Retribution → Harvey Kinkle [CAOS]

ii. word as bond

WORD AS BOND
CHAPTER TWO

Harvey's eyes were locked onto the back of her head, worried that if he tore his gaze from her she'd vanish. The gashes on her legs and the blood seeping through her shirt did nothing to ease Harvey as he watched her closely like she was a child with a dangerous shard of glass or sharp knife. He didn't trust her, and with reason.

The girl, blonde hair and soft brown eyes, appeared small from a distance, lost and out of place as she threw up in a corner outside. Now, inside his garage, Harvey could see her closely. A monster, rather than a girl. Her eyes dark with hatred and her aura cold like death, stiffening him under her stare. She made the air thick with heat but made his blood cold with uncertainty.

Her back was to him as she walked around the room, her finger trailing over the dusty tables and bookshelves as she made herself familiar with the place. "Done staring?" Alecto's question made Harvey flinch ever so slightly. He gulped and watched her as she turned around to face him. Her footsteps were loud and heavy, boots thumping onto the wooden ground as she closed the space between them. "Pretty eyes," she said, a small smile creeping onto her face. She leaned forward to reach his seated position. Her nose was merely inches away from his, and her warm breath on his skin made him shiver under her stare. "I'd hate to have to gauge them out."

With his pulse thrumming loudly in his ears like the beat of a drum, Harvey's eyes widened and he scrambled away from her. He crawled out from under her hovering shadow and stood at a distance. With an arched eyebrow, Alecto let out a cold laugh to which Harvey puffed his chest out and rolled his shoulders back in an attempt to regain the masculinity he had just lost. "Look, I don't know what kind of stuff you did back in Hell, but here things are way different," he started, "first off, we don't threaten to gauge people's eyes out."

"Oh, but you make it so tempting, Kinkle."

Completely unbothered by Harvey having moved away from her the first time, she neared him once again. He watched her through eagle eyes as she flicked her tongue, one foot trailing behind the other as she walked. Her confidence was unsettling, making Harvey shift in his position the closer she got until her hot breath grazed his fair skin once more. She cupped his chin with her right hand, her long, black-painted fingernails stroking against his cheeks like threatening needles.

Alecto remained in her position, her chest bubbling with satisfaction and lips curled upward in amusement at his pure terror. He stood still under her stare, as though she could tear him apart with a single blink. Even when Sabrina reentered the garage with the loud whoosh of her teleportation spell, the pair didn't move an inch.

"What is going on here? Alecto, get off him!" Sabrina's voice echoed through the room, her loud footsteps following after as she buzzed toward the two. She flung her hands onto Alecto's shoulders to tear her away from the frozen boy. "Harvey, are you okay?"