Title: Underground - Max Verstappen
Words: 549
Blurb Request Prompt(s): Bodyguard AU
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She stares in shock at her office. Torn apart. Papers on the floor, chair tipped over, the walls defaced. She starts to turn her head to look at the small sitting area, unable to imagine what they might have done to it, but before she can, she’s being turned around, head shoved into a familiar chest.
“Don’t.” His voice, the word, is harsh, but she doesn’t flinch, just giving a barely there nod.
If Max didn’t want her to look… her stomach turns as she thinks of what else could be in there.
“How bad?”
He doesn’t answer and she has to squeeze her eyes shut before she can cry. It takes effort to leave Max’s safe arms, but she pulls herself away, despite his hands lingering and smoothes down her clothes.
And thankfully the building security arrive just as she’s done adjusting her necklace with slightly shaky fingers.
“Mags, Dylan,” She greets. “There’s been an… incident in my office. Don’t go in, but take photos and call the police. I’ll be in the boardroom, let me know when they’ve arrived so I can meet them.”
“Of course.” Mags reassures, Dylan nodding to her words.
The boardroom door closes with a soft click and she can’t relish the safe room, the quiet before Max speaks.
“You should go home.”
“The police will need a statement.”
“Please.” He whispers and she has to look at him.
She looks at his wild eyes, the fear clear in them, his hands that keep clenching and unclenching and the way he’s leaning forward, into her.
“It was a personal threat?”
His jaw clenches and he gives a stiff nod.
A shaky breath leaves her and she nods. “Okay. We know it could escalate. You told me that the first day.”
“Please.”
“If it’s personal, running away will only make it worse. You told me that as well, Max. You can’t let us affect you like this.”
Hurt doesn’t even cross his face, he instead moves closer, hands settling on her waist, breath fanning across her face as he looks at her. “I’m not asking you to run away, that would be dangerous and stupid. I’m asking you to go underground with me. I have a safehouse. Talk to the police, make a statement, and go underground while my team works on finding who is doing this.”
“I have responsibilities.” She protests.
“In two weeks you’re taking a leave of absence for a month.”
“I have a board meeting tomorrow.”
“The board will understand.”
She looks away, having to swallow around a large lump in her throat because she had run out of real excuses, though not believable ones. Since the third threat her board had been begging her to step away, not wanting her to get hurt, and any responsibilities she had could easily be handled by her second in command, Connie.
“Okay.” She finally says. “After the police take my statement, we can go underground.”
Max smiles, pressing a kiss to her forehead and she has to force herself to smile back, wondering how long he’ll still want her when someone is no longer threatening her life or if solitude, only her for company, and a couple of calls with his team, for weeks, will be what ends his affection for her.
You are so so sweet! I love talking to you!! And swapping ideas and such! Even if I suck at talking and rarely actually remember to reach out jdndks. You are so awesome!!
hi! i saw your post about the arepas de queso and it made me wonder: do you have any recipes you particularly like? (esp vegetarian, but really whatever you really like to make!) i clicked on the "sin cooks" tag but i was disappointed since that was the only post. and how did they turn out? were they good?
Hi nonny! Sorry, I really need to be better about tagging stuff lol. I don't post about my cooking much, mostly just about my baking.
The arepas turned out really good! I didn't have the exact right corn flour, because I couldn't find it in the grocery store we normally go to, but I used maseca and it worked out fine. They tasted kind of like crispy, cheesy tamales. I'm thinking I might try to find the right flour at a mercado near us and make a huge batch to freeze because they actually heated up really nice in the toaster!
As for my favorite recipes, I've linked a few below, but my favorite vegan recipe of all time is out of the Thug Kitchen cookbook. It's a roasted red bell pepper pasta. I've adapted it a bit so maybe I'll share that later.
Easy Red Lentil Dahl
Fresh Tomato, Basil, and Lemon Zucchini Pasta
Creamy Vegan Mac and Cheese
Cloud Pizza (not vegan but sooo good)
Spaghetti Squash Mac and Cheese (also not vegan but really tasty)
Sweet Potato Curry
Sweet Potato and Quinoa Chili
Vegan Butter Tofu
Thai Pra Ram Tofu
Cauliflower Fried Rice
I have a ton of recipes that are chicken and turkey based as well that I can share sometime if anyone is interested. And I have an unholy shit ton of unhealthy recipes I could always share lmao.
