Closing Time|| Gunner & Alessa
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More and more shoves came at the door and the angered voice of her husband was muffled but very clear with his threats to her. Alessa breathe hard and knew she was about to lose her grip on the door but then then it stopped and she opened her eyes, which blurred her vision due to the tears which coated her eyelashes. The bartender held the door still and she took the bat, bolting from the door as if it were a pile of venomous snakes. “That’s my-” she stammered, bat wavering in front of her as she prepared from him to storm through that door somehow.
“That’s my husband. I-I-I- can-can-can-can’t go back to him. He’ll kill me.” These weren’t words to just throw at him. These were words she firmly believed in. And the way she shook, unable to raise the words higher then a frightened whisper while the drunk man on the other side of the door yelled the most vile words at her was clear she wasn’t full of shit. The man on the other end was deranged and she was at the end of the road, one which was paved with people who refused to believed her.
Gunner’s hold on the door didn’t loosen as the woman retreated. He locked the door but kept his hand on it just in case the guy decided he would try to break it down. “Mate, I suggest you leave. The bar is closed. You’re trespassing.” It was his own dwelling, which meant he was the one in charge. He had the right to remove anyone from the premises. Regardless of their reason for being there. He had no knowledge of what was really going on with the woman behind him, but he didn’t really need any. She was terrified and shaking like a leaf and there was a very angry man trying to break the door down.
“You don’t have to leave,” he told the woman. “You can go upstairs and hang tight. Through the back door, passed the kitchen. There is a door to the right. It’ll lead up to the top floor. I live there.” He had bought the building for that very reason. He liked that he didn’t have to go far to work. It was always just right there. Plus he could take care of his employees if something happened. He used it to help out a few locals as well. “You’ll be safe of there.”













