Oh, Chloe, you're a magnet for trouble and for some reason you're too proud to ask for help. I hope she gets more cautious because the paragraph where she just walks into a car was chilling.Originally posted by zelda@Jan 24 2005, 10:56 AM
Chloe was at work at the magazine where she was a columnist when her desk phone rang. She answered it and followed the instructions she was given. She left her purse, her coat, her keys, and walked out of the building without a word to anyone. A limo waited by the curb and she got in without question. She knew she was being tested. Boris wanted to know that she would drop everything for him and she did.
"So Marcus doesn't sleep with you?"
"Marcus is too into the twins to be interested in anything but making me miserable." She looked at the drapes and felt a tiny tear slip out of the corner of her eye.
"You're lying." A gloved hand caught the tear and fingers closed on her chin. "Has he touched you?"
"Why do you care?" She started to move away from him and this time, when he tried to stop her she opened her mouth to shout. The man was too fast, however and she found herself pinned to the mattress with his hand covering her mouth again.
"If you try to scream again, I'll hurt you." He fastened his hand around her throat. "Answer the question."
And I know you were probably referring to the Lex and brunette smut, but damned if Bruce Wayne breaking into a gal's bedroom doesn't seem pretty hot, too. He reminds me very much of Lex when faced with a Chloe in trouble.
Great opening chapters. I'm intrigued by everything, especially the idea of a grown-up Chloe risking herself to save a teenager in a situation that has parallels to her own past with Lex. How many years after graduation from Smallville High is this set?
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