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

and out. It was something one of my friends had introduced to me back in high school. When

doing?” Luke

distract me right now,” I told

going to change

in and out. And to my surprise, it was actually soothing to me. My fear was diminishing until the elevator quivered for the second time. I fell down, and the trepidation rose once again,

so did Luke, but then the elevator shook for

got to his feet, but as for me, I just sat down. I

I couldn’t help but scream. Luke swiftly moved to me and held me tightly until

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

a little bit. But the terror

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

fear.

started ringing, and 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

and quickly went to pick it up. I barely managed to

closer. “Ariel,

felt like I was going to pass out any

LUKE’S POV

to wheeze, and with that, I became 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

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

The kiss lasted for almost a minute as I wrapped my hands around her waist, hoping it could actually ease the

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

lovely face. She was indeed 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

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,

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

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

we’re right here! Down here!” I hollered, waving my