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.

heart, I keep my sour 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

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

at Ava and

fucking great! 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, she

+25 BONUS

to fucking kill

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

him

is serious about

sound like a state of fact, instead of a hasty explanation. I cannot believe even after divorce, that damn jerk can still get me in trouble, "he never loved me, and as a matter of fact, he hates me. That's why

loves is right

didn't say that. I want to keep him talking, instead of shifting his attention to Ava. If the guy believes me and kills