Part 9~ Escalation
Hannah
I looked at the time and it was 1 am and I have been awake for hours. Shawn is sleeping peacefully behind me, his hot breath hitting my neck every time he is breathing out through his nose. I took away his arm from my waist and got up from the bed and headed down to the kitchen.
I thought that I need to distract myself with something so I then can go to sleep after. I opened the refrigerator and looked for something to eat when I all of sudden heard footsteps coming closer to the kitchen. My heart stopped and I turned around but couldn't see anything in the dark. The light all of sudden turned on and Roger stood there. I gave him a confusing look "Didn't you get home?" I asked, still shocked that Roger was standing in front of me. He just shook his head and walked towards me. "Sorry If I woke you up but I just can't sleep" "It's okay. I was up anyway. I heard something in the kitchen so I went up to see who or what it was," he said with a grin on his lips.
"You can sit down, I can fix something for you? What do you want?" "Maybe a cup of tea," I said and took a seat at one of the barstools that stood at the kitchen island.
"Then the refrigerator is a wrong place if you're looking for tea," he said which caused me to giggle. "Yeah, I know"
"Roger?" I asked and looked up at him. "Yes?" he turned around and leaned against the kitchen counter and poured some hot water in the teacup and gave it to me "I was on this event with Shawn today. And then a girl came up to me and said that Shawn is using me as his little toy. I know that this is a weird question but, when he is on these auctions and buy girls, does he treat them as his toy or?" "Is it the reason why you can't sleep?" I nodded my head and did circular motions with the spoon in the tea.
"Okay, I'm gonna be honest with you" he rested his folded arms on the kitchen island and intertwined his fingers. "I have known Shawn for like five years and he has been on the auctions for like 5 times. And I have seen what he does to them, he tries to seduce them and when the week is over he sends them home. But now when he has you here under the same roof I see something different. I haven't seen him smile as much as he does when he is with you. He treats you differently. And I really mean it"
"By now, the girl he bought should be around his neck and do everything to him. But you don't, and that's because he respects your decisions. The girl you talked to had right, he treated the other girls as his little toy, but you are different. He treats you as you are his wife" I smiled at the thought that Shawn treats me differently, that he respects my decisions.
When I had drunk up my tea I thanked Roger for the talk and that he kept me company.
I carefully crawled back into the bed and Shawn wrapped his arm around me "Where were you?" he whispered in my ear "I drank some tea. I couldn't sleep" "Oh, okay. I thought that something happened to you" he placed a gentle kiss on my shoulder and I slowly drifted away to sleep.
Shawn
I watched Hannah sleep peacefully. The sun hit her face and she had a little smile on her pink lips. Her hair was a little bit messy but she still looked so beautiful. I could do anything to lay beside her and wrap my arms around her, but I can't. I need to be at a meeting in one hour.
I pushed myself up from the armchair and walked up to her. I stroke away from the hair that had to fallen onto her face and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead. She slowly opened up her eyes and smiled when her eyes met mine. "Hi," she said with her morning voice.
"I'm sorry Hannah. I really need to go now. But I have booked a table at a restaurant later tonight so put on something nice. I prefer the black maxi dress" "Where are you going?" "To a meeting" "Oh, okay" she sat up in bed and rubbed her eyes "What am I going to do without you?" I shrugged my shoulders "I don't know. But I promise you. You can have me all evening" I smirked and kissed her cheek before I leave the room.
-Later that day-
I stood outside the restaurant and waited for Hannah to arrive. I told Roger to drive her, so she should be here at any minute.
The black limo parked in front of me and Roger walked out and opened the door for Hannah. She looked stunning, she wears the dress I was suggesting.
She thanked Roger and then looked up at me and smiled. "Hey," she said a little bit nervous and placed her hair behind her ear. "Hi, you wear the dress I was suggesting" She giggled and looked down on herself "Good, I was doubtful if it was this dress or the other one" her cheeks got a pink shade and she bit her lip. "Shall we go inside?" she nodded her head as an answer and I slipped my arm around her waist and we walked inside.
The restaurant is divided into two parts, so we need to walk through the bar, club ish section so we can come to the restaurant part. I all of sudden a flashlight hit the side of my face and I heard a sound from a camera.
I looked to the side and saw a guy sitting down at a table and trying to hide his phone under the table and took pictures of me and Hannah. I stopped walking and turned around to him.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing? Give me that phone!" I said harshly and offered my hand so he could give me his phone. But he ignored me. I strode furiously up to the man's table and slammed down my fist making the glass on the table rattle. "Give me the god damn phone!"
"Shawn, let's just leave. Come on" Hannah said carefully and placed her hand on my arm. But I ignored her, fully focused on the man that took pictures of us. "Who are you? Are you one of those paparazzi's that work for a stupid magazine that writes some bullshit about every celebrity? Delete that picture of us. NOW" The man looks startled but aggressive. He pushed back his chair with a loud scrape and stands up. "No way. The phone is my property. And so is the photos I took"
"Okay, you value it more then money? I can give you 10 thousand dollars for it. It's much more then you'd get from the ass-rag magazine you probably work for" "Sorry. But I'm not interested" "20 thousand," I said firm and furrowed my eyebrows. "Sorry but it's not for sale" he shrugged his shoulders. "Please guys, let's be adults here and talk this out," Hannah said and stepped in.
But once again I ignored her. I can feel that my eyes darkened and I walk right up to the man in an act of intimidation. "I have other ways of getting what I want" At that moment, the man strikes out, punching me hard in the stomach and I keel over.
The security guards in black suits are running over to us, but before they can stop an escalation the man swings to land a knockout blow to me. But I rush him and throws him down. The force of the impact knocks the man out.
His phone laying on the floor and one of the security crushes it under his heel. The security is about to scoop up the man and drag him outside but I stop them. "Hold on, I need to find out who he is" I walk up to the man that is hanging between the two security guards. I start to look through the unconscious man's pockets, flickering through every notes I could find.
"What are you looking for?" Hannah asked behind me. "Someone must have tipped this man off on this place. He must be trying to do a piece on it and the clientele. Wait. What's this?" I stop searching and took out a piece of paper and I stare at it murderously. "That little piece of shit" I mumbled, mostly for myself.
"How did he manage that?" "What is it? What are you talking about?" Hannah asked choked and walked up to me, looking down at the paper in my hands. "Egon. This is his letterhead, that dumb motherfucker"
"What? How is that even possible?" "You underestimate his influence and his connections," I say, still looking down on the paper in my hands. "So what's in the letter?"
"It's vouching for our little visitor, enabling him access inside this restaurant. Egon maybe even paid to get him inside. It seems he knows about this place, that I usually come here and sent this man here for-" I raised one eyebrow and looked up from the paper and looked at Hannah "I don't know. For leverage" "But how did he know that we were going to this restaurant tonight?"
"It would have been easy enough for him to find out my schedule. And he knows me better than I thought, seeing as he knows I come here. God damn it!"
I turn to storm out of the restaurant, passing Hannah, grabbing her by her wrist and pull her out with me.
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