Just A Step Away

Chapter 36

Katherine's POV:

"Darwin!" I shouted and crawled towards him. I picked his head and placed it on my lap.

"Darwin." I cried and touched my forehead to his.

"Nothing will happen to you. I promise. Please don't close your eyes. Please Darwin." I pleaded and looked at his shoulder from where blood was continuously dripping off.

"I-I didn't l-et anything ha-ppen to y-you." He smiled and struggled to talk.

"Nothing will happen to you too." I pulled his head closer to my chest and cried.

"Omer? Omer." I turned around my head and looked at him. He was also lying on the floor with pain.

Whole Pub was emptied by then, there was only us remaining. My eyes then moved to the person who was responsible for everything.

"So you are the one who were attacking me? Finally you got courage to come in front of me?" I mocked him bitterly.

He was looking so different. His face was stern and emotionless. His eyes were cold and evil. He was not looking like the one who we all witnessed at school.

"Katherine. How much I missed you." Adam said and came closer to me.

I panicked and looked at Darwin. He struggled while trying to sit. He held my hand tightly, assuring me that nothing can happen to me.

"Take their mobile phones." Adam ordered to his men.

They came and took our mobile phones on gun point.

I looked at Adam with hatred.

"Finally the boss himself came. What happened bastard? How did you feel when your useless men failed to accomplish your mission?" Darwin teased Adam.

"You! You always came in the middle of my goal. First you spoil my plan in California and now you came here too to protect her from me?" He roughly grabbed Darwin's jaw and said.

I looked at Darwin with shock.

'He saved me every time?'

Our eyes met and we felt like we were alone with each other. He smiled towards me; I cried and looked towards him with guilt in my eyes.

In those three years, I faced too many attacks and I thought I was lucky to get saved every time. All the time when I was cursing Darwin, he was saving my life?

"This time you will not get lucky." Adam mocked Darwin.

"Try me as much as you can. I will not even let you touch her hair." Darwin eyed him dangerously and said.

I turned around to see Omer. He was still lying there with shock.

"You will see, Bastard. You will see when I will touch her everywhere in front of your eyes." He laughed and said.

Darwin's face turned red with anger. He was fuming angrily.

"Take his gun." Adam ordered his man who followed his command.

"I don't like too many people around me. Let's do one thing. Let me kill that Omer guy. He is looking useless anyway, like a background music which half of the audience doesn't even notice until it stops playing." Adam walked closer to Omer and said.

"Don't you dare touch him, Adam. You have problem only with me, so take me and leave Darwin and Omer." I shouted.

"What are you saying Kathie? There will be no fun then." Adam teased.

He was looking like a psychopath.

"Look sweetie, I have worked really hard to get you. First I followed you for one year and learned your likes/dislikes, your habits and passion, your friends and especially about your best friend, Darwin. You have a habit of writing diary at every night." He smiled evilly. We all looked at him with shock.