The Love From Vengeance

25 ELEVATOR KISS

ARIEL’S POV

1 stood up, barely able to see anything, and I could feel my heart racing. The darkness and unexpected stop had me on edge. This was not something I had signed up for.

“Oh my goodness, don’t tell me the elevator is broken.” I panicked. “I don’t want to die yet.”

“We are not going to die, okay?” Luke assured me, stepping closer. “It might just be a temporary glitch. The lights will probably come back at any moment now.”

“And how can you be sure about that?”

“You just need to calm down. I’m pretty sure they’re trying to fix the issue right now,” Luke told me,

devoid of terror in his tone. He wasn’t afraid. Well, good for him. But for me,

it was quite the opposite.”

I brought my phone out of my purse to see if I could make a phone call so someone could at least get us out of here. But, to my surprise, there was no signal. I couldn’t reach anybody, and this was definitely not good.

“Damn it!” I forcefully threw my phone to the ground and ran my hands through my hair. ” We’re doomed.”

“Just shut

up, will you?” Luke snapped at me as if I were a little kid.

“Hey, don’t tell me to shut up.

“Oh, so you’re trying to act tough now, huh?” Luke taunted.

I rolled my eyes, but right now, I wasn’t in the mood to get into an argument or fight with somebody.

ON ELEVATOR KILO

It was something one of my friends had introduced to me back in high school. When she was scared to death, she would breathe in and out,

you doing?”

distract me right now,” I told him, and

think that’s going

in and out. And to my surprise, it was actually

the elevator shook for the third time, repeating the

but as for me, I just sat down. I was too tired to stand up, overwhelmed with

swiftly moved to me and held me tightly until the elevator came

heart was beating really fast. I just hoped this wasn’t the end, but seriously, this

me down a little bit. But the

going to be alright,” Luke comforted me. His face was close to mine, and I could feel his breath. But I was

fear.

I pointed at it. I was suffocating to the point that I couldn’t even utter a word. I had claustrophobia, and it seemed like things were about to get deadly around

his eyes to my phone and quickly went to pick it up. I barely managed to get to my feet as I began to

Luke moved closer. “Ariel,

I felt like I was going to pass out any minute

LUKE’S POV

really worried about her. I didn’t even know what to do. This elevator issue was taking quite some time to be resolved, and I used to think this company

black out any moment. I didn’t even

and then I gently pressed my lips against hers. The kiss lasted for almost a minute as I wrapped my hands around her waist, hoping it could

I broke the kiss, Ariel looked at me for a few seconds before losing consciousness. I held her as she was about to fall down,

for me,

came. I decided to sit down and wait for something to happen. So that was what I did. I settled down on the floor, cradling Ariel’s head

considerable amount of time, I opened my eyes, hearing a faint

a voice calling out to

eyes and stood up. “Yes, we’re right here! Down here!” I hollered, waving my hands to