House of Sins

Chapter Three

Drake

I noticed her almost instantly. It was like she was a beacon of light. I just didn’t know whether it was her scent that called for me or something in her unassuming looks that had caught my attention but as soon as my eyes locked onto her I knew u had to have her.

She was just so….. I couldn’t put my finger on the right words. All I kept getting was unassuming but that wasn’t quite right even if it was true.

She was sat on the steps of the dorm building, her arms about her knees. A tiny little thing in a frayed T-shirt. In the middle of the night. And she was alone.

Didn’t she know it wasn’t safe for her to be out here alone? A slip of a girl like her. Not anywhere but especially not here at Nine Oaks.

“Hey.” The words had left my mouth before I had even made up my mind to talk to her.

Her head rose slowly. I could see the whites of her eyes glint as she searched the shadows for me.

I stepped into the light a smile playing over my lips. She looked shocked to see me there.

“Oh hi.” Her voice was small , there was a wariness about it. So at least she wasn’t the trusting fool she looked to be.

“You’re out late?”

She nodded and her eyes drifted to the sky. “I just wanted to get some air and you know look at the stars for a while.”

Look at the stars? When was the last time I had actually looked upwards. Too long. Years and years.

I had forgotten how beautiful they were. Lighting up the night sky. But they were pale compared to her. The closer I got the more she seemed to shine.

And like a moth to a flame I was powerless.

Boneless I sat next to her on the wide steps and I let myself look upwards. Trying to see what she saw.

“Are you staying here as well?” And just like that she told me where she lived. Maybe she wasn’t so wary after all.

I shook my head. “No, I ….” I stopped myself just in time. I had been about to tell her where I lay my head. Like she was someone I could trust. Which was no one. Or someone I knew. Which was also no one on this campus.

“No.” I finally said. “This isn’t my dorm.” I turned my head towards her. “I’m Drake.”

“Bella.” She held out her hand. And I let mine curl around it but I didn’t shake it like she was expecting me to. Instead I raised it to my lips.

Giving a little old school charm never hurt.

The moment my lips touched her warm skin I felt it. The icy grips of it.

She was warm and looked human. A sweet human girl but she wasn’t.

Death rolled across my tongue. Icy cold and tasteless. There was no denying it.

Death poured off of her in waves.

And the dead would be drawn to her.

No wonder I had felt her pull.