".. I have to find her myself!"

Zowie had been running for a while now until she reached a crossroads and decided to take one of it. She decided to turn left.

She was walking and still could see nothing but big trees. Her body started to tremble in the cold breeze kissing at her skin. She rubbed her hands against each other and touched her face from time to time, to give herself a little warm.

It went like that for a moment until she heard a sound from a vehicle coming. She tried to hide herself into the woods and waited for the vehicle to pass by.

It was a delivery truck of fruits.

As soon as she confirmed that it was not the men from the town house, she ran back into road right away.

"Hey! Hey help me! Hey!", she shouted while waving her hands side to side against each other.

'Please! Please stop!', she pleaded within.

The truck luckily stopped.

Zowie was able to hitch a ride in the delivery truck of a middle age couple who happened to be delivering fruits to the next city, the T city.

When they arrived at the city, she thanked the couple and bade goodbye.

The city was silent. She calmly walked to find a place she can at least rest with until the day breaks.

Her calmness was disturbed when she heard footsteps coming over from behind. As she looked back and saw a group of men with the same get up from the gang who tried to abduct her a while ago. She was totally alarmed and immediately ran away as fast as she can. The five also came following her.

'Oh G! When will this end? When can I rest? I mean not rest for the rest of my life but just a simple break! It has been a tiring day!'

They were running and running, had a "hide and seek" part then back to running again. Until Zowie was cornered in a dead end area.

On the other hand, Lawrence' young master was angry after knowing Zowie had ran away.

"Lawrence I told you not to underestimate her! If anything bad happens to her, I will hold you directly accountable!" He was absolutely furious like Lawrence had never seen before.

"Now, I have to find her myself!" He left and drove off his car quickly. And the other cars followed him.

He was worried because he knew every city had a gang and all the gangs in the country also had their brotherhood system. He knew that she must be definitely wanted in the city after what happened to Zamar of K city.

Good thing, Lawrence managed to a put a tracker on Zowie's shirt so they are now heading to the T city.

**

The five men were already pointing guns to Zowie in a secluded corner of T city where its sleeping silence in the middle of the night was disturbed by their presence.

She was breathing heavily after the 30 minute-run of trying to get away from these people.

Catching her breath, she composed herself and stood up straight, revealing her delicate beautiful face in the dim lights, a face that was not scared but rather annoyed.

'I am really tired of dealing these jerks!'

Zowie took off the hat she's wearing and yelled.

"Wait a minute! Where are the balls of men today? A harmless unarmed pretty lady against men with guns, I mean hello? Where's the logic?"

One man signaled the others to keep their guns away and get the lady.

He was about to turn back and get his phone to call someone when he heard something that had hit hard on the floor, or maybe someone. As the man looked back, the lady was about to kick him but she heard a slash and felt a heavy pain on her waist.

The lady was able to attack and put three men down right away but the fourth man had sliced a part of her waist using a sharp army knife. She tried to fight the pain, and tried an attack to the man who cut her but before she could do so, her back was hit hardly by the other man, causing her knees to be dumbfounded upon reaching the floor.

Her world was slowly turning upside down.

She can feel her body weakened like a forceless strip losing a lot of blood. She begun to lose hope for her life, she knew she'll be facing death with the choice that she made but she was not expecting this to be sooner.

Her body started to unwillingly lie down and lose its strength together with her hopes.

Zowie was ready to accept death when she heard gunshots and the bodies of two men who were after her had fallen dead on the ground.

She heard footsteps walking towards her and it was accompanied by a manly caring voice calling her.

'What on earth is happening? No one knows I am here and I don't think there will be someone dumb enough who is willing to help me deal with this situation. But if I die, I am happy to know that a handsome, kind man, tried to save me. Handsome? How do I know he's handsome? All I can see is a blur shadow of a perfectly built man standing! Yeah… Sounds good! I am dying, yet here I am thinking worldly, regretful of dying pure! What a day!' She laughed on her thought.

'This woman is such headache but she is also undeniably beautiful! She is indeed alluring but you must not fall into her! Don't worry young lady, instead I will make sure that you will fall for me that hard!'

"Ms. Cruz! Ms. Cruz, stay awake! Now this is what you get from being stubborn huh! If you have just accepted my offer right then, it could have been easier for you." He angrily said while carefully checking the lady's situation.

"Hmmm." Zowie moaned and smiled as she tried to understand what the man was talking and remembered it.

The man was mesmerized by her smile.

"Oh right! If I live after this, I will surely accept your… your offer and be…" she tried to give her remaining strength in shouting her thought.

'Zowie, will you please stop talking! You are badly injured and we have not yet given ourselves a chance! Huh? Why I am thinking like this? Where did it came from?'

"Be what?? Just be quiet now Ms. Cruz and save your strength until you'll see the doctor." The man cautiously fixed her in his arms and carried her heading to his car.

Zowie set her face on the man's shoulder, leaned it closer to his ear and whispered something. The man froze for a moment as he intensely stared at her innocent, fragile and beautiful face that had passed out.

As the bloody goddess was resting on his arms, he then let out a smirked.

'Don't worry Ms. Zowie Cruz, I will not let anybody hurt you again! You will not be regretful of your decision. Thank you for making my plans half-way there! And I will make sure that your life will be miserable only in my hands in return.'

Yes, he had put Zowie into this after successfully getting her be fired on her job, let her fiancé and her best friend die in a car accident, but getting her abducted by a gang was unintentional and indeed a bonus for him.

He was excited and a bit fulfilled but became cautious as his heart was pinched by a tiny and soft needle though. A feeling he had never felt before.

Was he happy of making the big leap of his plan come true? Or was he happy with what Zowie had whispered on him a while ago?

They had arrived back to S city, and went inside a huge gate with high walls.