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

you doing?”

me right now,” I told

going to change

closed as I continued to breathe 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

so did Luke, but then the elevator shook for the third time, repeating the same action. We both landed on the

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

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

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

around me, and that calmed me down a little bit. But the terror

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

fear.

pointed at it. I was suffocating to the point that I couldn’t even utter a word. I

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

Luke moved closer. “Ariel,

felt like I was going

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 used to think this company was one of the greatest. But take a look

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

The kiss lasted

for a few seconds before losing consciousness. I held her

on her 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

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

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

calling out to us. “Hello? Is anyone

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