let her go, she isn’t related to any of this” Max tried to buy some time, approaching the man slowly, distracting everyone with his words.

“Shut up. I can’t believe that you’re the same person I was told is the most cunning business man in the country. But you seem the stark opposite of it to me.” The man yelled in mock tone. In between their argument, he didn’t realize that Max had cautiously reached up to the vicinity of his gun and before he could even blink his eyes, his gun was snatched, pointed back at him swiftly.

“Angela!! Run!! Hide yourself” He shouted at her. When the other men advanced towards him take action, he quickly pressed the gun at their leader’s head, gripping him tightly in the death lock of his powerful arm. “Take another step forward and your leader will die immediately”

Other men from the gang smirked, “Do you think we care? Kill him, we won’t object. All we want is to take you with us”

Oh, so they are blind assassins, it’s a high possibility that they don’t even know about the identity of the person who appointed them. I have act quickly. It’s not the matter of my life but it’s Angela’s life on the stake. His gaze followed the group of three men who ran behind her, taking account of another group hovering around him. Calculating accurate time and distance, he shot one of the men chasing Angela, distracting the group hovering around him. He kicked another man lurking beside him, without wasting a second, snatching his gun from him and ran behind Angela, shooting another two behind him while running. He easily dodged the bullets aimed at him; thanks to the deadly circumstances he had faced since his teenage years. Killing all the men chasing Angela with accurate shots, he reached up to Angela, his legs pacing to their limits. He ducked her body with his, making them roll along behind a huge wall.

“Don’t worry. I won’t let them harm even a single hair on you” he spoke to Angela, who was trapped under the protection of his body. “Just stay here. Rick and my body guards must be coming anytime soon. I’ll go and handle them for the time being.”

“But they have guns” she reasoned, her hands clutching on to his body tighter, subconsciously.

“I know. I’ll think of some way to buy us some more time.” Not giving her another chance to speak, he sneaked a look at the men from behind the wall. I can’t kill them all since they can used to extract some useful information and with the number of bullets left in my gun, I think I’ve to blow up their guns, precisely.

They can’t be my father’s men or I’d have got the message about them before. Then who sent them? And does that mean there are other men who want to kill him besides father? She felt something snapped inside her heart. Her anxious eyes traced his every action as he skilfully blew up the guns from their hands. When this didn’t stop them from advancing further, Max decided to enter the arena himself. She watched him with fascination as he tackled them alone, displaying immense grace and power. Now I know why them call him so strong. To tackle this many men, singlehandedly……... even it’d have been difficult for Romeo to do so. I’d have helped him to fight them back but I can’t risk exposing my identity in front of Max.

Yet again, two men managed to escape from Max’s deathly fist, approaching towards her with vicious grin on their face, “She looks like his girlfriend.” One of them spoke.

“I think that too. She can be useful to us and not to mention she’s got a great figure.”

Angela pinched her brows together, Ah, I guess it can’t be helped. She kicked the man who tired to grab her hand, in his groin, twisting another man’s arm behind his back. Years of merciless training had made her body strong enough to endure any pain and her moves precise enough to locate sensitive pressure points of her enemy and knock them out or even kill them. She debated whether to take out the knife she had been hiding under her garter stockings but then decided against it since it can arise suspicions about her, later. She kicked at his groin again, with her custom made extra pointed sandal hill, making him bleed with excruciating pain, “Thank your stars that I’ve not slit open your throat with my knifey”

Her eyes searcher for Max’s sight immediately. Her heart skipped a beat finding him struggling to fight the huge crowd now. They are too many, he won’t be able to handle them for long and there are no signs of help till now. I can’t see him dying, so helplessly, not now. I’ve to help him no matter what it takes. She ran and charged at the man who was about to sneak attack at Max from behind.