Shadow Wings (Skeleton Key)
“Unable to think of a better place, Ilana brought him back with her, to her apartment.
She knew how foolish that was. She did it anyway.
Now she could only think about the myriad reasons as to why it was foolish.
For one thing, the man was a giant. Although she looked him over carefully while he remained in that cell and after he caught hold of her through those iron bars, she had somehow managed to miss the sheer size of him. Perhaps it was the way he sat on that cell floor, folded into himself on the cement, shivering, that conveyed a kind of diminishment. Perhaps even after he stood, he still appeared vulnerable to her––so much so that she’d missed something crucial about his actual physical dimensions.
Whatever the reason, that illusion dropped when the cell door slid open.
It opened with a pained screech and the man stepped outside his cage and into the cement corridor. He towered over her with broad shoulders and a heavily muscled chest. He had slim hips, long legs and he walked ...cautiously, almost as if he worried he might break things if he got too close to anything.MoreLess
She knew how foolish that was. She did it anyway.
Now she could only think about the myriad reasons as to why it was foolish.
For one thing, the man was a giant. Although she looked him over carefully while he remained in that cell and after he caught hold of her through those iron bars, she had somehow managed to miss the sheer size of him. Perhaps it was the way he sat on that cell floor, folded into himself on the cement, shivering, that conveyed a kind of diminishment. Perhaps even after he stood, he still appeared vulnerable to her––so much so that she’d missed something crucial about his actual physical dimensions.
Whatever the reason, that illusion dropped when the cell door slid open.
It opened with a pained screech and the man stepped outside his cage and into the cement corridor. He towered over her with broad shoulders and a heavily muscled chest. He had slim hips, long legs and he walked ...cautiously, almost as if he worried he might break things if he got too close to anything.MoreLess
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