She Approved the Split He Fell Apart

Chapter 65

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 water, rinses before he swallows the water in his mouth, and splashes water on his face and head until the bottle is empty. He grabs what looks like a dirty shirt and wipes his head.

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.

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

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 shred of

we are here?

and

abducted Ava thinking she was

065 Common Enemy

+25 BONUS

to fucking

keep a calm voice, answering

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

breaks out on my back at his stone-

serious about

try to make that sound like a state of fact, instead of a hasty explanation. I cannot believe even after divorce, that damn

divorced.”

loves