Sinful Mates 1-3

　　“She is staying at the storage lockers a block from here.” He dobbed on me. Tobias’ eyes dared me to try and lie my way out of it. I knew better than to try. How did he know though? No one knew, not even the manager as it was a weekend, and I hadn’t even had a chance to tell him about my car needing to be stored there. Feeling flustered, my hands became clammy, and I felt a bead of sweat run down the back of my neck. Did someone turn on a heater? I was suddenly starting to panic, I could feel my heart rate rising, hear the pounding inside my head. I was about to be fired; I was going to lose the last piece of normalcy left in my life. Then what? I didn’t know what I would do. File bankruptcy maybe? Try and get a job at Costco?

　　“I’m sorry, please don’t fire me. I need this job.” My words sounded pathetic and desperate. But I didn’t have a choice. I lose my job, I have nothing. Maybe they should fire me. I just wish they would speak instead of staring at me, they were making my anxiety go through the roof. I know what’s coming, just get it over with already. Rip that band aid off quick.

　　“We aren’t firing you, Imogen. We are just disappointed you didn’t say anything earlier. We could have helped sooner,” Theo said.

　　I dropped my head in my hands, relief flooding into me. I wasn’t going to lose my job. How could they help though? I got myself in this situation, I can get myself out of it. I don’t want help; they just need to let me be. I can handle this.

　　“I promise I won’t trespass again.” They both looked at me like they thought what I said was absurd. I suppose it kind of was, who lives where they work? Not a normal person, but hey I never claimed to be normal.

　　“No, you won’t. I spoke to Tom who said you would refuse any help, so I took it upon myself to not give you a choice,” Tobias told me. I stared, confused.

　　“You won’t be staying at the storage locker. Actually, there is no longer a storage locker. I have told him to not let you back, and I took the liberty to remove all your belongings to your apartment,” Tobias continued.

　　“I don’t have an apartment?” I told him, confused.

you into our apartment building. You will be staying on the floor below us. This

say that to them, now they were dangling my job above my head like a

now they were telling me I had to accept their offer of help for my job. Why the sudden interest in my life? Did Tobias follow me

embarrassing. I have never accepted a handout, and it was killing me

chuckled for some unknown reason. I raised an eyebrow at him. Theo motioned for me to follow and I did. Walking into the foyer, Theo grabbed my handbag that I kept under my desk and helped himself

head to your new apartment.” I rolled my eyes at him but followed him anyway. The elevator trip down to the ground floor was silent, when the doors opened, Theo grabbed my hand and started pulling me towards the exit. I must admit I like the feel of him holding my hand though is hand

the bush, taking my short cut towards the storage facility. Has he been this way before? I couldn’t really picture Theo walking through here,

to do. I went to tell him where the entry was, when he spun around and walked towards the broken bit of fence. He stopped for a second and ran his fingers over a piece of wire that was sticking out. The same

is where you received that cut?” I nodded, but how did he know? I could barely see any blood on it. Shaking my

　Once I entered, I walked over to my car, which was still sitting in the carpark inside. I turned to retrieve my keys, knowing I would have to use my last twenty dollars in my account to put fuel in

around to the passenger side. Theo followed and watched as I frantically tried to clean the passenger footwell. Throwing clothes and empty bottles of liquor over the seat and into the back. When I finished,

shook his head and climbed in. The seat was all the way forward and his knees were nearly pressed to his chest. He pulled the lever to slide the chair back but grabbed the wrong one and he was suddenly thrown backwards with enough force his head hit the head rest and he was