GUNSHOT ➪ Zayn

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Chapter 21 ➸ I need you to be sure

'Stop!' Alyssa claimed as James pushed the door and came on the striptease club bar.
'Why are you sc...' Selena replied, turning her head towards James. 'Ooh...'
'What the fuck are you talking about?' He sighed, exhausted always to be the last one to know what was happening.
'Some women stuff you don't wanna know, believe me!' The black-eyed laughed, put her hand on Jee's shoulder.
'Yes, I wanna know!'
'Alyssa and I were talking about what's better between using a tampon or a cup.' She told him.
'What?' He interjected, confused.
'I'm in my period.' The black-eyed woman added.
'Ugh... I should've believed you.' The man said, imagining what it does to put a tampon or a cup. Must hurt.
'You should always, believe me, Bell.' Dallas mocked. 'Well, it's not that I don't like being here, but I had some things to do... and Alyssa, I'll be home before you.' She pointed out.
'Alright.' Aly concluded while cleaning the countertop.

James' eyes followed Selena leaving the bar.
'You're friend's impressive...' he smiled.
'Course she's, we grew up together!' Goldilocks laughed.
'She's just like... so confident and cool, that's just so sexy!'The Métis man said, turning his eyes to Alyssa.
'Oh god...'Alyssa sighed.
'What?' He worried.
'You have a crush on my her, man!' Alyssa happily said, jumping around.
'Wh... what? No, I'm, I'm not crushing over Selena!' He claimed, faking a disgusted expression.
'Oh, aren't you?' She frowned.
'I am not interested in your friend. I don't know her, and why am I talking about that with my partner?' James asked, grabbing in jacket and getting closer to the door as fast as he could.
'This discussion's not over, James!' She screamed through the walls.

Back in the city's center, Zayn is woken up by Victoria screaming in the living room. He looked at his watch. It's 8:39 A.M. The golden-eyed man sighed and went to Victoria.
"What's happening, babe?" he asked, kissing her cheek.
'This goddamn bitch is unfindable!' she grunted.
Zayn's jaw clenched when he heard his so-called girlfriend insulting the woman he loved.
'She's very clever. She won't show up for a long moment, and catching her, again, won't lead to something good, she killed two agents, and she manipulated me. She'll always find a way to escape.' He defended Alyssa.
'Are you defending that whore?' Victoria laughed, crossing her arms on her chest.
'Are you serious? Why would I defend someone who almost killed me?' He looked at her. 'Can't you trust me? You know what I risked when I came back, and now you're just yelling at my face because of your stupid intuition!' The Pakistani screamed at his fake girlfriend.
'You... I didn't mean that.'She tried to calm him down, regretting what she told him.
'You know what? I need some air. See you.' Zayn concluded, getting out of her apartment.
He grabbed his phone and called his boss.
'Malik?' a surprised voice claimed.
'Yeah, what's the address again?' He coldly asked.
'I'll send it to you, but why are you so cold? Is it your mission?'
'I... Yeah, I'm getting sick. It'll be over soon, I mean, I'll tell you during our meeting. Bye.'
'Bye' They hung up the phone, and Zayn, as he went to the parking, opened another luxury car and entered the address on his GPS.

After a few minutes of driving through Las Vegas, Zayn arrived in Summerlin, the wealthiest neighborhood of the city of lights.
The golden-eyed man knocked on the door and took a deep breath.
'Come in.' She said.
'Is that your home?' Zayn asked.
'Not exactly...' She replied.
'Anyways, Selena, I found something.' He told her, following her in the kitchen.
'What did you find?'
'Their entire archives... it's in the desert.'
'Alright, and?'
'I can't go there alone. And why the hell are you the boss?' The Pakistani screamed as he realized who was standing in front of him.
'Because I got promoted.' Selena lied. 'And for the archives, you'll go with James.'
'No, no, no! That's not possible...' He admitted.
'Why? You guys have been working together for ten years!' She reminded.
'Yeah, but he hates me now!'
'He does not hate you!'
'Are you serious, Selena?' He frowned.
'Well... maybe. I, I don't know, go with Alyssa then!' Dallas proposed.
Zayn quickly thought about going on a desert with Alyssa and.
'Oh my god, no, I'll go with you!' The new bossy girl laughed.
'Why?' He claimed.
'Because I know her, and I had just seen you, imagining some dirty kinds of stuff when I pronounced her name!'
'I can be professional!'Zee defended himself.
'Oh no, you can't!' She mocked.
'Yeah, I gotta admit it...' He laughed back.
'Zayn?' Selena called him.
'Hum.'
'Do you... love her?' She whispered, plunging her dark eyes in his.
'I, I have never loved someone. I don't know how it feels to.' Zayn seriously replied.
'Zayn, I've seen your eyes when you saved her, and I've heard your voice when she was in danger. That is not friendship. But I need you to be sure you won't ever hurt her.'
'I can't be sure, Selena. But I feel something about this woman that I have never felt about someone else.'

After this little, not very professional meeting, zayn walked to the door, head on his thoughts. Unintentionally, he knocked into a piece of furniture and dropped a frame.
'Shit!'
'What's happening right there?' The metis woman screamed in the living room.
'Nothin.' He replied as he picked up the precious piece of glass he had dropped on itself.
'What the hell...' he whispered, realizing something obvious.