Deep Desires - Her Hitman

How long?

Chapter 4

How Long?

Lien's POV

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04/03-2018

18.30

"When are you flying there?" I asked hoping he was giving me a heads-up at least.

"In 3 days"

"What!?"

"It's an emergency"

Just like that it got quiet. I looked down at the floor with my fists closed and squeezing tightly. I could feel my nails dig into my skin. I can't handle losing another father.

"What will happen to me?" I asked trying to hide how I was actually feeling.

"I know that you don't want to leave college on the first year and will say no to moving with me, so I thought you could stay. But, triple security and you're going to have a guest living in the house until I come back" he said making my mind work really hard trying to figure out who.

Dima never really brought a partner home that often, so I didn't know many of them well enough to live with them and be so casual about it. That is when it hit me like a ton of bricks.

"Wait.. you're hiring someone to babysit me-?"

"Don't put it that way" he cut me off.

"And that someone is someone I have talked to twice in my life?! You cannot be serious right now" I added trying to hold myself from yelling but failing miserably.

"I can't leave you alone and you know that"

"Oh but am I ever alone? I have people around me all the time.. and you won't be long.. will you?" I said which ended up as a question as my voice broke at the end.

"I don't know. Until we find out who's behind everything and get them off the table I need to be there with my people"

"Behind what? What are you even talking about?" I cried out because this made no sense so far.

"Look I don't want to scare you kiddo, but there has been a few attacks on our places. People have been crossing our territories and we don't know who it is yet. They have been messing our stuff and shipments up. Sometimes it's just to get a message across, but others it's to hurt us. I just have to make sure that everything is under control" Dima explained as I remembered this morning.

Shit..

"What exactly do you mean when you say, 'messing up'?" I asked hoping it's not what I'm thinking.

"Vandalizing our stuff such as houses, buildings, cars and even shipments. But they leave no evidence behind or anything apart from a note each time with a different message on it. It's like a.. puzzle. Sometimes they burn s**t, others they just give a warning" he said, and I instantly felt cold.

"I want to go home" I said too quickly.

"Lien, please just give it some time. Think about it and try it for at least week. If you absolutely don't like it we can think of something else" he said thinking that's what got me so worked up, but I needed to see what was on the note.

"I will I promise.. just please. I want to go home. Where is Ivan?"

"He's on a job.. Viktor will be taking you today and staying with us most of the days. He'll officially move in on the day I fly out" He explained.

Just great..

I stood up and walked out, almost running towards the door as I told Viktor to take me home while walking towards the exit. Which he did.

He drove me and said he was supposed to stay there until Dima was back.

Other than that not a single conversation was made until we made our way into the house and we noticed how dark it was in here. Usually this place is filled with lit lights.

"What the..?" I muttered as I turned on the lights and saw a trail of something red on the floor at the beginning of the kitchen. Viktor turned around and punched the security code on the alarm to silence it. Meanwhile I tried following the red marks until it led me to a piece of paper hanging on the living room wall with a knife holding it in place.

I carefully stretched out my arm to take the note when a voice and footsteps interrupted me.

"Did you say anything" Viktor said and I hurried. I wanted to see what's on there before he came. He probably would take it away.

"Ahm.." I cleared my throat as I opened the paper, and I felt his presence in the kitchen.

"What's that?" He said probably meaning the floor, but I was too busy checking out the paper in my hand.

20.00

What the hell does 20.00 mean ?

Just as thoughts filled my head, Viktor’s voice snapped me back.

"Where did you find this?" He asked as he took the note from my hands, as if I was a kid who got their hands on something they shouldn't have.

"It was hanging on the the wall.. with this knife" I said giving him the knife as he seemed to somehow recognize it.

"f**k" he sighed as he took out his phone and I know he was dialling Dima.

"We're going to the car. It's not safe here" he said holding my hand and pulling me behind him as he hurried out of the house with his strong grip holding my tightly.

"There's another note.. in the house" he spoke, and I could hear Dima yelling on the other line, but I couldn't figure what he was saying. We quickly got in his lambo and pulled out of the driveway.

"We're driving away right now" Viktor said after a while and pressed even more on the gas pedal causing the car to drive even faster than what I thought was possible. Holy.

After less than a minute and a bunch of voices I can't understand yelling on the other line, Viktor sighed as he hung up taking his earpiece out of his ear.

"Where are we going?" I asked trying to not let this phase me.

I'm safe.. right?

"Back home" He said which just confused me.

"Why did we leave then?" I asked annoyed.

"They had to check if the house was clear" he spoke as I annoyingly rolled my eyes and looked out the window.

Before I even noticed we had already arrived, how fast was that man driving?

I stepped out of the car and walked through the living room, up to the stairs and to my room. All the red marks were gone as if they had never been here. The house smelled nice as if it were newly cleaned and the floor was spotless.

Are clean up jobs really that easy? It really gets you what could have happened somewhere and quickly got cleaned up so no one could witness it.

I opened my rooms door and quickly closed it behind me as I turned on the lights. My room was the most colourful room in this whole house, but it still felt kind of dull right now.

I quickly changed with the feeling that someone was staring at me, even though I knew that it's impossible. Yet I still couldn't shake that feeling. I laid on the bed and covered myself with the sheets hoping it would help like it did as a little kid.

It was already pretty late since I stayed later than usual at school and had to come to Dima's office, so to say I was exhausted is an understatement, but I still couldn't close my eyes. I turned on the nightstand lamp and stretched my hand to where I had put the note from earlier. I had to open it, I just couldn't sleep. Curiosity would probably kill me.

As slowly as possible for some reason, I opened the note hoping for dear god that nothing would jump out of it. It sounds ridiculous but I wouldn't put it past happening.

When I finally had unfolded it I noticed a design drawn on it.. a rose. A rose out of everything…?

Why was that even in MY locker to begin with?

I wouldn't have giving it much thought usually if I had just found that, but the fact that it was in my locker was messed up. Not only that but it was the exact type of paper that I found earlier in the kitchen. I had to figure this out.

A rose.. and 20.00. As in the time 20.00 perhaps. That would mean 8pm.

Why the hell is that so special?

I put it back in my drawer and laid back again, but without turning the light off this time. It felt a tad safer if I could see everything, and I didn't get as paranoid.

I closed my eyes, thinking my hardest of what it could mean. A rose, 20.00. 20.00, a rose. 2000 roses? What is this? A Taylor Swift album? No matter how hard I tried that night, I just couldn't figure it out. That's what I remember before I fell asleep.

To be completely honest, I wish that I never figured it out. Maybe life would have stayed that simple.