The Stolen Bride

Chapter 17 - Car Chase

Luke spun around and found himself face-to-face with William Harris. Before he could react, Will punched Luke, sending him spiralling to the ground.

"What do you think you're doing here?" Will snarled at Luke as he started to stand back up. Luke could feel blood running from his nose, but he ignored it.

"Why do you think I'm here?" Luke said evenly. He continued calmly. "You took Sofia from me and now I'm going to take her home."

Luke turned around and pulled Sofia up off the ground. She looked terrified so Luke gave her an encouraging smile and turned back to Will, only to be greeted with a fist to his face.

Luke stumbled backwards and clutched his nose. It was bleeding uncontrollably now and it felt broken. He shook his head and looked back at Will who had grabbed Sofia by the arm and was dragging her out of the church. Luke started to go after them, but was greeted by angry wedding guests who were yelling at him and blocking his path.

"What do you think you're doing?!?"

"You ruined a perfect wedding!"

"They've been planning this for months!"

Luke stopped and grabbed the person by the shoulders. It was an old lady who was waving a walking stick at him accusingly.

"What do you mean 'They've been planning it for months'?"

The old lady shook him off and hit him with her walking stick. He backed off and started to push through the crowd and down the aisle.

What did the lady mean when she said that Will was planning the wedding for months? Sofia wasn't missing for months. It wasn't even a whole week. Will hadn't even met her, so why did he take her?

Luke pushes through the last of the crowd and ran out to see that Will was shoving Sofia into a car at the very bottom of the hill. Luke looked around desperately. He couldn't run all that way down the hill; it would take too long. He needed something that was fast.

Luke turned around and saw a red motorbike with the helmet sitting on the seat. He ran to it and shoved the helmet on his head before he hoteliers the bike and sped down the hill. He reached the bottom just in time to see the car turning left towards the cliffs.

Not slowing down, Luke skidded around the corner and raced after them. He was gaining on them quickly and he would soon be able to get onto the car.

Luke could hear his phone ringing, but he ignored it. Whatever it was, it could wait.

Luke reached the car and was driving along next to it. He was about to jump onto it when Will swerved the car away onto the other side of the road. Luke followed it and could see that Will was swerving desperately to avoid crashing into anything.

Luke kept following them, trying to catch up, but they kept speeding up. Will swerved back onto the road and kept driving. Luke sped onto the road and was right behind them when his bike made a popping noise. He managed to lunge onto the car before the bike exploded.

Luke climbed up the car and saw Sofia in the back seat with her face pressed up against the glass. She looked terrified and she kept banging on the glass. Luke got ready to break the glass when his phone rang again and he lost focus. Will decided to swerve of the road at that exact moment and drive off the road again.

Luke was shaken off the car and onto the road. He jumped up quickly and started to run after it but his right leg was in agony and it collapsed beneath him.

Luke watched helplessly as the car drove off and left him in the middle of nowhere. He tried to stand again, but the pain in his leg was unbearable and he collapsed again.

His phone started to ring again and he yanked it out and answered it.

"Who is it?"

"Luke?!" Lucy sounded really worried. "What happened to you? You were meant to meet us at the car!"

"Sorry, I got a little caught up." Like said gruffly, "Hey, can you come pick me up? I'm near the cliffs."

"The cliffs?! What are you doing there?"

"Long story short, Will is taking Sofia to the cliffs. So you need to hurry down here so we can get her!"

Luke hung up and threw his phone down next to him. It seemed hopeless to try and follow them when they would already be miles away by the time Lucy picked him up.

Luke stood up, ignoring the pain, and ran onto the road. A car hit the brakes to avoid hitting him and he ran to the side and got in.

"Hello. Are you heading to the cliffs? I need you to get me there as fast as you can."