A Secretary Affair
It felt warm against my skin, but maybe that was just because my hands were shaking so bad I couldn’t feel anything else properly.
“Okay,” she said, glancing toward the street where the three shapes still stood perfectly still. “We run on three. Stick close to me. One… two…”
Before she could even say three, the streetlight down the corner exploded with a loud pop. Glass shattered all over the road, falling like rain, and darkness swallowed that part of the street completely. And finally—the shadows moved. One slow, deliberate step. Then another. They weren’t rushing, weren’t hurrying to catch up. Like they knew we couldn’t really get away, so there was no point in wasting energy running afte