Page 46 of Clean Hack
Lucy nodded. She was shaking and I tightened my arms around her.
“Yeah,” she said in a sad sigh. “Let’s get out of here.”
She broke away from me, scooted back to the other side of the seat, and buckled herself in. I felt cold instantly. I was torn. I had to drive but I felt like she needed a comforting touch. Or maybe I needed one.
My hope that we’d have a long drive to get to know one another was quickly taken away. No sooner had I headed out of town had her head softly fell against the window and she was out. I tried to wake her so that she could give me some sort of direction to go in, but she was down for the count.
The crash.
Or the beginning of it.
So I thought it was best just to let her body rest and try to recover. I headed in the direction of my closest place, with all intentions of giving her somewhere to feel safe until she was ready to leave.
Only, I sort of hoped she wouldn’t. Because even in all the chaos and death, I’d come to feel a deeper connection to her. And I wasn’t ready for it to end.
