Chapter 310: Stranger?
When Derek had been asked to go and make sure that the other tenant was safe. He had thought on the fact that the old man did not know him at all. And yet was trusting him with such a task.
After all, he could have been a mass murderer on the run. But when he had been thinking that he had forgotten something else.
What if instead of thinking about himself as the dangerous one in that situation? He should have considered that there was danger waiting for him outside the motel. Derek should have been more worried for his own safety. After all, why should he, somebody who was a guest at the motel. Have to brave the darkness instead of the owner being the one to be out there?
But the thought came too late for Derek, because it came right after a body collided with his. At first he froze thinking that he was being attacked.
His body tensing up in preparation to fight back, while his mind was already coming up with exit plans, and also with possible things that he could use as weapons in case things really got bad.
Throwing dirt at people’s faces often worked as a good distraction.
He thought to himself, feeling the grip that the other person had him in tighten.
Shaking off the last of his shock, Derek was just about to bodily remove the person from him when they buried their face in the crook of his neck, and something in him stilled at the gesture.
...They felt familiar...