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“Have a think about it. If you really want to do it, then I’ll take you.”
“Okay, I’ll think about it,” she said. Her gaze moving to the window and I watched her as she looked outside, but she was in a world of her own.
“Lacey... can I ask you why you haven’t spoken to me since that day?”
She turned back to me and slowly inhaled. “Sorry, I was out of order. I had a little hissy fit with myself.”
I laughed out loud at her description. “What do you mean?”
“Because I thought you didn’t trust me to get the morning-after pill by myself.”
I sighed. “Of course I trusted you. I just wanted to be with you. I didn’t want you doing it by yourself.”
“I know that now, but at the time I thought you were so scared I wouldn’t do it and you wanted to make sure,” she said, and shrugged her shoulder. “Sorry.”
“Can I tell you something, Lacey?”
“Mmm.”
“If you said you couldn’t do it and we’d have to deal with it. I would have been fine with it.”
She looked up at me with her big honey coloured eyes. “You’d have been fine with getting me pregnant? And dealing with the wrath of Clay?”
“I’d have been fine, no, not just fine. I’d be happy to be the father of our child. That little girl that you saw.”
She gasped. “How did you see her?”
“We obviously share a link of some sort.” I laughed. “I should be grateful because poor Ryan shares your pain. That is how we knew you were in trouble.”
“Oh, he didn’t say when I spoke to him.” She hesitated for a moment. “I need to give Ryan a hug. In fact, I need to give everyone a hug for finding me.”
I smiled into her head.
“Did they catch the person who tried to run me off the road?”
“They arrested a girl. She said you did some magic on her and that you’re a witch. Everyone thinks she is wacko, and she is being assessed under the Mental Health Act.”
“The girl from Halloween,” she said and tapped her fingers on my chest. “No, they’ve got the wrong person. The girl that tried to run me off the road was a demon.”
“No, this girl has admitted it,” I said.
Lacey chewed on her bottom lip, shaking her head slowly. “No,” she muttered. “No, that’s not right. He was there. The Dark King, and the girl in the car was a demon. I saw her face, her eyes.”
“Are you sure?” I asked.
“Yes, he was flying up ahead but in front of her car and then when I crashed, he took me away from the bike and sat me against the tree,” she said, shaking her head. “Why did he save me?”
I didn’t want to say to Lacey that she probably saved herself. I didn’t want any arguments about her thoughts on the girl being a demon, and what I certainly didn’t want was her thinking the Dark King had saved her. Because that changed everything.
“They arrested the girl not long after and she admitted to everything and she explained it was anger. She saw you riding your bike and flipped,” I said. “Maybe you glimpsed her face and she was angry.”
She shook her head and clucked her tongue. “I hope she isn’t being framed for something. I’d hate for anything to happen to her if she’s innocent.”
“She tried to kill you, she should still be locked away,” I said, my voice was firm. If I got hold of the girl I'd do more harm to her than lock her up.
“I’d try to kill someone trying to take one of my men away.”
I burst out laughing and held her chin under my fingers to lift her gaze to mine. “Your men?”
