Love and Sin (2022)

Chapter 3

Nikita entered the classroom first. In the poorly lit classroom, there were the three guys sitting around the teacher's desk like royalty. He felt his heart drop to his knees. His palms started sweating and his shirt seemed too tight around the neck. He tried to calm down and breathe but their intimidating silhouettes didn't help.

Tai walked in after him, slightly scared - slightly curious. Her eyes fell upon the three guys. They were truly a menacing sight, but it caused slight respect at the same time.

One had his facial features lit from his laptop's screen. He flicked open the zippo and lit up a cigarette. His thick brown hair was up in a messy bun and some loose strands were tucked behind his pierced ears. He had a muscular frame but not overwhelming and despite his serious gaze and bigger body, he didn't look nearly as frightening as the second guy.

The one in the middle had bleached white hair with his dark roots slightly showing. His furrowed brows and mean stare were followed by a small septum nose ring and sunglasses that covered his eyes even though it was dark outside. Very Bono of him, she thought. He had a sharp jawline, unlike the first guy. He looked the most frightening of all. Somehow she wondered, how she never noticed him in school before.

The last guy had black hair that fell a bit over his eyes. There was a smirk on his face almost sinister like and his head was leaned over his hands. Despite the low light, she caught a glimpse of the snake tattoo that was done up from somewhere under his sleeve to the top of his hand and finished in between his thumb and index finger. Like that dangerous tattoo wasn't striking enough, there were piercings on his left ear peeking from under the hair. The leather jacket he wore sealed the deal. It was kind of cool-looking if she forgot the fact he was someone very dangerous.

Looking down at her plain clothes she realized that maybe she should have worn something edgier to at least look more confident in front of these guys instead of her typical posh look. She snapped out of thought and realized no one was saying anything.

Aleksei was now officially brain dead. He could hear his heart line go beeeeeeep the moment she walked through the door. The smirk he had prepared for his clients was frozen on his face. This was not the meeting he had carefully planned out and imagined in his mind if he ever dared to go and talk to her.

No -this was a total catastrophe.

His whole body went into panic mode. Nothing could have prepared him for this. He glanced at Zakhar and Lev who were now looking at him. It seemed like they recognized his girl from the picture.

"Excuse me.." The frightened guy broke the silence. "I'm here for um..for the request."

Upon realizing they were all too stunned to say something, Zakhar decided to take the reins on this one dealing with this meeting first. "Tell me the story, why you came to us, what you want us to do, and we'll decide if we're going to take on this request."

Aleksei was having a hard time focusing. He only hoped she didn't have a good look at his face in the dark.

"My tablet was stolen a few days ago. I'm being blackmailed for what's on it. I need to get that tablet back and find out who is blackmailing me." The guy spoke a bit louder, gaining courage in himself.

"And what's the content you want to protect?" Zakhar asked in his demanded tone.

"I don't want to say." The guy glanced down.

"I have to know what the content is to decide if I want to take this job or not," Zakhar replied calmly.

There was a long silence in the room. Did the guy change his mind, Aleksei wondered.