Dangerous Desire The CEO’s Hidden Woman

Scarlett raised her chin and looked contemptuously at the man who was lying on his stomach. “He can’t do anything to me now. I can handle him myself. Don’t worry.” Scarlett lifted her gun and aimed it at the man, and Jim ran out with Skyler hoisted over his shoulders.

Skyler was afraid for his sister’s safety and kept shouting her name. “You think you can walk out from here?” The man put on a wicked smile. Scarlett stepped forward and kicked him in the face. She stepped on his wrist with one foot. “A remote bomb control? I thought you had some new tricks!”

“Listen, I know David Morris caused you and your family great miseries. But that’s just none of my fucking business. We don’t have any connections with that bastard anymore! What did you do this for? Money?”

The man gazed into Scarlett’s eyes with great resentment, “David Morris ruined my whole life! I need him to pay the price!”

Scarlett sneered, “You think you can hurt him by killing Skyler and me? Stupid! He has a new wife. He has a son and a daughter. He has a wonderful new life, and he never really cared about us anyway.” Scarlett shouted at him.

“You think I’ll believe you just like that? You know what, I have nothing to lose. Life or death, I don’t care. But it’s good to have you die with me.” The man laughed loudly.

There was some sudden sound outside. Francis and his people must have arrived. The man laughed even more loudly. “The more people you call, the more people accompany me to die!”

Scarlett lowered her body to look into his eyes. “Do you know Skyler is getting his Ph. D. degree in Experimental Physics?”

“What the fuck are you talking about?” The man growled.

Scarlett pretended to sigh, “Don’t tell me you’re still waiting for the bomb to explode! You know yourself, the time had already passed.”

“Fuck you! You devil from hell! Fuck Morris! You will all die in your fucking boots!”

Scarlett gave Skyler a look. There was always a tacit understanding between them, so Skyler knew from that eye contact that Scarlett must have had a reason for sending him out first.

Scarlett and Jim had already known where the bombs were hidden, so Jim had taken Skyler directly to where they were, and Skyler had diffused the bombs successfully.

Bang!

Someone shot open the door of the warehouse, and a group of people flocked in.

Bang! A shot right into the head of the man crawling on the ground. Seeing the man die in front of her, Scarlett knew the game was finally over, and somebody would help her out with the rest of it, so she went limp, fell to the ground, and passed out.

***

It was already dusk when Scarlett finally woke up. When she opened her eyes, she found, to her surprise, Skyler lying in a bed just to her right, next to a tall lamp. She was glad Skyler was near her; it allowed her to let go of her worries just a little bit.

The gentle, scarlet light of the sunset shone in from the window of the hospital room. As daytime quickly ran out, Scarlett tilted her head to appreciate the remnants of the sunshine.

“Scarlett…” Not long after Scarlett had woken up, Skyler had broken his deep slumber as well.

“Hey, Scarlett…”

Scarlett thought that Skyler was about to say something really heavy and serious to her.

“Were you so frightened that you just… fainted?” He grinned at her– he had a cheeky expression on his face.

Scarlett did not expect that the first thing Skyler would do, following his terrible abduction, was to tease her. He was just trying to lighten the mood– after everything that had happened, both Scarlett and Skyler could have used a serious dose of humor and levity.

She lowered her head a bit and said with a tone of embarrassment. “I just ran out of strength, okay! Is this how you thank me for rescuing you? By teasing me?”

Skyler smiled. Even though he was badly injured from the crazy man’s assault and there were wounds on his face, arms, legs, and across his back, he felt happy and comforted to see Scarlett was safely beside him.

“Scarlett…” Skyler paused for a while, hesitating to say those words. “You shouldn’t have risked your life to do that for me. Even if you had not come to my rescue, I would have found a way to save myself. I would have had to, and I know I could have managed to protect myself too.”

“Listen, I’ve told you so many times before. I just can’t rest easy until he dies in front of me! By the way, is he dead? Is he finally dead?”

Skyler nodded. His face turned even more pale than it had been before. The bloody scene from the day was still vivid in his mind. Although he had been through many ups and downs ever since he had been a child, he had never seen a dead person with his own eyes– except, of course, his mother.

“Francis shot him in the head…and he died right on the spot.” At that moment, Skyler had just gotten back from the place where the bomb was placed and had walked into the warehouse. He could see the entire scene clearly: brains splattered across the wall and blood spilled on the floor.

“What? What did you say? Francis Sandler?” Scarlett instantly sat up straight. The rapid movement made her feel dizzy and nauseous at once.

“Yes, it was me– I killed him. What’s the matter?”

Scarlett looked up. A man in a gray windbreaker had just pushed open the door and entered the tiny hospital room. Skyler’s words played through Scarlett’s mind in an endless loop.

Even though Scarlett was tired beyond belief, she wanted answers from Francis immediately. “Why did you shoot? You were not supposed to get involved in all this.” Scarlett stared at Francis, who was now walking toward her.