The Arrangement

Asha lives a low-risk lifestyle. Her farm is far from any cities, surrounded by a maze of roads and top-notch security systems. She’s a gymnastic martial artist who sleeps with a pistol under her pillow. It would take a very skilled and determined man to slide his way past all of that. A man she met online some time ago happens to have all such requirements. One night she wakes up, the moon darkened and stars dimmed by clouds across the sky. The electricity on her farm is cut, and someone is waiting for her, knife in hand, all of her secrets in his mind. He’s here to remind her of an agreement she once made, and if she wants to escape, it’s going to be one hell of a fight. The question is, just how hard does she want to fight? A 3,500-WORD SHORT STORY**