An Unusual Beginning 1

She was twenty-eight years old, still single. Life abroad and her heavy workload left her with no energy to think about relationships, which her family had pressured her about. However, the best thing about being single was freedom.

This Saturday, if she had not run out of some essential supplies in her apartment, nor the supermarket hadn't been only a five-minute walk from her home, Rain McConnell would have stayed home to sleep instead of buying groceries.

She wished that she could have had a pair of claws in the supermarket, sweeping the long and pathetic queue away. Maybe wings could be handy as well, so she could have flown back home with her groceries after checkout.

 After staying ten minutes in the queue, she finally reached the cashier. Rain difficultly lifted the shopping basket to the checkout counter. However, all of a sudden, a dull loud sound hit the supermarket.

All the giant floor-to-ceiling glass windows in front of the counters exploded like in an action movie, and numerous tiny glass fragments poured down as if there had been a rainstorm, instantly taking over the third floor of the supermarket.

Rain stood still dumbfounded, and she could feel the violent force. The fierce and malicious wind slapped her face while countless crushed ice-like broken glass attacked her.

Just when she was at a loss, a strong strength came next to her. Someone covered her head, swiftly protecting her on the floor. Everything almost happened in a second.

After the loud sound vanished, the tympanic membrane seemed to be still reverberating, and she could hear the sporadic sound of falling glass around.

 "Move!"

 A husky male voice came to her ears, and someone pushed her. Rain looked up and saw a pair of eyes as deep as a cheetah. Just with a glance, she felt this man was like a wild beast suddenly broke into the human's peaceful land. The dangerous vibe was too dark to be ignored, which left her a deep impression.

The explosion had finished, and there was nothing but silence in the supermarket. After a short period of dead stillness, shrill screams tore through the air. The people frightened by the blast got up from the floor and flocked to the safety exit. Rain stood up wobbly, but the fit man earlier had joined the flustered crowd and disappeared suddenly.

Without hesitation, Rain followed others and rushed to the safety exit. Out of her expectations, someone grabbed her wrist straight away. The vigorous force pulled her and made her fall on the floor, and she could feel a froze on her temple. A gloomy voice came from the top of her head, "If you don't want to die, don't you dare to move!

People were crying out in fear around her. Rain raised her head, and the supermarket couldn't have been more chaotic. The men with weapons took quite a few hostages, forcing them to squat on the floor as she did.

Soon after, except for these criminals with guns and hostages, there was no one else in the supermarket anymore. At this time, a siren rang from outside. The police were here.

"Chris. The cops are here. What should we do?"

A sense of pain crawled onto her scalp as the man pulled her long hair to force her up, and his gloomy voice came from behind. "Where's the escape route Xavi had arranged? It's not fuckin done yet?!"

"Chris, it's ready!"

Another man came from the other side of the supermarket and said while panting, "Xavi and other brothers are there! Let's move now."

The man called Chris looked around the supermarket with his dark eyes, "Leave these hostages behind and take this one to go!"

Hearing his order, Rain felt severe pain in her shoulder. Chris hit her hard with the butt of his gun, pushing her forward. Immediately, two men came up from the side to drag her, forcing her to retreat from the supermarket with them.

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