CHAPTER 74-STRANGER

"Are they gone?" Lydia asked.

"For now but they'll be back." Henry answered, his words hung heavy in the air.

Lydia pressed a cold cloth to Henry's gunshot wound on his arm, "You're losing too much blood. You need to go to the hospital."

Henry winced as she bandaged the wound, "I'm fine, Lydia. I can handle this."

"No, you're not fine. And if you don't take care of yourself, you won't be able to protect that watch." Henry sighed as he couldn't afford to succumb the pain and he had to fight for the watch, for his life.

"They won't stop until they get it. They'll do anything." Henry muttered.

"Then you have to be prepared for anything. You have to fight back." Lydia said."Don't let them take it from you. It's all you have left."

Henry turned to face her and his eyes blazing, "I'll never let them take it."

"So now we have to get out of here. They'll find us if we stay here."

Henry nodded, "But I have no idea where we should go."

"Me too, but there must be a way out. There has to