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On one side of the bed was an assortment of pills, I read the name of each. Some I recognized, a few I didn’t. Mrs. Morkav clearly had a variety of issues. I put everything back as I found it and left that room behind, there wasn’t anything of importance in there either.
Aside from Nova’s room there was only one place left to check. I eased open the door and after listening to make sure she hadn’t stirred, I went in.
Various paintings hung on the walls, a few more were stacked. All of them were morbid and macabre. Not even one depicted what a girl like Nova should have been painting.
Everyone in this town described her as shy. Introverted and sweet. None of those qualities matched with what I was seeing in this room or the Nova I had met. I’d already known that was all bullshit before we said one word to each other, but my growing pile of proof was nothing to sneer at.
When you were a monster, someone who did abhorrent things, it was easy to recognize that same darkness in other people. My girl definitely had it.
One painting caught my eye. It was on an easel, so I figured it had to be the most recent. A wounded rabbit running away from a wolf. Its silver eyes stared out at me, tinges of black and blue mixed in their centers. The wolf was me.
I didn’t know what to make of this. Was it accurate?
Predator and prey.
Hunter and hunted.
Me and Nova.
Yeah, I’d say that was pretty on point.
I left the room after that, leaving everything the way it when I found it.
Her bedroom door was partially cracked which allowed me to slip in without waking her up. She was halfway beneath a dark lavender comforter, wearing an oversized Lakers shirt, nothing underneath.
Unsurprisingly, a butterfly dreamcatcher was hanging above an all-white desk. I watched her sleep for a minute, like I had the night before. I could look at her for hours on end, and the more I pieced together about her, the stronger my conviction grew to get her out of here.
I tossed my bag down, making sure it made a sound.
Two discolored hues were revealed slowly. She blinked, jolting into a sitting position when her brain registered someone else was in the room.
“It’s me,” I said, pressing a hand over her mouth to muffle her scream.
Her fear turned to anger before my eyes. She shoved my arm down, freeing her perfect lips.
“What the hell are you doing in my house?”
“I came to see you.” I kicked off my boots and chucked off my leather jacket.
“Earlier wasn’t enough.”
I pulled my shirt over my head, and then sat at the foot of her bed. “That’s not what I’m here for. I wanted to be with you.”
She scooted up so that her back was pressed against the headboard of her bed, crossing her legs before I could see too much.
“You just…left me.” The softness in her tone hit me like it had earlier, when she told me not to go.
“Come here.” I reached back and held out my hand. “Nova.”
That got her compliance. She crawled down the queen-sized bed to the end where I was sitting. I wrapped my arm around her, placing her legs over mine so she was sideways.
This wasn’t my area of expertise; I didn’t comfort women I fucked. Never cared to. With Nova, I needed her to feel secure, knew she needed it. “A lot of things are complicated right now. There are certain things I must do and at specific times. I didn’t want to leave you anymore than I had to, especially like that. I promise I’ll tell you everything, eventually. For right now this is how it has to be.”
“Okay,” she said after a minute, laying her head on my shoulder.
“That’s all you want to say?”
“I’m still mad at you, but you said you’d tell me, just not right now. I can live with that. I know what complicated is Rhett.”
There wasn’t any third degree or demanding to know why the fuck my phone rang so much. I knew she had a million questions, but I didn’t hear one. We sat there in silence, not discomforting. After another minute or so she yawned and eased off me, climbing back up the bed.
“Come lay down.”
I didn’t need to be told twice, I was at the end of my rope, fucking exhausted from days of no sleep. I removed my jeans and settled in beside her, leaving space so she could curl into me. It was the most domesticated shit I’d ever done. She laid her head on my chest, tracing the outline of my Kali tat.
“Rhett?”
“Hm?”
“Will you please fuck me?”
Not often did I find myself surprised, but after earlier this was the last thing I expected to come out of her mouth. But as tired as I was, my dick was already rising to the occasion. Nova’s pussy was the gateway to heaven, but I couldn’t go there right now. She had to be sore as fuck.
