Out wobbles a hurt looking Anthony, he had blood dripping down his face, what looks like a hurt arm and well like I said, looking wobbly.
“Freya come here we need to leave” he says, gesturing for me to come over to him with his hand, the guy puts the phone to his ear.
“Yes police please” he says turning away, Anthony looks up telling the guy to hang up the phone “it’s alright mate, I’m gonna send someone to come help, yeah hello-” the guy turns but Anthony hits him around the side of the head, causing the guy to stop to the floor immediately.
“Anthony!” I shout shocked, he takes my arm beginning to pull me away from the guy and into the maze of trees ahead “Anthony we need to get help you’re hurt” I say, but he doesn’t listen as we enter the maze of trees.
“No we need to get out of here” he starts to ramble looking around, I mean I thought he was crazy anyway but right now he’s acting way more crazy “those people are not gonna win” he says, dragging me through, he nearly fell multiple times.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about Anthony, but we need to get help” I say once again, if we carry on we’re just gonna get lost and freeze.
“No! We will carry on until we find a place to stay!” He shouts, by now it was freezing, Amelia was screaming and Anthony looked in a really bad way.
We silently walk through the trees for a few minutes, they didn’t seem like they were thinning out but getting thicker! I look at Amelia who had red cheeks looking at me with scared eyes, this caused me to do something I’ve been scared for so far. I rip my hand away from Anthony standing back, he turns shocked trying to take my hand but I move back.
“I’m not going any further, we don’t know where we are, Amelia is cold and scared and you are badly injured!” I say raising my voice, which I’ve never actually done before “I’m tried of being to scared to tell you how I feel! We are going back and we are getting help, I may not like you but I don’t wanna see you dead” I say, which causes him to stare at me but shake his head smiling.
“I know you don’t like me, you love me! That’s why I’m gonna find us all a nice place to live, but we need to leave so those bastards don’t try to take you two away from me” he smiles, once again trying to take my hand, but I move back again.
“If we carry on we’re all gonna freeze to death, now I don’t know what’s wrong with you but you aren’t thinking straight!” I shout, he looks down at the ground and shockingly begins to cry.
I move even further away slightly feeling like this was gonna take a bad turn, he wipes his eyes looking at me tears rolling down his face.
“Layla listen to me, I know the things I do are scary but I always have yours and Gabbie’s best interests at heart” he starts, I stare at him utterly confused, who the heck is he taking about?! “I know you hate the life I live but it’s just this one last job, you’ll wait outside with Gabbie and straight after it’s done we’ll run away with each other” he cries, but he wasn’t looking at me he was looking around the woods, is this guy hallucinating? “I know baby but trust me, nothing is gonna stand in the way of me, you and Gabbie” he cries, staring at a literal tree!
Would he notice if I ran? He seems to stumble on his feet before dropping to the floor, I stand there shocked staring at his body. I take slow steps towards him to see his eyes drop close, I get my feet kicking him gently which he doesn’t respond to. Is he dead? Has he just passed out? Wait what am I still doing here?!
I turn around and start running back where we came from, I didn’t dare turn around and just ran with Amelia safely in my arms as I went. I didn’t know when or if he was gonna wake up, but I wanted to be as far away as possible.
In no time I see the trees start to thin out and the car smashed into the tree, this meant I was kind of on the home stretch, which makes me go faster as I make it out the trees. I look around to see the guy still laying on the floor, I run over shaking him with one hand but he wouldn’t wake up.
“What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?” I ask myself out loud looking around, I see the mud tracks of where he slid which makes an idea pop onto my head.
I’ll follow them out the field, then try to find the police cars which Anthony was running from.
I start to run, following the tracks getting further and further away from the car and Anthony, I didn’t even stop to think that I left him lifeless in the woods, all that was going around my had was escaping with Amelia. Was this gonna be my chance to finally escape and get back to Blake? I knew I needed to try.
The gate we drove through starts to come into view, I felt tears prick my eyes just seeing it, could this mean freedom.
“See Amelia I promised you, I’m gonna get us out of here” I say looking down at her, she smiles putting her head in my neck hugging me.
I hear my name being called from behind me, first I thought it was Anthony but it wasn’t his voice. I turn and see the man who was calling my name.
“Adam?”
Hi guys, sorry for leaving you on a cliff hanger but I just wanted to chime in, if you haven’t all realised Anthony was having flashbacks of the time he told his late wife about his last job. This was the one where she and her baby were sadly killed, I’ve actually heard about this time a lot from family members and in court. He was promising her that this was gonna be this last job and after they would be like any normal family, what I came to learn is any family which involves Anthony, is far from normal. But she loved him so she believed him, sadly it didn’t end well.
Now normally I’d send you to see Blake, but we’ll both be seeing him soon enough.
Hold tight.