15. Tipsy Guest
1551 Words
Chapter 15.
Ace went back to the living room where One is lay down on the floor near the fireplace.
“Come boy.” He said while bend down with his hand on his knee. “Watch Red, okay? Tell me if something is wrong.” Ace rub One’s ear. “Hey, no charging without my command. One, just get back to me.”
One goes out from the living room, following Ace’s command to stake out on Leanne. One looked at Leanne from afar, before come closer to her.
“Hey, One, what are you doing here..? Don’t let the boss-lady see you, okay?” Leanne rub his head for a second, before looking around in search of Ace. She’s a little bit disappointed when she can’t find Ace though. One then, leave from her side to go and lay down on the grass not far from the party area where he can still watch Leanne and lay low from the guest.
The party is going on like the other useless party by Sharon Gold. Some of the male guests are starting to get tipsy, they just can’t keep their hands for themselves. Leanne told her team to be extra alarmed and keep their distance as much as they can. She even told her team, that if the outsource waitress has got everything under control, it is okay for them to lay low whenever they got unwanted stalker.
Unlucky for Leanne though, that night she’s the one who’s got the unwanted-tipsy-stalker.
“Linda! code J.A. I need to disappear for a while” said Leanne shout a little—since the club songs were played very loud from the speaker. J.A is their code, that stands for Jerks-Alert.
“Which one?” asked Linda shouted back.
“The one that heading toward me.”
“Got it.” Linda took her tray and blocking him, persuade the tipsy guest back to his chair. While Leanne got the time to get away from the crowd.
Leanne walked across the grass, she noticed that One is heading to the mansion building, before walking down the path that intertwine, it can lead to the mansion building house and to the employer building room. Leanne intended to go back at her room for a while, sending a few pictures to proves G-boss that she really can’t meet to report in person.
She’s too focusing on her phone she didn’t realise when a man standing in front of her, in the path that is lack of lights and under a lot of tree’s shadow. She bumped into the man’s chest, she was so startled, her phone fell off to the stone path while the man suddenly locked his hand on Leanne’s waist.
“Look what I got here.” Said the man. He’s one of Sharon’s guest—another tipsy guest.
“Sir, please let me go!” said Leanne, starting to panicking. Considering she’s pretty far from the crowd and her scream might not be heard under the loud sound from the party.
“I’ll say, why don’t we make our own party, Red?”
Hearing those words her body shivered. Leanne stepped on his foot as hard as she can, causing the man shouts in pain and in reflex letting her go. Without thinking twice, Leanne turned her back to run away from the man, as fast as she can. It took her by surprised when that man pushed her body from behind, against the tree near the path. He put his elbow on the back of Leanne’s upper neck, causing the left side of her face pinned at the tree’s trunk by forced.
“You b*tch!” he said while harassing her.
Leanne started to tremble in fear, she whimpered while trying to bear the pain that she felts from the sharp surface of the tree trunk grazing her skin. The more she tried to moves, the more it hurts—since the man pushed her even more to make her stop moving.
Suddenly a loud barks and growls are heard from behind their back. Noticing the big dog with its teeth and its readiness to attack, the man took his hand very slow from Leanne. He lifted both of his hands in gesture of surrender.
Ace is standing behind One with his cold-blooded expression and both hand in fists. Deep down he frustrated between the needs to beat the man up to death, but as an officer he had to held back any aggressive behaviour toward civilian no matter how much he wanted to—like now.
“I-I’m one o-of t-the g-uest..” the man stuttered in fright, because One hasn’t stop growling as if he’s a beast that thirsty of the man’s blood.
“And it’s time for you to leave.” Said Ace briefly.
The man took one step at a time—in a very slow steps too—away from Leanne who’s leaning by the tree trunk, still processing everything. She’s gasping for air, trying to manage her breath but she felt as if her lungs still desperately lacking of oxygen. Leanne slowly slipping her body and let it sat on the ground.
“One, make sure he leaves this place!” Ace commanded One. The man who’s tried to walk slowly at first, instantly took a run after hearing Ace’s words, with One chasing and barking at his tail.
Ace approached Leanne at once, stroke her hair and rub her red bruise with a few tree trunk’s skin sticking on her cheek, to make sure how bad she was hurt.
“- - Hey..” Ace hesitated to speak, noticing her in mentally-shocked—her trembles, difficulty breathing, and cold skin.
“I-I’m okay.” Leanne quickly said, still trying to calming herself by adjusting her breath. She forced to get up with her hand leaning back on the tree.
“Let me take you inside, to your room.” Ace is still holding her both arms, supporting her just in case that she’s about to fall.
Leanne is still breathless, leaning her back by the tree, while once in a while closing her eyes. Come on Leanne, don’t let him see you like this! Mind over body. Mind over body, calm body, breath!—She told herself in her dizzy mind. She noticed that looking at Ace, feeling his touch on her skin is not helping her breath.
She inhaled. “I’m okay- -“ she kept saying that without looking so. “I’m - - fine.. I- - just - - need” she exhaled and inhaled again, her vision started to get blurry and darker. “- some- - time. I—promise.” She passed out straight away, falling into Ace’s arm.
Ace caught her body, lifted her, and carry her in his arm. Ace’s cursing inside his heart for a second, furious by the man was causing her, before heading toward Leanne’s room. His jaw tightened, not liking the fact that holding her in his arms, sensing her hair scents, her thigh skin and her body--has made his body felt a lot of sensations too. Not the right time, Ace!
Even though the employer building is not big, but it has a lot of room. When Ace is about to come into anybody’s room that he can find, lucky for him, One is approaching them with Leanne’s phone in his mouth.
“Good boy. Can you help me, bud? Find her room?” said Ace. One put Leanne’s phone on the floor and started to sniffing each of the front doors, he sniffed from the gap under the door.
After found Leanne’s unlocked room, Ace lied her body on the bed and settling her position. He checked her pulse from her wrist which has turned normal, before snugging her with her blanket. Ace ruffled his hair while looked away from Leanne’s face, focusing his mind on his surroundings instead.
Leanne’s room is very organised, no pictures of herself or anybody there. Ace is considering himself whether he should check on her drawers, or her belongings for a while before deciding not to it. He then took a chair and put it beside Leanne’s bed, and then keeping himself occupied with his phone while waiting for her to awake.
Leanne is slowly open her eyes and find Ace sitting beside her bed. For a second, she doesn’t want to move and let him know that she’s awake. She just took a moment to watch him, enjoying the calming ambience in the room and her normal breathing, before suddenly Ace’s eyes looking at hers.
“I fainted, wasn’t I?” Leanne weakly said while looking away and snuggle a little, inside her blanket.
“You did.” He leaned toward, with his elbows on his knee. “Do you.. faint a lot?”
“N-no.” said Leanne lying, before decided to corrected herself. “Sometimes.”
Ace’s eyes softened a bit. “I think- -“ He hesitated before continue. “- - You’ve got PTSD, Red.”
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