Leila wanted to fight, but before she could even push him off of her, He had her restrained and pinned down on her arms. Overwhelmed with emotion she could feel the tears running down her face, she just wanted this nightmare to end. Leila saw his eyes grew wide as though in comprehension.

"You don't have to cry...I'm not going to do whatever it is you're thinking" he whispered in her ear, they were literally body to body..and Leila felt him pushing up on her

"ho-how can i...be-be-believe yo-you?" Leila asked sobbing, her hands against his chest in a defensive position

"Because that dress would have been off of you already by now..." he retorted back in a slow whisper as his hand pulled at her dress roughly as though he were about to take it off, Leila gasped, holding on to it...His voice, why did his voice sound so familiar? She felt as though she knew him from somewhere, but she couldn't put her finger on where..

"Who are you?" Leila asked before she could stop herself

"A man with many faces" Cut Throat replied, getting off of her slowly

He moved to his side of the bed, closing his eyes, Leila deliberately moved right to the other end of the bed, as far as possible from him without actually falling off.

Cut Throat smiled to himself, he was amused by her...and more by himself. It was the first time for him to have a woman in his bed, and he quite liked it. He stared at her for a long time while she was sleeping. If it were under normal circumstances, he would definitely call himself obsessed...a stalker...a creep even, but Cut Throat was fast finding out that when it came to Leila Adams, he was definitely loosing grip with what normal should be. Should he yank the chain and pull her to his side...just for the fun of it? He smiled to himself, boy would he love to see her eyes open up wide in fear again. Cut Throat did it instinctively without even thinking further and pulled the chain hard. He heard Leila scream, before feeling her soft body collide onto his.

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"And then he just started spinning or something....I'm not really sure what it was...it almost looked like those videos that you find on the internet, but on speed ...and he was faassst....then next thing you know the guys just started gushing out blood from their throats going crrrreee crreeee " Eduardo finished in excitement making a strange strangling noise, whilst holding his throat dramatically.

They were back in class. All the C40 trainees were hurdled around James, Eduardo and Vikram who were telling their story to the rest of their classmates on their excursion with the top C40.

"Whoow..." Park min ho said impressed, "And then what did happen next ?"

Eduardo looked at James and Vikram beaming at each other in pride.

"And then...when the others fell on the floor, another one of the guys came to tackle him , they basically had all surrounded him...and that's when he went super duper FAST !" James said

"He just started piercing them with his knife !" Vikram added on

"Was he really stabbing them or more like carving them out?" Eduardo asked out loud in wonder,

"Bro- I really don't know what he was doing, but within seconds those dudes were flat out on the floor with blood gushing out of their throats" James said in bewilderment, continuing "You guys should see what he can do with a knife.........its not like something you learn in training...its more like a gift....or should I say...more like an ....an...an.. art" James said struggling to find words to express

"Tell them James ! Tell them ! What he did when he was dragging out the pretty lady...that thing he did with his fingers..." Vikram said eagerly

"Oh yeah then he dragged a beautiful lady out of one of the rooms"

"Wait..wait what !?...They are girls involved in this story..?" Park min ho asked bewildered

"Yep..and she was one fine bitc-" James said

"-he dragged her out of the room and then stood in front of us, lightly tracing one of the guys throats...maybe he was looking for veins or nerves or something.." Vikram completed

"And then what did happen?" someone asked in excitement

"and then again he took out his knife and lightly just started making little snipping moves" Eduardo said imitating moves into the air while the class stared in amazement

"and boy did that dude start to bleed. It was more like he started gushing out blood with superb speed...just sppzzzzzzzz spzzzzzzzz everywhere.." James said shaking his throat in strange movements

"So ...is that why he's called Cut Throat?" Someone at the back asked in a silent whisper

"-Yes and No honeybubu's" came the voice of Princess who had been listening to the conversation just outside the classroom door, parking his brown briefcase onto the desk with a loud thud, taking out his laptop from within it, "-But that's a story for another day....for now...we will go right back to class.."

The class groaned , as they settled back onto their desks.

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Leila felt like her heart was about to jump out of her body. She looked up to the figure who had roughly pulled her to his side. Now that she was close up she paid more attention to his physicality. She could see the intricate tattoos that were all across his neck, going through to his collar bones. Leila paid closer attention to the skin which had a strange look on its surface, it seemed like the tattoos were covering severe scarring on the skin of his throat and collar bone. The more she saw him, the more he scared her.

