One Wild Night by Jessie Evans

Author:Jessie Evans [Evans, Jessie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: bad boy, short story, edgy, Romance, sexy, new adult, forbidden
ISBN: 9781940848198
Amazon: B00JFHKE1Y
Publisher: Self Taught Ninja Press
Published: 2014-03-23T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

Gabe

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare

Television sets flicker behind living room curtains and loud laughter echoes down the street from a party further up the block as we make our way down Hawthorne Street, but no one sees the two silhouettes moving swiftly through the shadows beneath the broken streetlights.

Caitlin walks silently along beside me, a full two inches shorter now that she’s slipped into a pair of tennis shoes we found in the Bug’s trunk. She’s so petite that the top of her head barely reaches the middle of my arm. I don’t usually go for short girls—too hard to make six foot one and five foot one match up in certain situations—but I’ve decided to make an exception in her case.

All kinds of exceptions. Breaking all the rules of engagement tonight…but what else are rules good for?

I smile, grateful Caitlin can’t see my face in the darkness. I know she’s scared—any sane person would be; we’re about to commit a felony—and I don’t want her to realize how little this bothers me. I’m not a sociopath, at least not in the true sense, but she doesn’t know me well enough to understand that it took a lot of time and thought for me to come to peace with breaking the law. She might be spooked by the smile and rethink her decision, and I don’t want her to bail. I’ve never had an accomplice before, but I can already tell that crime is more fun when shared with someone special.

And Caitlin is special. She’s fierce and shy, hard and kind, wild and domesticated, all at the same time. I was too stupid to appreciate someone like her back when we were in high school, but now I’m intrigued by her contradictions, and even more curious to see how she’ll perform under pressure.

“How are we getting over?” Caitlin whispers as we stop beside the chain link fence surrounding the back of the pawnshop.

On the other side, the innards of rusted out machinery, old refrigerators, and a variety of battered bikes and once brightly-colored kids toys litter the hard-packed earth, belying the quality of the goods inside the store. But I know this isn’t your average second hand junk store. Mr. Purdue has a thriving business to lose if he goes to jail. There is good money to be had within those crumbling brick walls and Caitlin and I are going to take our share of it.

“We’ll climb over,” I say, stripping off my shirt. “I’ll go first and leave this on top of the barbed wire so you won’t cut yourself.”

Caitlin takes a shaky breath. “Are you sure you’re going to be able to pick the lock? What if they have a security system?”

“Does this look like the kind of place that has a security system?” I begin to climb, knowing it’s best not to give Caitlin too much time to think.

“I don’t know,” she whispers. “But what if it does?”

“Then we’ll climb faster on the way out.

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