We moved slowly to the door. "Open it!" Scar ordered, poking Ken at the back with the gun.
Ken opened the door gently as if he was trying to give his men a warning signal. Just as I feared, immediately we got outside we were met with seven men pointing a gun at us specifically at me.
I came in front of Scar so that they could get a clearer view of me. Hopefully Scar would be able to escape.
"Mira get behind me!" Scar shouted. He was nervous.
The fact that he always thought about me before himself was becoming increasingly sexy. There is nothing as sexy as a man who knew how to treat his woman.
"I won't do that. I want to stay by your side." I protested, even though my heart almost sunk in fear.
I can't say that I would have killed for him but I do know that I would die for him a thousand times over.
I knew that I was distracting him, but in the same vain I was protecting him and that's all that mattered to me. I wanted to guide him too, even it be for once.
The truth was I would choose him over me.
"Mira do not do anything stupid do you want to die? Please this is not the time to be stubborn" I was inches away from him I knew he could hold me if he stretched his hands but that would also mean he had to drop the gun or leave ken. None of the above was an option.
I looked away from him, then back to the more than a half dozen of men that stood before us. I rose my hand up in surrender.
"Let scar go and you have me!" I shouted so both Ken and his puppies could hear me.
I was shaking from head to toe and my throat felt like it was the desert.
I wanted to cry but what kind of girl would that make me. I swallowed, "Let him go and have." I repeated.
"Boss?"one of the men said giving ken a questioning look. Scar looked at me with a resigned expression on his face. His face said it all.
'I've never seen a more stubborn girl than this.' His face read.
He brought down the hand that was pointing the gun on Kens head slowly, he also let go of Ken. Then he rushed to me and pulled me into his arms.
"If you think I'll let you go then you you don't know me at all. I will not let you give yourself for me."
"Scar this is the only way." I argued. I tried to sound confident even though it was the opposite of what I actually felt.
"What a lovely display of madness!" Ken mocked, cracking his neck. He was amused and he could afford to be now that he was out of Scars grip.
"We are back to where we first started, but the only difference will be that I finish what I so subtly started a long time ago. Get them!" He ordered his men.
"Drop all weapons. Hands on your head. This is the police you've been surrounded!" A loud voice shouted from the bush.
The bush path was suddenly illuminated with car lights as sirens deafened me. How the police came to know of our location with the dpo betraying us was beyond me. I looked at Scar and he smirked.
"I told you that I was going to surprise you Ken. I am not your average man. Although you are really below average." Scar chuckled.
***
Ken's men started to panic as expected. They pointed the gun at me and then at scar simultaneously.
They were obviously confused on who to pin the fear on.
"Get in the house now!" Ken yelled, shooting daggers at me.
I shook my head and leaned my back more into Scars chest.
"Give up already Ken. You should know better." Scar said calmly, whilst holding me tight against him.
We were both facing Ken and he was seething.
"Boss what should we do with them?" One of Kens men asked. He was looking around, frantic for a way to escape.
"You have until the count of 5 to surrender. I repeat this is the police. Come out here completely unarmed with the people you have taken hostage or we come in. You've been warned!" The voice from the bush shouted again sending a good dose of panic to Ken and his men.
"Are you asking me what to do?Take them in!" Ken shouted. He held his head in frustration, kicking stones and cursing under his breath. He has gone mad.
"Get back in Mira!" He yelled at me.
I was threatened to run in as Ken had instructed, but Scar held me back.
He flipped me around to face him. Then he tilted my chin with his fingers so that our eyes could meet.
"I am here." Scar whispered, sending a jolt of electricity down my spine.
I nodded and gulped in air. Then I turned around to face Ken with the new found confidence Scars assurance had given me.
"Surrender now. One." The police started counting obviously growing very impatient.
'They have started counting Oh my God'. I gasped. My heart pounded in my chest.
"You both get in now!" Ken shouted. He came closer to us, his face now a few inches away from Scars, "or I kill her."
"You are surrounded. Please do what is noble." I begged.
'Two"
"Boss let's kill them and escape." One of his men suggested, some agreed, some did not.
They were all panicking.
"Let's kill them now no need to waste time! That's what we brought them here for anyway, you promised to burn him and the slut after you were done having fun with them."
"Yes boss let's burn them now!" Another shouted in agreement.
"If we kill them how do you think we will leave this place? what leverage do we have other than them. We are surrounded. The police are counting to five not five million. Do you think we have time for your desires now!" Ken admonished facing his men, he was fuming.
Three
Why the hell was that police man counting like a pregnant woman. I thought exhaling. I
was scared and angry at the same time. Why didn't Ken just give up already. He was surrounded so why didn't he let us go.
"The only reason we are in this mess is because of your love for this prostitute. You broke the gang, drove it to the edge now you've destroyed it all because of her!" One of his men growled, he looked familiar. He must have been one of the guys that stopped me that night.
"We have taken care if your desires only. Every single time it always had to be what you wanted. Why does it always have to be you who gets what he wants? Do you think we have no desires too?" Another said. They were turning against Ken now.
"We have no time for this. Get them inside_"
Four
"I did nothing to the gang. I made it. It belongs to me." Ken spat. Some of his men were determined to fight some wanted to surrender. Ken was loosing his hold on them. Could there be a more perfect time to escape.
Ken was going to start a fight with one of his men that challenged him.
That's the most painful part in leadership, when your own followers turned gainst you or challenge you. It definitely feels like you have been crushed and it can really drive you to the edge. It was a horrible feeling so I understood Kens anger.
His men were scattered some against their Leader for destroying them, some for their leader for helping them.
"The only thing that belongs to you is your life and you are about to loose it." Scar interjected.
He plunged forward and grabbed Ken by his shirt. Then he slapped his gun out of his hand and pulled him away from the scene.
Ken would have died if he remained put. Scar just saved his life.
I found it annoying until I remembered that there was something I needed from him. An opportunity just presented itself and I was not ready to let it pass by because it might never come again.
'Five. We are coming in' The police man announced.
I followed behind Scar while he dragged Ken to wherever.
The shooting began as the police officers ran into the den.
I could hear the gunshots, so very loud, it felt like I was in a war. Never had I heard gunshots so close.
I trembled.
I ran behind Scar making sure to be close to him as we went to the back of the house where the bullets hopefully could not touch us except maybe a stray bullet.