Chapter 1:Please Don't be dead

Ela carelessly her car through the thick mist with tears clouding her eyes. Her cell phone rang continously from her backpack in the backseat. “Oh shut up! Shut up!” she yelled through her tears, her mascara melt all around her eyes giving her a howling zombie. Getting annoyed she turned back holding the steering wheel with one hand to grab her from the back seat with the other.

Taking a deep breath she received the call but kept quiet. The moment the call went through the person on the other side sighed and then with a panicked voice he yelled “where the hell are you Ela…turn on your location now!”

“I don’t want to…just leave me alone Garret... I just need some time off ok? I’ll be fine” before the other person could respond Ela hung up and threw the phone on the front seat. The cell phone bounced off the window beside her and landed near her feet.

Ela groaned and ignored at first abut she was worried the phone near her feet would slip below the brakes and cause an accident.

 She bit her lips cussing under her breath and

proceeded to crouch down to retrieve her phone. Keeping her right hand on the steering wheel she managed to grab her phone and briefly checked for any visible damage.

She had just taken her eyes off her phone to look towards the empty road ahead she bumped into something beside her door that seemed to have rolled down and landed on the side of the road with a painful groan.

Ela screeched her car into a halt with a squeal shaking miserable she mumbled to herself “what was that? Oh my god what did I do...” With shaky hands she unlocked her door and climbed out slowly. Her bones felt like jelly she was close to fainting.

She inspected the damaged to her car, except for a broken rearview mirror and a small dent on her door the damage was not that serious .

This gave a little assurance as Ela hope that whatever she hit was not that badly injured. “Please don’t be dead...please don’t be dead” prayed Ela looking  up at the crescent moon and dragged her feet towards the side of the road even though every part of her cell was screaming at her to run.

Her vision was too clear to cause confusion as the thing that lay on the grass face down was a tall man. Trying hard to swallow the lump on her throat she moved close to the man who appeared to have been bleeding a little bit from his forehead.

Ela’s feet gave away as she slumped on the ground breathing rapidly, “Thank goodness he is alive!” she breathed out. Ela could hear the man’s slow beating heart through her own frantic heartbeats.

She sat like there on the grass patiently hearing the man’s slow yet strong heartbeat until she was calm enough. The sky rumbled and within moments the cruel rain drenched the entire surrounding. Ela ran towards her car and fumbled around for her phone. The excited person on the other line immediately received the call on the first ring but before he could speak Ela's cold voice alarmed him “Ron I need help”

Without wasting another word Ron asked “Where are you?”

“I’ll tell you but please don’t tell anyone, not even Garret” begged Ela before giving her location.

“Calm down… I’ll be there in a moment, park your car away from the road and stay inside…” he hung up after hearing a reassuring answer from Ela.

Ela stood there for a while looking at the man bleeding on the side of the road getting drenched in the cold rain then turned away and climbed into her car. In less than thirty minutes Ron came running to the spot.  Huffing and puffing he rushed towards Ela's car and gave a low growl when he found car empty.

“Shit! Where are you?” cussed Ron trying to sniff the air one more time but the rain was masking her scent too well, all he could smell was the forest. He took a deep breath to calm his raging heart and concentrated again, finally a strong metallic smell assaulted his nostrils.

He immediately followed the trail in a flash and located a shivering terror stricken Ela somewhat guarding the man with an umbrella. Turning her head towards Ron, Ela spoke weakly “He is alive…I don’t want him dead…Please Ron help me, don’t let him die”.

“.....It’s ok Ela he’s going to live… I promise” saying so Ron took off his jacket and put it on Ela. Ela kept staring at his face looking for another strong assurance but Ron avoided her eyes instead.

“Go sit in the car baby…” he pleaded brushing the wet hair away from her face and carried her into the car. He then returned to the man and scooped his tall frame over his shoulder and carried him to the car as well.

The man had bled quite a lot and was frozen cold which scared Ron to his core “don’t die Champ keep the heart beating… can’t have Ela traumatized for life” pleaded Ron to the unconscious man smeared in blood and mud.

By the time Ron walked back to the car Ela was fast asleep on the front seat. He secured the seatbelt around her and drove forward.

It took him one hour to reach the lake house. Throughout the entire ride he kept concentrating on the two heart beats apart from his own. He immediately got off the car and checked the man in his back seat whose body temperature seemed to have dropped even further.

“Shit!” Ron muttered closing the door he walked around the car and carefully picked up the sleeping Ela and got inside the house.

While he was gone within few minutes another car came by and parked near Ela’s car. The rain had stopped but the temperature was snowy cold. A broad shoulder tall framed grumpy guy stepped out of his car calmly. His hear was no where closer to calm, there was a raging storm instead. In an effort to control his wild outburst on tge way here he had grabbed his steering wheel so hard that his ten fingers got imprinted on it.

The white shirt that he wore was sticking to his abs like a second skin, magnificently showing off his taunt muscular frame.  Clenching his jaw he walked towards Ela’s car breathing heavily and peeked into the back seat. He could feel his patience vanish as he ripped the front door off the hinge.

“How irresponsible…you dare...” viciously growled the man hearing Ron walk towards him.

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