Deadly Kiss (Editing)

Chapter 4 Dilemmas

             

                                                                                  Chapter 4

                                                                                 Dilemmas

Michele ran as fast as he could back to Elisa's apartment, with panic and worry threatening to consume him. Marcov'shad disturbed him it made him realise, that not only had he put himself and his secret in danger, but the life of Elisa as well. Markov however now lay at the bottom of the Huson River, with old bricks he had found lying around and a wheel belonging to somebodies hummer acting as weights to weigh him down... and to keep him down.

Within minutes Michele reached Elisa's apartment block, sneaking past the guard, he raced up five flights of stairs before reaching her apartment door. " Elisa, Elisa it's me Michele......Elisa?!" Michele, lightly tapped the door and it swung slowly open, instantly fear coursed through his bones. Michele sped through all the rooms and found no sign of Elisa " No!." he thought, suddenly an unfamiliar smell caught his attention, it lead him into the kitchen, but nothing caught his eye as unfamiliar, but now that he was beginning to get used to the smell, he realised he had smelt it before.  Michele quickly became irritated as he could not remember where, when or whom he had smelt this before, he replayed faces, places, houses, streets and cars over and over again in his head just to identify that scent.

Then it came to him, like a painful memory.

"Markov!!"

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When Elisa awoke, her vision was extremely blurry, all she could make out was a bright fuzzy light surrounded by threatening darkness. In an attempt to clear her vision Elisa tried to rub her eyes with her hand, but found she couldn't move it, she tugged again and again, but it wouldn't move. She tried the other hand above her head and the rest of her limbs, with panic now coursing through her veins, but found that they couldn't be moved either.

Elisa went on struggling for what felt like a life time, before slumping back onto the hard surface in utter despair, crying violently. She would have screamed but her mouth was gagged by a thick piece of duck tape. "Why me?!" she though helplessly. Her whole world had crumbled around her inside a day. Everything had changed so quickly after she met Michele, only then to go into the filling room and attacked that frightening man, who had threatened to slit her throat if she wasn't cooperative, and only moment's later to be saved by the mysterious Michele.

But of course, life isn't fair, which meant her day wasn't guaranteed to end happily, because soon after she had gone home she was kidnapped. Now, here she lay, alone, scared and broken in a cold room, dwelling over the possibilities of her dying in the next five minutes, or whether or not she will ever see the light of day again.

Suddenly Elisa heard a loud click as the door to her prison swung open, allowing a blinding light to flood into the dark room, making the figure standing in the centre of it, huge and menacing shadow. "Nice to see your awake." it said in a low and husky voice. It closed the door behind it and walked slowly and threateningly towards Elisa. Immediately, upon instinct, Elisa began to moan and struggle violently against her bonds, but as before, her attempts were useless.The familiar face of her kidnapper came into the light, looming over her... she looked up at him with pleading eyes. His clothes hadn't changed, he was still wearing his black jacket over a black t-shirt and trousers. He placed a hand just above her head before leaning forwards, until his face was barely an inch from hers. Elisa quickly turned her head away from his, exposing to him her long and slender neck.