𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝑶𝒇 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆

Tough shits

My wrists burn from the rope cutting into my skin as I keep tugging at it in attempts to free my hands. It's been some time since Carter left us alone, Ava is still passed out likely due to exhaustion. But that didn't make it any better, I have to find a way to get the hell out of here. 

"Ava, wake up. I need your help" I call her as she lays motionless. 

"Starlight, do you hear me?" I whisper yell without any luck. 

I close my eyes and let myself concentrate on removing the knots, I kneel down on the hard floor and bend myself backwards to touch my shoes. I've stuffed my pocket knife on the side of my shoes in case for unfortunate times like now. My hands couldn't reach that far into my shoes but I don't stop trying. 

"Eli..." her soft voice reaches me and I look up to see her blinking her eyes open. 

"I'm here. You're with me, Ava" I tell her and she looks at me. 

She looks around us probably trying to make sense of everything that happened in the last whatever hours. Once she regained all of her memory she lets out a loud groan and curses Carter to hell. 

"The fucking bastard. I'll kill him the next time" she murmurs to herself. 

"Ava, I need you to take the pocket knife from my shoes and cut the ropes" I tell her and she gives me a nod. 

She moves towards me on her knees cursing out loud and tries to retrieve the knife. Unfortunately her hands are also tied at back and she has to bend backwards. 

"Good thing I'm into gymnastics" she winks at me completing the task at hand. 

Ava works on it for couple of minutes and the ropes come undone on my hand. I finally feel my wrists and take the knife from her to free her hands, legs and do the same to me. The moment we become free Ava launches herself into my arms and I hold her tight. 

"Even though you were right next to me, I've never felt so distanced from you" she tells me. 

"I thought he will kill us before I get a chance to touch you, hold you and be with you" she continues and her grip turns harder. 

"No one is going to kill us, Starlight. We are going to escape from here, I promise" I pat her head. 

"And then we are going to finish them off" she words fall on my lips and she leans in for a kiss. 

My lips meet hers and I suck at her bottom lip. I feel at peace knowing she is in my arms and I know she feels the same. She lets out a little moan and deepens the kiss letting her fingers play with my hair. 

"Okay, let's not make babies here" she says after pulling back making me chuckle. 

"What's next?" she questions me. 

"Do you see the iron rod at the end? Let's use it to knock the door, when they enter the room don't hesitate to bring them down with it" I tell her and see her eyes glitter in the dark. 

"Happy to oblige. But they will be having guns, Eli" she tells me. 

"They won't have time to take the guns and even if they did I'll manage. Trust me" I tell her and she nods. 

Ava and I stand on the each side of the door when it opens. A man in black hoodie enters the room with his guns raised and I come out of the shadows so he doesn't find out Ava. 

"How did you manage to free yourself?" he asks with gun raised at my head. 

"Where is she?" he asks his eyes moving around. 

"I'm here" Ava tells from behind making him turn around.

I use the opportunity to kick him in the legs making him fall down and the gun fly out of his hand. Ava didn't think twice before swinging at the iron road at him and he screams loud. 

I tell Ava to be quiet as I hear heavy footsteps coming our way and we both wait at the same position. I watch her crouch down and sweep the iron rod few inches above the ground level when the goons came inside running. All three of them fall to the ground and it was my cue to take them out. 

I shoot them all in their hands and Ava hurries to pick up their guns. Carrying two guns each, we move out of the basement and I lead the way. We are not sure how much more people they have in this place so we carefully move without making any noise. 

The path lead to a big hallway where I see Carter sitting with a drink and few more people standing guard with guns in their hand. 

"He has more protection that we can manage" I tell to Ava. 

"What do we do?" 

"Let's wait for the right time to capture him then we can use him as bait to escape" I tell her, it is not the brightest idea but it's the best we can do now. 

Ava and I stay hide in the hallway for some time before one of the guard comes in our way to check on basement. We move further down the hallway and attack on the guard from dark. I cover his mouth and tackle him to the ground while Ava knock him out with the gun. Then we drag him to the basement and put him with the others. 

We tie them all with the same rope even though most of them are shot. Then we go back to our hiding place and find one more person sitting beside Carter with his back to us. 

"Did you reach out to them?" Carter asks the new person. 

"Yes" 

"When will they give Ashton back to us?" 

"That was not discussed" the man says making Carter lose his cool. 

"What the hell did you discuss then?" Carter yells at him. 

"Lower your voice boy. Your brother was foolish enough to get caught and I've unfinished business that I need to take care" the man says. 

"What are you going to do about them?" 

"Torture them, make their parents watch and make them beg for mercy. Then I will finish them off" the man tells killer. 

"You won't touch them until they give Ashton back. We have two of them, they have one of us, it's a easy trade" killer tells him clearly. 

"I'll hit where it will hurt the most. I need to have the upper hand" the man shouts frustration clear in his voice. 

"Father, listen to me. Those two are quite hard to handle, we will ask for a trade and once Ashton is safe we will proceed with your plan" Carter tries to make him understand. 

"Quite boy" he says and moves to have a drink and we see his face. 

"Looks like he talked to our parents, so do we wait here and hope for a rescue?"  Ava asks me as doubt swirls in her eyes. 

"No we get the fuck out of here, if possible we take either Adam or Carter" I tell her and she nods. 

I notice the guards are not in the vicinity anymore, Adam might have dismissed them to have a private conversation. Without second thoughts, I raise my gun in Adam's direction and walk out of our hiding spot. 

"I'm an excellent shot, don't try me" I tell Carter when he tries to lift his gun. 

"How the fuck did you escape?" he hisses while I hold Adam by his neck from behind. 

"You are so outdated for using those ropes" I hear Ava's voice and she pulls the gun on Carter. 

"Now, walk to the door" I start pushing Adam out of the hallway. 

"Guards!" Carter shouts for help and five guards rush inside high on alert. 

Afraid that I might blow off their boss's brain the guards don't fire but keep their guns aimed at us. Ava and I move towards the door with Adam while Carter keeps glaring at us. For a second he looked like he is willing to risk everything and attack Ava. Ava must have noticed the same because she said 'no' and fired at the ceiling. 

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