The Keeper: Alexa LeGardien Read Online Free PDF

Alexa now secretly called ‘the British dude with a pipe’. “Where am I?” she asked confused, and sprung up from the slab like surface where she lay.
    Blood rushed up to her head so fast she almost got whiplash, and she quickly lay down again. She felt the dizziness she had when she first opened her eyes return. “What happened?” she asked before her former question could be answered.
    Matt came closer within her view. “You’re in the... well, I’m not quite sure.” He, too, quickly realized that he had no idea exactly where they were in the so-called Grand Guardian’s Insurance Bank. From what he’d seen, this place was not a bank. Banks didn’t have big-ass living rooms. “You fainted. What’s the last thing you remember?”
    Alexa tried to piece everything together, but her mind was still lost in a haze. “I had the key to the box and I opened it. I think. That’s all I remember.”
    “The key unlocked it. We never actually took a look. You fainted before we got that far.” Matt lifted her head to an upright tilt and supported it with his hand.
    Alexa was finally able to get a good grip of her surroundings. The two men in suits, the unnamed doorman, and Henderson, still crept the hell out of her and Mr. Leeman, she still wasn’t sure what she thought about him.
    “No offence, guys, but I was sort of wishing today had been nothing but a crazy dream,” Alexa said. No one moved a muscle. They all just kept on staring at her, almost like they were too scared she’ll break if they did. “Well, let’s get the box,” she ordered. She really didn’t have any time for all the suspense. She wanted to be done with whatever this was. What had started out as a day she thought was merely a dumb prank by some loser, had gradually turned into something more. Something she was afraid she couldn’t wrap her head around.
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    M ATT placed the box sharply right in Alexa’s front view. It landed with a bang .
    “Gee, Matt. You don't have to be so dramatic. It’s just a box.” Oh, how she wished she believed that. She sat up and picked it up from where Matt had dropped it. She positioned it on her thighs and took two deep breaths. Right before she opened it, her sub conscious stopped her.
    “So, why did I faint?”
    “Leeman suggested that it could have come from the fumes in the room. It’s hardly ever open.”
    She looked at Leeman who’d remained oddly silent since she had awoken. He stood idly by in the corner, holding his pipe firmly within his grip.
    “I bet he did.” Alexa had no idea what had caused her to faint, but she was a hundred percent sure that old fumes had absolutely nothing to do with her being unconscious, although she secretly wished it did.
    Leeman gently puffed on his pipe a few times. “If I may so kindly ask.”
    Alexa shook her head internally . No, you may not.
    “What exactly did you see when you unlocked the box?”
    “Newsflash, I didn’t open it. I fainted ... apparently.”
    “Miss LeGardien, this box is very special. It is of priceless value, very powerful. Yet, you were able to unlock it. You saw something, didn’t you? I’d like to know what.”
    “I fainted.” She dodged the question. Everyone in this room, with the exception of herself and Matt seemed pretty crazy in her eyes. She didn’t want to be put under that category, especially not on her first day of supposed freedom.
    “The box,” Matt reminded her.
    “Right. Let’s see what the big deal is.”
    Alexa looked around the vicinity one more time. She picked up the key to the box and twirled it slowly between her index finger and thumb. At a point, everything in her view seemed to move in slow motion, she could hear the breath escape Matt’s mouth, and she could even hear her own nervous heartbeat.
    A very slow thump followed by another. She could feel her mind about to stop herself from opening the box again, but this time, she made sure her