by Jill Myles
“There you are,” a voice whispered against my ear, warm hands cupping my shoulders. He was so warm, and I was so very cold. “You came back. Good girl.”
“Purse,” I mumbled. Even my tongue was finding it hard to move. What was wrong with me?
My dark stranger slid around me, his coat rustling. With his warm hands, he tilted my head back, letting me rest against his shoulder. “First, one final kiss to send you off.”
Again, the piercing bite against my neck. But this time, instead of that feverish pleasure, I felt the numbness spreading. My limbs grew even colder – my body felt like one big icicle. I whimpered, too weak to do anything else.
“Shhh,” he said, stroking my hair. “The hurt won’t last long. Soon you’ll go to sleep. And when you wake up, we’ll see each other again. I’ve got an entirely new world to show you, Princess.” He touched my cheek in an almost tender gesture. “Fate has brought you back to me.”
A siren sounded in the distance, and my dark stranger cursed.
Tension rippled through him, and his hand clenched on my arm. I wanted to pull away from him, but the world was growing dim. Was I…was I dying? Or just passing out? I was so cold and the world was so foggy that it was hard to tell.
“Change of plans, Princess.” He kissed my cheek. then picked me up and cradled me in his arms like a limp puppet.
As the blackness swam over my eyes, an awful, sour smell filled my nostrils. I struggled to stay awake as he laid me atop something soft and squishy, and I stared up at him as he peered down at me. I was in some sort of box. A stinky box filled with puffy plastic things.
He reached overhead for a lid, and it began to grow dark in my box. “Don’t worry, Princess.” He glanced down the street as the sound of the siren grew louder. “By the time you wake up again, you won’t remember a thing. This will just be a long-gone nightmare.”
“Wait,” I croaked, as the lid began to close. “Why are you doing this?”
He grinned down at me, a rakish smile crossing his face. “My dear, where else would one hide a body?”
With that, the lid slammed shut.
And as the last of my mind faded out, I realized that the jerk had left me in a Dumpster.
Not the end...
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