Tempting Fate (Charity Series #3)

• Fourty Nine •

Stella

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May kalayuan ang lugar kung saan namin sinundan ang direksyon ng tracking map. Nasa loob pa rin ng gubat at malayo-layo na sa malawak na kalsada.

Nang makapasok kami sa cabin, kaagad kong tinulungan si Seven maupo.

“Shit,” mura ko.

Alam kong tinamaan si Seven sa balikat, pero hindi ko akalain na ganito katindi 'yung lalim ng sugat niya. 'Yung pinangtapal na tela ni Ash sa sugat ay puno na ngayon ng dugo.

“Ahh!” napasigaw si Seven nang bigla na lang siya hawakan ni Ash sa braso, tanggalin ang tela at tignan ng maigi ang sugat.

Nag-react ako, “Huy! Ingatan mo naman!”

“I see,” hindi niya ako pinansin, “They used a poison gun.”

“Anong ibig mo sabihin?”

“The weapon they used to attack us was a poison gun. The bullets were wrapped by a poison and unfortunately, Seven was shot by it.”

I worked from a dark organization as well, but I didn’t even know that kind of weapon exist. I mean it can be, but nobody from us owns that deadly weapon. This just means that Seven's agency is a really dangerous threat.

“Fuck...” daing ni Seven, “Stella, are you okay?”

Kinuyom ko ang kamao ko sa tanong niya. Ako ba dapat ang tanongin o siya?!

“Umuwi na tayo. Kailangan mong magamot agad, Seven. Delekado ‘yung sugat mo,” bulalas ko.

“We have to stall a bit here... if we move, the agency will find us,” nahihirapang tugon niya.

“Narinig mo ba ‘yung sinabi n‘ya? Poison gun ‘yung ginamit sa ‘yo! Kapag nagtagal tayo rito, mamamatay ka!”

“I can handle this.”

“No you can’t!”

“Hays!” umayos ng tayo si Ash, “Can you not fight in front of my face? And Seven, this girl has a point. Don’t you have that powerful guy in the CVA? Shouldn’t you contact him first?”

“We can’t move right now. Please get my point.”

“What if we spread info about the agency online? Let them self-destruct, dude.”

“Then everyone in the agency including the innocent ones will be sacrificed.”

“Since when did you care about them?” inis na tugon naman ng isa, “If you die here, you think I’ll carry you out to your friends? Pahihirapan mo pa ‘ko. Isa pa, paano ‘tong babaeng ‘to?”

Turo niya sa 'kin.

“Hey, don’t tell you’re gonna say your last words like, ‘please take care of my girl. Protect her at all cost, blah blah blah.’ No way dude, no way.”

Tinignan ko ng masama si Ash, nakahalukipkip siya at nakasimangot sa 'kin.

“Hindi ko kailangan ng proteksyon mo. ‘Wag ka mag-alala, hindi mamamatay si Seven,” matigas kong ani sa kan'ya.

“Oh really? Look at that,” turo niya sa sugat ni Seven, “It’s starting to get purpled. Ibig sabihin, namamasa na at kumakalat na ang lason sa katawan n‘ya.”

Hindi siya nagsisinungaling, nagkukulay violet na nga 'yun.

Napatingin kami parehas kay Seven nang mahina siyang matawa.

“How can you laugh right now?” tanong ni Ash.

“I’m just glad. Thank you for deciding to get us out, Ash. We’d all have been dead without your help. If you’re one of my enemies, I think I’ll find it hard to fight you,” sagot niya.