#adauntlessangel

Moving back inside of the cabin, Maksim ran a hand through his hair. “Roads into town are closed.” They’d waited too late to leave, and now it was too dangerous, even if they’d both grown up in worse conditions. At least, he thought, the power was still on, for now. “I guess we’ll have to wait it out,” Maks spoke, moving to plug his cell phone in.

This was the fourth date they’d be on, and Whitney was hoping that it would end in sex – he liked to think he could be a gentleman, but he wasn’t usually one to wait too long. Circumstances could extend that, like he knew this woman had a young infant, so he imagined between work, being a mother, and dating, she was exhausted. But he still hoped. He had knocked on her door, finding it almost amusing that the situation was a little frantic – her son had been sick, the babysitter was late, and the woman hadn’t even been in the shower yet. But he said he didn’t mind waiting at all. Except while she was in the shower, the baby started crying again. He knocked on the bathroom door, a little awkward about it, but had offered to try and settle him.

He had walked around the living room, bouncing the baby he had wrapped like a burrito – he knew feeling warm and snuggled like the womb helped. Or so he had been told. He sung a lullaby he had heard a while back, surprising himself that he remembered all the lyrics. It was called Sleepytime by Anne Murray. He wasn’t sure what did it, but the boy eventually fell back asleep. Whitney sat down, exhausted after coming off a twenty-four hour shift, and though he closed his eyes, he kept humming the song and lightly bouncing the sleeping boy, unaware that the woman he was supposed to be on a date with, had come out.

His cigarette was extinguished, the smoke clouding his face for a moment, “You’ve proven yourself very dedicated to the family and I appreciate that.. Truth be told I gave you the jobs no one else wanted to do, and I’m very proud of you for that.” He continued, finally getting out of his chair to brush a hand across her cheek.

The woman was beautiful, and honestly...he had been tempted quite a few times. “But now I have an important job for you my dear.” The older man said, motioning towards where a cage holding a naked woman was suddenly visible. “This dear woman was caught smuggling into our warehouse, she’s a threat to the family...and I want you to kill her.”

Elizabeth Gillies and Henry Cavill