065 Common Enemy
Scarlett’s POV
The man stands up with a hand supporting his heavy body on the table, then starts stretching his limbs in a string of painfully slow moves, ignoring me and Ava in total. His hair is messy, and his smelly clothes loosely hang from his beer belly. Then he opens a bottle of water, rinses before he swallows the water in his mouth, and splashes water on his face and head until the bottle is empty. He grabs what looks like a dirty shirt and wipes his head.
He doesn’t look like a thug. Thug has better bodies…and probably healthier lifestyles,
too.
But that doesn’t mean he is not a predator. He abducted two girls – I’ll take Ava’s words on this for the sake of argument – tied them to chairs in a dark room of what looks like an abandoned building, and it seems that his intention behind his slow movements is intimidation. Like the play before a cat kills a mouse it caught.
Then all of a sudden, he pulls a string hanging in the room and lights penetrate my eyes, leaving a sour sting. From Ava’s hisses, I assume it took her off guard, too.
A common enemy of me and Ava? That would be the most unlikely thing to exist if you asked me yesterday. But I’m leaning toward believing her now. She lured me here; yes. But she might also be a victim, too.
The man walks over.
With a thumping heart, I keep my sour eyes on him, but just below his chin. I don’t want to meet his eyes, but I can’t look away when danger approaches. The grey shirt he’s wearing looks like it has been on him for days, smells like that, too. He is in sweatpants and running shoes, good ones. He wasn’t poor before whatever this is.
“Sebastian Knight, you are his woman?” The man grumbles at me when he’s close enough for me to smell his breath. His eyes are red due to lack of sleep, filled with viciousness, anger, desperation…and a shred of pain.
Is that why we are here? He is Sebastian’s enemy?
I glance at Ava and she bites her lips nervously.
Just fucking great! The moment I put two and two together, anger burst out in my chest. So he abducted Ava thinking she was “Sebastian’s woman“, and to save her ass, she sold me out and lured me to this psycho?!
065 Common Enemy
+25 BONUS
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