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.

eyes 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 has been on him for days, smells like that, too. He is in sweatpants and running shoes, good ones.

are his woman?" The man 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

and she bites her

The 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,

+25 BONUS

to fucking kill

try to keep a calm voice, answering him clearly. I don't

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

is serious about

after divorce,

loves is

to keep him talking, instead of shifting his attention to Ava. If the guy believes me and kills