The Girl That No One Noticed...

Chapter 24

                                                    Sang

Work went as usual, a full and happy day cooking and baking with the guys, I was finally starting to settle into my routine again. So when 5:00pm came around I said my goodbyes to the regular guys plus Nate before headed for home on Harper. Today had been a truly great day, so much so it almost didn't seem real. I worried that any moment I might suddenly wake up and find that everything had been a dream, but I knew this was a strange but perfect new reality that I never wanted to wake up from. As I pulled into my driveway my smile suddenly fell from my face as I slipped my helmet off, something didn't feel right, and I was on sudden high alert, checking Slou was in a good spot and my phone was in my back pocket in case I needed help. 

I slowly made my way to my front door with key in hand, it was locked but the fact I wasn't hearing any greeting whines worried me. I unlocked the door and called out cautiously, I suddenly got the feeling I had whenever you watch a scary show where you know it's not a good idea to go into the house but the main person does it anyway. I briefly thought of backing out but howls and whines coming from the kitchen forced me inside in a hurry, if any of my babies were hurt someone was going to pay. I rushed into the kitchen to see the scratching and a wild familiar growling was coming from my closed pantry, a chill went through me then. I knew I hadn't closed that door, let alone locked any of my pets inside, someone had been in my house. 

I tensed as I heard a creak come from behind me and silently cursed my instincts to protect my pups over staying alert, someone was still in my house. "Ты одна маленькая шлюха, чтобы найти суку." "You are one hard little slut to find b*tch.) the deep Russian voice was not one I recognized and it made fear burn in my heart as I turned expressionless towards the voice. What I saw of the tall dark Russian man was enough to know I was in big trouble, especially with the .45 he had pointed directly at me. 'Never bring a knife to a gunfight' I hissed internally as I cursed the fact my own guns were hidden upstairs where I couldn't get to them in time.

Knowing there was no chance in using Slou on him with our current positions I decided to try and play dumb. "Who are you, what do you want?" my question was serious even as I let my voice quiver hands up slightly as I backed slowly towards the pantry and my locked up bodyguard. "Don't give me that crap, I know who you are and if you don't hand over the blade I'll kill one of your precious pets." His sneer as he cocked the gun had my stomach dropping, I didn't know how he knew I had a knife on me but I wasn't about to risk my dogs life on it as I pulled the blade free slowly. "That's it now throw it here." he ordered, I wasn't about to give the guy my only actual weapon. "How about you go and get it." I stated as I threw it off to my far left the intruder swore as he stomped towards me. 

"You little wh*re, don't you know how to follow orders?!" scary Russian growled as he slammed the butt of his gun into my face. I went down with a wince at the impact but silent and secretly slipped my phone free and pressed into Victor's app. "I hope this works." I whispered to myself as I lit up every name as my hair was ripped back, then I slammed my finger onto the red button. "What did you just do you little b*tch?!" jeez the guy was like a growl happy bear, but I was liking the position he had, being this close I actually had a chance to fight back, even without Slou. I knew I had to buy myself a little time until the others could get here, so I did the thing I knew best to do, I fought back with everything I had. I was a survivor, there was no way I was going down without a fight.

I kicked out at his shin as he swore, loosening his grip on my hair enough so I could slam my head into his face, the satisfying crunch of breaking his nose urged me on even more. I lashed out, breaking away as the guy reached for his gun, I lunged for the pantry door and ripped it open, turning loose one very pissed off wolf dog. Everything happened so fast then, I heard the gun go off as Nuka launched himself as my attacker, the guy screamed, Nuka growled and my front door burst open as two familiar guys burst in. "SANG!!!" Victor and Kota both yelled as they came rushing in, they took in the scene before them, the intruder pinned and pleading from under Nuka, begging me to call him off.