Chapter 1
After a rather hectic day at the Welson restaurant, I was happy to go home to eat and especially to sleep. I missed my bed, with all the fatigue I had accumulated during the week, I was finally going to rest on the weekend. Taking orders, serving customers and cleaning is not easy. Welson's restaurant had regular customers who were particular in their personalities, but there were many orders and tips. So, I don't have much to complain about. I open the door of my building, I see my mailbox filled with advertising, I specify that I don't want any, a little annoyed, I climb the stairs and enter my apartment.
Oh, I remember I had to take out the trash before going to work, but I completely forgot.
I take my trash, I go down the stairs, push the front door, throw the trash in the dumpster but this time it's different, I notice an arm despite the lack of light. Luckily, I have my phone, which allowed me to light up the area.
I see a bloody man losing a lot of blood, he seems unconscious to me. These clothes seem to be torn from the blows, I seem to see that he was stabbed above the navel. I see a car in the distance with a man watching from here, unfortunately I can't see him well. The car leaves.
I immediately called the hospital, I felt like it was taking forever to come.
The ambulance arrives, carries the mystery man and a nurse tells me to come with them. We go to the hospital. The bleeding man sent to the emergency.
The reception asks me different questions : "Are you family, Are you his girlfriend?" "Do you know him or his family?" I answered all his questions in the negative.
"We are very upset, no knowledge of his identity and family at this time." She said with frustration in her voice, but asked me "Can you be his temporary guarantor ?"
A little dubious but having a moment of empathy for this bloody man I accepted.
An illumination in his eyes appeared.
She warned me to come tomorrow to fill in papers concerning his hospitalization and to detail in a report, how I found him to help the police in case of criminal act.
Wow, what a terrible night, I come home looking at myself in the mirror. I have pale skin, droopy cheekbones and lack of energy, I find it hard to smile again after this. I don't eat and I go to bed.
I get up early to go to the hospital. I arrive, the woman from last night is not there, another woman tells me what I have to fill in the file of the mysterious patient, she tells me that I can go see him, good to feel a presence. I will be quick.
I enter the hospital room of this man, whose identity has not yet been found. I approach, I had not noticed by the panic and fear of yesterday, but it has a beautiful face. His face was intact, body damaged by the violence of the blows.
But something more sparkling catches my eye, a watch on the bedside table, it looks vintage but has kept all its beauty. I approach to see her more closely, when suddenly a heavy and weak voice makes its appearance in this vastly quiet room.
"Don't touch" My body reacts immediately, I was surprised. I didn't know he was conscious. "You were never taught don't touch the things of people you don't know ?
"One, I wasn't going to touch your watch. Two, I just wanted to take a closer look" I answered defending myself.
"Of course" he said, rolling his eyes
"By the way, who are you?"
The doctor bursts into the room. He asks the man next to me what's his name, He answers Hardan Bloom.
The doctor informed Hardan that I was the one he found and vouched for his hospitalization. Hardan's intense gaze on me intimidated me. The doctor explains that a nurse will come and ask him to complete the missing information in his file. The doctor had another patient that he left. He returns to see him.
"What do you want ?" He said, intrigued.
Why is he asking me this question ?
"In life nothing is free, everything must be paid for one way or another, don't want to be indebted to anyone" You could see the darkness in his eyes when he said that.
"Ok, um, I haven't thought about it too much, but I'm curious about one thing, how did you end up in this state ?"
A heavy silence invaded the whole room, I guess that it will not tell me.
"I offer you to be my personal assistant" He said calmly after this moment of silence. Surprised and a little confused, I didn't know if I should accept or not. I don't know him. He continued by saying "I need a person who will organize my overloaded life. Give me your phone number so that I can contact you for the employment contract" He said persuasively.
Hardan hands me his phone, I dial my number, and he asked me "What's your name ?" I answer him "Annabella Scott".
He records my name in his phone and told me "Ok perfect, you start now"
He wants me to start now !? I said to myself in my head.
He asks me to bring him a better meal than the one at the hospital.
He required that I go to margarette a 5 star restaurant made for the most fortunate, their dishes really overpriced, but according to the good culinary reviews they received. They are undoubtedly the best of the gastronomy.
Hardan gives me money.
"Don't try to run away, it will be quite easy to find you" He said with persistent eyes.
This look. What does he want from me?
