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Hello everyone, thanks a lot for your replies... it's always a pleasure to read your feedback.

Lot of you are asking for characters... As it's a short stroty, revealing characters will be shown as much as the story will be developped... But as the cover is showing... it's a Swasan story

By the way, how do you find the cover?

And ha, I wrote this story years ago in a kind of challenge between friends on a website... so it's an apaptation from another concept but which I hope will match... you'll tell me :)

Ok enough of blabering... lets move on the first chapter...

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- I'll make some calls and join you babe...

She giggles loudly feeling his arm releasing her waist and enters a big austere room with brute concrete walls and carpeted with water... with feline march, she steps toward a big circle bed on a marbled alley where her heels were knocking punctually at every step.

She was not so tall and her long black bare back dress showed a tanned skin hidden behind long blask silky perfect curls. Suddenly, she stops and looks back intrigued with big dark hazelnut eyes searching something in the vague, with a long nose and luscious lips, her face had some wild beauty softened with the diamond hanged on a necklace lightning her long neck and deep generous cleavage.

She nods and turns to take a remote on a black wooden cabinet, the wide space plunged immediately in darkness, few dispersed lights come to bright it revealing a velvet chocolate and red walls lining, some blues music to finalize the atmosphere before opening a red wine bottle to fill one glass on the bedside table, she stops to look around again for a moment, looking long to the door waiting to see it opened, but no one arrives... she fills the second glass and smells it with a smile.

She finally hears steps behind her and closes her eyes with anticipation until she feels an arm surrounding her waist possessively, she giggles when he turns her to him abruptly taking her neck in his hand

- You know... you look really good, when you're dressed like a lady! He says in a hoarse like voice, before forcing her to incline her head with his touch to make her kiss him in full mouth.

The man in a black smoking was short and slim with black curled hair, his mustache prickles her skin when his lips make their way in her cleavage his hand already discovering her nude back. She moans saying:

- Your wine...

she offers making a step back from him smiling, he considers it a moment and takes the glass to throw it behind him approaching to catch her, he throws her on the bed and was about lying on her but she laughs escaping his hands and runs away around the bed... seeing his angry eyes she says playfully:

- A lady must be wooed!

- Oh... of course... may I have this dance, Madame?

She accepts the hand he offers her to be dragged in a round dance drawing the round marbled floor around the bed, when he stops to take her in his arms she have a brusque grimace and looked around breathless

- Did you hear this? She asks worried

- "this" what?

- It's like if someone else is here...

- HERE!?

Instead of intrigued, he laughs for a long going to the bedside table and takes the other full of wine glass to taste it before saying:

- Don't be silly... you're in the most protected place you can ever imagine... six feet underground with armed people all around, who can...

His sentence stops his lips forming a grimace, she hurries to him alarmed and looks around to search something for a moment, blood starts to make a growing red stain on the white ground... the injured man trying to stand straight.

Black silhouette moves in water troubling its flat surface in irregular waves to the stairs, rising up slowly from water as the man in leather black blazer and tight pants was climbing its steps. she looks horrified to his gloved big hands handling a silent arm, water dropping over him shaping his harmonious body, she was about screaming, but her look locks suddenly on his iced eyes fixing hers, those shining brown pearls hypnotized her and no word could escape her opened lips while he reports his attention on the man facing her, who trying to find his bloody wound in his back turns to him :

- DON! What the hell ... the injured man was searching for something at his belt...

- Hel-lo Sanjay... don't worry... small hole... it can't kill you... nice place!

He says casually at the top of stairs making a sign with his armed hand to the decors

- No Don, it's not like what you think... his trembling voice reflecting his anxiety

- Really!? ...

Don makes some steps around putting one hand in his pants' pocket; he wasn't looking at him more interested by the woman at his side and some details on the bed where handcuffs were hanged at his head, strings suspended on some curtains...

- No more working! He adds as Sanjay was about taking his phone, he was slowly approaching him by the cabinet side where a wide mysterious smile streches his smile making his eyes shining more dangerously under his arched eyebrows, he reports his attention on the woman again some steps from them

- What do you want Don?

- Nothing... and THIS is your problem...

- Don't make something stupid... my men will...

- Stupid! you were when you thought that I'll not find you, Sanjay! He replies with angered deep low voice pointing suddenly his arm on him, she makes a step back terrified.

She stare at him trying vainly to calm her heart beats, every inch in him expressed the force he has at the end of his arm, leather forming perfectly his tensed body, he was tall and strong yes... but not to the so imposant stature... but something in his him gives this feeling of power, may be those piercing inexpressive eyes... his face features were yet soft and she sees an almost smile when he looks to her... just at the moment when she thinks he's listening to Sanjay's arguments, she heard a "bang"!

The dead man's body fall at her feet making her eyes opens wide, she couldn't detach her eyes from his gaze even knowing he was pointing his arm on her too... breathing heavily, she hears a click... he will shoot her too... she closes her eyes waiting...

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