Wish by Scarlett Haven Page B

dealing with him ,” Matthews says. “ No more
questions .”
    The thought of Salvador having to talk to
Rafael makes me sick.
    Right now, I could get away from Matthews. I
have been trained and could definitely take him on. But what about
the other two guys? And the one has a gun. Could I get away and
save both Salvador and me? I have to at least try, don’t
I?
    There are people out in the woods looking for
us. I can hear them. If I am going to do this, I need to do it now.
They will hear the commotion and find us.
    So, I take a chance, and I fight.
    Matthews loses his grip on me.
    Salvador can’t fight, because his arms are
tied up, but I can. The guy with the gun points it at me, and I
kick it with my foot, knocking it from his hand.
    “ Over here!” I hear somebody yell
in English.
    They have an American accent.
    Oh, thank God!
    I don’t stop fighting. Somehow, I manage to
knock Matthews out. The one guy is holding onto Salvador, so I’m
only fighting one person.
    Thank you, Tristan, for making me get up early
every morning to train. Thank you for making me learn more than
just running, because something it isn’t enough to just run.
Because, seriously, I’d probably be on my way to death right now if
he didn’t teach me.
    I kick the guy in the stomach and he grunts as
he falls to the ground.
    “ Dang, Katerina. You’re a ninja,”
Salvador says, his Russian accent sounding thicker than
ever.
    The guy who has ahold of him lets go and takes
off running. The other guy stays on the ground, so I go help
Salvador take off the ropes that are binding him.
    “ Thank you,” he says, as the ropes
fall off.
    “ Katerina!” I hear Tristan
yelling.
    “ I’m here!” I yell
back.
    I hear somebody running towards us. I see
Tristan come into view. He shines a light on my face and runs to
me, throwing his arms around me.
    “ I thought you were dead,” he
says, not letting me go.
    “ Dude, she’s awesome,” Salvador
says from behind us. “She took on both of those guys. And one of
them had a gun aimed right towards her. She kicked it out of his
hand like it was nothing.”
    More guys run up behind Tristan and he backs
away. They get Matthews and the other guy off the ground, cuffing
them. And they get a stretcher for Raslan.
    “ Is he alive?” I ask, not walking
closer to him.
    “ Yeah,” one of the paramedics says
to me. “The bullet appears to have missed any important organs, but
we need to get him to the hospital as soon as possible to be safe.
Are you going with him?”
    “ No,” Tristan and I both answer at
the same time.
    They rush off with his body, and Tristan turns
back to him. He puts his hands on my face, and gently caresses my
cheek. “What happened?”
    “Raslan came,” I say, my voice
breaking. “He woke me up and said I needed to come with him. And I
trusted him, Tristan. I was half asleep. So I just ran with him and
didn’t realize until I was in his car that nothing made sense. If
something would’ve been wrong, you would have been the one to come get
me.”
    “ I would have,” he
says.
    “ They offered him money to take
me,” I say. “I tried to talk him out of it, but I couldn’t. When he
slowed down the car, I jumped out and I ran. But Matthews and
another guy were waiting for me on the path. They grabbed me and
shot Raslan. That’s when the other guy came with Salvador. I wasn’t
sure if I could take on three guys.”
    “ But you did.” He’s now smiling
big.
    “ Well, I only took on two,” I
clarify.
    “The other guy ran,” Salvador
says. “He about peed himself. He was scared of her. It was awesome !”
    “ He won’t get far,” Tristan says.
“We’ve got a small army searching these woods.”
    “ How did you find out?” I
ask.
    “ Savannah heard the door shut as
you were leaving. She saw your phone on the nightstand and called
me to make sure everything was okay. She figured you left with me.
And as soon as I knew you were gone, I knew you weren’t