Witchful Thinking by L.A. Kennedy

Author:L.A. Kennedy [Kennedy, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group Ltd
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The drive was bitterly silent. It wasn’t the kind of silence I liked. This gnawed at my bones. It hung in the air like suspended moments, all the things that had been left unsaid. One harsh word would bring it crashing down like giant icicles waiting for someone to walk under them. The stillness that clung to us was slow-moving poison in its nothingness. It cruelly made each breath tight and shallow, a heavy reminder that I was locked in the vehicle with a Lycan, a myth, a killer, a monster. The silence was the most terrifying part. I didn’t know what he was thinking. But I’d sooner drown in the silence than open my mouth. What could I say that wouldn’t eat us up or throw Mr. Furry into a fit of rage? Now that I knew what he was, I didn’t think he’d have to hide it from me any longer. I’ve never seen a Lycan in full form, only in drawings—and perhaps in my one dream of the first crime scene. I didn’t want to pick now, speeding down the highway, as the exact time to experience an up close and personal viewing.

“Can a Lycan drive?” I blurted out.

He glanced at me. He could sense my fear. He grinned and looked back to the road. “I’m not going to shift if that’s what you’re scared of.”

“Can they, though, drive? Or we would wreck?”

“I think we’d wreck long before I found out if I could drive. I’ve never tried it. Shifting would take my attention away from the road. We’d be in the ditch before I was done shifting. But it would be one hell of a ride until we were wrapped around a tree,” he answered, and I winced at the thought. I had died once, wrapped around a pole. He noticed and had the decency of looking bad. “Poor choice of words. I’m not going to shift, no matter how angry I get.”

“What if I were a threat to you?” I asked.

“Are you asking if I would shift to defend myself against you?” He squeaked out the question like he didn’t want me to answer. I nodded. His shoulders were hunched with disappointment. “Anyone else, I’d shift part of my body, like my hands, and defend myself. But with you, no. I wouldn’t shift to defend myself from you.”

“Not even if it meant I would kill you?” I don’t know why I needed to know. I just did.

“I’d rather be dead than live and know I killed you to keep my own heart beating.”

I turned my eyes back to the road. “I wish I could say the same thing to you, Miguel.”

“Would you kill me?” He sounded surprised. I don’t know why that came as one.

“If I had to, yes,” I answered. I wanted him to understand the line I drew in the sand. I would kill him to save myself. Maybe I needed to hear myself say it out loud more than I needed him to hear it.

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