She Accepted Divorce, He Panicked by Nyx Rai

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 wate He doesn't look like a thug. Thug has better bodies...and probably healthier lifestyles,

too.

But that doesn't mean 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 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 mouse it caught.

Then all of a sudden, he pulls a string hanging in the room and lights penetrate my eyes, leaving a sour sting. From Ava's hisses, I assume it took her off guard, too.

A common enemy of 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 a victim, too. The man walks over.

I can't look away when danger approaches. The grey shirt he's wearing looks like it has been on him for days, smells like that, too. He

grumbles at me when he's close enough for me to smell his breath. His eyes are red due to lack of sleep, filled with viciousness, anger, desperation...and a shred of pain. Is that

at Ava and she bites her

moment I put two and two together, anger burst out in my chest. So he abducted Ava thinking she was "Sebastian's woman", and to save her ass, she sold me out and lured

+25 BONUS

to fucking

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

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 in front of him?" Okay, that's some serious hatred alright.

is serious about

I cannot believe even after divorce,

the woman he loves is right behind

guy believes me and kills