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Chapter 46

It was a seven hours drive from the city. I spent the most of it thankfully asleep. But now it was pitch dark outside and in the rustic surroundings of pure wilderness it was damn frightening.  As frightening as the quiet man sitting beside me.  I realised that even though I have worked with him for all of forever, I really didn't know a thing about him.

He was a stranger to me in every way.  I knew only how he liked his reports presented,  how he liked his analytics done,  how he liked us to interact with the clients but nothing at all of a personal nature.  Nothing other than the fact that he had a preference for buxom blonds. Something I certainly wasn't.

But then I didn't really want to attract his attention now did I?

I sat there staring straight ahead at nothing trying very hard not to be very afraid of the future I just signed myself into. I thought back to what I had done. Putting my signature on that contract may not have been the worst thing I could have done.  I knew my life in the past.  Uneventful and unexciting. I knew what life with Brett would have been like. Fearful of me falling in love with him only to have him lose interest in pursuit of his own usual preference of blonds or carrots. Buxom or otherwise.  He was not very discerning in his choices.

With Mark I would avoid the heartache.  With him this would be a business deal. Like always this will be work. Nothing more.

I could handle work.  The job description would be different but I could think of it as a new position. A new job requiring new skills.

Skills I didn't have.  I was a freaking virgin.  Brett was my first kiss.

My first everything.

Yet I had abandoned him for Mark.

The fear of my future that I had only just laid to rest sparked out anew.

But then we were there weaving through the dense forest on a dirt road that left much to be desired.  But the car I sat in was powerful.  As powerful as its owner.  It could provide a jolt free ride on even a road such as this. Its powerful head beams lit up the pitch blackness with its glow creating daylight where none existed.  Light that faded away into nothing out of reach. So it was almost a shock when the car turned with the dirt road and the beam caught on and held the huge house that loomed out of the darkness.

If I was of the more imaginative sort I would have cried out shrill in fear but as it were I only whimpered but biting my lips into swift silence.

The car slid smoothly over the gravel as if it rode over a cement smoothen surface then abruptly Mark threw it into a park and snapped off the engine. The silence was immediate and overwhelming. Which was strange for I had thought the car incredibly silent already. But the soft purr had been there showing the vehicle's exertion over the rough terrain. Now still and unmoving with its windows wound up and blocking out the sounds of the night life,  it was more quiet then I would have expected.

I moved then to fumble at the door but Mark was already slipping out.  His door flung open to let in deafening sounds of crickets shattering the silence that reigned before.  interspersed with the croak of a bull frog, and other night life, I felt transported to another world altogether.

I realised then that my life from now on would always be like that.  A new experience every time.  That even though I was not the sort to crave new experiences as some were. It was a trait I would have to learn... and learn quick, in order to survive my future with my wits intact.