Chasing Gravity ( BOOK 1)

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Europe felt like heaven to Gravity and Fabian! It had been 4 continuous years since they were robbing Europe and 10 years since they began this adventurous life. At the age of 26 with multiple mansions around the world, a good name in the underworld for selling classic paintings the con artist duo decided to take a break. All this while they were just working, now they wanted to travel and enjoy some of the riches they earned with their so-called hard and smart work. They took a flight from their favorite hideout in London to their largest mansion situated in Italy which even had a private runway attached to it. To their shock, some men were waiting for them in their own house. As soon as they landed in Italy, their bodyguards were shot dead, the men creating the bloody site didn't look like a part of the police or any government organization, they were pretty good in their aims seeing how Fabian and Gravity were left completely unharmed. Soon there was just the con artist duo left with a bunch of men aiming guns at their heads, seeing the situation Fabian blabbered " those are fucking real" listening to that scared voice Gravity chuckled " from which angle do they look like nerf guns shooting pellets to you?" At this, the leader of the armed men came close to them and asked in a heavy tone " what are you guys planning, don't try to act smart here!" At this Gravity looked directly into his eyes and said with a bright smile on her face " Oh no, how dare we, by the way, he just wanted to confirm if those things are real" Listening to that Fabian looked at Gravity with a shocked expression and exclaimed, " how could you! 15 years of friendship, 10 years of partnership and you rat me out like this! what if they test it on me!" Listening to the scared Fabian, Gravity assuringly put her hand on his shoulder and said " relax, they need us, they won't hurt us!" at this the leader of the armed men said " yet" this made Gravity look at him, to see him signaling them to walk towards the vans parked towards back of those men. At this Gravity ordered " Bring our luggage please" and walked towards the vehicle as if she owned them leaving the group of armed men in slight shock.During the whole ride, Gravity had her eyes shut as if meditating and Fabian sat holding her arm with legs crouched on the car seat staring at those armed men like a scared wet cat, right on the verge of crying. On reaching the destination the con artist duo was pushed out of the car quite violently, still, Gravity managed to walk confidently towards the desired location, it was a typical rich mafia home scene, men dressed in posh Armani everywhere, tons and tons of armed men surrounding a hall, two men on the top of the staircase behind curtains maintaining a mysterious cliche image, one of them considerably older than the other holding a crane. Gravity was made to stand in the center while fabian was tied to a chair on another side of the staircase. Then the armed men leader went on the top of the staircase, bowed to the two men, discussed something in an inaudible voice, took his gun out, and face towards gravity with the complete aim at her.