A Gift from the Goddess by Dawn Rosewood
Chapter 15
Chapter Fifteen
We ran outside into the parking lot, knowing we had a lot of ground to cover, and I was pleased to see that Cai had no issue keeping up. If anything, it was me that was slowing us down.
I turned to yell out some more directions of where we were headed next, but to my surprise, he was running in the opposite direction to where we were needing to go.
“Where are you going?” I yelled out after him. “It‘s this way!”
He spun around to face me as he continued to move backwards.
“Were you actually planning to run the whole way?” he shouted back, amused.
He was right. Even if I could run the whole way, I would be way too exhausted to fight by the time we got there.
“Fine,” I said, running to catch up with him. “Hand me the car keys and let‘s go.”
“Woah, I‘m not giving you the keys.” He looked at me incredulously.
“Don‘t be ridiculous, you don‘t even know the way!”
He stopped walking at that to look down at me seriously.
“One,” he said, holding up a finger, “you are literally fourteen. I‘m not giving the keys to a child.”
I felt my cheeks burn, realising how stupid I must have sounded. I wasn‘t supposed to know how to drive a car yet. It would be another few years before I‘d get my license again.
“And two…,” he pointed to a motorcycle parked by the curb. “It‘s not a car.”
| stared at the two–wheeled death trap.
got to
entertained smirk. “You were willing to run into danger completely unprepared and alone just five minutes ago, but now a motorcycle is too
lip. He
go. It‘s getting dark and we‘re
I looked away before I‘d get caught up in those feelings he gives off when he does that. I remembered the first time he smiled like that, it had felt like my insides were melting in those molten gold orbs. He had this weird charismatic energy about him. It was no wonder the teachers were so enchanted by
the bike and handed
to hold on tight. You‘re so tiny you’ll fly off
once again, made fun of my external age. But nevertheless,
clumsy, especially since I wasn‘t sure where to place my hands
going to fall off like that,” he said
towards him so my body was up flush against his back. I was about to protest the proximity but he grabbed at my
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promptly wrapping them tightly around his
heat emanating from his body and found it difficult to distract myself from the fact I was completely wrapped around him.
said and quickly kicked the
tested the gas a few times. When he was finally satisfied, he
my yelling over the wind and some very shaky finger pointing, we did finally manage to figure out the way there. I had to admit though, the feeling of flying out in the open without car walls to protect me was exhilarating. The freezing wind was biting aggressively at my body, but it reminded me of when I used to run in
so free in those
the road. In fact, thinking on it now, I realised there was no way I could have made it in time by
for anything suspicious or out of place. But when I couldn‘t see anything, I relaxed a little. I suspected they were going to approach from the North but being complacent was a quick death I wanted to
nodded at Cai and saw he had done the same thing. He would probably be able to sense more than me and would know better about what
as possible to listen out for danger. Cai was far more prepared than I was as he made sure to cover our tracks as best as possible while we walked. A definite testament to
knew that it would be far too dangerous to go exposing myself completely unprepared. We would be outnumbered four to two against fully
needed to stay sharp though and keep a lookout for her. With any luck, we could pull her out of
said, still discreetly scoping the area. “You should head back to
look back at him, disagreeing with