She knew she had been running for a while when she turned a corner and fell to the ground. Relief flooding her system, tears pricked her eyes when she recognized the large building about a block away from her.
She was safe, someplace Cooper and his men wouldn't know to look for her.
The large building that Natalie had accidentally stumbled upon was an office building not too far from her apartment. Her friend Marcus works in one of the offices on the first floor. She's only been here two or three times, but the beautiful modern architecture was unmistakable. She would recognize the building anywhere.
Natalie picked herself up off the ground and used the last of her energy to run towards the office. Closing her eyes to send a silent prayer that Marcus was here so late into the evening, before she flung the door open and raced inside. Not wasting anytime in the buildings lobby, she went right down the hallway to his office.
"Marcus!" Natalie screamed when she spotted him through his doorway.
"Alie! Oh my God. Where the hell have you been! I've been looking for you everywhere, you haven't been answering your phone, and Kat says you haven't gone to class in a few days?" She was bombarded with question the second Marcus spotted her.
He gathered her in his arms and brought her into his office, closing the door behind them. He took in the state of the crying shaking woman. He noted that she looked relatively unharmed, but he knew something was wrong, she always answered his calls.
"I-I was kidnapped, I think, I don't know. I went there willingly, but he wouldn't let me leave." She tried to explain.
Marcus pulled out his phone and sent out a few texts. He had known something was wrong when he couldn't get ahold of her and then when he found her apartment empty and up for rent. He had everyone he knew out looking for her. Marcus needed to find out what had happened and who was going to pay for hurting the girl currently crying on his couch.
"Okay okay, slow down. Tell me everything, what happened." He sat beside her and tried to sooth her with an arm around her shoulders. His heart broke when she curled into his chest and began to sob.
"I went to supper at his house and then he wouldn't let me leave." Natalie muffled into Marcus' shirt.
"Who, Alie?" The story she told him clearly was lacking some major details.
"Cooper. I don't know what his last name is." She was slowly starting to calm down now from being in the comforting presence of a friend.
Marcus tensed. Her words twisting his insides. 'She couldn't possibly be talking about Cooper Grant' he told himself. Natalie would never run in the same circles as a man like that, he couldn't fathom how Cooper and her would even have met. He tried to rationalize that she was talking about a different man, but deep down he knew the truth.
"Natalie, was it Cooper Grant? What did he look like? What can you tell me about him?" Marcus' calm demeanour was beginning to crack. If it was the dangerous man he was thinking of, then he needed to get Natalie somewhere safer.
"I told you, I don't know. He's ... attractive" She blushed remembering how he looked while naked. "Brown hair, green eyes, and tall. I don't know anything else. He has a huge house?" Natalie scoured her brain for anything else she knew about the man.
"I think we should-"
"Oh! He has a brother named Sam, I met him too." Natalie interrupted Marcus.
Marcus paled at her statement. It was Cooper Grant and now he knew it for certain. The fact made his vengeance for his friend a little more tricky, but he was still going to do what he had to do for her. Marcus knew Natalie needed to be protected at all costs, the innocent ones always do.
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Dangerous Daddy
Romance"Hey-" the attractive man began to yell as he climbed out of his car. He assumed the woman would see his face and know who he was. But there was no recognition. The stranger didn't know that she almost got hit by Cooper Grant. When he saw her face h...
