His last minute bride

83

-Don Jones-

As I was typing on the laptop, I suddenly felt bad for the way I'd treated Eri.

I was too busy to give her enough time. She was a human after all and needed some attention.

I was sure she thought I'd forgotten about our anniversary, but I hadn't (which would've been the dumbest thing if I had).

I didn't want to pay too much attention to it as I'd planned a surprise for our anniversary and I knew myself, if I was to pay too much attention to it, I might ruin the surprise one way or another (as I was terrible at keeping things).

The vibrations from my phone on the desk beside my laptop, interrupted my thoughts.

I decided to ignore it. I needed to finish work and didn't want any interruptions.

Realizing it wasn't nice to ignore messages, I reached for my phone. It could be a client or something.

I unlocked the phone, puckering my forehead when I noticed I'd gotten a text from Eri.

She barely ever texted me. Why would she do so all of a sudden?

I clicked on the message.

‘Dom, I sense danger. I'm heading on a straight pathj frpm tge cimpany. Pkease srbd helo'

The words didn't need to be clear to make me jump to my feet.

Eri. She was in danger (obviously).

Without a second thought, I hurried out of my office, sending the location to the police, as I walked into the elevator whose door opened after I pressed the button.

I glared at the bodyguards as the doors closed and the elevator started moving when I pressed the button to the first floor.

They were her bodyguards. They were supposed to be with her. What the fuck were they doing there?

Shit. The elevator dinged and the doors separated.

I hurried out of the place, ignoring Dina's tired expression.

“Eri, where are you?” I read the message again.

She'd said she was heading in a straight path.

Straight path.

I followed her direction, walking late at night in a straight path.

For what I knew, Eri could be anywhere. Anywhere.

Was she alright? In trouble? Or—

Oh no, June. Had June met with her.

With trembling hands, I wanted to dial Eri's number, but because of the fear in me, the phone fell out of my grip, the screen shattering on the ground.

There was no fixing to that.

But my phone was the least on my mind. Eri was somewhere in trouble and I needed to find her.

Through the night light, I sighted two figures at the far end of the street.

One was sitting helpless on the floor and the other pointed a gun at the helpless one.

I recognized the helpless one. It was Eri.

Oh fuck, and the other person was June. And she was with a fucking gun.

I increased my pace, but ensured to not make a noise so June wouldn't be alarmed by my presence.

I planned on kicking the gun off her hand as quickly as possible, then pin her to the ground.