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Regina clutched my hand hard, her nostrils flaring as she tried to hide her amused smirk. Light spilled over us from behind us. When we turned, we found Scorn shutting the massive door and waving the light to signal our direction. Which was forward. Through the thick, oppressive darkness.
Inside an iron cave.
I wrapped my arm around Regina. “Where are we going?”
“Ahead and to the left.”
Our voices reverberated off the walls, creating an eerie soundtrack that carried with us wherever we turned—which was ahead and to the left. More of the iron tunnel stretched ahead. Maybe I was wrong about my initial assumption of this being an old chicken factory, or the place had been used for many things over the years to now stand destitute and forgotten by the city.
Regina shuddered under my arm. “How much farther?”
No response from our accompanying human.
I cocked my right ear in his direction. “The lady asked you a question.”
Still nothing. Though the light proceeded with us, there wasn’t a sound from his shoes. I couldn’t hear him breathing. In fact, there wasn’t a heartbeat at all coming from his direction.
I stopped and turned around with a growl. “I said—”
Regina gasped while grabbing my bicep. “Eric, nobody is holding the flashlight.”
She was right. After the inky blots of shadows faded from my vision, I saw the flashlight suspended in the air. Scorn had disappeared.
Where the hell had he gone?
That was when I noticed the pain in my bicep where Regina was digging her nails fretfully into my skin. Her breath came in erratic waves. “Eric?”
I held her tight to my side while reaching for the flashlight. She caught my arm first, then wiggled her fingers over the length of the flashlight, shaking her head when she found nothing dangerous about the object. Though it tingled under my fingers when I grabbed it, I didn’t sense any kind of threat from it.
My jaw ached from gritting my teeth. “We’re being toyed with.”
“Do you remember how to get back?”
“It shouldn’t be difficult, considering we only made one turn.”
She worriedly scratched her temple, then took a shuddering breath. “Okay, I’ll follow you.”
“GG, do you trust me?”
Her silver eyes flickered with a flash of lavender.
I cupped her left cheek, allowing my thumb to graze her mouth. “Do you trust me?”
The way her lip twitched under my touch did things to me that I knew weren’t appropriate for our current circumstances.
But fuck, who was I kidding? The darkness, danger, and deserted factory made me yearn for her. Because it was forbidden. Because it was the wrong time and place.
Because everything about it would be hotter than hell just to have the taste of her tongue on my mouth again.
She stood on her toes to reach me, her face soaked with light that dramatized the shading over her eyes and beyond the left side of her nose. I followed her lead while bowing toward her, eager to sample her mouth, that was quickly drowning in shadows. One kiss. That was all I needed to get us out of here. A kiss, a squeeze, and then we could hit the ground running for the exit.
Just one kiss…
Footsteps on either side of us. Considering how the tunnels were shaped, we had no sense of where the sound originated. We were sitting ducks here. The longer we stood here, the more we were unprepared—yet there wasn’t much we could do. None of the pipes above were separated enough for us to climb through, and the solid walls on either side of us couldn’t possibly be kicked or punched to make an exit.
We had to stand here and wait.
And hope that whoever approached would be on the friendlier side of things.
