Anita didn’t say anything, she couldn’t with the lump that latched itself so sharply in her chest. Was it fear that gripped her? Could he taste it in the air, and even worse, did he like it? She turned away from him, her eyes looking distantly into the woods for a moment to think and at least attempt to understand everything that she was feeling right now. Tonight was one that was heavy, and it seemed now that he revealed more and more to her, even if he wasn’t planning to.
“Axel,” she interjected where she could but he was deep in his own thoughts and his voice quickly ran over hers, even as he turned the car around and began to head back towards the city. “Axel,” she swallowed in her dry throat and spoke louder, turning now to him and placed a soft hand on his as it covered the stick shift. “Stop the car.” Anita wasn’t exactly sure where she was going in this, she wasn’t in a position to describe why her heart was racing.
She waited until they were pulled over again before she turned her whole body towards him and unbuckled her seat-belt, picking up his pale hand in hers and held it, allowing it to rest on her thigh. Anita met his gaze, her eyes slowly flickering over his until she was looking at the clear green one that reminded her of the forest surrounding them.
“I don’t want to be alone.”
He hated tasting the fear of other in the air, even more so when the fear was because of him. He stopped the car when she asked and just looked over at her a little confused as to why she had wanted him to stop. Axel knew that she was scared of him and he had thought that she wanted to flee the car as soon as it stopped but she didnt she just sat there and look at him as he watched her.
As she turned and unbuckled her seat-belt he just watched as she picked up his hand and put it on her thigh. “From what I can tell you are not alone…You have friends who care for you.” He whispered before he quite grasped what she was meaning.
“I wont leave you alone.” Axel told her as he leaned over and kissed her cheek, managing to ignore the smell of blood on her lips, he sighed and put his forehead on her shoulder and then looked at her. “Do you really want to be alone with a monster though?”
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