Lethal || k.nj & l.m ✔️

III

Lalisa's POV

I look out the window and watch the dim street lights become streaks before my eyes. As we sit on the quiet ride, I can't help but wonder if this is real. If I'm actually a target from my dads Mafia group, just because he owes them money. And, he fled leaving me and my now deceased mother by ourselves. I quietly cry as we zoom to God knows where.

Soon we aren't even on a street, we are on dirt roads once again. "Are you okay?" He finally asks in a comforting voice, cutting through the silence. I don't look at him. "I'm just fine." Is all I say.

How can he ask me that? I just lost my mother, I have no other family that would care enough about me to take me in because they're all too scared to get involved, then be killed by the Mob as well. I'm almost a grown woman anyways, but it's at least nice to know there's someone that would care about me. But there's not, it's even possible that God doesn't care about me. "I need you to put this on." He stops the car. I look at his hand. "Are you crazy?" I ask pushing his hand away.

He frowns. "Just put it on dammit! Do you want to be found!?" He raises his voice, it has an accent to it that I can't really figure out. Korean? His Thai is good though.

Being found would definitely not be better than this. I take the sleeping mask out of his hand and slip it on over my eyes. "It's only for precautions, just in case..." He pauses. "Can't give you any ideas." He says in a low tone. "You speak Korean?" He asks. "Ah, So you don't know everything about me.", "Yeah Yeah, do you speak it or not because I don't know much Thai." He says. I switch to Korean, "I speak it fluently." I tell him. I sense his smile, "That's good." Them it goes quiet again for a while.

"How do you know that I would have become a sex slave?" I ask, a bit curious. I hear his breath hitch. "I've seen it before, that's what he usually does. Well.. more like what the more ruthless Mafia leaders do. They take the oldest daughter or even all the daughters. It makes them even more money to turn the girls to prostitutes." He says.

Not being able to look at his face helps me realize that his voice is actually really erotic. Wait.. what!? Did I just admit that!? Ewe! "So you know it would happen to me?" I ask, trying to change my stupid thoughts around to what we were talking about before. He clears his throat.

"That's why it's a good thing I was there." He states I realize that he's right. If he wasn't there to save me, there would probably be a whole mess of guys who would be getting their way with me right now. "Thank you.." I say quietly. "It's my mission" is all he says, not even a 'you're welcome'. Shit. "How am I your mission? This is still kidnapping."

He lets out a low chuckle. "Why don't I just turn this car around and give Chuan what he wants." He says with full seriousness, and I become scared. He sounds like the type of person to do what they say they'd do. "No, I'm fine here.." I say gripping the seat. He chuckles again and stops the car. "Good, because I wasn't intending to take you anywhere else since we're already here,"  he says before closing the car door on the driver's side.

"Get out." Is the first thing I hear when he opens my door. Rude. I grab my bag then feel a strong force grip my arm and yank me out of the car, almost making me fall forward, but he has a tight grip on my arm. "Any slower and they'd find us for sure." He whispers in my right ear. That's how close I was to him, my back against his chest and his hand gripping my arm. Definitely no way in me escaping now, I guess I'll have to endure it.

My heart starts to thud in my chest, I can't say a word. If anything, I would be a sex slave here. With this guy. Ugh! What was I thinking coming with this guy!?

I hear keys and possibly a door being unlocked, we step inside the house. The mask is pulled off my face, I fix my bangs with my fingers. My eyes widen in awe. "I'm going to be staying here?" I ask. "We're going to be staying here." He corrects, making me cringe before I look at him awkwardly. "Yeah, but I'm safe. You don't have to stay with me." I say. He lets out a rude chuckle.