Hanna slept like a baby for the first time in months. When she woke up in the morning she felt a little disoriented as she didn't remember anything about getting inside the bedroom or the ride home. Sitting up from the bed she silently got on her feet noticing that there were two doors inside the room. Pushing the first one aside she entered a bathroom.

Turning on her feet she walked by to what she had at first believed to be a large window only for it to be another door leading to a small balcony watching over a huge garden. She immediately noticed a helipad and a pool had been built on the property. Looking around her, she started to feel uncomfortable at the idea of being inside a stranger's house.

But then she remembered that she'd spent two years being followed and watched from the moment she woke up until she went to bed in the evening. Walking inside the bathroom she found a spare tooth brush and used it to refresh herself a little. Emerging from her after that she was surprised to see Caleb waiting for her outside her room in an armchair near a window reading the news paper.

As soon as she walked out of the room he put it down on a small table beside him and walked towards her. As he stopped to stand in front of her Hanna suddenly felt her mouth go dry. The previus day as she'd seen him coming inside the meeting right after practice he'd seemed like the regular hot looking playboy. Now as he stood in front of her dressed in a suit, and wearing an audio device connecting him to his HQ office, she understood better why Aria had recommended him. He felt to be right down lethal. Hanna felt him study her closely and as he did so she turned to face him. An intense staring contest started between them before he settled for finally speaking.

-"Good morning I trust that you slept well."Still unsure what to believe of the strange eye showdown, Hanna just nodded her head towards him. "I've set up a schedule for you to be constantly under the care of either me or one of the people in my team. We'll take rotations into doing our jobs. Miss Marin, none of us will try to intrude into your personal life but I expect you to cooperate with both me and my team and not to give us a hard time as we do our jobs. Remember you are the one that came to us for protection not the other way around. Also if we're to do this I have a few questions about Akimi that need to be answered."

Caleb didn't tell her that a full investigation was taking place and that by the end of the day he would end up having a check up file on his desk of every public information he could gather on both Hanna and Akimi. He however knew that there were some elements only Hanna could tell him about in order for him to do his job.

This however was not the time for such a conversation for he suspected the petite woman in front of him was lacking in the clothes department and also she appeared to be famished. Taking her gently by the wrist he showed her the way to the kitchen where a table for two was settled as the same young woman as the day before was them enter she made a move to raise but Caleb gestured for her to sit down and eat with them.

As Hanna poured herself some coffee she learned from Caleb that the woman's name was Olivia. She was both the PR face for their company but also one of their best bodyguards, she was one of the best women working in their branch, and she'd also been helping Caleb develop his company acting as his second in command. sipping in her coffee and processing everything that was going on Hanna's mind wandered to how her life had ended up being such a huge mess.

Turning her head to face the terrace by the pool she carefully considered where exactly she should start her story. As she turned her head to the two people standing besides her at the table she noticed Caleb giving her a small encouraging smile. For he knew that talking about traumatic experiences always hurt, but in time it got easier to talk about them and dealing with them. As such both him and Olivia sat down comfortably at the table as Hanna started telling them her story. A silent agreement of keeping it private passing by between them...

"I met him when I had just turned twenty, at a party held at the Greek embassy that my parents had been hosting. To me everything had been special about that night. Not only was it my birthday, but also it was the first time I had been allowed to attend such a party. The first time I sat down at the grown up table.
It was my first party away from my friends. The friends that I grew up witw in boarding school. It was supposed to be the last year that I spent living under my parents constant guidance, or as I thought at the time, their hawk eyes. In a year I was supposed to inherit a large fortune, from my grandmother, that had been established in a trust fund for me, on my birthday.
I dad been so excited feeling as if the whole world was mine... And that's when I met him... He had seemed so charming snd full of life, I had easily become enthralle by his charms, despite my parent's opposition. He was funny, a young man working in the embassy from the Greek delegation. He started out there as a favor done to his family and then he started his construction business which expanded to all sorts of areas worldwide.
It had all been a lie. He had been using his connection that he'd established in the embassy to avoid any type of uncomfortable questionings. I realized his true face when my father suddenly died in a car crash.
My mom was admitted to the hospital after the crash and he had offered me constant suppot, but as I started to lean on im my friends realised his agenda.
Among the properties my grandmother left me was a ranch, my family uesd to raise cows and muttons.
There was a potentail of using it as a profitable amusement park but my grandmother opposed the idea, as such when I inherited the property, an additional clause was added so that I couldn't sell it or change it's purpose, but should it be in my best interest to do so, the man whom I would eventually marry, could choose to do so.
Unfortunately by the time I learned this I had accepted to stay at his vila in Greece for a vacation. He told his staff I was mentally unstable and had to be guarded at all times for my own protection. He also tried to convince my friends I had accepted his marriage proposal and was more than happy to live the rest of my life there... except they didn't believe it and with one of them helping me I managed to escape. She was the same person who sent me here to you..."

Hello lovelies. Thank you so much for the interest you guys have shown towards this fic. It really surprised me a lot. Hopefully you'll all be as pleased with the result as I am with writing it.

Atramea... cara quella scena dovrebbe pure succedere a Haleb in PLL, perche a questo punto tutti noi volliamo che ormai succedesi qualcosa di simile tra Hanna e Caleb. Stop me when I start to get embarrasing ok?

Katie I'm making them have a slight age difference between them, you'll understand why after I post chapter 3. Olivia's sticking around this fic too and since I already mentioned Aria so we'll see a little of her in here as well...

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Anon 1 the next update will come sooner than this one did.

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Anon 3. I'm not a fan of soccer and the world cup but I'm glad for you.

Papayasofancy I try to update as often as possible given that I'm writing two stories at the same time and also I have a job for which I travel 4-5 hours each day...

Anyway I hope to hear your opinions on this chapter as well.

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