The woman catches her breath for a moment and once her heartbeat slows down to normal, she slowly stands to her feet, one arm covering the breast left exposed by her torn white dress. You have to admit to yourself, even if this lady is all dirty, covered in scratches and dark grime and her dress is all shredded up from whatever happened to her... well she sure is cute. She appears to be in her mid twenties to early thirties, slim and a bit short, with an attractive face and shoulder length dark hair(although her hair is a dirty, tangled mess as well).
Finally she slowly begins to approach you, one hand raised up as if to reassure you that she means you no harm.
"H-hi there", she speaks in a breathy voice, "Look, I know this is very distressing but please don't run, I'm not a madwoman and I'm not dangerous, okay?", she pleads.
You aren't afraid of her, to be perfectly fair, actually if anything you're curious to know what the fuck is happening here.
"Hi, lady... I won't run, don't worry, can you tell me what the hell happened to you?", you ask her in a curious but cautious tone.
The woman steps closer to you and extends her right hand. "My name is Alexis, stranger, you can call me Lexi if you wish! Look I know this is pushing my luck, but I need your help, I'm in deep, deep trouble..."
You shake her hand gently. "Uhm, pleased to meet you Lexi. Shit, I can certainly see you're in trouble, who or what did this to you? Are you feeling okay, you bleeding or anything?"
Alexis shakes her head and takes a deep breath. "I think I'm fine, besides the scratches, don't worry. I fell into multiple bushes and brambles while running but I don't think it's anything serious. Please, take me away from here now, I don't think it's wise to stay and talk here, he might still be chasing after me... I'll tell you everything once we're somewhere safer, okay? Please?"
Your eyes widen at the notion of a pursuer. "Damn! Okay, okay, look I have my car parked at the edge of the forest, it's not far, let's go and I'll drive you outta here, sound good?"
"Sounds perfect, please yes take me away from here!" Alexis grabs your arm and makes a nervous smile at you.
After a brief and hurried walk through the dark forest you reach the car and get inside on the driver's side with Lexi in the passenger seat. Luckily you had just picked up a few of your shirts from the dry cleaner earlier today, so you hand Lexi a clean white office shirt to cover herself up. She gladly takes the shirt and buttons up as you start driving back towards the city.
"So, Lexi, you going to finally tell me what the deal is with you now?", you ask in a cautious tone.
"Sure, I guess I'm safe enough for the moment. You see, the guy who beat me up and was chasing me... well he's uh, was, my boyfriend..."
"Fuck, that's it? What a dirtbag! We should drive right to the police and report his sorry ass, okay?"
Lexi places a hand on your arm frantically. "N-no. No we can't do that, it wouldn't do any good, trust me. You see, my asshole boyfriend isn't just some common violent jerk, he's... connected. To some very powerful and very... dark, people. Bad people. The police is useless, believe me!"
You furrow your brow in surprise and you almost are tempted to smirk, that sounds so corny! "Dark, bad people eh? Lexi are you telling me you were dating some kind of mob guy or gangbanger? Something like that?"
Lexi folds her arms across her chest, looking a bit irritated at your smirk. "It's not a laughing matter my friend! And it's not the mob, it's worse. He's in some kind of... cult or something, dark creepy stuff! I didn't know about this from the start, naturally, or I would've never gotten involved! I, I found out by accident when I read his emails at home... I thought he was cheating on me or something. Boy was I dead wrong..."
"Hmm, okay let's say I believe you for now. So you found out... how did you end up getting beaten and chased?"
"I confronted him! I though it was just a weird little club or something so I told him I read the emails and though we could talk about it. What I didn't expect was that it wasn't just a weird guy's club, it was a genuine death cult of sorts, with connections to powerful, influential people and that Viktor, uh, that's his name, well he was in deep with these people, loyal to them! He told me that no outsider can know of them and whoever knows must be... killed. So you see now, this is very serious, I'm in deep shit and I'm being hunted... They won't leave me alone!"
You take all of that in and think for a moment, trying to keep concentrated on driving. "Crap. I don't know what to say Lexi, honestly. I mean I want to help you but I don't know what I could do if you say these guys are basically killers hell bent on terminating you."
"Well we have to think of something."
"We? Look I have nothing to do with... no, no sorry, forgive me, I can't just abandon you to your fate. You're right, we have to think of something to get them off your back..."
While driving, you and Lexi decide that you could try to...