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

something one of my friends had introduced to me back in high school. When she

doing?”

don’t distract me right now,” I told

that’s going to change

out. And to my surprise, it was actually soothing to me. My fear was diminishing until

for the third time, repeating the same action.

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

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

kind of messy, I was breathing heavily, and my heart was beating really fast. I just hoped this

around me, and that calmed me down a little bit. But the terror was still inside me, and I

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

fear.

I couldn’t even utter a word. I had claustrophobia, and it seemed like things were about to get

and quickly went to pick it up.

Luke moved closer.

wheezing intensified, and I felt like I was going to pass out any minute

LUKE’S POV

even know what to do. This elevator issue was taking quite some time to be resolved, and I used to think this

black out any moment. I didn’t even know what I was going to do to put an

pulling her closer to me, 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

kiss, Ariel looked at me for a few seconds before losing consciousness. I held her as she

But for me, the feeling wasn’t there, and I didn’t even want it to be there. Ariel and I were never going to work out. We

for something to happen. So that was what I did. I settled down on the floor, cradling Ariel’s

time, I opened my

calling out

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