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.

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

of a sudden, he pulls a string hanging in the room and lights penetrate my eyes, leaving a sour sting.

to exist if you asked me yesterday. But I’m leaning toward believing her now. She lured me here; yes. But she might also

The man walks over.

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

to smell his breath. His

why we are here? He is

and she bites her lips

The moment I put two and two together, anger burst out in my chest. So he abducted Ava thinking

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going to

me, if that’s what you meant,” I try to keep a calm voice, answering him clearly. I don’t want

man bends down, and I flinch backward beyond my control. Seeing that, he lets out a cold snort, “Do you think it would hurt him more, if I take his woman before killing her

that’s some serious hatred alright. A chill breaks out on my back at his stone- cold

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