Afraid to Love ✔

Part 18

Mia

Just like they said, I went back to him for Mai's antidote. I met William and his female friend with Mr. Change and Draykov. Mr. Change took the antidote back to Mai. As soon as she started to improve Draykov left as well, sort of.
"I knew you'd come crawling back to me." William smirked as we walk away.
"What other choice did I have? You threatened the lives of my unborn nieces and/or nephews too when you poisoned my sister. You are a monster!" I spit in his face and earn a punch in the gut for my efforts. I fall to my knees but the female yanks me up by my hair.
She pushes me in their car, a different one than before. She drives as he gets in the back with me. He starts immediately trying to rub on me, I push his hands away then he would punch me. He grabs my arms pulling me roughly into a kiss, I headbutt him in his nose. You guessed it, he slapped me across the face.
We have been driving along a river for a while and it looked deep enough to carry me to the Hudson. So when he tries to pull me down in the back seat to get on top of me, I wait until his starts to position himself above me. I hit him as hard as I can with my body, turn on my left side break his hold then start kicking like a cyclist going uphill. I grab and yank the girl's hair and she swerves the car. Now with my back against the door, I redirect him into the car window breaking it. He falls back and she slams on breaks sending him towards the front seat. I push his body further into the front with my feet hitting her in the process.
Quickly climbing out the car, I roll down the embankment and jump into the river. The current was a little stronger than I thought but I manage to get away and that's all that matters, right? Draykov fishes me out before I reach the Hudson River. I ditch my GPS jewelry and my outer layer of clothes on the spot. Draykov checks me and my remaining clothes looking for anyway William could have tagged me. He found one in my arm and one in my neck. After removing the one in my arm and leaving the other I flew to a friend of Draykov in Belarus.
After a week of getting fat on 50 different kinds of meat dishes, fresh fruits, bread, and potato everything, William finally shows up at an outdoor market where I am shopping. I hid and escape in the back of a delivery truck.
My phone is somewhere in the Hudson, so I had to keep moving until Draykov found Matt and caught up to me. I never stayed in the same neighborhood more than one night. I was never outside more than 5 minutes, unless I was in a car and never with the same people two days in a row.
Weeks of this must have made him impatient, I am sitting outside with new friends and instead of his usual stalking me from afar he approached the table and was arrested for violating my protective order. Unfortunately the NYPD didn't forward all the charges to interpol like Mr. Change requested. By the time everything was updated, he was loose and I was in the Ukraine repeating the process. He found me in Turkey a week later, luckily so did Matt and Draykov. He was arriving and I was leaving. I wave like a pageant winner when I saw his face against the terminal window as I was about to board a private plane.
On the plane to one of my father's friends, his personal surgeon removes the tracking device from my neck. He put it in some sort of solution and gave it back to me. After landing in Dubai I dropped it into the desert right outside the city.
After getting settled, Draykov let me know William was in country as well. He suggests drugging him and leaving him in the middle of the Emirate of Sharjah naked. I told him no but I really like the idea.

Laurent

I am so happy to be getting off that plane, the turbulence was terrible, but I'm here and I can't wait to see Mia's surprise. Larry is in his phone as always. I call Mia as we clear the gate.
"We're here."
"Yeah we are, bro." Larry answers unaware I'm snapping to Mia.
"Lau, Mai say they found a female body that matches Mia's description, she waiting to hear back from her brother."
My heart stopped, "Where?"
"Outside Paris." He says solemnly. I pat him on the back and grab my bags.
"Lau?" He pulls me to face him. I smile at my brother and hug him. "Come on, we need to get going."
"Lau?" He sounds concerned.
"Mia is fine, come on or I leaving you here!"