15

Spoil

I attempted to sleep, I did. However between the bizarre dialog with Joker, my suspicions about why Satan’s Nightmare MC actually despatched us on this job and the rising stench in my room made it unattainable. Somebody should’ve died in that room, I swear. Or a number of someones. And so they most likely lay in there for days earlier than anybody missed them. As soon as I began interested by the potential of that and the way few folks would discover if it occurred to me, I couldn’t keep in there a second later.

I most likely ought to’ve checked with Edge earlier than leaving. However he’d inform me to remain, and I didn’t need to hear that. I wished to see Ariel. To look at her eyes fill with lighting and hearth as she fired weapons and let herself simply be.

Fortunate for me she was pondering the identical factor.

I took her again to the compound within the woods. Nobody will search for us right here. Hunter, Probability, Edge, and me, and typically a few of the others, used to spend so much of time right here once we have been youthful and wished to shoot weapons and never have anybody discover us. However that was a very long time in the past. I doubt any of them even keep in mind this place exists.

“So, you’re letting me hold this gun, proper?” Ariel asks, trying round whereas I load the .380 I’m having her use at this time. The Desert Eagle was an excessive amount of gun for her. I typically discover that factor too heavy, particularly after a protracted day.

I chuckle and hand her the loaded gun. “All yours. You’ll don’t have any bother becoming it in that vast purse of yours.”

I like speaking to her, however I like touching her too. And I solely get to try this once I’m serving to her goal. It’s why we’ve been right here for lower than an hour or so and already burned via half my provide of ammo. My ears are ringing, all of the taking pictures’s most likely achieved us each everlasting listening to harm, however I would like extra.

She doesn’t want my assist aiming a lot anymore. However I do it anyway. Her pores and skin is heat and silky clean below my fingers and gentle like spring grass.

She squeezes the set off earlier than I even assist her goal, whereas I’m nonetheless caught on looking for the proper ideas to explain the perfection of touching her. One of many bottles explodes with the bang.

“Whoa! That was fairly! Similar to star mud,” she exclaims and twists in my arms to have a look at me. “Did you see?”

What I see are her good lips mere inches away from mine. And I can’t consider a single purpose to not kiss her. There are many causes. I do know that. However I can’t consider a single one proper now.

So I lean in and contact my lips to hers. Perfection isn’t a powerful sufficient phrase to explain the jolt of that passes via me. It looks like my complete physique simply hit a cement ground laborious, however in a great way.

For a couple of superb seconds she kisses me again. However then she pushes me away, trying harm and shocked and unhappy and perhaps just a little offended all on the similar time. But additionally like she’s pondering laborious.

I’m having fun with the texture of her palm in opposition to my chest and don’t need to suppose past that. Nothing good is coming, I do know that a lot.

“No,” she lastly says. “I’m not prepared.”

Then as a substitute of pushing me all the best way away, she stays cradled in my arms as she turns and raises the gun once more. The sound of her subsequent gunshot is deafeningly loud, but I hardly hear it.

She didn’t push me away.

It’s a win. Not a giant one, however a win is a win. I’ll take it.

16

Ariel

His kiss was superb. Even earlier than it got here, my complete physique was quivering from the closeness, from his contact, from the heat of his physique and his arms round me. And particularly from the sheer elation of firing the gun. From hitting the goal. From having the means to defend myself in my management and below my command. His kiss was higher than all that mixed.

However it was too quickly. I’m not prepared.

That is good.

All these unhealthy recollections of kisses I didn’t need received’t be. And I used to be positive they’d come if we continued. So I mentioned no.

I type of remorse it now, as we’re sitting facet by facet on one of many benches by the run-down shacks. The solar is barely making it via the cover above us, however a ray is warming my arm. It’s not nicer than Spoil’s arms round me.

He’s sitting beside me, engrossed in cleansing his weapons, which is what he’s been doing for the previous twenty minutes or so. I let him do it, content material to only watch him.

He’s like a cat cleansing its claws. Meticulous and thorough. A killer ensuring his instruments are at all times prepared. Actually, I really feel secure with him. Similar to he promised I’d be.

However I can’t inform how laborious my rejection hit him. It didn’t appear to be it was too unhealthy, however what if I ruined all my possibilities with him? It’s an extremely scary thought.

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