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She didn’t struggle against me or protest, sliding across the seat.
She gave Luce a wider berth, which only gained her more of his attention. That was the wrong predator to tempt.
I led her forward, watching as she tried to shield herself from the heavy rainfall. A sloshing sound pulled my attention to her feet.
“Why aren’t you wearing shoes?” I shook my head. “Never mind.” I felt compelled to pick her up. I wasn’t surprised to discover she hardly weighed anything.
“Hey!” she objected, grabbing onto my upper forearm.
Because of the weather my shirt had become drenched, clinging to my skin much like her nightgown was. I could feel every fucking part of her body.
I knew she felt me too. All the skin that had once been smooth was now marred and ruined.
Behind me, I heard the engine of the truck rev as Ice drove off to go park in the back. Luce moved ahead to open the door, standing to the side so I could enter first. I carried the girl directly to the storage room, boots squelching and making a mess all over the floor the entire way there.
“What is this place?” she asked.
“An oversized closet,” Luce responded with sarcasm.
In the far back corner was what once had been used as a dog kennel already equipped with a lock. There wasn’t any way this girl could climb out or escape it. The chain link went way too high for that to occur without us catching her in the act.
“You’ll stay in here until we decided what to do with you,” I explained, placing her down inside the enclosure.
Luce waited for me, studying the girl in the peculiar way he did most people, only with something I didn’t recognize in the narrowing of his eyes. If he weren’t my best friend, I would have found the way he was looking at her unnerving.
“What is there to figure out? Why not just let me go?”
If I weren’t tripping, there was a hint of defiance in her tone. I shared a look with Luce. He had picked up on it too. I stifled a smile, trying to appear as if I were oblivious.
“Why are you in such a rush to leave? Don’t you want to get to know me?” Luce gibed.
She immediately sidestepped to put space between us. I pulled the gate shut, watching her retreat until she had nowhere left to go, sinking down with her back to the wall.
The action made her seem small, and she barely reached the middle of my chest as it was. It reminded me of Lilith, invoking an urge to protect her like I had failed to do my sister.
She looked vulnerable, but I still wasn’t getting a fearful vibe, which would have been expected considering who Luce and I were. With her wild hair and the fact that she was lathered in mud, she came off as more untamed.
“Don’t mind him. You’ve got a roof over your head for the night and you’re safe here.”
“For now,” Luce added, turning to walk away.
I took another good look at the girl’s face. Her lips set into a straight line and she stared back at me. She was a mess, but that didn’t take away from how beautiful she was.
The squeak caused by the door opening again had me turning to follow Luce, flipping the main light off on my way out of the room.
“Um, what was that?”
“What was what?”
“You can’t get that kind of thing past me, bro. The way you were just staring at her.”
He took a minute longer than usual to answer me, completely unlike him.
“Nothing. We can deal with her in the morning,” he said as I stepped into the hall. “I’m gonna check in with the acolytes, if you wanna come. Or are you heading to bed?”
“If you don’t need me, I’m going back to see Butch.”
He nodded once and simply walked off, taking any semblance of amusement I’d felt the past hour with him. I almost called for him to wait up.
