Hostage

Chapter 10

*Nathaniel's POV

I woke up in Ezra's arms, suddenly seeing the beatiful view from out of our hotel's windows. I'm still a little shocked by what happened yesterday. It just feels so surreal, stockholm syndrome much. I don't care though. There was a time when I used to care about people's opinions, but I decided that it's better for me to just keep my brain turned off once in a while. I like him a lot and that's all that matters.

I was staring at his face that was illuminated by the streaks of sun that were peeking trough the curtains. He woke up looking directly into my eyes. "Are you ready for round 2?" He asked. "As fun as that sounds, I have a lot of energy at the moment and I'd rather use it for something productive." I responded jokingly. "Good thing I have something very fun planned then." He said with the biggest smile on his face. I just looked at him rolling my eyes already knowing that he is planning to do something way too extra.

I got ready as fast as I could, but it wasn't that easy considering he was constantly touching me and kissing me while I was trying to put on my clothes. We finally managed to leave. Ezra told me that it wasn't a far walk, but to be honest every walk is far for me. We arrived at a harbour where a small boat was docked. I instantly knew what we were going to do. "Really? we're swimming with sharks?" I remembered I had mentioned to Ezra that it was one of my bucket list items during what I thought was an unmemorable conversation. I was amazed he had even remembered I said that, but even more amazed that he had actually arranged it. The experience was incredible. Ezra and I took turns swimming in the water near the sharks. It was slightly terrifying at first, but I quite liked the thrill of it. Sharks are such misunderstood creatures and being able to feel so free around them was a really enriching experience.

After swimming with the sharks and chilling on the boat, we went to another beach bar. I swear he knows that alcohol gets me in the mood, the sneaky bastard. We had a couple of drinks and laughed a lot before going back to our room. I was already mentally preparing myself for round 2 and I couldn't stop clinging to him and being really touchy on our way there.

We opened the door to our room and we were instantly shocked by what we saw. The entire room was torn appart. All of our bags were searched through and the drawers were pulled out of the dresser. Before I could process what was going on, Ezra yelled at me "Duck!". I looked at him wondering why he said that. Ezra ran over to me and knocked me to the floor. I bumped my head on the nightstand on the way down and the last thing I heard before passing out were gunshots.

I woke up with my head laying on Ezra's lap. He saw my eyes open as I looked into his and immediately saw the concern. "Nathaniel are you okay?" He asked visibly worried. "Yeah, I'm okay I think, but what hap...." I managed to get out before looking around the room and seeing two bodies on the floor. I pulled myself together and sat up shocked. "Please don't tell me they're dead" I said. "Nathaniel I'm sorry. I didn't want to do this either, but they tried to take you. I know this whole thing is very scary to you, but believe me when I say that these people are not the people that get what they want in a peaceful way." He answered. "I know Ezra, but can't you just like... I don't know tie them up." I said. 'That won't work, they're trained for this kind of stuff. If I don't get rid of them, they'll just keep coming back." I didn't answer and just stood up as he did the same thing.

There was an intense silence for a moment until Ezra finally spoke. "I know this is not easy and you need some time to process everything, but we really need to leave. Other people now probably know we're here as well." I started crying because this was all a bit too much for me. He came over and gave me a hug before looking into my eyes and saying. "I promise I will get us out off this messed up situation but it takes a litte bit of time, okay. I swear everything will be alright soon just trust me." I kissed him on his cheek and he knew we were okay.

We left the hotel room in a hurry and we drove away. "So what other cheesy shelter places do you have up your sleeve?" I joked, trying to lighten the mood a bit. "You'll see." He said smirking.
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