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For at least 2 minutes I struggled to get the words out of Arden but he only looks away dumbfounded, not truly wanting to inform me on the current events.

I pull my hood from my head while watching him avoid eye contact with me, he just stares past me into the chilly wind.

"Arden" I say softly, once more finally catching his attention. He lifts his head and stares me directly into my eyes before opening his mouth to speak.

"The money is for earning our freedom and for them to stay away from you" he says with a long awaited sigh. My eyes widened in shock and I shake my head from feeling slightly confused.

"What do you mean stay away from me? Why would they bother me at all?" I question, giving him an irritable look.

"Come on Mia don't do this now. You even told me yourself that Kylo said to stay away from us because they'd easily be after you" he reminds me.

"Yeah but did anything happen to me?" I question and he shakes his head running his fingers through his hair.

"No Mia but that doesn't justify anything. They could have easily been trailing you and planning the right moment to attack just to get at me." He admits.

"And I don't want that to happen to you, I could never forgive myself" he says, his eyes beginning to soften, "you mean so much to me Mia and the thought of you getting hurt fucks me up. I think it's best to stay away from me." He continues dropping his eye contact.

He knew my reaction and he didn't want to witness it. I feel my eyes beginning to burn and my throat aching. None of this is fair, I can care for myself. I have for awhile and I will for the rest of my life.

I don't need anyone stopping their actions just to think about me I won't stand for it.

"How do you know what's best?" I say softly trying to clear the hoarseness from my throat.

"How do you know if that's the better choice Arden? You even said you were earning your spot out of this mess so what the hell?" I continue.

He looks at me with his eyes filled with pain and regret, "I can't promise that this'll go as planned. Everything could backfire and they could continue to come after you" he mutters.

"So you're telling me that you're spending all this money just to get these bastards to keep me out of it all??" I question raising my voice slightly and folding my arms over my chest.

He nods his head without voicing any words, he just stares down at me awaiting my next response.

"Bullshit." I say simply earning no reaction from him.

"This is bullshit Arden! I won't allow you to waist all this damn money on me. This shit isn't worth it!" I shout shoving him but he barely budges, he just stares down at me sympathetically.

"This is my fault for continuing to have outside correlations with you after you told me everything" he chokes out, his expression completely softened and his voice cracking.

"Why does that matter-" just as I begin my sentence two men exit the wear house reaching for their guns with no hesitation after taking sight of my unfamiliar appearance.

I immediately rue showing up at such an unsafe location without any protection. Arden words fly right through and I regret not leaving when he told me. My anxiety shoots through the roof but Arden reacts faster than I can.

He quickly pushes me back and tosses something at one of the guys while punching the other square in the nose knocking him to the ground instantly.

My eyes widen as I stand away in horror. What the hell just happened?

Many different guys emerge from around the building and in the cars that I assumed were empty. They all start pulling out their guns and instead of running for my life I just stand still shocked from the unexpected event.

"Get out of here Mia, listen to me once please!" Arden shouts immediately reaching for his gun and starting fire.

His words were processed into my brain and even though I wanted more than anything to react I just couldn't.

My body froze and out of all times I was able to gain control over my anxiety, this is the first time I felt completely weak and unable to defend myself. Before I knew it my waist was pulled and I was practically being dragged away from the scene.

I look over at the person who was escorting me and Kylo looks back at me in horror. He obviously didn't expect anything like this to happen and I can't help but feel like shit for being the cause of it.

Just as I begin to gain some kind of control over my body, the thought of something happening to Arden crosses my mind and I without hesitation get loose from Kylo's grip and charge towards Arden as I watch him shoot men from opposite directions.

Some even took it upon themselves to sneak up on him and try to take him on naturally. Others scatter back into cars and leave the premises.

The fact that I'm running back to Arden is not that I think he couldn't win, or him against all of those guys is suicidal. All that crossed my mind is losing Arden as a whole, no matter the causes.

I can't let anything happen to him. He means more to me than I ever wanted to admit. The first night I met him I found some unholy attraction to him just from him noticing me, judging I'm no where near on his level.

After he'd broke the news that he respected me enough to not touch me while I was passed out, caught my eye without a doubt. For months I had my eyes on Arden. I won't let tonight be the last night I get to see him.

"MIA STOP WE HAVE TO LEAVE" I hear Kylo yelling in agony as the sound of heavy footsteps come charging after me.

I won't let him stop me, I can't leave without Arden. I won't.

"Arden" I call out causing everyone to stop what they're doing rendering confusing to pass over me.

I feel an unfamiliar wave threw my body causing my vision to blur for a second and my hearing to become muffled. All the men retreat to their cars and Arden watches me in complete horror.

I feel the true heaviness of my body take over and I collapse to the dirt, my vision becoming blurrier by the second. What's wrong with me and why do I feel so nauseous, cold and dizzy all at once.

"Mia no please" I hear Kylo's familiar voice call out to me as he grabs a hold of me and applies pressure to the wound that I hadn't noticed until now.

I look down at my bloody shirt after Kylo unzipped my jacket so he could see exactly where the wound was. I'd been shot and I didn't even notice till now. The aching becomes aware and I soon gasp for air.

All sounds are completely inaudible and all I can see is Kylo yelling at me as tears fall from his eyes rapidly.

I turn my head only to see Arden struggling to make it to me as he stumbles a few times. This almost feels like a scene from an action movie. It feels like Arden is running in slow motion while my vision blurs.

The realization of death hits me as the unfamiliar wave shoots through me once more. My eyes widen and tears start to form in my eyes.

"I don't want to die Kylo" I cry out as he struggles to pull out his phone.

He says something back to me but I can't make it out, I wish I knew what he said. I don't want to hear anything more than this.

Am I going to be okay? Or is this the end.

Arden comes into view frantically and for a split second I noticed Arden's true fear. Losing someone dear to him. I close my eyes, feeling extremely exhausted like I'd had a hard day at work and I'd be craving sleep.

Second later everything goes black and I find myself not worrying about anything. Not aware or caring.