Clash

That night, Valerie didn't go back to the private room again. She was so shaken that she ran straight back to her apartment. It took her ages to actually fall asleep. Every time she closed her eyes, she saw the cold eyes of that guy from the corridor. It scared her like hell. After she finally managed to fall asleep, she was woken up by the shrill ringing of her mobile. Blindly, she reached for her mobile.

"Hello," she answered the call sleepily.

"Val, she cheated on me," Jason cried out from the other end. Immediately her eyes popped open, and all the sleep vanished from her eyes. She looked at the clock and saw that it was well past midnight.

"Jase? Are you drunk?" she inquired, already in motion. She quickly changed into jeans and a t-shirt with her mobile clutched between her head and shoulder.

"Val, Mia cheated on me. I caught her red-handed in Rine club. I am going to bash that bas*ard David for this," Jase ranted in his drunken stupor.

Hera is already out of her small apartment and on her bike to go pick up Jase from Rine Club. David is or was one of many of Jase's friends from college.

"Jase, don't do anything stupid. I am coming to Rine Club right now. Stay there." Hera started her bike and struggled to ride it while juggling her mobile and her scooter handles. The road is almost empty at that hour. It's past midnight. She is worried Jace would do something stupid again and end up in jail. She knows how impulsive Jace gets when he is this drunk. He was taken by the cops more than once. Only his last name is shielding him from imprisonment. His family is filthy rich.

"I am heartbroken," Jace was crying from the other end. Mia was his 21st girlfriend, and she lasted more than 6 months. Valerie started to think that this time Jace might be serious about Mia, and that made her sad.

"I am coming, stay put," she coaxed him.

She was so focused on Jace that she didn't notice the red light and accidentally hit a very expensive-looking car near the intersection.

"Ahh...." Her mobile slipped and fell on the asphalt. Her eyes widened in shock when she noticed a small dent on the black car she crashed into.

"Oh my God," she mumbled, preparing herself to apologize to the owner.

A dark figure emerged from the driver's side.

"Sir, I am extremely so..." Her words died in her throat when she recognized who the man was. He is the guy from the corridor. The one who tried to kill someone.

'I am doomed. How did I end up meeting this guy twice in a single night?' she cursed her bad luck.

When she was fearing for her life, he grabbed her by her forearm and pulled her closer to him. She jerked in shock. The moment almost made her lose her footing. To her utter horror, he pushed his palm into the back pocket of her jeans, where she kept her small wallet holding her license, ID card, bank cards, and some cash. Her face turned bright red with embarrassment. But she didn't dare move. In all these years, not a single guy touched her like this. But today, a killer first touched near her chest, and now her butt.

After taking her ID, he slipped his card into her back pocket with that cold face, which made her so scared that she felt dizzy.

"The damage repair would cost ten thousand dollars. Bring the cash to that address and take your cards back." With that instruction, he turned and left as if nothing had happened. But it took Valerie a few minutes to calm herself.

"Damn it, what a mess. Where can I get 10,000$ from?" she thought in horror. She is not rich; her parents are farmers who work in a small town. She used to work part-time to earn her expenses. She is smart and got scholarships for all the 4 years of college.

Her mobile started ringing again. She actually forgot she was talking with Jase before that accident.

"First, I need to drop Jase back home," she muttered to herself.

By the time she managed to get to Rine Club, Jase was seen passed out on the couch. A broken alcohol bottle was seen lying on the floor. She knew his temper. He must have broken it in anger.

"Jase, let's go home." It took her a while to coax him to come with her. And more than an hour to drop him back at his apartment building. She had to sleep on his couch, fearing that he might go after David once he woke up.

That night, Valerie couldn't sleep. She tossed and turned, but all she could see was the cold black eyes of that man.

'Now he has all my id's. How can I get them back? Where can I get that much money? I only have 5k saved up. What should I do?' she thought to herself worriedly.

She remembered the card which that guy slipped inside her back pocket. She pulled his card out and examined it. The card looked rich and elegant in a dark way, just like the man himself.

'Reid' was written in bold golden letters. Oswald Corp was written underneath in a smaller font.

'Wait, he works at Oswald Corp? I could ask Jase for help. His elder brother is the president of Oswald Corp,' she decided, finally feeling as if a weight had been lifted off her chest.