Chapter 8

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Vanessa's POV: 

There was a loud rumbling sound and the already dark sky started getting darker. Soon it will start pouring.His car just passed by. He was sitting with Maddy. It means they are friends, no doubt he didn't even have a curious expression when Maddy walked into the meeting. But does it mean that he knew from the start that I was in France all these years? If he knew then why did he ask me? Maybe I am just overthinking.

I look outside again but this time in Duke's direction only to see him waving his hand signalling me to come out. I shake my head to tell him I don't want to but he narrows his eye and then crosses the road.

"Come out no, Granny wants to see you," He said in an excited tone.

Granny is the owner of the shop. We called her by that name because she was old and there were wrinkles on her face, her son left her, So she was mostly all alone. She used to pull my cheeks whenever we went there.

"I said I didn't want to," I replied not wanting to meet her, I am sure she will ask about Zain and I won't have an answer to explain to her what happened between us.

"Yeah, I know," He said and grabbed my wrist. Closing the door behind me, he started walking towards the shop.

When we were halfway through the road, suddenly something explodes behind us, the next thing I knew was that Duke and I were in the air.

Due to the impact of the explosion, we were thrown into different directions. I made contact with earth with so much force that a liquid starts oozing out from my head. For a few minutes, there was this numb feeling I can't hear anything other than the sound of a beep everything seemed to be blurred. I closed my eyes and lay there to calm my heart down. Then it hits me, Duke where is he.

I moved my head, which by now was covered in blood, in Duke's direction to see him getting up from the ground and looking here and there frantically for me. I tried to get up and saw him walking towards me. I shake my head to regain my hearing senses, but that too was of no use. 

Something wet drops on my shoulder, I look up to see the tar-black sky and soon it started raining heavily.

Duke came and hugged me tightly like his life depend on it. Our soaked bodies tangled together, not wanting to leave each other. He pulled away first, checked for any injury. When he saw the wound on my head, he stiffens and asks me something which I can't figure out. I said I'm okay and gestured towards my ears to indicate that I can't hear anything. Luckily he hadn't suffered any injury too, only some small wound on his hand. 

I look in the direction of blast to see the source of explosion. Duke's car was in flames, clearly signalling where the explosion happened but how?

I shifted my attention back to Duke, who was confused after he saw his car. His eyes held the same fearful expression he had when the blast in my mom dads mansion happened. He squeezed my hand slightly to make sure I am okay. I nodded a bit.

Everyone around us was terrified. But then I saw the couple I was earlier watching from the window. The boy was covering the girl, protecting her from anything that might come her way.

I yanked my hand from Duke's grip and ran in their direction. I crouch next to the boy and check his pulse, faint but still there. Duke pulled him up and we successfully pulled them away from his car. I sigh a little relieved that nothing happened to them. The girl only suffered minor injuries whereas the boy had some injuries on his back. My hearing senses much better now, I can hear the pitter patter of rain, the cries of girl, who is shaking his boyfriend to wake up.

"Calm down, he will be alright," I said giving her a reassuring smile. 

"What if he won't, he covered me from the flying glasses, his whole back is now covered with blood," She said while sobbing. There are wounds on his back, but any of them isn't major, just a few which needs stiches. 

"My friend is calling for ambulance, don't worry, I-" I was answering her when I felt like whole word is spinning, my eyes closed involuntarily and I nearly fell. She grabbed my hand and made me sit near her. 

"Hey are you okay?" She asked. 

"Yeah, a bit," I replied feeling a little better.

"Vanessa can you hear now?" Duke asked me, I stood up and said,

"Yeah I can," I smile a little.

"Let's go, I have called for ambulance and our car is here," He said looking concerned, watching the scratch on my head.

"Hey, I am okay, don't worry, it's a small wound, and we can't leave them let's just wait for the ambulance," I said and gestured towards the couple. My wound hurts a little when I touch it. My fingertips covered in dark blood. I felt a little dizzy again but regained my balance without Duke noticing me or else he will force me to go home. I want to wait for the ambulance to come.

I was watching them, the girl a crying mess and the boy laid pale in her lap and then all of a sudden something hard pierces through my left shoulder below my collarbone but just a few inches above my heart, I screamed in agony and stumbled a bit backwards before diverting my eyes towards the wound.

Blood oozes out where the bullet made a hole and pain takes over me. Duke's shocked expression was all I saw before I collapsed on my knees. Unable to understand what happened I tried not to close my eyes, tears blurred my vision and my breathing quickened. But a pair of arms steadied me, preventing me from falling on the ground.

I look up and saw a beautiful pair of green eyes, filled with concern and pain. His pink lips moved, saying something which I can't figure out, a small smile made its way on my lips unconsciously.I closed my eyes, relieved that I am safe now, he will keep me safe. The only thing I heard before the darkness took over me was"Vane" 

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Hey guys, 

New chapter is here, I am extremely sorry if there are any grammatical errors, it is unedited.

Now let me tell you all something which recently happened with me, I was sleeping and saw this dream in which there was some girl who commented that my book is very bad and I should unpublish it, writers like me are shame on Wattpad and it should ban my account. It felt so real that I believed that it happened. Even when I woke up, I felt sad and depressed. After two days, when I logged in, it notified me that there 56 notifications. 

I was scared as hell, but when I opened wattpad, I saw that @lishaaa7 bombarded my story with votes and comments. Thank you so much for showing your love and I am grateful that you liked my story *Phew* I was on cloud nine haha. Also thank you so much everyone for 91 votes and 389 reads. Sorry for all this ranting *laughs nervously*

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