What's your Price?

Chapter 24- Workout Loving

Chapter 24

Date: October 4th

Time: 12:28 p.m.

Location: Basement at Clovelly Safe House

 

I dodged another punch that was swung my way just barely. I didn’t notice the other fist that was heading straight towards my stomach until it was too late. I let out a loud puff of air and feel pain start to seep in afterwards.

Bringing my knee upwards I hit him where the sun didn’t shine and he groaned in pain backing up. Regaining some of my breath I put my fists up even though I was exhausted. The guy stood upright recovering from the last blow I made.

He faked left and went right tackling me to the ground. He was way bigger and stronger than me and pinned me flat against the cold ground. He grabbed both of my wrists with one hand and pinned them above my head and adjusted his hips on mine so that I couldn’t move my legs.

I groaned and tried to thrash around but I couldn’t even move an inch. I glared at him with ice cold eyes and he smirked back at me giving me a pearly white smile. His eyes were so blue.

“Ooh kinky.” Matt says from the side lines.

“Shut up.” John groaned, the moment, or whatever had happened was over. He stood up and blood started to flow threw my veins again. I rub my wrists, sore from being held in the tight grip.

Yes after all this time, after all these months he was finally teaching me how to fight. I wasn’t too good at fighting, I had mostly fought off of adrenaline and pure luck, but John said I had potential. We’ve been practicing every day we have been here and I was improving greatly. Plus I can say it has been kind of nice living here.

Sure the lack of privacy was annoying and we all had a touch of cabin fever when we first arrived from being in the car so long but it was relaxed, normal. I couldn’t remember the last time I had a home cooked meal, we had one everyday here! We sat at the large dinner table and talked how a normal family would. We couldn’t really discuss what happened that day because we already knew with being in the same house but like I said it was nice.

So nice that I didn’t want to go after Lockstar again. After the first week it became calm and comfortable. There were no threats here, no pressure, no people trying to kill us. Thoughts of why the hell should we go back to a world like that when we had this?

Unfortunately morals stepped in and I remembered Maria and George, I think the name of the listee who was murdered when I was kidnapped was. They were other listees that counted on us to bring Lockstar down. As much as I wanted to run and hide I couldn’t help but feel like I had to do something to help them. Plus there was also the fact of protecting our family.

Coming back to the present I see John hold out a hand for me to take. I slap it away jokingly and get up on my own pulling my hair from its pony tail to make a tighter one. Smoothing the sweety clump behind my head I let the cool air brush my neck.

John had taken off his shirt to wipe the excess sweat off of his body and I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t checking him out. Fran was still trying to get me to make a move but I don’t think that a place like this, with family popping out of nowhere, would be the best place. It also didn’t help that John was throwing billboard hints that he liked me. If I was going to do something I wanted to do it on my own terms not anyone else’s.

For now I would just deal with one problem.

“What do you want Matt?” I ask slightly uncomfortable in my sweaty clothes.