"What are you doing?" She asked him quietly without meeting his eyes, she could feel him stare at her, the intensity of his stares burning into her skin, she was too close to him, it was making her uncomfortable.

"What did i do?"

"You pulled me" Leila said with a hint of fear in her voice

"No..i pulled the chain"

"Didn't you say you're a man on principles" Ah...if you only knew what those principles were my love

"Indeed"

Leila tried pushing him away keenly aware that he was bare chested. Cut Throat didn't budge a bit staring at her with his intense gaze again, she sighed, seeing defeat.

"Can you let me go..Please?" She asked trying to wiggle out of his proximity. Nope. Cut throat thought to himself, as he still didn't budge again, Leila looked away, his intense gaze making her uncomfortable..Instinctively, Cut Throat put his hand below her face and raised it up , seeing her close her eyes. Her eyes stayed closed for few moments, before she opened them again. Gosh she's so beautiful Cut Throat thought to himself,

"You're dress is slipping off..." Cut Throat said slowly their faces mere inches away from one another, Leila gasped, trying to pull it up and hold it in its place.

"Why did you kidnap me...?"

"Kidnap...?" Cut throat smiled in amusement, he in fact HAD kidnapped quite a few people in his capacity as a C40, but never once had he put them in bed with him...this experience was worlds apart...

"then am i free...to leave...?" Leila

"No.." Cut Throat could see her gulping, looking scared.

Leila tried pushing him again off of her, and Cut Throat pushed himself back on her. She realized what he was doing and stopped immediately.

"Where are we...?"

"Somewhere safe....but not for long...we will have to move soon..."

Leila turned around with limited move-ability it looked like they were in some sort of a cottage. She could hear the roaring wind blowing outside, if it were under normal circumstances..she would have said this setting was rather romantic. But being chained in bed with a tattooed gentleman who had severe scarring on most parts of his body, who she saw with her own eyes stab people just one day prior...it was very far from romantic.

He put his big hands on her shoulders and shook her roughly "I'm only going to ask you this once...so If I were you I would try to be honest the first time..." he said to her in a mere whisper, she nodded her head to show him she understood.

"What were you doing at that house?"

"I...I ha-had..g-g-g-oonee for a j-j-job interview..." Leila stammered

"What Job?" the masked man asked in curiosity

"I...d-don't kno-know ex-exactly...bu-butt it was for a calling se-se-service ag-agent or something likkee that..."

"Where did you hear about it? Not sure if you realized, but that was no ordinary house?"

"I realized too late...." Leila said breathing frantically.."but I heard about it from a friend of mine at school.."

"At School ?" Cut Throat said in shock

"Yes.."

"Who..."

"You wouldn't know him.."

"WHO !" Cut Throat shouted, as he squeezed her shoulders roughly sending shivers down Leila's back

"his just an 8th grader ...trying to help me out...his name is Ju-justin.." she said sobbing. Cut Throat stared at her in shock almost as if those words came down in waves at him ,Justin ! Justin ! Justin ! His own C40 betraying him ?! And weren't Leila and Justin supposed to be friends? why would he put her in harms way like that? His mind racing, Cut Throat was livid. But what could it mean? Was Leila the target then? If so...why ? Cut Throat's heart froze thinking of K.O. ....could K.O. have known of this? Cut Throat knew him all too well, Leila had a hold on him, it was already too late for K.O. he would never have put a hit on her...

He gently let go of Leila getting off of the bed "lets go shower...we will be leaving soon"

Leila stared in shock at him, what did he mean by lets go shower? As though they were to shower "together". Before she could even deliberate ,the masked man bent down and picked her up, taking her to the shower.

"Let me go !" Leila shouted, trying to hit his back, but like always he ignored her. He quickly went into the shower, switching on the hot water, Leila stared at him in horror, as he turned to her "Take it off, we are going to shower" before she could say anything, he turned around to get a small black cloth from the bathroom cabinet which he started to tie around his eyes

"Here's my first principle: I dont harm women..." He said, entering the shower, waiting for Leila to follow suit. Leila stood still shaking and trembling, she had never entered a shower with a man before...