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Chapter 9: Mom?

Ten meters was not a long distance. The two bad guys quickly get ahead of Lukas.

"I'm not lost!" snapped Lukas, trying not to look scared and stupid. "My father is waiting at the end of the street."

The two thugs looked at each other, then burst out laughing again. "He doesn't look as scared as we think," commented the fat one, laughing, holding his stomach.

The two thugs looked at each other, then the thin one rushed to ambush Lukas nimbly.

"Stop! What have you guys done to me?" Lukas shouted, trying to struggle. "Help!"

The skinny man laughed out loud. "Look, he's scared, mate!"

"Little bunny asking for help!"

"Relax, no one will hear you here, honey!"

The two thugs then laughed again, making Lukas grimace in fear. The little boy looked around, realizing that there was indeed no one around them. He then burst into tears, regretting his recklessness. If only he hadn't been naughty and had obeyed his father, his life would have been much better now.

"Mom," Luke whispered. "I guess I'll see you soon."

One sentence that Lukas said made him feel helpless. However, seeing his mom would never be a bad idea.

Initially, he just wanted to meet someone who looked a lot like his mother. Only that. And why did it have to end like this? Luke thought sadly.

Lukas closed his eyes. He had given up. It's just that, when he closed his eyes, the boy suddenly heard the sound of a dull object being hit followed by screams of pain from the thin man who had been holding him.

Lukas' eyes opened, seeing a blonde woman holding a wooden stick. In front of him, the thin man was lying on his back unconscious.

Meanwhile, the fatty shouted. "Crap! You damn blonde girl! How dare you meddle in our business!"

"Come on, run!" The woman screamed as she dragged Lukas away. The fatty chased after the two without stopping.

Lukas, who was still amazed that someone was helping him, looked at the helper alternately with the fat man. Before long, the boy was exhausted because he had been walking and running for hours ago.

A second later, Luke decided to stop. He bent down, holding his knees breathlessly.

"Hey, boy! Do not stop. He can catch us soon," shouted the young woman.

An annoyed Lukas faced the woman and shouted, "I'm tired! Do you think—"

Luke's words just stopped, as if swallowed into the stomach. His mouth opened wide, looking at the woman intently.

"Mom?" he muttered under his breath.

Because the fatty was approaching. The woman had no other choice but to lift Lukas' body with difficulty. She was running while carrying the boy.

"You're so heavy!" the woman grumbled, almost straining and screaming.

With great difficulty, the woman carried off a boy who had a similar hair tone to hers. She ran as fast as she could. Now, with the same speed as the fat man because by carrying Luke's weight, their total body weight would be comparable to the man chasing them. It should be. However, the fat man managed to shorten the distance.

"Damn! I catch you!" shouted the fat thug angrily. "How dare you hit my elder brother!"

Luck has not been on the side of the two blonde-haired ones. In front of the path they walked, there was only a dead end. The woman turned around and didn't know what to do. She then put Lukas down, ready to face the fat guy.

The woman's slender palms squeezed each other. Her chest was pounding, both from fear and from the exhaustion of running. She bent down to calm Lukas down.

"Kid, I will distract him," the woman whispered to Lukas. "Once he's busy, run and ask someone for help!"

"How about you?" whispered Luke worriedly.

The woman shook her head and reassured Luke that she would be fine. Unfortunately, the idea was too bad for Lukas. How could he just leave his helper like that?

In a flash, the woman pulled away from Lukas, keeping her distance and providing space for the little man to escape. If her calculations were right, the little boy would be safe because they weren't too far from the shopping center.

"Fight me if you dare, you coward!" the woman yelled, addressing the fat man, pointing her fist at the thug.

Of course, the thug was angry to hear that. He ran towards the woman and just as he got closer, the woman hit him with a broken chair that was in a pile of trash.

"Eat this, you trashy villain!" she shouted, hitting the fat man so many times that he screamed for mercy. The woman then turned to Luke and shouted, "Run! I will keep him here!"

