I didn’t know what they were talking about, but I didn’t need to. I could hear his intentions. He was going to hurt her. He didn’t want to kill her, but he was excited at the idea of making her cry.
The same thoughts kept coming from him, “She did this to herself.”
I floated behind a lifted truck and rematerialized. When I strode out from behind the vehicle, I made sure my shoes clicked loudly on the concrete floor, echoing through this level of the parking garage.
I could hear the muted sounds of cars moving on the level above and a few people talking, but no one was close enough to see what I was about to do.
Both of them turned to watch me approach. She looked scared, but he looked annoyed. When I didn’t walk by, but stopped and stared at him, he scowled back at me.
“What?” he asked, taking an aggressive step closer to me.
It felt so good to have no fear. Death wasn’t a factor for me any longer. Neither was pain. If I was injured, all I had to do was turn to mist, and I was cured.
I hadn’t realized how much fear I had to deal with on a day-to-day basis until it was all gone. It was like I had carried a heavy weight all my life and suddenly the weight was gone, and I could move freely. No one could hurt me, and that made my world view completely different.
The only discomfort I had to deal with was hunger, and I was about to satiate that!
“What!” he repeated with a snarl, taking another step.
“Hi there,” I said, trying to figure out how to separate these two so I could eat him without traumatizing her. This was always the hardest part. “Is that your car?”
He looked at where I was pointing to the four-door sedan with the driver’s door open. He was still angry but now he also looked confused.
“Yes.”
I moved my gaze to her. “Do you have the fob or key?”
She unconsciously put a hand on her purse. “Um, yeah. Why?”
“I think you should leave,” I said, moving to stand between him and her. It didn’t worry me that my back was to him. I’d be able to sense if he tried to strike me. “You need to leave right away.”
Her confused gaze jumped from me to the guy behind me. “I, uh, I don’t know.”
“Trust me,” I said, giving her my most confident smile. I felt the guy move, and I quickly stepped aside so his shove met nothing but air. He wasn’t prepared for that and stumbled past me. I grabbed her arm and moved her to the driver’s side of the car.
“I’m an undercover cop,” I lied, coming up with a story on the fly. “I’m here to meet the leadership of a drug cartel. I need you to leave before they get here.”
“What about Steve?” she whispered, letting me shove her into the car. By now, Steve had recovered and was charging around the car.
“He can walk out,” I said. “But if he gets in the car with you, you're both dead. No one was supposed to be down here, but they probably won’t care if a single woman leaves in a car. But two people would be suspicious. They could kill you both. I’ll make sure Steve makes it to the stairwell. Go now!”
I shoved the door closed as she fumbled a key out of her purse.
Good, she was going to obey my order even though I was totally talking out my ass. It wasn’t a great lie, but she was already thrown off by Steve's earlier anger, so she wasn’t thinking straight.
“Don’t you dare leave me here, Luna!” Steve thundered, reaching for me, probably to toss me out of the way.
I’d been disappointed to find out that I wasn’t any stronger in my physical body as a wraith, but I did have a special talent that the other wraiths didn’t.
Before he could grab me, I turned my right hand to mist. I shoved my hand in his belly and wiggled it around.
He gasped and staggered back, clutching his stomach. “What did you do?”
“Nothing yet,” I said as Luna drove a little too fast around a corner, making her tires squeal. I hoped she didn’t get into an accident.
He shook his head. “You have some kind of weird weapon. What is it?”
I held up my hand and wiggled my fingers at him. “Nothing here but me.”
