Decisions, decisions

The meeting

My life is simple, plain and boring. It's always been. I have a mother and a father like anyone else and a twin brother most people would say that is the most interesting part about me and I would agree with them until I had to make the biggest decision of my life... that I definitely wasn't ready to make.

I'm 25 years old and I work at my parents company, being a journalist which could be interesting if I could actually write. The problem is that they need someone to take over the company but since my perfect brother has his own career the burden landed on me.

I don't have a very good relationship with my parents since I've always been compared to my perfect brother which has caused a strain in our relationship. I wish I could be closer to my brother but he is also a total ass and bragging about how perfect his life is going. If it were up to me I would be loving my life to the fullest and going out on adventures but I don't want to be an even more of a disappointment to my family.

The one thing that I do have that my brother hasn't is love.... well I thought it was love but it turns out I had no idea what love even was. At the time I was with my husband Jake who I met at university, he was my rock and my everything... until he got sick....

Present day
Jordan's P.O.V

"I need to get out of here" I groaned under my breath after a long day at my dreaded job.

Message
"Hey babe, what do you want to eat tonight"
"A pizza sounds great?"
"I was thinking something a bit more healthy, since we've been eating bad recently."
"Please, I'm not feeling that great and it'll really lift my mood."
"Whatever you want baby."

I hate pizza and he knows this but he's sick and I just want to give him the world while I can and while he's still here. I packed up my things and got into my car. I took a deep breath and just thought about my life and how I'm stuck into it. Don't get me wrong I do live the people in my life and it isn't the worse I just feel like somethings missing, like mystery and adventure but I should be happy with what I have.

I got the pizza and as I got back into the car I felt something go over my nose and then everything went black...

Zack's P.O.V

My life couldn't be any better, I'm a leader of the most feared gang and I have a lot to show for it, a nice house, a nice car and my family is all taken care of. Now don't misjudge me or my gang. We don't do the usual things like murder but we do sell drugs but you've got to make business somehow and it's nothing illegal or harmful, infact we charge double so not many people can get the drugs but when someone doesn't pay us, we have to get our money somehow...

We'd usually threaten them until they give us what they owe us, but when that's ignored we have to take it to the next level and take something valuable of theirs, maybe a loved one or an item that could pay the debt. We never hurt the innocent people but we do scare them a little just to make sure that we do get out money that is owed.

Little did I know that the next innocent person that I met would turn my life upside down.

Present day

"Boss she's in the room ready." I turned around in my chair and nodded to my right hand companion someone who I would trust with my life and someone who has saved my life before.

I stood up and walked to the door, "who's this person for again and how much?"
"Do you remember that Jake guy? He owes us 50,000 and we've got his wife in that room."
"Whoever married him... must have something wrong with them."
"Well she seems to not know anything and from what I heard she did put up a big fight."

I nodded and entered the room. That's when I saw her, beauty, she was beautiful, the way her blonde curly hair was down to her stomach and her gorgeous green eyes that could hypnotise you if you stare at them for to long.  The way her nose, her cheeks, he hair and her eyes all went together made her seem like an Angel like any mans dream.

How did a girl like this end up with a guy like Jake. What attracted her to him, as far as I know Jake was some crackhead who stayed at home all day and play video games. As I looked at those green eyes I also saw a hint of fear that brought me back to reality and out of my thoughts.

I looked at her as a whole and then my wages wondered down her body to her perfectly rounded breasts which were easily a DD, her flat stomach but not too flat that you could see any bones and then those long legs that you would expect a model to have, it wouldn't surprise me if she was a model, she is very beautiful and I'm the one that made her feel this fear....

Being in my thought for too long she broke the silence with her soft voice "what they he'll doing you want from me? And why am I here?" I couldn't show weakness because then no one would be afraid of me and they could over rule me but on the other hand I don't want to make her feel any fear. I took a deep breath and tried to be as nice as possible without trying to make anything seem strange.

"Your little husband Jake owes me money." I said with a stern tone. "What the hell for?"
"Well you see princess your husband has been doing drugs and a lot of them, none of which he's paid me back for."
"What? No no no, you're making that up, there's no way he would do that, he's sick."

Now I see why a girl like this would stay with him, they were obviously once in love and then he got "sick".

"Sick? He has a drug problem if that's what you mean?"
"No.. h-he has cancer he told me he has cancer, why would someone lie about that? And why should I believe you over someone who's sworn to Never lie to me?"
"I don't know why you should but what reason do I have to lie?"
"What reason do you have to be telling the truth?"

There was something different about this girl, she wasn't scared and she didn't seem to have feared me like all the others. But instead she seemed to challenge me something which I liked, something which has never been done before, something that I would never accept but this time I seemed to like it... weirdly enough.

"That's true but first I think you should ask your husband why he's faking his illness and why he's in 50,000 pounds debt." I could see that she was scared especially because she had no comeback. She looked down to the ground with once again fear and tears in her eyes. Then I felt something really weird, like a twinge in my heart that I had hurt her which had them hurt me. I've been with a lot of girls for sexual reasons but none of them has never made me feel anything emotional, except for this once who I have known for 5 minuets and I don't even know her name.

"I think you should let me go."
"No no, that's not how things work around here."
"And how do they work? Are you going to lock me up? Make me be some sort of sex slave?"
"No, we may be a gang but we're not monsters instead you can work to pay off your husbands debt."

I've never offered someone the easy way out before which is why I didn't know how this was going to work. But if she does work here I could get to know more about her and find out what reason she's with a loser when she probably could have anyone she wanted.

"Please...." her voice broke and she had tears rolling down her cheeks, I wanted to wipe them and comfort her but I couldn't show weakness.
"I'll make you a deal princess, speak with your husband and find the trusty, when you find that out I'm sure you'll need a place to stay, I'll give you my number and maybe you can fit right in."

"Why would you do that?"
"There's something in you that could be useful."
"There's nothing useful about me, so you would just be wasting your time."

Now I see why she's with him, she doesn't think she's good enough, why is her self esteem that low, maybe she's not looked in a mirror or maybe she's never been told how great she is.  I went behind her and untied her from the chair.

She stood up and looked at me. I couldn't work out why she was looking at me but I looked at her soft red lips, Jake is sure one lucky man to be kissing those. I could feel her soft breath against my neck sending shivers up my spine, she looked up at me with those eyes.

"And your number is?" Shit, I forgot about that. I gave her my business card and in a heartbeat she left, maybe that would be the last time I ever saw beauty like that, or maybe that was the first, and maybe it was the first of something wonderful or something wicked, only time will tell.