Lukas was confused. He wanted to run, but his legs were too heavy to move.

From the end of the street, he could see the thin thug running over with an angry face. The woman panicked even more because Lukas didn't move a leg.

"Come on, run! What are you waiting for? Do you want your mother to cry because she lost you?" the woman scolded without knowing that she had said a forbidden word that confused Luke's feelings.

"You are my mom, aren't you?" asked Lukas, confirming what he should have asked when things had calmed down. "You are still alive and came to this city to look for me and dad, right?" Lukas whined.

"What are you talking about?" The woman was confused by Lukas' question. Caught off guard, behind her, the fatty was ready to hit her back. "Hurry up and run, boy!"

When the woman was busy asking Lukas to leave immediately, that's when, Lukas shouted, "Watch out! Behind you!"

The woman immediately turned around. However, she was too late. The wooden chair in the fat's hands had hit the woman, sending her instantly crashing to the ground.

The fatty laughed with satisfaction, about to chase his real prey. However, the woman's hands, with all her might left, prevented his feet from moving, gripping firmly like an eagle's talons holding the prey.

"Run!" the woman screamed again. The fatty got angry and kicked the woman with his free leg. However, the woman wouldn't let go of her grip on the fat man's ankles.

Lukas had no choice but to comply. He ran, brushing aside his worries about the woman helping him. Unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough to move. The fatty's companion approached him and managed to catch the boy.

"Let go of me!" Lukas struggled.

Running out of ideas, the woman screamed for help. She was already desperate, she just hoped that someone passing by would hear her screaming.

Lukas also followed her, yelling loudly. They became so noisy and caused many people in the shopping center to hear them, even if it was a little faint.

The fat man was angry. He beat the woman black and blue. Just as he was about to land his foot on the woman's face, that's when several people dressed in black approached. The woman didn't know what happened next because she could only see darkness.


Chapter 10: The Boy's Dad

Ava opened her eyes slowly. Her head was still dizzy. Her body ached. She found bandages wrapped around her upper body.

The last thing she remembered was saving a child and it almost endangered her life. She didn't know how it happened. The girl was now in a room ... a private room ... not a hospital as she should be.

Ava's eyes glanced around the room. Everything about the room was luxury. The combination of white and natural oak made the room look spacious and bright. Moreover, the large mirror on the left makes the room feel twice as big.

Was she in a rich man's house? Sure. Who would place a guest ... a stranger, in such a splendid room.

Ava got her sense of smell back. She inhaled the strawberry scent coming from the aromatherapy candle in the corner of the room. The luxurious scent was different from her cheap strawberry perfume. It wasn't that she didn't have good taste but that her financial situation prevented her from buying high-quality perfumes.

Everything in the room made her feel comfortable. The owner of the house seemed to have similar tastes to her. The only difference was the contents of their wallets.

Shortly after, a woman entered the room. She seemed to be a maid in the house, judging by the way she was dressed. Her eyes were slightly surprised as he looked at Ava. However, she soon regained her composure within seconds.

"Ah, you are already awake. I'll call Mr. Montgomery," said the woman.

She stepped out of the room again before Ava could ask her a thing or two. It was just that the name Montgomery reminded the girl of something she had heard.

William Montgomery?

However, she immediately dismissed the thought as there were many Montgomerys in this world. How could she be stuck with the same Montgomery among thousands of Montgomery in this world?

Unfortunately, it turned out that what Ava hoped for didn't come true. When the room door opened, the maid who had entered the room earlier came in with a man named Montgomery she knew. The only Montgomery she had ever met.

Ava's throat constricted as those green eyes stared at her without blinking.

"Is there anything else you need, sir?" asked the maid, breaking the silence that had fallen in the large guest room.

William shook his head. "You may go."

