Tell Me A Secret

Chapter 19: A Desperate Stand

Total shock was what my body was in at this exact moment. Fear instantly took over me and my body was locked up. There was a man listening to Harry and my conversation the whole time. He had to have known who we were because he had a gun pulled out. I had no doubt in my mind that Harry had a gun in his waistband of his black jeans and I was thankful in the moment.

Harry's body turned, shielding me away from the horrible moment on the floor. I watched as the bullet that the man shot missed right beside us in the corner hitting the bathroom door. I locked eyes with Harry's showing him how nervous I was. I tried to look past Harry's body but he wouldn't let the man see me or let me see him. It was like Harry knew something like this was going to happen. Now I wasn't as terrified because I have seen Harry kill in cold blood but I truly didn't know who he was up against.

His strong built body covered mine, his back facing the intruder and his eyes dead locked on mine. In his eyes there was no fear, no emotion, just a blank face watching my every move. I buried my face into his chest, using his body as a human shield for protection. It all felt like minutes but it was only seconds. Harry noticed from my eyes how fearful I was and he whispered, "You'll get out of here, I promise " and then started to reach into his waistband and pulled out the short black pistol still keeping eye contact with me. He pulled it up with one hand and he took his other and put his finger up to my mouth schussing me.

"Styles, I've been looking all over for you" the man behind us spoke likely with his gun facing us having us cornered in. Harry didn't dare look back at him knowing that if he knew Harry had a gun he would fire instantly.

"Oh you have?" Harry said cockily still keeping calm and looking at my eyes trying to plan how he was going to attack. I heard the man's boots clink and move closer to us putting Harry into a small panic mode.

"You are such a busy man I hear" the guy behind us speaks

"You know what they say about me, besides I have better things to be doing than dealing with you bastards" Harry says winking at me, but he only startled me because it seems like he knows exactly who was behind us.

"Have you watched the news recently Styles?" the man says

"One step behind yuh" Harry says getting pissed.

"There seems to be a girl missing, hm I can't think of her name.... Her father is the owner of Highland industries. They have a bounty for her Harry? You think you have seen her anywhere?" he questions Harry.

My eyes go wide as I hear the words leave his mouth, they are looking for me? Was he here to help me get back to my family, or was this just another gang. Harry instantly took his hand that was free of the gun and covered my mouth so I couldn't speak. Harry knew I was going to say something to try and figure out if this man was here for me but he beat me to it.

"Avery listen to me if you want to be safe, don't leave my arms okay" He whispers into my ear grabbing my hands and placing them around his chest gripping his toned muscles. Then he grabs my legs and wraps them around his torso and I hang on for dear life.

"No I haven't seen her, who is it again?" Harry says gripping on to my back as I bury my face into his neck once again so I don't have to see any of this fight. My nails dig into his back because of anxiety and he never winces in pain.

Harry then swiftly picks me up into a standing position, him facing the guy and me facing the bathroom door. I shuddered against Harry's warm body holding on for dear life. "Hang on" he spoke. He rose his two arms off me and to his gun making me hang on to him with all my life to stay on him just like he said. I was very impressed with myself for hanging on for this long without falling off. My eyes continue to be closed into his neck listening to this conversation.

"Look Styles it doesn't have to be this way, I know that girl you are holding is Avery Highland, I'm not stupid. I'm surprised you haven't got caught with her yet, you know her dad has a bounty for you, right? Listen, I just want to help you out here, all I want from you is to take her off your hands" the man spoke chuckling at the end. This man sounded like pure evil, and I felt safer with Harry and that was saying a lot. He wasn't going to help me he wanted Harry dead because my father knew Harry kidnapped me. But the thing was, what was this guy going to do with me?

Harry stayed quiet, silently thinking to himself and said, "I'd rather not" and then I felt his arm pull the trigger and the pistol went off leaving me screaming hoping that it hit him. As soon as it fired Harry tried to maintain his balance with me by holding my back and lifting me back up so I was closer to him. I kept my eyes closed hoping that he shot him and that was going to be it but something told me it wasn't over. I let out a cry and listened to Harry's heartbeat waiting to see what was next.

"Avery I want you to go find Niall and tell him to take you to code fly, he knows what I'm talking about, don't ask questions. I want you to tell him tha-" Harry starting saying letting go of my body so my feet were on the floor but that's when he was interrupted with a gun shot.

I watched as Harry's eyes bulged right out of his sockets and him reaching for his leg before falling straight down with me crashing us onto the floor with him on top of me. I screamed as his face was right above mine and he wasn't responding to me. "Harry" I say trying to shake his arms and he still wasn't responding.

"Princess he's in shock" the man in the corner said, but I still didn't look up at him as I was worried Harry wasn't going to make it out of here.

I try to lift him off of me and I can see the puddle of blood beside me and my clothes drenched in it. He had been shot in his leg. He was injured and I had to put up with this guy on my own Harry didn't stand a chance against this guy now. Harry's eyes opened and was still conscious but I knew I had to get out of here.

Suddenly I hear ruckus going on outside the bathroom door. Walls banging, yelling, guns, and so much more. Hopefully the Dragons were fighting back and Niall was ok. I had to go find him before this gang takes me. I bet that's why they were fighting. Me.

"Ms. Highland we've been looking all over for you" I looked up over into the corner by the bathroom stalls as the tall skinny muscular man was walking towards our bodies. I analyzed his frame he was built and he had dark brown fluffy hair. He was much stronger than Harry but he probably wasn't trained well. He had all black on and he had brown hazel eyes, he was unrecognizable as I have never seen him before.

"Harry" I shook him trying to get a reaction out of him but he was in too much pain he couldn't even speak. He was on top of me so I tried to wiggle to get him off but I was too late.

The man had put his arms under my shoulders and started to pull me from underneath of Harry but he couldn't because I had ahold of Harry's hand and I wasn't intending to let go of him either.

"Leave me alone you asshole" I said fighting to keep ahold of Harry and not let him take control knowing this could only get worse.

I kicked and squirmed from his grasp and tried my hardest to get out of his grasp but I couldn't he was much stronger than me. He pulled me up into his arms holding me into a bear grip and then I felt a cold metal barrel to the back of my head.

"Har-" I yelped, letting a tear fall from my eye

"Try anything and I will kill you" the man said walking me towards the bathroom door still holding onto me like he was never letting go.

I thought to myself this is it, this is going to be the time I actually get killed. For once in my life I realized Harry wasn't that bad in this moment. I had no idea who these people were and what was going on but I knew they were looking for trouble, they were looking for me.

As we reach the door with his hands holding my arms back he reaches for the handle and opens it. The first thing I see is a fight happening before my eyes. A bunch of men shooting and beating each other. It looked like there was a few different gangs were here by the color of their leather jackets. What is even going on?

But my thoughts were interrupted by my kidnapper falling from behind me crushing me to the floor.

BOOM.

Hey guys I hoped you enjoyed the chapter. I know what an intense one, and I'm sorry I haven't wrote in a while. But I hope all is well and as always see ya next chapter! ~T