Page 103 of Collateral Damage

I glare at it intensely, completely lost in thought as he looks back on himself trying to see what I'm glaring at.

“ Sad isn’t it. I hope she’s ok. Anyway, is that everything?”He pulls me back, waving in front of me.“Sir?... Is that everything?”

Trying not to look suspicious of kidnap when she’s sitting outside the window is slightly difficult. My throat tightens, squeezing the words out as I look at her waiting patiently for me.

“Shit- yeah. Sorry.” I turn to find him looking right at her and although I can tell he isn’t exactly sure, he’s still suspicious.She clearly looks familiar, trying to put the pieces together as he looks back at me, knowing my face is dripping with guilt, holding contact like he's trying to take a picture of my face in his mind and I drag my nerves back down my throat, slicing it open on the way down as he peers at the phone and back at me.

“That’ll be $23.45” He keeps his composure, hearing the change in his tone as he passes the chocolate bar back to me, an over exaggerative smile gracing his tired face before taking my money. I’m trying to hold my culpability together, but this is wrong.Everything about this is wrong.

I sigh from exhaustion staring at her poster, coming to terms with the fact that what I’m about to do might be the end of everything but I do it anyway, nodding in a language I know he understands as I confirm with my eyes that he’s doing the right thing, peering at the phone in front of him.

“Cheers. Keep the change. Have a good night.”

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I’m found only if I want to be found.

C H A P T E R 60

MY FOREVER

Puppet

Play - ‘Fields Of Elation - Sleep Token’

Iscoff down my chocolate, ending off the perfect little adventure with my favourite treat as we pull up to the house. She's been fairly quiet the entire way back and I don’t know whether to be frightened by that. Maybe she’s just tired. Today has been a lot for people who never venture out of the house but it felt so incredible to feel the water wash away all my thoughts for a while, although I’m now in desperate need of a shower. I feel the sand in my hair as I run my fingers through it, it’s grosssss.

She cuts the engine, sitting there in silence for a while outside the bungalow and I analyse her, trying to figure out what on earth she is doing, it’s like she’s waiting for something. Water begins to patter against my skin, looking up to feel a light shower against my cold cheeks, almost numb as it tingles my skin.How did she know it was going to rain?It literally never rains, what the hell are the chances.

She pulls me off the bike, lifting me like a feather and her strength is just ridiculously hot, planting me down on the ground as she wastes no time digging for my tongue, latching tome like I'm going to slip out of her grasp at any moment.What has gotten into her?

I melt like honey into her mouth, shuddering under the icy temperatures mixed with the chills she gives me without even trying, feeling the rain hit my skin harder as she grins against me, knowing that inside I'm cringing at the sensation but I wanted to dance in the rain. I guess this is as close as I'm going to get. I’m smiling back when I remember our little slow dance earlier that took me completely by surprise.

Our lips finally detach and I look up at the sky as the heavens open, completely drenching us both from head to toe but we just stand there like idiots until she attacks under my arms causing me to yelp out into a helpless giggle as she tickles me to the ground trying to get away from her hold but I’m laughing so hard I can’t breathe.

“HAYDEN! STOP! ST- STOP! I CAN’T BREATHEEE!”

She grabs my hand, pulling me into her torso feeling her attack my skin with her needy hands, grabbing my outer thighs as she lifts me to rest around her body like a koala. Walking us inside, she’s unable to keep her lips off mine as she heads straight for the shower, paying no mind to Shep who’s curled up in bed, glaring at us and if I didn’t know any better it's almost like he's raising a brow as she rips her leather jacket off me with an animalistic nature I’ve never seen from her. Territorial and hungry for me in ways I never thought possible.

“You’re fuckingMine. Do you hear me?” The water opens up as she flicks the handle, gasping as the freezing water frames to the curves of my body followed by her hands, completely careless to the fact she’s fully clothed right now getting us both drenched under the shower but I’m too caught up in the taste of her to care, losing my head as her fragrant cologne stings my nose.

“Tell meAlora. Fucking tell me you’reMine. I need to hear you say it.” I rush the words from my mouth, cracking to contain my oxygen as she pulls me under the water, nearly choking on it as my underwear disappears.

“I’m yours, all yoursBaby.” She lets me touch her body, hissing as I touch her like it physical burns but she’s enduring it, panting heavier down my neck as I run my nails over her abs. I’m finally able to memorise every perfect imperfection in her skin as I pull her tank top up and over her head, hitching my breath as she presses me against the tiled wall, gasping at the ice burning my back, admiring her soppy wet hair falling in front of her demonic features that even the Devil himself would fear. She’s so horrifically beautiful it haunts me, the bags under her eyes holding all her sleepless nights like trophies. My wounded monster is finally letting down her guard and I suddenly can’t keep my hands off her, trying to claw my way inside her hollow body made just for me.

“Don’t ever fucking forget it.” She forces entry, pushing her fingers inside my aching hole, needy for her to fill me. How could I ever forget when she’s my entire fucking existence, moaning at how easily she’s sliding in and out, coating her fingers as I drip desperately. “You’ll live for me. Do you understand me?”

Her words catch me off guard slightly, not responding as quickly as she’d like only to have my mouth filled with water as she dunks my head under the heavy flow of water.

“I said, do you understand me,Puppet?” She shakes me vigorously as I catch my breath once more, glaring at this emotion buried somewhere in her deep sea and I don’t understand what is up with her but I reply abruptly as she orders me, trying to understand why she’d think I wouldn’t want to when all I want to do is be here in her arms.

“Yes!...” She digs deeper for my submission, rewarding me as she pushes me closer, curling her digits inside me and I can’tkeep quiet, trying to clasp to her as she finger fucks me to draw out my whines, clawing into her flesh as I scream for her. It will only ever be her. I don’t want anyone else.Ever. Just thinking about it makes me sick. My body, mind and soul belongs to her.She is my forever. Maybe this trip out has her thinking I'm going to walk away now that she’s let me experience life outside these walls.

“I’m not going anywhere.” I try to speak but it comes out as a whisper against her lips as I whimper through her kiss.

“Promise me.”

“Why so many promises?”She ignores my question, running her fingers through the knotty locks of my hair, tightening her grip to tug at my scalp with force to listen to her words, controlling what I see as she squeezes against the back of my neck, cutting through me with a look I’ve never seen on her face.

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