Now, there were only Ava and William in the room. William took a seat on the couch in the corner of the room. He didn't want to get too close to the girl because he knew what she could do to his body. He didn't want his desire to arise unsolicited because he remembered Paula. What's more, he didn't want his feelings to be hurt because he knew Paula could no longer be by his side.

Ava's head swiveled, following William's movements. The situation was so tense. Unlike their first meeting, when she and William were involved in a hot, sexy atmosphere. At this time, she only got a piercing glare from William.

Ava was still confused because of a little boy she helped. However, the confusion turned out to be even more and more. William's intense gaze made her look down, feeling uncomfortable.

"Ah, sorry! I … I still don't have anything to repay the money I borrowed—"

"Why are you here?" asked William, interrupting Ava's words, coldly and curtly.

Ava fell silent, growing frightened. The pain of her wound was now completely gone. It must be because she was really scared.

"I … I'm here to work," Ava answered in a low voice. She was innocent. She should not be afraid.

Even though she didn't have the money to pay back the three million dollars she borrowed from Willam, she was still innocent because there was no time limit for the payment.

"Work?" William asked, narrowing his eyes.

Ava nodded.

"Was the money I gave you the other day still lacking?" asked William again. His eyes looked at Ava curiously.

"Something happened and I lost all my money. My father bought me a ticket here because I would not have survived if I had stayed in NJ." Ava tried to explain briefly and straightforwardly. However, William looked at her sarcastically, as if she was lying. He couldn't help. She tried to con him in the past.

"Not a bad story," commented William curtly, making Ava's chest feel tight.

"I'm not lying—"

"How much did you get paid to approach my son?" William asked matter-of-factly.

"Approaching … your son?" she asked. Of course, she did not understand what William accused her of.

"Six months ago, you were asked to trick me into signing an agreement," explained William. "Now that Martin has failed, you must have been asked to approach my son, right? What do you plan?"

Ava's eyes widened. As it turned out, the boy she was helping was William's son, the handsome green-eyed man she almost tricked last month. Not only that, the boy's father was now accusing her of other crimes.

"Can't you see that I was badly injured, trying to save your son?" Ava asked fiercely. She did not expect that her good deed would be mistaken for an evil one.

"That's the old way, isn't it?" said William sarcastically. "Pretending to help your prey from being chased by criminals, even though they are your friends."

"Hey, I almost died—"

"Unfortunately, you didn't die," concluded William, making Ava's eyes widen. Did she have to die so that William would believe she meant no harm?

"You, ungrateful man!" Ava's anger boils over. She forced her body to get up from the comfy king-sized bed with white sheets that she had been sleeping on. "You know what, sir? I almost died helping a kid I didn't know who screamed for help when I was about to go to work. Instead of thanking me, the father even accused me of being mean to his son. "

Ava's eyes widened, looking at William with hatred. "Thank you for the bandages and your kind hospitality!"

As Ava was about to leave the room, William said again. "Stop following me," without taking his sharp eyes off her. "I know Martin told you to set me up again. Tell him that's impossible because I'll get rid of you soon enough."

Ava shook her head weakly. She already thought that was what was in William's head. He must have thought that she would con him again. To William, the stigma of being a fraudster still couldn't leave her image.

The girl squeezed her cold-sweating hands. She opened the door without looking back at the man.

After Ava left the room, William called his man to interrogate the two thugs who attacked Lukas. He wanted to do the same for Ava. However, Ava's honest eyes made him hesitate to do that and let her slip.

"No! That's not true. Scammers have to be good at acting, right?" muttered William to himself.

While he was seriously thinking about his problem, suddenly the room door opened again, revealing Ava with a shy red face.

"What else?" William was startled, almost jumping in surprise.

"Ah, it's raining outside. If you take me to work by car, I will forgive your mistakes today," Ava said awkwardly, unsure whether her request would be granted or not.

Meanwhile, William just gaped in disbelief. The girl before him was shameless, wasn't she?


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