Chapter 105 - The Skirt

"Don't hurt her, just try to hold her down!" Instructed Gabriel. He stepped back for his men to do the work. He did not want to come at her, also fearing he might not be able to control his strength.

'Pfft! This will be easy if they don't plan to hurt me.' She thought. She immediately kicked off her high-heeled shoes seeing them getting ready to approach.

Two men began to advance shoving their arms at her trying to grab or trap her instead of a fist. She blocked every attempt using her forearm alternately raising from side to side.

When one of the men failed to retreat his hands from her line of sight, she sized it firmly with her left hand and struck his shoulders using her right elbow while pulling him towards her. The other wasn't so lucky as he was sent flying in a circle, landing on his back.

While anticipating for the next pursuit, she demanded, "Gabriel, you stop this right now!"

The other two men then came charging, this time not holding back, realizing how capable she was. Andrea's body swiveled, blocking one attack from another. 'F**k my panties!' She yelled silently and began using her knees to afflict pain in their upper body.

One of the men was getting pissed off being beating by a woman that he stormed at her with all his might grabbing her by the waist and pulling her down on the ground.

"Don't hurt her you, idiot!" Reminded Gabriel in anger.

As the man was distracted, Andrea pushed her body up and came striking back pointing her elbow to his torso. She jumped at him so hard that the man cried in pain while curving into a ball.

"Andy! Please, I don't want to hurt you… Let's just go back home –"

"No! Over my dead body!" Andrea declared. Her eyes were already fiery, displeased with her day being ruined.

Gabriel no longer knew what to do with her. He took a full turn as he was seemingly pulling out all his hair due to frustration then ordered, "Go at her all at once… but be careful!"

The men were at a loss with the instruction. Knowing this woman could easily knock them down but they had to stop themselves from hurting her. However, orders are orders and they eventually motioned towards Andrea.

Before they could even touch her, a man came flying with a kick, quickly knocking out one of the men. It was Kim Ha-joon, Anton Yeong's apprentice.

"Oh, god! I am so relieved!" Andrea exclaimed. "Thank you, Lord, for an overprotective brother." She was raising her hands as she said this making Ha-joon shook his head.

"Ahhh!"

Andrea had slapped him in the arm!

"How long have you been watching me? You could have helped me from the start!"

He gasped before giving his reply, "Andrea, my interference is only between the two of us. Yeong will probably beat me up if he finds out. I just could bear to see you fighting while trying to hold down your skirt!"

Unlike Andrea, Han-joon was able to move freely storming without hold, adding more injury to Gabriel's men. Although his moves were flawless, the opponents were persistent, willing to subject themselves to more torment. Thus, the fight became unnecessarily prolonged.

As they were at it, she tried to get past Gabriel, but he guarded her well. She did not want to come in contact with him so she kept her distance.

Gabriel's men came rushing back to his side after realizing they were no match to the man helping Andrea.

"Who are you? Why are you getting involved?" asked Gabriel.

Ha-joon gave a simple answer, "I'm here to look after Ms. Li!"

"Master Davies, we can't bring them down." The men pleaded.

When he recognized this to be true, he got himself ready to take them down himself.

More than frustrated, Gabriel was feeling guilty of his actions. He just wanted to take her home so he tried to negotiate with her one last time, "Andy, please. Nobody has to get hurt. I don't want to have to bring in that man of yours… What's his name? Lu Fang? You know well that I could easily beat him up, do you want him to get hurt as well?"

"You can try!" A man with the most striking aura interrupted, walking towards their direction. Suddenly, the parking area became surrounded by Gao Rou and his men.

Gabriel's eyes narrowed as he gazed at the man ahead. His face was the most distinct with sharp jaws, slender nose and a pair of stabbing eyes. He instantly recognized him as Lu Fang, Andrea's fiancé. 'How did he find me?' He wondered in secret.

Andrea too was caught by surprise.

"I called him," explained Han-joon. "At first, I did not want to take part in this so I tipped him off… Why did you have to wear a skirt on this day?"

She let out a sigh and yelled, "Enough with the skirt!" She swore never to wear a dress again unless she was out with her man.

"I need to leave. I might get recognized. I'm supposed to be undercover looking after you, but before I go... Know that you are being followed. In fact, earlier somebody was taking pictures of you. So be careful always."

Not a moment to spare, Kim Ha-joon left, disappearing into thin air. The only thing that registered in Andrea's mind was that someone was following her. She will need to take this up with Ha-joon after getting out of this mess.

She immediately rushed over to Lu Fang's side and hugged him tightly.

The man was incredibly upset seeing Andrea running barefoot, sweating, obviously having gone through a fight touching these filthy men with her hands. Worst, they might have touched her legs in the process considering what she was wearing.