Kill the Lights

Why is this man standing here….? Mason blankly stared at him, and he was staring back at him with the same expression as Mason’s.

“….uh.”

There was a long silence between those two, and when Mason tried to say something, the man, Noah’s face turned very cold. Mason blankly thought, ‘it’s amazing’ that his pretty face can turned into that cold. But at that moment, he grabbed Mason’s collar and roughly pushed him to the wall.

“-!”

Because it was too unexpected, Mason bumped into the wall half avoiding it.

“Excuse me,”

“-What are you.”

Noah’s face approached very close to his face. He was so mad that his eyes seemed like showing a blue flame. Mason just blankly blinked his eyes at Noah’s angry words. What do you mean ‘What are you.’ He couldn’t understand what he meant by asking that question. Since he knew Haley already, probably not asking who I am, then he’s probably asking why am I here. But actually that’s the question Mason has to ask. When Mason opened his mouth to ask him then why are you here, that moment.

‘-He’s not even stupid. There no way he came to his house, right?’

With footsteps, there was a sound of peevish talking.

‘I know. But fuck. Why are hell is he living in a place like this with all those money he earns?’

Mason stared outside the door in surprise hearing familiar voices.

“Uh….”

Someone is coming this way, and Mason knew those people. They were Zii mercenaries. Why are those guys here? What do they mean by there is no way I came to my house? Do they think I’m still alive? –Mason’s head thinking busily or not, Noah opened his mouth saying, “Who are….”

“!”

Mason quickly blocked his mouth and closed the door without making any sound. He wasn’t sure what’s going on, but he didn’t feel good about it. He felt really bad.

Mason grabbed Noah’s shoulder and hand before he screams what he was doing and ran inside of the house. He grabbed the bag that he dropped and looked for the place to hide in this small apartment. He heard those military boots sounds and sweated cold sweat.

Noah dragged along blankly because of Mason’s weird action, but soon his conscious came back. He slapped his hand away and grabbed the back of his neck and pushed him to the bed. Because Mason was busy looking for a place to hide, he swallowed his breath because of a sudden attack.

“This… What the hell are you doing?”

He heard a voice that sounded like ice will drop anytime soon from on top of his head.

“Wa, wait, I’ll apologize later so…..”

With Haley’s weak strength, he couldn’t push away Noah’s arm. Of course he could’ve hit his wrist and slightly crack his bone, but he didn’t want to do that to him, but…. We don’t have time to do this….! Mason’s eyes moved around quickly, and he heard footsteps stopping right outside of the apartment door.

They were looking for a key that the outside was little loud, and then they heard, ‘Just break it?’ Mason felt his heart pumping fast and looked at Noah. Noah heard the outside sound and was staring outside the bedroom also. In that moment, his strength got weaken a little. Mason didn’t miss that timing and at the same time he pushed him away, he grabbed him and blocked his mouth and dragged him to the terrace. In front of the terrace, right after he closed the curtain, the door opened within a second.

“What the. It was opened?”

“I think someone came in already…. Didn’t that bastard not have a woman dating?”

“There is no way he has one. He worked so much. He probably went to his house like 10 days in a year? If he has a woman dating in that situation…... I’m really gonna respect him, that son of a bitch.”

Mason killed his breath hearing them laughing and joking around. His heart was pumping so fast at this unexpected situation, but he tried to keep his cool.

There are three men. They didn’t take out their guns, and unless they are idiots, they won’t harm Noah. The problem was me. I don’t know what was going on, but even it’s a worst situation, I think can escape when they put their guards down. Good thing I packed the guns be…. Mason realized he didn’t have his bag with him and startled. He looked behind the curtain.

Under the bed, there was the bag fell on the floor. When Noah grabbed back of his neck and threw him to the bed, he probably dropped it that time. Ah…. Mason bit his lips and swallowed his breath. There was a voice from the living room.

“What the. This son of a bitch came home?”

“Hey, his safe is opened too. Wow, this guys is insane. He took off with 50 mil and came back home to rob his safes?”

How much does a person have to be crazy about money to do this? They said it with a laugh. Crazy about money? Took off with 50 mil? Who? Me? Mason rolled around his eyes and listened to them.

“Still if it’s 50 mil, it’s something you can risk your life.”

Fuck, how much is that. Even I would go crazy. Somebody said that, but another guy smirked at him.

“Do you want to die? It’s because it’s Mason that why he’s able to run away like this. If it was you, you’ll get caught on that day and have a hole in your head.”

“Well, that’s that, but this son of a bitch is too greedy. Beretta said there’s no way Mason would do that kind of thing, and since Aaron’s body is like that, it might be Aaron who’s disappeared. But if it’s like this, then it’s that guy who took the money.”

Mason swallowed his dry throat. Understanding the situation was in a second. So Aaron, that son of a bitch killed me and even blamed everything on me and took off with the safe. For that guy, he had no other choice other than doing this. If he took off with the safe truthfully, it will limit his range of movement, and he will get caught soon.

After Mason died, he didn’t really thought about Aaron that much. First, it was because living as Haley was pretty busy, and he thought Zii will take a revenge on Aaron.

“……”

Mason was deeply in thought and realized Noah who Mason was holding and blocking his mouth was raising his hand. He quickly let go of his mouth.

“……..”

Noah stood up from an uncomfortable position and glared at Mason with an irritated face rubbing his mouth. His face was like since he doesn’t understand what’s going on, so he’ll be quiet, but he also had a face he’s thinking about handing him to those guys.

Mason awkwardly smiled and pay attention to outside. He checked those guys went outside and reached out his arm from the veranda. The arm was barely not reaching to the bag.

“This guy seems like he was pretty in hurry. He’s not the type who would leave this kind of stuff.”

Mason heard them digging through the mails inside the trash can.

“Maybe somebody left it on purpose. Isn’t it weird to come back to this place?”

“This… it looks like it’s not been that long since he visited his house.”

Somebody said it probably because he checked the dust mark where the frames were. There was a sound somebody releasing the safety guard of a gun.

“Heh. Maybe he’s nearby?”

“He might be still in the house.”

Looking at the opened door and spilling all these stuff…. Because of the sound coming from outside, Mason held his breath and reached his arm out more. One guy came in the bedroom again. Mason quickly removed his arm and swallowed his dry throat.

He was thinking so hard what to say if he gets caught. He can’t say, ‘know Mason somehow.’ Those guys won’t hesitate to lock him up to know Mason’s whereabouts.

If he can tell them everything, that’s even better. He couldn’t tell those guys who have their brains filled with muscle, ‘My body is dead, but my soul came in to this body.’ Even if he says it, they won’t believe him.

The guy looked at the closet, restroom next to the bedroom, underneath the bed, and finally grabbed the curtain to check for the veranda. A long shadow attacked Mason. When that curtain opens, run and push that guy away and pick up that bag and…. It was when Mason’s head was spinning like crazy.

“Hey. There are some footprints outside. The dusts are still fresh.”

A voice came in from outside.

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OH NO Aaron that bastard blamed everything on Mason!

I listen to my readers haha. Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! What will happen to them?? Will they get caught? Will they go out alive dun dun duhhh!