His eyes drifted to my mouth and all I could hear was his gasping breath, and my heart pounding in my ears, I myself hadn't noticed the moment I had held my own breath either, I felt my body on alert, but at the same time I had no reaction to the surrounding things that seemed to not exist, but, in front of me there was only that man that had been sculpted by the greatest artist of this world, and it seemed that he was about to kiss me, his face was slowly coming closer to mine, his eyes focused on my mouth while I waited for it. When his breath was already on my face with a few centimeters to go my cell phone rang on my desk, I startled and turned to look who it was, Draven let go of me at the same moment, I picked up the cell phone seeing an unknown number, I wasn't going to answer because it was exactly a stranger, but Flora and Megan came to my mind, maybe the woman's phone was discharged, and she was using Ethan's or someone else's. - Hello? - My voice came out a little hoarse a

- See, I told you not to be afraid. - I smiled as I took a deep breath and leaned on the door, the animal looked at me as it wagged its tail frantically, I bent down and after petting it I released it from the chest, letting it free. I hung my purse and put the keys on the hook beside, and did the same with the rope that was holding the pectoral of Akira, as soon as I put them in place I took my cell phone from my purse and turned on the lights in the kitchen and living room, I removed my sandals feeling the warmth of stepping on the floor barefoot, while I did all this the little animal accompanied me. - Okay, I'm going to take a bath, make sure you don't make too much mess, wait for me in the living room. - Maybe I was sounding like a crazy person talking to Akira as if he was really understanding, but I liked to believe that he understood, after all I was getting bored in that house alone, not that I was complaining, it was better alone than with people mistreating me, but maybe I

- All right, think Ayanne! Think! - I looked around my bathroom, seeing the tiny window that was high up, there was no way through it, I couldn't reach it myself, and the basket was fragile and would break under my weight. "THE BASKET! I shouted in my mind, I saw the object of clothes with some pieces and the closet, I put the cell phone on the floor along with the knife and dragged myself with the puppy." I removed some garments and put the little animal in the middle of them covering him almost completely, I managed to leave an air gap that faced the wall, with him hidden I could act freely and run, as soon as I finished I turned around hearing the phone. - Ayanne?! Are you there?! AYANNE? - Ethan shouted my name, I picked up the phone from the floor and put it back to my ear. - I'm here, I can't talk much, he's coming, but it's okay, I won't let him hurt Akira. - As soon as I answered him another thunderous sound was heard thundering through the room scaring me, but when the noi

"Is she crying? I suspected it because I heard some strange noises when the call started." - T-there's a ho-man here! - The woman stammered, confirming my suspicion, but I didn't quite understand her sentence. - What? What do you mean? I don't understand, why are you crying? - I asked again what had happened, mainly wanting to know why she was crying. Flora at that moment had woken up, she also seemed to be in a light sleep. - There's a man here! A man broke into my house! Help me! - My heart raced, and I practically jumped out of the chair with my eyes wide open. Flora looked at me worriedly. - Stay calm, I'm coming! - I despaired, especially knowing that she was practically alone in the neighborhood, I knew that it would be difficult to ask for help, I looked around not knowing what to do first inclined to just run to help her. - He's coming, he's at my bedroom door, please! Please! Help me! - Her voice was anguishing to hear, my whole body was getting goose bumps at the thought

- Oh my God! Are you okay, girl?! What happened? - Flora whispered desperately, and I knew that the woman was holding back because of her daughter, but just her asking for me made me happy, I was happy just knowing that someone was worried about me, but at that moment that phone call made me more emotional than I already was, I started to breathe hard, my chest was rising and falling fast, my throat was closing, and my eyes started to water, I swear with all my strength I tried to hold on, but I collapsed again while holding the cell phone to my ear. - I'm okay! Oh! Oh my God! I'm so sorry! I'm all right! - I tried to answer as clearly as I could, but my sobs came back stronger, as my eyes came back to bathing my face, Ethan looked at me worriedly and immediately stood up and hugged me tightly, grabbing his shirt with the hand that was free. - Oh my love! Take it easy, honey! It's okay! My God, what do I do? - The woman on the other side went into despair, I knew that if she could, s