into were mystery maple syrup guy’s pecs. Sometime in her daydream of him, she had begun to think of him as the man on all of the cringy romance b

d up around his waist. His hand would be precariously high on her bare thigh which showed through the long slit

nd slowly make your way to stan

respond until her friend Adriene slapped Leena in the th

y was

eality she was engaged, and she knew she

structor told them to press their hands into prayer and Leena followed along. This part was muscle memory, and s

lth reasons. When Adriene heard Leena talk about how unaffected she felt, Adriene would tell h

asn’t th

uilding. Adriene lived close by while Leena parked in the parking garage in the opposite dir

o the parking garage. It was usually not a creepy walk, but in the right pl

suddenly heard a man screaming for help as sh

ll have it in a couple of day

911. She crouched down between a couple of cars and peered underneath them. Several vehicles down, she s

se. I promise I’ll have it this time. It’s just been a

ent. What was she supposed to do? She didn’t have any self-defense training. She was a tallish woman with

he stayed there, pinned against the car, as she listened to the poor man on the ground get cu

recede, she peeked around the taillights of the car. It seemed to be cle

as definitely broken. A couple of his fingers were bent in the wrong direction. She almost wanted to hurl

. Of course, he wasn’t okay. That was such a stu

e that. It was a tan man with dark hair that was shaved nearly down to the scalp. He was clean-shaven but still looked rugged. His eyes were a st

d to open her eyes, but the whole world had gone topsy turvy, and it was in black and

clapped over her mouth to silence her. Her first thought was to bite the hand, so she tried, and she got a chunk of what felt li

a terribly uncomforta

t took her a moment to blink away the static-like world and come to her senses. She tr

heavy. She discovered that her waist was tied down as well. In a panic, she began to

ce. And it was cold here. She began to yell because that was the only other thing she could think o

shut her mouth. Who the heck were t

bloodied man on the ground, the two men beating him, the man with th

are you?” he

idea what was going on, but it was all wr