Chapter Four: EscapeShe should have known that it would not be so easy to escape, that he wouldn't let her go so easily.
When she returns home, she finds that her studio apartment is filled with flowers she doesn't have the names for.
There's a steaming meal waiting for her at her table and a man sitting at the end of it, his expression unreadable.
"Oh," she gasps upon seeing him and licks her lips, her mouth having gone dry suddenly. "What- what're you doing here?" she asks.
"I hear you returned my gift," he says.
"I um-" she starts, feeling a little bit overwhelmed just with him being close. "I don't- it was too much. You don't need to give me anything," she tells him and takes a step back, only for her back to ram straight into the chest of a burly man behind her. She yelps and tur
