ADAPT-3R (Part I)

Vacations can be such a nightmare...

He didn't reply and immediately she thought: they've got him and now they're coming for me. She took off down the corridor and launched herself through the double-doors and out onto the sidewalk. She covered her eyes as the sunlight bore into her retinas. She tried to focus as the water fell from her eyelids, deciding to turn left and take off.

Elizabeth had not expected her vacation to end up like this. She had been trying to relax and unwind after a chaotic year of loss. Her job was gone, her mother had passed, and her fiance unexpectedly dumped her two weeks before their ceremony. She was down in the dumps for too long, and it wasn't until she met the mysterious man-in-black that she realized she could get herself out of this.

He was dashing, tall, and mysterious. He had a love for adventure and chaos, and she was smitten. It wasn't a love attraction, it was an admiration for his countenance. He had kept showing up around the same places she frequented, and eventually, they had their first conversation. He explained that he was in the mining industry, but he was dressed way nicer than anyone she had ever met who worked underground.

So naive, and now it could cost her her life.