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A
man stood in the middle of the kitchen who most definitely had to be a burglar.
He wore a hoodie and stubble covered half his face. He looked like he hadn’t
bathed in a while. He wasn’t a ghost but he was scary.
“Stop
right there, buddy,” I said.
I
tried to sound tough but my heart pounded like a wild thing. He had a look of
desperate danger in his eyes and looked like he hadn’t been outside much. Maybe
because he’d been in prison.
He
really did seem like he might have killed a man once. Maybe more than once.
Bits of broken crockery splayed around his feet – those plates I’d spent all
day cleaning.
I
lunged at him, even shocking myself with my bravery. I was the head bitch of
this house and no low life was stepping on my turf. I’d spent the day cleaning
that kitchen and he was NOT going to trash it. The rush of adrenalin overruled
my brain. He obviously wasn’t a guy to be messed with but he was near my phone.
I had some pretty damn personal stuff on that phone. No way was he stealing it.
As
I got close to him, he grabbed my hand and twisted the pencil out of it, then
he backed me up against the bench, pressing his body against mine. He had me
pinned tight.
I
struggled but couldn’t get loose. He hadn’t looked that strong but he had some
power in his grip. His body felt like steel against mine, harsh and unyielding.
And he towered over me.
I’d
die there in that kitchen and no one would even find out until I was just bare
bones.
I
didn’t know what was going on with his hands. My skin buzzed in a most
disturbing way where he touched me. Was it a chemical thing?
I
swung my foot and I kicked him really hard in the ankle. He didn’t loosen his
grip. He didn’t even react. I was screwed.
Maybe
it was really inappropriate in the circumstances but I noticed that despite his
ragged, unwashed appearance, he smelt really good. The smell of him tantalised
my nose and stirred some of those nerve endings that never, ever stirred in my
body. It just wouldn’t do. It might’ve been an age since I’d been that close to
a man but I sure as hell wasn’t desperate enough to get turned on by a manky
house robber.
“You’ll
want to bugger off, buddy. My husband is in the other room and you won’t want
to mess with him.” I figured, if he thought there was another man in the house,
it might scare him off. Not likely but it was worth a shot. He might not know
that I was alone in this house in the middle of nowhere with no one but a
feeble old man.
The
man chuckled and let go of my arms. For a moment, his face softened and his
eyes wrinkled into a smile – just for a split second – until he put the tough
guy face back on.
That
smile disarmed me, like the zap of an electric fence that makes the fillings in
your mouth zing and your body hairs stand on end. He really was one of your
better-looking robbers. He had a chiselled face and well-defined jawline. Not
to mention, strong eyebrows. He leaned against the bench like he owned the
place. I guess robbers could be disarmingly good-looking with a huge measure of
arrogance thrown in.
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