The perfect encounter

Chapter nine

CHAPTER NINE

Three days had passed since Clara and her teammates started working in Stary club, during those days Eliot kept on coming to the club and pestering her.

She kept on ignoring him but his touch and smiles made her feel weak. Mark has made sure to keep an eye on her and always make sure she wasn't alone without him around her.

Don Mike was out of the country on some business trip, the could only get little information from the waitress because they knew nothing about what was going on.

“Are you looking for him?” Allison asked behind Clara startling her from her thoughts.

“Looking for who?” she asked back trying to be ignorant of what Allison meant.

“Who else?, The man always using his eyes to follow you. Eliot” Allison said.

“You know, when one of the customers grabbed your ass and he was watching, I later found out that the customer was found unconscious in the toilet. He looked like someone who was thrown under a bus” She looked at Clara's reaction.

Ever since Eliot presence came into Clara's life, she started having more human feelings. Clara was like a Ice princess who could freeze anything and anyone.

She was smart, sharp, brilliant and ruthless always finishing her case with ease but ever since they moved to Paris, she became transparent and warm.

“Why would I care about him, he's none of my concern” Clara shrugged her shoulders.

The truth was she had been expecting him to walk through the door, she tried looking for him at his favourite spot but he was absent.

“I wonder where he is” she mumbled to herself.

“Well, if you say so” Allison decided to let her go as she took her tray to serve other customers.

“He is none of my business, I don't care” she told herself and went to work.

Few hours later, they were done with their shift and there wasn't still any sign of Eliot.

“You guys can go with Mark, I want to get something in the mall” Clara told them when they came out of the club.

“We can drop you” Mark offered.

“Don't bother, I actually need to clear my head, I'll be back soon” She rejected his offer.

“Alright, be safe” Allison told her and dragged Stephen who was feeling tired to the car.

“Mark” she called out.

“Be safe” He said to Clara as he drove off.

“Pfft” she blew out a breath and covered herself with her jacket, the air was getting chilly.

“I wonder what is wrong with me” She soliloquize while walking down the road.

The time showed past midnight, few cars were plying the road and no trace of any human being in the streets but Clara wasn't scared, why would she be when she was a police officer trained in boxing, Karate and judo.

Clara kept on thinking about Eliot as she walked, there was something about him that drawed her to him. He looked handsome and also dangerous.

As she walked to a dark alleyway, she saw four figures fighting. Being a police officer, she could not just walk away and ignore them.

“Hello, what's wrong” She shouted catching their attention, as an undercover cop in another country, she couldn't reveal her identity.

“Can I ask what going on?” She asked while moving back when she saw three guys advancing towards her with knives, the last person was breathing heavily as he rested on the wall.

“We aren't done playing” The fourth person voice sounded familiar.

“You both take him, I'll deal with the lady, she will be out trophy” One of the men ordered.

“Trophy, you are mistaken” she shifted back a little when the man attacked her with a knife.

She kept on dodging the attacks making the man get angry.

“Is that all you got? Then it's my turn” Clara stopped defending herself and instead attacked the man, with three punches and a kick to his jaw, the man was unconscious.

She looked at the guy fighting with two men, his moves were precise and deadly, he fought to kill. Within two minutes, three men were unconscious on the floor.

“Well well well” The voice said walking to her.

“What are you doing here?” He asked as he walked to where a single lamp was on and and saw it was no other than the person who had invaded her thoughts.

“Eliot” She whispered his name.

“In flesh darling but what are you doing alone here?” He asked also feeling surprised.

“What just happened?” She asked him back.

“You weren't at the club today” she looked at his handsome face under the street light.

“Did you miss me” he walked closer to her.

“No, I can see you are fine, I'll take my leave” She turned to leave but he quickly held her hand.

“Don't go” he found himself saying.

Clara's heart beat fast against her chest when he held her hands but she also felt something sticky.

“My God, you are bleeding” she looked at the blood on her hand.

“Come, let's get you to a pharmacy. I'm sure one would still be opened” She dragged him to a pharmacy and Eliot followed obediently.

Luckily for them, a pharmacy was open and she dragged him in.

“What do you want?” A young lady asked them.

“He's bleeding, can you help me stitch him up?” She asked.

“No problem, please sit and let me see the bleeding part” she told them.

Eliot obediently took off his clothes, Clara eyes trailed down his abs which looked firm, a lot of scars were littered on his skin.

“I'll clean and stitch this up” The attendant broke her thoughts.

“Ohkay” she nodded, the cut was deep on his shoulder and he was bleeding a lot, Clara felt a pang of pain in her heart.

“Does it hurt?” She asked him.

“A little” He lied when he saw her worried face, his heart felt warm because he knew she was worried about him.

He had to pretend he was in pain when the pharmacy attendant was stitching him up but deep down he didn't feel any pain, he has had more worse injury than just a small cut to hurt him.

“I'm done, be careful when moving around so the wound won't open” The lady said as she also prescribed some drugs.

“Thank you” Clara thanked the lady.

“Who were those men?” She asked him.

“Come, I'll escort you back to your hotel” He said to her as he started walking.

“Tell me who were those men and why did they hurt you” She chased after him due to how fast he was walking.

“You don't need to know and stop walking around in the night, it's dangerous” He told her.

“Those guys were just thieves, they wanted me to give them money which I refused” He lied again.

“You sure, because petty thieves won't fight so well” Clara said when she thought about how well they fought.

“You are new in Paris, you don't know how deadly all these thieves are, be careful” He replied leaving no room for discussion.

They all walked in silence, Clara kept glancing at him, he was tall and built, his steps showed power and elegance.

“Would you stop staring at me” He looked at her.

“I'm sorry” She felt her face turning red.

“We are at your hotel, good night” He told her when the got to the front of the hotel.

“Thanks and here's your medicine, make sure to use it” She stretch

ed out the paper bag.

“Ohkay, one more thing stay away from me Clara, I'm dangerous” He warned her and walked away leaving her dumbfounded.