A Force Love Contract With GANG LEADER

5 am. Caroline had just finished her shift at work.

She got the commissions from the wine she had sold these few days. They totaled enough for her to travel back. Caroline was weighing going directly to Miami or back to her hometown for a while.

The winter nights were long. At this hour, except for the downtown area where ads and neon lights were on 24/7, the city was in darkness and silence.

Caroline stayed with her friend in an old section of the city. Her taxi stopped at the entrance of a narrow alley. When Caroline had walked halfway up the alley, the sensitive instinct trained by a long-term life of hiding made her detect danger.

Caroline turned abruptly, but there was nobody behind her.

She walked a few more steps and turned back sharply again. She almost cried out, there was a man a few meters behind her.

He walked silently like a ghost.

The face that she could not forget till she died made her pupils shrink and turn back and run. But after she ran just a short distance, she was forced to stop because there was another person in front of her.

The man laughed in a low voice and said, “Bitch! You wasted a lot of our time looking for you.”

Caroline’s first thought was that Kate sold her out, but she ruled this out immediately.

With two people advancing to her from both sides, her heart was beating wildly, and her hands were trembling. She reached her hand to her satchel.

As the two men got close and were about to grab her, Caroline took out her hand from the satchel and pressed her pepper spray at their eyes one by one, and sprayed around. “Go to hell!” She kicked one in the shin and ran for it.

They cursed behind her. After Caroline ran for a few meters, she heard a sound, and something went through her shoulder. The pain almost blinded her, but she had the desire for life more than anything else, so her legs kept running like clockwork.

When she saw a gap between two buildings, Caroline tried to squeeze herself through. As she tried to shrink herself to the minimum and was stuck in there, a hand from the other side grabbed her and pulled her through it.

She was about to cry out, but she heard the voice said, “Don’t be afraid. We are the police.”

When Tristan finally got back to the villa, it was already 2 pm.

After sending Jessie off, answering a few phone calls, and handling some urgent business issues, he just got free to get back. It had only been a few days since he left, but walking into the house gave him a feeling of ease after a long journey.

He was not the only one who had that feeling. Fat cat Lucy ran out of nowhere and sprinted to him at top speed and then ran around his leg, licking and smelling him.

Tristan looked around and didn’t see her. Finally, he saw Kate in the kitchen, wearing an apron and cutting asparagus.

When he walked in the door, she heard the footsteps, and her hand paused almost undetectably, but she didn’t turn back.

“Where is Laura?”

“She asked for some leave,” Kate replied sullenly.

“She doesn’t want the job?”

Kate turned back, “Everybody has some emergency situation.”

Tristan showed disapproval. “Prepare my portion. I haven’t had lunch.”

Kate was quite efficient in cooking.

Tristan took a hot bath and changed into clean clothes. When he came downstairs, the dinner was ready. Kate was placing the dishes. Three courses: steak, vegetables, and soup, both yummy and nutritious.

She got a bowl of soup for him, and he got the meat and vegetables to his plate. They did this in silence without exchanging a word, not even looking at one another.

When they sat down, Tristan found Kate’s eyes were red. “What’s the matter with your eyes?”

“The pepper was too strong.”

He looked at the steak and vegetables. The steak had black pepper sauce, and the vegetables had both red and green peppers in them.

They both focused on the food, and no words were exchanged between them.

After Kate finished the food on her plate and she began to eat the soup, she said plainly, “Jessie came this morning, and we spoke about you.”

Tristan stopped the motion of his hand and looked at Kate. He waited for her to continue.

Luckily he did, or he would be choked at the words she said.

“You’d better marry her.”Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

After these words, Kate pulled the ring off of her finger. The ring fit her finger very well, and it took her quite a lot of strength to get it off. She pushed it to Tristan on the table.

Tristan stared at the ring and frowned, “She asked you to do this?”

“No.” Jessie had just analyzed the situation and asked Kate to try and persuade Tristan to see the big picture.

“She can help you.”

Tristan snorted, “You are being selfless or…” he added some mood in words, “you wish for it?”

Kate replied calmly, “I just hope nothing bad would happen to you.”

The development of things was out of her expectation. After sitting alone and meditating for hours this afternoon, Kate thought that this was the only thing she could do.

Tristan thought about it for a moment and said without showing any mood, “Okay. I will think about it.” And he took up the ring.

Kate’s eyes lingered on the ring and turned dark.

She saw him put the ring into his pocket and walked away from the dining table. There was still some food remaining on his plate.