The sound of the gun going off was still ringing loudly in Zeke's ears. With his eyes closed, he waited for the pain and darkness to seep in.

Nothing happened.

He didn't think death would be this painless and he could still faintly hear the sound of the city's night life in the background. The cars honking, the drunken people sluggishly speaking as the one too many drink took its effect...

"Are you planning on opening your eyes?" A melodic woman's voice said. Zeke could hear the amusement in her voice.

Slowly, Zeke opened his eyes to the scene before him. The brown haired man that the boss had sent after him was lying on the ground now, with a hole in the middle of his eyebrows.

Blood was pooling out from the wound and around his head. His eyes were lifelessly looking back to Zeke now. Zeke released a breath that he didn't know he was holding and looked around to find the woman that the voice belonged to.

There, a couple of feet away from him, stood the most beautiful woman Zeke had ever seen.

Her black hair fell down to her waist in soft waves. She was wearing a black night dress and she looked as if she could take a simple step back and mix in with the shadows. Her dark eyes were alluring and Zeke felt a shiver run down his spine as he looked into them. They were like magnets that pulled him in.

Her eyes looked like they were boring a hole into his soul and seeing right through him. Her brightly red coloured full lips were in a small smirk. With her light skin and dark features in contrast, she looked like a dark angel.

Zeke's eyes landed on the gun in her hands as she angled her head a little, her eyes never leaving Zeke's, and called out, "Valdos."

Two men came around the corner behind her. Both of them was built but the man on the woman's right side was taller than the other.

The beautiful woman turned to the taller, brown haired man and said, "Valdos, call in the team to clean this up." There was no emotion in her tone as she said it.

Valdos simply nodded and worked on his phone, probably doing what the woman had told him to do.

Zeke tried to get up from his sitting position against the wall. He grunted and held his stomach in pain from the kick he had received.

While he was trying to get up, he could see Valdos and the shorter man coming towards him.

Just as he stood up, the two men held Zeke's arms. The woman walked towards Zeke and stopped in front of him. She was tall, almost as tall as Zeke's over 6 foot height with her heels.

She looked at Zeke's brown eyes for a moment and he felt like his stomach hit the floor as he watched a dark smile form on her face. The beautiful woman's eyes glinted in the moonlight but Zeke couldn't figure out her emotions. He had a feeling that his saviour would do a lot more than just save him. He didn't want to learn what her wicked smile meant or what hid behind it.

Zeke started to struggle in the arms of the two men to get away but neither would bulge.

The woman tsked at Zeke in a disappointed tone. "Is this what I get for saving your life? An ungrateful man?"

Zeke doubled his efforts to get away now. The woman turned and started walking away to a black car. Valdos and the shorter man dragged Zeke after her towards the car.

As they got closer to the car, Zeke started to fight more and more. Somehow he knew the moment he stepped into that car, nothing would be the same.

Zeke finally managed to kick the shorter man in the leg and he let Zeke's left arm go while groaning in pain.

This left only Valdos holding onto his arm but his grip was like steel and he wasn't letting go anytime soon. Zeke struggled but to no avail. He tried punching him and elbowing him but the man either blocked or dodged his assault.

The woman turned around to look at Zeke like she was exasperated and bored. She took the two steps to close the distance between them and held his light brown hair in an iron tight grip.

Leaning into his ear, she whispered, "I would save my energy if I were you, pretty face. There is more to come." A shiver ran down Zeke's spine at her words and at the promise that they held.

In the next instant, the black haired woman took a step back and before Zeke could understand what was going on, she had brought down a blow on his left temple with the handle of her gun.

Zeke's vision started to blur and darkness started to seep in from the corners of his eyes.

He barely saw the woman turning back and getting in the car. Then he felt his body being roughly stuffed inside the car as the darkness finally took over his vision.

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So Althea saved and took Zeke with her. 😂

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