Need Protection?

"Just how dangerous the man was or how weak you think I am that I will need your protection?" He laughed it off.

When the woman shook her head. "You will know when the time will come." that was all she said when he raised a brow but she did not reply.

They sat there for some more time before standing up and paying the bills.

The man was walking forward while looking back every now and then while talking to her when he felt a strong pain in his face.

Everything happened so suddenly that he did not even know the reason for the pain until he felt something wet and sticky on his face and a strong stench of iron filled his nostrils.

His hands instinctively reached to his nose and jaw and his eyes shook a bit before concentrating on the man in front of him.

"Did you only find this clown after searching for so long?" asked Declan as he stared at Anne with a cold look on his face when the girl looked away.