Page 21 of Severance

It’s a shady ass spot and I don’t particularly care for this guy’s gaze fixated on the very car that I’m sitting inside.

With my eyes trained on the man smoking, I don’t notice Kai as he walks up to the car. The door opens with ease and I jump in my seat, quickly pointing the gun at the intruder.

“Well, hello to you too.” Kai smirks as he slides into the seat and pulls the door closed behind him.

Sighing, I shake off the panic and put the gun back in my lap. “Sorry, I’m just on edge right now.”

“You don’t have to explain shit to me, Dahlia,” he replies, turning the car back on. “Plus, I may or may not like the way your hand looks wrapped around the butt of a gun. It reminds me of how it looks wrapped around my cock.”

Kai winks as I roll my eyes at him and subtly squeeze my thighs together, feeling the arousal as my imagination takes me where his is.

Backing out of the parking spot, Kai puts the car back in drive and moves to the end of the building. “We’re two rooms in from the end,” he tells me as he kills the engine. “We’re probably going to get bed bugs, cuddle with some roaches and sleep in a bed covered in someone else’s bodily fluids, but it’s the best we can do for now.”

I cringe at the thought, throwing a disgusted glance his way, but I know he’s right.

Stop being so fucking high maintenance.

“We’re probably safer sleeping in your car,” I retort as he reaches in the backseat and grabs his black duffle bag.

He pauses and cuts his eyes at me. “You mean this bullseye we’re sitting in? We’re basically sitting fucking ducks as it is, Dahlia.”

My eyes widen slightly at his hostility, but once again… he’s right.

Kai brushes me off and gets out of the car and walks over and opens my door. “Come on,” he urges as he grabs my arm lightly. “We can’t risk being seen.”

With a huff, I shake off his hand and get out of the car on my own accord.

“By who? The fucking junkies living here?” I mutter under my breath as I follow behind him.

Kai stops abruptly and I run directly into his back. He quickly turns around, leaning down in my face. “Keep talking your shit,bambolina,” he murmurs, stroking my bottom lip with his thumb. “I’ll fuck that pretty little mouth of yours until you can’t utter another word.”

“What if that’s what I want?” I quip, leaning into him.

“Then I hope you’re not too attached to the sound of your voice,” he says with a hint of indifference in his voice and turns back around. This time, he grabs my hand and leads me into our shitty room.

Shutting the door behind me, I look around the tiny ass room, with a bed and a TV. It’s not much, with a small bathroom, but it will do for now.

It’s exactly what we need to lie low until this is all over.

Kai throws the duffle bag onto the bed and I hold my breath, waiting for any STDs to fly off of the sheets or any critters to come crawling out, but it’s surprisingly clean.

“Dahlia.” Kai’s voice fills the room, demanding my attention. “You can actually come into the room. I know it’s not what you’re used to. Fuck, it’s not what I’m used to. This shit is as clean as it’s going to get anywhere.”

Glancing around the room once more, my eyes find his, watching me and I shrug before walking over to him. Taking my chances, I drop down onto the bed beside the duffle bag as he unzips it.

“We need to come up with a plan,” he says as he pulls out a stack of passports. He reaches back into the bag and I grab the first passport and flip it open, finding his picture.

Caleb Martic

“Caleb?” I question him as I grab the stack of passports. Leafing through them, each one has a different name, different address, but all with his picture.

“I had them made a while ago.” He shrugs. “Precautionary measures… you never know when you might need them.”

“And the stacks of cash too, right?” I ask, sarcastically. “Haven’t you ever heard of off-shore accounts?”

Kai chuckles as he grabs the passports from me. “I have my ducks in a row. We will get you set up with a few too. Just in case this shit heads south, we need an exit plan.”

“So, what’s our exit plan?”

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