I exhale and Dan jumps before turning around.
He sees the gun, centimetres from his face and screams before leaping back.
I drop my hands, my fingers still tight around the gun. I'm shaking.
'What the…' he whispers, his eyes wide.
'Dan. We need to talk' I say.
'Okay Han. Just put the gun down' he replies, rather calmly.
I drop the gun to the floor and Dan walks slowly towards me. I feel my legs begin to buckle and I drop to the floor. I feel Dan's arms around me as he lifts me up and sits me on the couch, covering me with a blanket.
'Okay Hannah. What's going on?' he asks me.
Where the fuck do I start?
'Just start from the beginning' he tells me, as if he read my mind.
'Okay' I say. 'Okay. I, um. I lied to you. I'm not a solicitor' I say.
'Then what are you?' he asks.
'I'm a trained assassin' I state and his mouth drops open. 'I work for an organisation called the PoM and we all get assigned to 'clients', i.e. people we're meant to kill. And, well, I got assigned to you. I'm meant to kill you'.
Dan's face pales but he doesn't utter a word.
'I have no idea why I'm meant to be killing you but I have to do what my Boss tells me to. Otherwise I get killed. And the Boss told me that if I don't kill you, he'll get someone to torture you until you die. And, um, I don't want that to happen to you' I rush before carrying on. 'But once I got to know you, I realised that I didn't want to kill you, because I'm really falling for you Dan. I tried to kill you once before, I slipped some pills into your drink but I couldn't go ahead with it. I poured the drink out because I didn't want you to die. I still don't want you to die'.
Dan leans forward and wipes my cheek. Only then did I realise I was crying.
'I'm sorry' I sob. 'I'm so sorry'.
We sit on the sofa in silence before Dan speaks.
'Okay Hannah. I've got something to tell you too'.
I hold my breath, wondering what Dan's about to drop on me.
'I work for the KaP' he says. 'And my job is to kill you'.