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Chapter 11: Fugitives Alena Fleur"Pack your essentials," Elian said urgently after he finished a few important calls."What?" I put down my fork and brownie plate and stood up in utter shock. "Why would I do that?""I don't have time to explain, Alena. We need to run away." This was the most panicked I had ever seen him."Run away? Where? Why? I don't get any of it."He grabbed my shoulders and said, "Alena, just listen to me, okay? We have no other option except running, so just go and pack your essentials in five minutes.""I don't know what happened. But doesn't running away mean we are guilty?" I tried reasoning."Yes, but they won't give us any chance to explain. The orders are to shoot at sight. You and me."My heart clenched at what he said. "What?" I asked, staggered. "That's not possible. I never did anything to deserve an order like that. Surely, the cops aren't that bad—""They are. You just don't know because you have never had to face them like that. I'll explain everyt

Chapter 13: Kinda-Girlfriend Alena Fleur"Here," Elian said, putting down Lance's laptop on the coffee table."Are you sure we're allowed to use your brother's laptop?" I asked skeptically as Elian sat beside me and started typing the password."Sure, why not?" he shrugged and let me have the laptop.I shook my head at his brazenness and opened Lance's mail box. I added my email account and logged in, but there were no new mails with any attachments. "Did I not press 'send'?""I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't," Elian responded dryly. "Why don't you check the draft?""Even if it got saved in the draft, it wouldn't be here.""Then where would it be?""In my other account.""Why do you have two email accounts?""So that I can send myself emails," I simply answered. "Why don't you log into that account?" he suggested.I sighed hopelessly. "I don't remember its password. The password is in my phone's notepad.""Well, I guess we are back to square one." He closed Lance's laptop and g

Chapter 15: Tampered LaptopsAlena Fleur "Do you think they will come in here?""Maybe."We were both trying to catch our breaths after making a dash from the food court on the third floor to the men's bathroom on the ground floor. We were going to run out of the mall at once, but the security guard, who noticed us, had already informed the others to block the main and back exits, so we were stuck now.The bathroom seemed to be the best option, so we hid in here. Thank goodness, there were no other men at that time, otherwise, I might have gotten traumatized for life.When I finally managed to regulate my breathing, I noticed how close the two of us were standing.The situation seemed really funny, actually. Just a week ago, I couldn't have pictured in my wildest dreams that I would be hiding in a shopping mall's public men's toilet with my boss.Elian seemed to have noticed my expression. However, he didn't ask me anything and only tried to suppress his own chuckle. Was he thinking

Chapter 17: Like Home Alena FleurI opened my eyes to the familiar black ceiling. My head was throbbing, so I tried to reach out my hand to massage my forehead, only to feel a weight on it.I glanced down to find Elian holding onto my hand while he talked over the phone in whispers."—I don't want to take any risks, Dr. Hopkins. She is—" Elian paused when he realized I was awake. "I will call you later. She's awake." He put down his phone and brought his face to hover over me. "How do you feel right now, Alena?"I tried to get up, and he helped me. "Get up slowly," he instructed.When I was sitting up, I said, "I feel okay now.""What happened? Did your blood pressure drop or something?" Elian inquired."I don't know. Did I faint in the gym?" I asked.He nodded and asked, "Do you remember what happened?"I tried to recall, but I just remembered walking away from Elian at the ab crunch machine. "I don't remember.""Nothing at all?" I shook my head. "Nothing that woman said?""What wom

Chapter 19: Acceptance Alena FleurHow could I like Elian? He was a freaking murderer! He was a mafia leader! He was my rude boss!No way, it was absolutely impossible.My heart definitely didn't flutter when he handed me my espresso every morning. It most definitely didn't race whenever we were alone and he was close to me. It surely also didn't skip a beat when he smiled. I obviously didn't ogle his body when he worked out in the gym. I certainly didn't stare at his lips in the middle of conversations. I clearly didn't want him to stay longer with me anytime we had to part.Those were just delusions my periods caused.Now, after five days, my periods were over, and I wasn't going to care a single bit about Elian—"Ouch!"I ran to the kitchen to find Elian hissing in pain. "What happened?""I touched the bowl without wearing gloves," he said, motioning at the microwave where he was supposed to be heating up our lunch."You're only clumsy when you're stressed out, so tell me, Elian,