Page 118 of Your Coffin or Mine
The moment I get close enough, I propel myself forward and shift back into a human. Landing a short distance in front of the moving vehicle, I take control, yanking the car three feet into the air like a mere toy.
My anger gets the better of me until I hear Hilda’s groans of fright. I drop it back down to the ground, but turn off the ignition as I do. I can hear Jekyll cackling in the background, obviously having the time of his life.
I really need to make new friends.
The doors come off next as I rip them from the hinges and a wave of fear slices down my back instantaneously.Aubrey?Her scent washes over me, coming from the car, and my eyes flash red as a haze of fury unleashes. I stomp over to the car, dread thundering in my chest when I think of how it was careening on the road seconds ago and how I ripped the doors off without thought. She could be scared or hurt.
Jekyll sits in the driver’s seat, not showing an ounce of shame whatsoever by the mischievous grin lighting his face. “What the fuck are you doing?”
Jerking Jekyll from the car, I smash my fist into his face once, twice. He only smiles as my fists rain down on him until a firm, bony hand wraps around my arm, stopping me.
I toss him as Hilda groans, “Ahhhhhnnnn.”
I hold Jekyll down to the ground with my power, Hilda’s skeletal hand trying to pull me off the bastard. I try to shrug her off but it’s as if she’s cemented to me. I lift her form into the air, and her neck rattles as she attempts to pull away from my power. Aubrey’s scent is all over her, and I look more closely at what she’s wearing. Surely, I’m imagining things.
“Whyare you wearing her clothes?”
“Annnngg.”Because she didn’t have clothes to wear.
She has only ever worn her uniform, ever since I was a lad, and has never asked for anything. I assumed she wore the clothes out of want rather than purchasing from humans. Hilda has been a stern, but caring nanny to me all my life, but I never suspected she would want to leave.She has never given an inkling otherwise.
My brow furrows. Perhaps Doyle was right, and she hasn’t been happy.She only needed to tell me, and I would have done anything for her.
But her wearing Aubrey’s clothing only makes me worried over my mate’s whereabouts.
“Where is Aubrey?” I ask.
Her bones rattle. “Anng.”
“What the fuck do you mean, gone?”
“We don’t know where your woman ran off to,” Jekyll says with a laugh from the ground, still immobile.
I don’t know if I should believe them or not, but Jekyll didn’t seem to mind that I have a human mate.Only Frank, and that worries me even more.
“Thisis your way of telling me you’re leaving?” I nod at Jekyll laying down on the asphalt, his arms behind his head, obviously nonplussed by his current situation.Typical. “You really want to go stay with this idiot? Him?”
“Unnhg.”Yes.
“He doesn’t act as if he excelled past grade one most of the time. He quite literally is a man-child.”
Jekyll sputters out, “I’m lying right here!”
“Shut up, Jekyll,” I snap at him, wishing he would just disappear.
“Kay,” he says, nodding his head solemnly.
“Aannng.”
“Fine.” I have other things to worry about and truly she can handle Jekyll herself if that is her decision. I let her go, and her cold bony hands touch my cheek affectionately. “You know you will always have a home here. Just send word if you need anything or want me to come get you.”
She pulls away and bones clack as she curtsies. With a snap of her fingers, she takes Jekyll from my power, and floats him back to the car with her own. The sweater hangs off her form awkwardly, and a tightness forms in my chest. All this time, was I holding her hostage?
“Annng aaa.”Tell her I’m sorry if I scared her?
“What do you mean? How did you scare her?”
My phone pings, and my world tilts into chaos as the notification crosses the screen.
