The Librarian's Assistant

"Who the hell are you?!" I screamed once my mind decide to defrost and begin functioning again. I raised my metal bat with steady hands for the off chance I needed to use it again. Soot growled from his protective position between me and the intruder, teeth bared and menacing, ears back and the whites of his eyes showing. Suddenly, I was glad I let my dad invest in the black husky.

My widened eyes took in the man that had just busted in through her bedroom window. His tall, lean figure was intimidating; the dark clothes that concealed almost every inch of his body; the rather large hood that hide the majority of his face; and the blood that covered his hands and most of his torso - I could not force myself to look away from the blood.

"I'm your saviour."

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Meet Aleena Stone. Allie for short. She was recently hired as Librarian Assistant at the public library in her home town of Claw River. Fresh out of college, Allie is ready to get her life started.

With a good-paying job secured, and a duplex she's renting all to herself - and her black husky, Soot - Allie thinks she is ready to get comfortable.

But when the Head Librarian, old Mrs. Trumble, informs Allie that there are people after her because of what she knows - curse her photographic memory - Allie has a feeling that her life is going to become anything but comfortable. Only, Mrs. Trumble assures her that she has arranged for someone similar to a body guard that will come and whisk Allie away when the wrong people get too close.

The last thing Allie expected was to literally be whisked away.

By a guy covered in blood who won't tell her his name.

And dragged out her window.

That he shattered when he broke into her house.

Ah, the pleasures of being the Librarian's Assistant