2025-02-17 01:12:49Sitting alone in a park, Jake, a young man in the prime of his powers, sneezed and shivered like a sick old man.
It’s been three days since he ran away from the woman who bought his family members and then tried to marry him.
His stomach growled like never before.
It’s crazy how hunger reduced this dashing young man to a pitiful state.
It’s been two days since he came to this park, and he ate the leftover bread of the visitors, which made him feel like a street dog.
If the park didn’t have walls, he might have really had to compete with street dogs.
It was shameful, to say the least.
Nevertheless, even today, he was looking forward to more people visiting the park.
Otherwise, he’d die from hunger.
“If only my card wasn’t stolen… I wouldn’t be suffering like this!”
If a bounty poster wasn’t put on his head, he wouldn’t have to hide in a park like this.
Jake’s stomach continued to roar, so he went to the nearest tap and filled his stomach.
The grumblings stopped for the nonce.
As Jake was returning to his bench under the tree, which was also his bed for the past couple of days, a gust of wind blew.
A few strands of hair fell and landed on his cheek and stayed there due to friction.
“I’m losing hair because I haven’t eaten much the last two days?” he wondered. “No, it’s probably because of all the stress.”
Just then, he heard a cry in the distance.
It was the cry of a little girl.
Jake’s instincts kicked in, and he rushed toward the source of the sound, wondering who could have come so early to the park as the sun was just rising.
At the entrance of the park, a little girl was wrestling with a young lady.
“Give me my bag!” the little girl cried out.
“Just give it to me!” The young lady pushed the little girl away with brute force and was running away.
Jake caught her by her hair and stopped her. “Where do you think you’re going after stealing a little child’s bag?”
Just then, he felt something shock him from behind.
He felt his whole body electrocuted, and he fell to his knees.
Both the little girl and the young lady stood next to one another and were smiling at him while holding a stun gun and the bag.
The young lady opened the bag and took out two lollipops and a wanted poster.
It was Jake’s wanted poster.
Upon closer look at Jake’s perfectly symmetric face with that vintage curtains hairstyle, the young lady’s heart fluttered.
“Aunt Anne,” the little girl electrocuted Jake on his shoulder once more. “They are going to come and take this uncle away, right?”
“Of course. I called the number already, Layla,” Anne, the pretty brunette replied.
When the wind waved Jake’s reddish golden hair, exposing the orange and yellow hues, the young aunt’s heart fluttered even more. (He’s handsome.)
The little girl Layla was electrocuting Jake again, but Anne stopped her and took the stun gun. “Are you trying to kill him? Don’t shock him for so long. If he dies, you’ll spend the rest of your life in jail!”
“EHH?” Layla was shocked.
Jake looked utterly shocked. He was not able to move, but more than that, he was able to travel so far while avoiding all eyes only to now get caught by two girls, one of whom looked like a five-year-old?
This was extremely humiliating and frustrating.
“Let me go, please,” Jake tried to speak through pain and great discomfort.
“We can’t miss out on a million dollar reward,” Anne replied, smirking coldly.
Just then, they heard a loud noise in the sky, making all the locals look up.
Ten helicopters came flying in their direction.
Layla was intimidated by the loud sound, and she grabbed her aunt’s dress.
Even Anne’s heart trembled from that reverberating noise. “Why are there so many helicopters? Is the president passing by?”
“Shit! It’s her!” Jake felt his heart sinking into his stomach at the thought of getting caught by Delma.
He crawled on the grassy ground, trying to get away.
However, at the same time, someone jumped from one of the helicopters and skydived expertly before landing exactly in front of Jake.
While crawling like a slug, Jake stopped by her fat feet and looked up at her.
She, a big woman with a bright smile on her face, grinned at him passionately and said coolly, “Found you, Mr. Goodheart. How can you run away from our wedding? Do you know how heartbroken I was?”
Jake’s eyes welled up with tears of sadness and fright as he saw her big pear-shaped body and triple chin.
“NOOOO!” he cried out from seeing the face of his recent nightmares showing up in reality.
At the same time, the helicopters all made a love symbol in the sky right above their heads, signaling the start of a hair-raising love story.
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