Desire or Revenge (Cancelled)

Chapter 9: Tension

I stared at them gawking.
"W what.."
"You heard me, I'm his girlfriend!" She sneered and put her arm around Hunter smiling charmingly at him. Hunter didn't react to her gesture. Uh oh I thought to myself, Rachel is now a big obstacle in this mission and not only that, I was hurt that Hunter cheated on her with me and never told me! Yes I was jealous and I was a homewrecker...
"I'll just go now.." I said gulping, turned on my heel and left  them. I went back downstairs with my head down in shame, playing the part of an ordinary servant. However there were tears in my eyes that I was struggling to hold back...

I opened the door and saw Estella and Allie looking at me in fear.
"You heard everything?"
They nodded sadly and gave me a hug.
"I want him dead..." I mumbled and I brushed them off and went to the counter to prepare more food. I wasn't sure what I was meant to do but it occupied my mind.
I was slowly chopping carrots while staring into space, deep in thought.

A loud announcement from the microphone in the corner of the room jolted me and woke me up to reality.
A loud voice was talking "Can Alexa Rucci meet Hunter in his office!"

I sighed to myself and fixed my apron. I walked out the door slamming it behind me. I walked up the stairs, walked down the corridor until I found Hunter's office at the very end.
I approached a big dark wood door and knocked on it shaking. Unsure of what he would do to me.

"COME IN!" Came a booming voice from inside. I clenched my sore hand and opened the door. Inside I saw Hunger standing by his desk and Rachel was sitting on it with her legs crossed. Rachel had changed out of her destroyed red dress and into a light grey one.
She was glaring and smirking at me once again, acting like a spoilt princess.
Hunter was there standing with his arms crossed.

"If anything happens Alexa, you have backup remember." Said Kai in my earpiece. This made me feel better, I was reminded that I wasn't alone.

I gulped and spoke up. "You asked for me?"
"Yes I did."
"What would you like? The roast beef is almost ready-"
"You're not here because of some roast beef !" Sneered Rachel mocking me. "You disrespected me! And you need punishment!" She yelled loudly in my face.
"But you already-"
"That? That was nothing!" She shouted again. I could see Hunter getting annoyed behind her.
He put his hand on her shoulder and said "Babe, let me deal with this."

Rachel strutted out the room with her head held high, brushing past me as she went.
"You're gonna let me go, right?" I said raising my eyebrow, hoping he would heed my request.
I normally am not scared, but something about Hunter just makes me hairs stand up. He sends this electrical vibe to me..
"No Alexa."
He was slowly walking towards me. I started to back away, towards the door.
"Hunter, yo-you're scaring me.."
I was scared and fearful of what would come next.

"Alexa, why are you here?" he asked slightly turning his head to the left.
"It's my j,job"
"You could have gotten any job.. Did you join because of me?" he smirked.
"No..."
He had an unreadable expression on his face, he had anger and he was flirtatiously smirking.

I quickly turned around and began to run towards the door. I raced as quickly as I could.
My hand touched the handle! But, before I knew it, Hunters hand was already holding the door closed while being extremely close to me..

I screamed for help but he slammed his hand to my mouth to shut me up. "Shut up." he demanded emotionlessly. He spun me around so that I was directly facing him. He moved his face closer to me, so that we were just inches away..

There was tears in my eyes and I was sweating. The hairs on my neck stood up and I felt afraid I looked up at him, pleading him to let me go.
"Look how intense I make you feel.." he laughed.
My heart was beating as fast as it did when my parents died...
"You want to kiss me? We did have a wonderful time, didn't we?"
I was disgusted by this! But with his face so close to me... Snap out of it Alexa!! He's in a mafia sure, but I thought he knew how to respect women, as he said he did.

I had enough of this.
"PERVERT!" I screamed and I used my free hand and swung it, trying to slap him.

But I was too slow, his reflexes and reactions were too fast for me. He caught my arm midway and held it tightly. I was panting and breathing hard. He moved his body forward so that it touched mine and prevented me from escaping. This time I was captured fully in his grasp. In this moment, I blanked out and forgot all my training. I could feel my own heart beat racing and I could feel his too. For a moment, I forgot everything. He leaned in...

"Alexa I'm coming!" I got pulled back to reality.
Shit, that was Kai. What's he thinking?! It's too dangerous. That dumb idiot I thought to myself.
During this moment I heard a loud bang of a gun outside! My heart dropped and I was filled with worry.
Hunter immediately released me from his grasp and ran slightly bending towards the window and peeked out through the red velvet curtains.
"We're under attack!" He shouted at me with his eyes wide and his jaw tensed.
"Alexa, that's me, try to make it out of there"
I followed his command and began to run towards the door.

"NO stop!! What the fuck are you doing? This is dangerous, we need to hide now!!"
"Huh so now you care?!?" I scoffed.
He raced over to me and grabbed my arm and began to pull me towards the library at the back of his room. Outside I heard a lot of men shouting.
"Where the hell is he gone?"
"We need to catch him, that dead man!"

I sighed with relief, Kai managed to escaped!
"I think he's gone!"
"It's not safe, they probably scouted the whole house!"
"Who's they?"
"I don't know! The fucking police or another gang?!"
When we reached the library he took out a key which was under his desk nearby and removed a specific book from the book self. Inside the gap of the missing book was a hidden keyhole.

He unlocked it with his key and kicked the bookshelf open which was in fact a secret door.
I was in utter awe. Was this a big clue I was looking for?
He pushed me inside a dark room and came in too.
"We need to stay quiet here.." He flicked a switch which engulfed the room with a dim light.

It was a small room, like a bunker. It was filed with file cabinets and food and water, presumably for occasions like this were they're under attack.
However one thing that caught my eye was another door in the corner, which looked oddly suspicious. Maybe all the answers were in there... I was excited to tell all of this to Kai and Chief Williams. It would provide them useful information and at the right time all of their secrets would be uncovered.

"Why am I here?"
"We're under attack, I told you." he rolled his eyes.
"I know, but you don't care about me, why am I here?!"
He was silent. "Well I don't want you getting caught. And I suppose I'm sorry?"