The car drove into a hotel and parked, Lucian turned to Ava, “we would stay here for the night, tomorrow I would think of where we can go,” she nodded and sighed and climbed out of the car. He opened the back door and brought out their bags and when Ava walked up to him, he handed her his debit card, “get us a room, I’m afraid, Ava but we have to stay together, the rain might have stopped but I need to keep an eye on you, understand?” She nodded once more and he heaved a breath before walking ahead first and her following.
When they walked into the hotel, both the receptionist and the bellhop were fast asleep, looking around the place, Lucian knew they won’t be much security around there and which means he would need to be extra vigilant. They walked up to the desk and Ava pressed the bell on it, jagging the sleeping woman up from her sleep. “Oh my, I’m so sorry about that,” she sniffed and wiped her eyes and looked at the
By evening in the day, they were back in the car, driving to a place Ava has no idea of and have asked but Lucian had only replied with that they were going to Mexico and she wondered if they would be driving there. After a half an hour drive, they drove into a remote area with bushes around and another short five minutes drive, they arrived at a runway with a private jet not far from where they parked. Ava glanced at him then and he nodded at the jet, “Mexico,” he said and climbed out of the car.She did as well and waited for him to get their bags and they started approaching the jet when someone came out of it. He was a brunette with light brown eyes. He was tall and with an athletic body building and he looked quite dashing as he hastily climbed down the stairs and wrapped Lucian in a big hug, shouting something in Spanish. She watched as Lucian responded to the man’s greetings with a soft smile, replying in Spanish as well. The two men ended up conversi
Ava was giddy as a child when the elevator door opened, she looped her hand with Lucian’s own and one who sees them would never believe that she was a package to be delivered. As they arrived at the party, it was merriment everywhere, people were drinking and dancing and chatting. Her eyes scanned everywhere and she couldn’t wait to be part of the fun.“Ah mi gente,” someone said behind them and they turned to see Antonio, he was dressed in khaki and unbuttoned brown shirt, there was a glass of piña-colada in his hand and seeing it already made Ava’s mouth water, “I didn’t think you would come but I didn’t stop hoping,” he glanced at Ava and smiled, “you are looking very bonita, chica,” he winked.“What should I say, thank you?” she asked with a smile, the way he had said it told her it was a compliment.“Si,” he smiled.“Very well, um…thank you i
Ava glanced away from him, his question hit her bad, why does she care? He was right, for a man that kidnapped her and ready to deliver her to some guy, kissing her and threatening to kill her is a small thing for him to accomplish, so why was she hurt by it? Why does her heart feel sour? Why does she feel like this?“You know,” Antonio began, sitting beside her on the fountain, “a man like him can do anything he wants without a care in the world,” he chuckled, “but he is not the kind of man to just worry for no reason. True he has trust issues, Anthony have pledge his loyalty to him for three years now but he still doesn’t trust him, so in your case, he kissed you, you said, and then he threatened to kill you, it’s the same thing. The same trust issues.”“He doesn’t trust me?” She asked and then sighed, “well, I was not expecting him to trust me anyway, I don’t even trust him.”
Ava sat in the restaurant of the hotel waiting for her meal like she always does for the past one week. Although she didn’t want to think about it, but she does know that Lucian had changed since the night of the party. He doesn’t lock her in the room anymore, and he casually lets her walk around the hotel while he goes around doing his business. He was gone most of the nights and some he returns bloody, but in as much as the sight affects her, she didn’t question him and sometimes helps him in cleaning up.The most surprising thing was how he lets her do whatever she wants, and he hasn’t said no to anything she requested for anymore. It was scary but she scares herself the most by loving it. She couldn’t explain the joy that always flushes through her when the hotel staff addresses her as Mrs. Snell. One night she had talked to Lucian about it but excluding the happiness she feels part and he had asked her if she wants to change the name, she st
Lucian stiffened when he heard the gunshot, he pushed Ava away softly and looked deeply into her eyes, seeing the tears there, his heart wavered. His fingers on her shoulders tightened as he glanced down at the gun in her hand and then at his stomach. And that was when he felt it: nothing. No pain, no blood stain, nothing and then he heard a body slumping on the ground and turned to see the man who still had shock written all over his face as he took his final breath.He was surprised seeing the man, when he had entered the room, all his attention had been on her, he didn’t sense the man, never occurred to him that someone else was in the room with her, a detail he never misses before and then he realized, if Ava had not shot the man, he would have been dead because he was totally relaxed that she was alone and there was no attacker. It was also the reason he had thought he was the one she shot, only for him to discover that it was actually her father’s man. From
Ava opened her eyes to the bright light shining on her face, she closed her eyes immediately and blocked the light with her hand. When she was sure her eyes has adapted to the light, she put down her hand and sat up on the bed. She looked around and the whole of the room was white, the walls, the drapes and the sheets of the bed. She frowned, how did I get here? She wondered, rubbing her temple to recall her memories and that was when it hit her. She had screamed at Lucian that she loved him and he had kissed her and they had made sweet love.The sudden realization sent a wave of shiver through her and she immediately grasped on to the sheet and pulling it up her chest. Her mind was dominated by the memories of what happened and a shy smile graced her lips that she shut her eyes in pure bliss. Then something else hit her, they were in the jet last night, how did she get her, this was definitely not the jet private bedroom. She climbed out of the bed, noting that she
It’s been five days since the return from Mexico, Ava had thought and believed that Lucian would come around along the way. After all, he was as cold as that when they first met, so no doubt when his demons or whatever troubling him has finally left him, he would come around and would even apologize for what he said to her.But to her surprise, rather than come around, he was drifting further away. He leaves in the morning to return late at night, sometimes covered in blood from head to toe. She knew he has been killing but what she doesn’t understand was why it seems intense now like killing is the only thing he knows how to do. So many times she had tried to strike up a conversation but he either replies with his one words response or he totally ignores her.Yesterday, he had return a bit drunk and she had seen a lipstick stain on his cheek, she had been overwhelmed with jealousy and pain but they was nothing she could do, she didn’t even ask him wh
A black BMW stopped in front of them and a man came down from the passenger’s side and opened the back door, a foot first stepped out followed by a man dressed in a black suit with long coat and a black hat, he had a cigar in his mouth and his brown eyes went to Ava and he smiled, reaching up to get the cigar out of his mouth, “hello dear, Ava, we meet again.” Ava stared in hatred at the man, how could she forget him, the man who had tried to take her innocence away when she was just fifteen? She shivered and hid behind Antonio who was strategizing in his mind how he can get her out of there against all odds. “You don’t think you can hide from me forever, do you my darling?” he asked and then one of the men walked up to him and whispered something in his ear. All smiles in his eyes vanished immediately and he turned to his men, “get her and kill him,” and he got into his car again. The men corked their guns and fired but before that, a teargas was thrown in their mid