Vampire´s Secret

AURUM

His voice was filled with anger and venom. I saw the shadows of them moving. “Get out of here, idiot.” One yelled at him, and my legs were free. I started kicking again, half blind, and I saw the body of the man flying away. It landed with a hard noise on the other side of the alley. The other guy held me tighter, making my wrist hurt. I saw the two shadows come close in the middle of the road, the two figures started fighting, and suddenly a yell cut the air, another body was thrown in the air and landed with an echoing sound.

The shadow finally reached us, me, lying on the floor could not see him, but I could smell his distinctive scent.

“LET HER GO”

I shiver, afraid of the tone, which was almost a growl, and it had no words, just pure sound. “F**k you” the man holding me said and releasing me he trow a punch to his face. I heard a loud sound and then a shriek, as I lifted my sight I could see the he stopped the punch and was holding it with his hand. With his other hand he held him by the neck, he lift him like this man weighed nothing and pushed him away from me.

“Are you okay?” he put a knee to the ground to be at my eye level. Will was illuminated by the hard light of the car lights; his gorgeous face had a halo around it that made him look even more perfect. “Ruth?” he asked again, his cold fingers caressing my skin softly and I shiver, I couldn’t find my voice.

Will stood up and lifted me from the ground, he carry me and put me inside the car. The familiar scent of the books and him held me, he jumped into the car and drove away.

“Ruth, please talk to me”

His voice was as soft as ever, but in his face I could see his anger, his eyes were black, I could not see the color of his eyes, just pitch dark from his pupil that swallowed the color away. He took my hand inside his, and part of his anger went away and turned into worry.

“Ruth, please… are you hurt? Something is wrong? Ruth, please, please, talk to me”

He put the heat in his car, I start shivering again, he parked outside of a restaurant that offered light to the street. He took off his jacket and put it on top of me, with a soft gesture he took a handkerchief and passed on my cheeks, there, when I realize I was crying, I broke.

“Are you hurt?” He asked in plea, holding my hands, his face contorted in pain while checking me carefully, I was shaking and crying so hard I couldn’t talk. “Ruth, please love, talk to me, where does it hurt? Are you in pain? What happened?”

“I….. I…. m… fi-ne” I managed to stutter between the crying.

Will took my shoulders and pulled me close to him, I pushed my self towards him, and held him so hard, as hard as I could, as close as the car allowed me to press against him. I managed to stop crying, his hands were pressed against my back and my fingers held his back as hard as I could.

The time froze inside his car, the heating and his arms warmed me, I stoped crying and shaking, he separated from me, he took my face into his cold hands and asked me in a whisper “are you okay? are you hurt?”

“I am okay” I managed to whisper and I saw the relief in his eyes and how they recovered the color, passing from black to the warm soft eyes I recognized.

“What happened?”

…

I saw him talking worried into his phone, Alex looked distressed while Majo, next to him, looked annoyed. My clothes were in his hand, and he was looking all around the place, Will was holding my hand, a new gesture I was trying not to overthink while we came close to them. Rock and Alana appeared on the corner and caught up with them next to Alex’s truck. “We cannot find her.” Alana’s nasal voice broke the silence, and Alex yelled, “F*ck!”. He started to walk again when his eyes lifted from the phone and he locked eyes with me.

“RUTH!!”

His voice reverberated like a thunder, he ran to meet us and he held my shoulders, “OMG! Are you okay?” his eyes were watery and red, I felt so bad seeing him like this, but before I could reply Will gently pushed me to him and Alex’s hands fell to the sides.

“See? She is F-I-N-E” Majo and the others came to us, and her annoyance was clear, she looked at me up and down and eyerolled me.

“Majo!” Alex voice was super upset. “What you did was not funny, someone could’ve hurt her, or worst. You know she doesn’t know around here! What is wrong with you?!”

She looked at him shocked. His anger was palpable, I felt uncomfortable and vulnerable, Will’s jacket fitted me, it covered part of the ruined dress, but I was wet, dirty, and embarrassed, I felt like my entire face showed how hard I cried and yelled.

“Can you give us her clothes?” Will said with a bitter tone.

“Yes!” Alex turned around and gave my clothes over “I am so sorry Ruth, please, let me take you home”

“I`ll take her” Will pressed his fingers on my waist, his rage was palpable, I felt intimidated and a bit anxious, but I did not wanted to spend time with Alex and the others, I was not gonna be able to answer if they asked me about what happened.

“okay…” Alex mumbled, and he looked sad and tired. “sorry…”

He walked away and Majo and Alana gave me a dirty smile that made me feel exposed. “Let’s go” Will said but I froze in place “I can’t” I whispered, turning around to face him. He nodded and guided me to the restaurant behind us.

As soon as I entered I felt worst, the place was super fancy and had these gorgeous private cabinets, white table cloths, and flowers on each table. “A cabinet for two, and please guide us to your toilet”

Will’s heavy accent broke the last word in a soft purring sound that made me tremble, the hostess smiled to him, flirted a little and walked us to an aparted booth and showed me to the restroom. Inside the cubicles were separated by wood doors, the floor and the walls were black, and the washbasins were white marble counters with faucets that screamed money.

I quickly took the dress off, and trow it to the trash I put in my jeans and my white T-shirt and stepped outside to clean myself, I tried my best with the paper towels and, blessed them, a little basket held a lot of beauty products so I was able to brush my hair, put on some deodorant and a pinch of perfume. I looked at the mirror and I looked almost normal, I felt better and cleaner.

Returning to the table with Will made me feel nervous, Will was sitting, looking at his phone; he looked like he belong there, he was as elegant and beautiful as the place, I sat feeling awkward but he smiled at me “there’s Ruth” he whisper and I blushed, “Feeling better?” I nodded, and he pushed a big glass of lemonade to me, I drank and my body felt immediately better. Will was smiling more openly to me “I also ordered some pasta for you, I remember you liked the cheesy one”.

Like on a perfectly timed movie the waiter came with my plate and put it in front of me, the plate had a gold band with the name “Aurum”. It looked and smelled amazing, and my stomach protested. I took my fork and took a huge bite, and the familiar taste hugged my soul.

“Are you okay?” Will asked again, but this time his tone was serious, severe. I nodded while chewing. “Good… Now. Tell me what happened.”