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.

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

pulls a string hanging in the room and lights penetrate my eyes, leaving a

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

The man walks over.

eyes, but I can’t look away when danger approaches. The grey shirt he’s wearing looks like it has

me when he’s close enough for me to smell his breath. His

that why we are here? He is

glance at Ava and she bites her lips

put two and two together, anger burst out in my chest. So he abducted Ava thinking she was

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going to

you meant,” I try to keep a calm voice, answering him clearly. I don’t want to piss

he lets out a cold snort, “Do you think it would hurt him more, if I take

A chill breaks out on my back

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