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

in high school. When she was scared to death, she would breathe in and out,

doing?”

now,” I told him,

going to change

a reply; my eyes were still closed as I continued to breathe in and out. And to my surprise, it was actually soothing

but then the elevator shook for

I just sat down. I was too tired to

swiftly moved to me and

hair was kind of messy, I was breathing heavily, and my heart was beating really fast. I just hoped this wasn’t

bit. But the terror was

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

phone and quickly went to pick it up. I barely managed to get to my

Luke moved closer.

and I felt like I was going to

LUKE’S POV

was taking quite some time to be resolved, and I used to think this company was one of the greatest. But take a look at the problem that is going on at the

closing, and it seemed like she was going to black out any moment. I didn’t

hers. The kiss lasted for almost a minute as I wrapped my hands

at me for a few seconds before losing consciousness. I held her as she was about to fall down, gently brushing a strand of her hair away

beautiful, and any man would be lucky to have her in their life. But for me, the feeling wasn’t there, and I didn’t even want it to be there. Ariel and I

out a thunderous scream, but unfortunately, no one 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 on my

considerable amount of time, I opened

was a voice calling out to us. “Hello? Is

“Yes, we’re right here! Down here!” I hollered, waving my hands to make ourselves