The Taste of Seduction

"So, what had you been in such a hurry? You\'re going back home now, shouldn\'t you be taking it easy?" He started while seeming to talk to the hair as she remained silent as if invisible.

Leaving to his monologue, Marcus could not stop however to prevent his control over himself from slipping. But unable to get any reaction at all, he furrowed his brow while struggling to think of something else to say.

"Why is he trying to talk to me? So you do know how to talk to people," Diana smiled in her mind as she thought to herself with a rapidly beating heart that showed her nervousness. "When you hit my car, you didn\'t even apologize, just staring at my face and my butt and body, stupid pervert, asshole," She berated and cursed in her mind as she kept a straight face.

Hearing how fast her heart was beating, he knew right there that his words were having effects, so he decided to keep talking. He was suppressing himself while having a chance to change whatever wrong way she thought about him.

With a slight turbulence, the elevator came to stop hanging mid air while the elevator emergency light came on with a message.

"Please everyone, stay calm and hold on while the power comes on within ten minutes. The maintenance team is right outside the floor above you with a signal sent to them immediately.

You can be assured that if the power does not come on in ten minutes and the emergency system can hold on for one hour without fail, and everyone can be evacuated within thirty minutes. So please calm down and let\'s get things sorted real quick," a cold mechanical voice echoed within the elevator.

"Oh fuck, this is not happening," Diana shrieked with a shrilling voice as anxiety began to wash over. Her mind buzzed rapidly at what happens if she stayed beyond six thirty outside, yet the time was rapidly thinking past six in the evening.

She turned her head to observe how Marcus fared in the elevator, seeing he seemed fine, she turned her head to face the door while shuddering gently at the stories of elevator romances she had read as well as the rough unfeeling voice that Cole would approach her with every time she got home late.

Seeing her shuddering after taking a peek at him and turning to face the door. He couldn\'t help but ask with a very sour voice and unhappy eyes, "Do I look that scary?" Seeing her shake her head repeated like a pendulum, he knew she had a wrong impression.

"I am very sorry for the way I reacted when we first met, I was not myself and was lost in thoughts about some issues I had," he apologized in a solemn voice and a bow to show his sincerity.

"I know I do not have the best impression before you but I just hope you can give me the benefit of the doubt to change those wrong impressions," he continued as he straightened up,

"I don\'t mean it in any vulgar way or wrong way, please don\'t get me wrong" he rapidly added with a tinge of anxiety in his voice. Drawing her jacket tighter, she replied in a low voice, "I understand, it happens to the best of us"

"Thank you so much," he said with a voice that showed great relief in being forgiven. "I\'m Marcus, can I know your name," he asked in a sweet voice with a smile plastered on his face, pretending as though he never knew or sought her name.

"Diana" she replied succinctly as she laughed off her mind at how polite he was as well as his nervousness to clear out the previous misunderstanding.

Her smile turned red as she suppressed her smile in a grin. She suddenly shuddered as she felt time was moving slowly as grew afraid of Cole\'s anger.

Feeling she was worried and had something on her mind, "are you okay?" he asked gently as he noticed her face red and her checking the time frequently. "Are you rushing or something?" he asked further with a frown on his face.

"Yeah, I need to be home before six thirty as…." she said as she trailed off in

her speech as her mind wandered to what Cole might do to her if she was late

today. Seeing her shudder, Marcus could imagine it was due to her relationship and could not help but become agitated with a tense voice spoke,

"Diana, No one deserves to live in fear or be subjected poor treatment that leads to anxiety"

His voice softened, filled with genuine concern. "If you are going to work to provide for your family, provide a quota of support to the family, you should be loved and allowed to be free as a bird.

You should be respected for your labor, concerns, strength and person," he continued with a solemn voice that tells a sorrowful story as he looked up to catch his emotions.

"Every girl, every lady, every woman deserves to be cherished, loved, pampered and treated like a queen that she is," he continued as he stared at the door while clenching his railings in the elevator.

The elevator begins to move, but Marcus keeps silent. Diana, confused about his emotional burst, agrees that every woman deserves better treatment and thinks about her own abusive relationship.

She couldn\'t help but wonder if there is something that she can do that will Cole stop being a bully to her and treat as a princess, an imagination that she painted and has never dared reveal to him.