Strange Love

Chapter Six

Elsa's POV

I finally got back to my apartment after a hell of a long night.

I was tired and sticky, and couldn't wait to get a few hours of sleep, my break up with Jessie had left me lost but meeting Vincent made things better. Destiny had a twist for me. It was weird, yeah, I know, but I believed in my superstitions. It was already 11:30 pm when I looked at my clock. I guessed I lost track of time after all that had happened. I couldn't stop thinking about Vincent, he kept circling my mind from the moment I met him. I took off my clothes and hurried under a nice hot shower then soaked myself in a tub filled with the melted scent of two Stardust bath bombs. It was so pleasing.

"Ah this feels nice," I said to myself as I buried my body in the warm stardust water that had me sparkling like the stars. I bent my head back and let the relaxation comforted me but a moment later I was disturbed by a knock on my door. What a night I was having. I got intimidated and didn't plan on answering because I thought it was my annoying neighbor Paula. But the fucking banging didn't stop and Paula never knocked on my door for so long. I got out of the bathtub taking my time because I didn't plan on slipping my ass down like I do when I made haste to get out. I let my wet hair kiss my back and I wore my black robe then walked to the door to see who it was. I looked through the peephole and at the sight were two men both wearing suits and expensive coats just like Vincent did. They literally looked hot as fuck.

The first thought that came to my mind was maybe they were looking for someone and they got the wrong apartment. But it was late, and that seemed strange. It happened often, a visitor either lost their way in the building while looking for someone or they either got the wrong address. I opened the door and both of them looked at me in a fetish way. Their deadly eyes lurked up and down my body like a lion waiting to catch its prey. I completely forgot that I was still wet and naked with only a robe to cover my body.

"Um, Hi can I help you?" I asked whilst looking at them, admiring their well-dressed figures and perfect faces. It was weird how all the men I've met so far looked completely different from those I've seen before. They were much more good looking and they didn't seemed to be from around here.

"Sorry to disturb you, madam," The blonde hair hottie flipped a badge flashing it in front of my face.

"We're from the FBI and we're looking for this man, we're asking everyone in the building if they've seen him because from various sources we've tracked him to be here, so don't worry we're not pinpointing you alone," The brown skin dude wearing a scarf handed me a picture of two men, one circled in red and one marked X. I looked at the picture and realized that it was Mr. Carlton's face circled in red and another man whom I didn't know; marked X. A small voice in my head started panicking. Why the fuck were these men looking for Mr. Carlton. I swallowed down my fear and hoped that the cops didn't notice how my panic attack was jumping me. I looked up trying to be normal and acted as if I had never seen Mr. Carlton in my life.

"I'm sorry, I've never seen him around here," I shook my head in denial. They looked at me scrutinizing my behavior carefully in the urge of finding out if I was lying or not. But I managed to kept myself together and froze the trembling guts that were shaking up inside of me.

"OK, thank you ma'am, and we're very sorry to disturb you so late do enjoy the rest of your night," they said before they walked away. My neighbor, Paula opened her door to look at them as they left. Paula always liked poking her nose in my business, she was a creepy blonde chick that no one couldn't understand. But she was a real hottie though, her curves and soothing voice was a charm.

"They're some freaky hot bowl of Chilly don't cha think!" Paula said while playing with her blonde hair and biting her lips. I looked at her annoying behavior and shook my head.

" Yea right," I rolled my eyes and ignored the fact that I thought they were hot too. Paula then turned to look at me with a serious face. I could have told she was going to say something that didn't involve her saying how sexy the two cops were.

"They were here since around six this evening, they've been asking everyone in the building if they've seen that man but none of them had the answer they wanted. They tried checking the security footage but sadly they didn't get footage from 5 - 6 pm because there was a power outage here. The rest of the footage was useless."

And then it hit me, I got back from work at that time. I was talking to Mr. Carlton around the time the power outage happened but I didn't noticed the power was out until hearing about it now. For once I was happy that this place didn't have a backup generator or else I would have been in deep trouble. Mr. Carlton seemed to have something fishy going on. Thankfully no one knew that his son stayed here, but then my mind rumbled again.

If his son was on a business trip then why was he staying in a dump like this? Something fishy was going on and I was eager to know what it was but I also needed some sleep too. It was Thursday night and I needed some fucking rest. I dried off the remaining water from my skin and changed into my pajamas. I picked up my phone and called the security guard, Marty. Marty and I were buddies, he was my right hand if I needed help on something important.

"Hey Marty, it's Elsa what's up?" I answered with enthusiasm

"Hey Elsa, you know just on the watch out," He said with a mimicking tone.

Cliche I guess, what else could he obviously be doing, he took his job really seriously.

"There's this dude staying here, His name is Jabare. He is literally covered in tattoos."

I hoped that he knew who I was talking about and had some information that would be useful to me. I didn't know how he does it, but he could have remembered a hundred faces in a week, I know this because I had seen him demonstrated it.

"Oh, you mean the dude that drove the Jaguar and stayed here for the past two days and left recently?" Marty responded quickly. I knew he knows who I was talking about. See, that was the reason why I loved this man. I had no idea how many days Jabare spent here, I couldn't recall seeing him around. And he drives a Jaguar, seriously? And he was staying at a dump like this, now that was seriously suspicious!

"Yea that one, when did he leave?"

"Around 5:30 this afternoon, I think I'm not sure but it could've been a bit later." Marty said, sounding a bit curious as to why I wanted to know about Jabare. But before he got further into his curiosity I had to cut the line. After I cut the line with Marty, I sat on my bed thinking about what I had just found out. Around 5:30 pm was the time I saw him running back to Mr. Carlton, seemed like something came up because I thought Mr. Carlton said his son would be here for a while. I wanted to know why the cops were looking for Mr. Carlton but I really needed some sleep. I noted to myself to follow up on the matter tomorrow.

I tried clearing my mind from the wild thoughts but Mr. Handsome decided to pass through. I honestly forgot about everything that had happened tonight between Jessie and me. It was like my heart and mind wasn't planning to give a fuck about her anymore and that was a good thing. It seemed impossible to get over a relationship that fast, even I was wondering how it was possible but something inside of me kept saying shut up and just let life take its course.