[Melkin City Series book #3, please make sure to read the others first]
Things seem grim for Lacey when her and her friends are kidnapped on their way out of Melkin. Travis is separated from the group, she has no idea what happened to Finn and Anna...
The song linked (Pretty Please, Adam Jensen) is one of the most Killer One Lacey & Travis songs. I have been waiting to finally get to use this song so if you don't listen to the music while reading but are in the mood for a Lacey & Travis song whenever, I recommend this song first. I've listened to this song while listening to a good chunk of Killer One.
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Travis.
Lacey was trying her very best to ignore me as she looked at the trees, the weeds, to the bird chirp we heard somewhere to the left of us, then to her nails, the dirt, back the bird chirping, and the sky.
I stared at her, watching as her gaze shifted to the trees near us once again. I rolled my neck, feeling my muscles tense even though I wasn't doing anything. I scratched my cheek as I thought of how to say what I wanted to say.
She focused on her shoe as it crunched on the edge of a fallen leaf.
"You don't have to stay here with me if you don't want to," I spit out, even though it felt like I was pulling her knives out of my throat as I spoke because saying that sentence...it hurt.
The rest of Lacey's foot came down hard on the crisp leaf, smashing it into bits.
That bit of destruction at least told me that I had her attention so I continued on. "I'm sorry for everything that's happened. You shouldn't have had to deal with it." I grit my teeth as I thought about holding her wrist in my hand and tried to get the battery acid words to form on my tongue but they were dissolving faster than I could keep up with. I didn't want to admit that I had done that to her but knew I had to apologize. I shouldn't have done it, no matter what the circumstance.
I opened my mouth, hoping the words would magically force themselves out of my mouth without me having to do any of the work but right as I did, Lacey spoke up instead.
"I need to show you something." Her tone was factual, there was no question about whether or not she was going to show me. She wasn't asking if I wanted to see something. She was telling me which wouldn't have been so bad in itself but it was the specific tone that she was using that sounded like Cameron talking.
On top of the authoritative voice that I tried not to pay too much attention to because it either worried me or turned me on depending on the day, I didn't like the idea of what she might have to show me. Last time she needed to show me something, she'd gotten the Casey tattoo. She managed that during the span of one day. Half a day, really. I've been out of commission for a few days now. I was afraid to imagine the type of damage she could do with all of that time. I nodded despite my thoughts but I don't think she even looked at me.
Lacey sat down on the ground.
"Do you want to sit?" I asked and gestured in the direction of the bench literally right next to her.
"No," she said as she pulled her legs closer to her body. She lifted the edge of one of her pant legs just the smallest amount and began untying her shoelaces.
