Deep Attraction (Chapter 1)

I’m pacing back and forth unsure of what I saw. My heart is pounding in my chest as I washed my face with the public bathroom’s running water. I looked into the mirror and the memory of what happened exactly 10 minutes ago is haunting me.

(Flashback)
“You owe me 3 months rent Callie! I will no longer give you another chance! Get out of my house now or I’m calling the cops!”

I picked up my bags one by one as Mrs. Ramiro were throwing them out of the door. I had been laid off from my job and I could no longer afford my monthly rent.

I lived on this apartment for 4 years with my ex-boyfriend Kahl, who cheated on me with my bestfriend and got her pregnant, 3 months ago. Let’s save that story for a different time shall we?

I took a deep breath as I glanced over my old apartment for the last time. I felt a tear stream down my face as the clouds began to thicken and little raindrops started falling.

“Great, just my luck...” I said through gritted teeth.

I hurriedly looked for shelter as the rain quickly poured. I grabbed my phone and looked at the time, it was past 7 o’clock in the evening and I have no where to go.

No friends, no family, and definitely no where to go. When the rain started to subside, I found myself walking through the town’s park. I was about to settle myself in one of the benches when I heard a scream.

I stood up and started looking for the whereabouts of the scream until it lead me into an old abandoned shack. My eyes widened in fear when I saw two men, wearing black leather jackets, pointing a gun in between the eyes of a woman. By the looks of it, this woman was clearly a stripper.

My hands were shaking and I was gasping for air when the woman looked at me with eyes screaming the words “help” as one of the men pulled the trigger and instantly killed her.

“Get the girl!” Shouted one of them.

My knees felt like jelly but I knew I had to run, my instincts got the better of me and I found myself running for my life.

When I lost them, I found myself in a cubicle of a public restroom. I paced back and forth not knowing what to do. I washed my face with cold water to bring calmness but it did no help at all. I looked at my colorless face in the mirror with eyes still widened with shock.

I was inside the restroom for minutes which felt like hours. I peeked outside the door and there was no one out there.

“I’m safe...” I thought to myself. I slowly found my way out of the restroom when the same man who pulled the trigger grabbed my wrist.

“Where do you think you’re going?” His eyes were dark and dangerous, my heart was erratically beating.

“Let’s take her to boss.” Said the other man.

“Why don’t we just kill her here? Less work for us.” The man pointed his gun at me and I couldn’t control my shaking. My eyes were tearing up not knowing what will happen next. I closed my eyes and dropped to the ground.

“What’s going on here?” I heard another man’s voice.

“Boss... I can explain.” Their ‘boss’ quickly grabbed the man’s gun and pinned him to the wall.

“What do you think you’re doing? Pointing guns at innocent people? Have you gone mad Ivar? This is not what we do.”

I opened my eyes and saw their ‘boss’. For the first time I felt unexplainably safe. For now, at least. That was until his eyes met mine.

All the darkest shades you can think of was found in his deep blue eyes. They were filled with power and screams danger. He moved closer to me and I felt out of breath.

He looked at me from head to toe then faced the other man.

“Bring her to the warehouse.”