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Was it them?
Had they come back?
To make good on their silent threat?
I had already worked myself up into an epic panic when a voice called through the door.
“Siana?”
Siana?
Who the hell knew my name and address aside from, like, my mother and Kylo? I didn’t even think the other neighbors on the floor had ever asked my name.
“Siana, it’s Alaric,” he said.
Alaric?
I damn sure didn’t know anyone named Alaric. That was a name that kind of stuck with you.
“From the video calls,” he added, voice a little lower.
From the video calls?
The biker?
Alaric, that was his name.
My first thought was that it suited him.
The second was wondering how the hell he knew where I lived.
“Fuck,” he hissed. “I’m too late.”
There was something tortured in his voice.
And I was responding to it before I could even form a single rational thought.
I climbed off the couch, made my way to the door, and reached for the knob. I turned it before I could think better of it.
Then there he was.
In all his gorgeous glory.
God, he was even more handsome than I remembered from the hotel, than I’d seen in the poor lighting of the video chats.
His model-worthy bone structure, his light green eyes, his sun-streaked hair.
He was taller than I remembered, too.
I had to crane my head up to look at him.
And on that handsome face, I got to watch fear morph into relief.
Until his gaze moved down and took in the blood covering my hands, legs, and a big stain on my t-shirt I hadn’t seen before.
“Are you hit?” he asked, voice rough. “Hey,” he said when I couldn’t seem to force any words out. “Hey, it’s alright,” he said.
Those words, because I needed so badly to hear them, because no one had really said them to me, seemed to break that dam inside once again, making tears stream down my cheeks.
