5 - Trusting him

I don't know why I'm trusting this man, he touched my arm and sparks ignited and I rubbed the area, it didn't hurt, it actually felt nice.  He wants to help me and say's he's a psychiatrist, well as long as I'm crazy I guess I'll need one of those.  The voice in my head purrs, "he's our mate, he's so handsome, so strong, so dreamy."  I follow him into the kitchen and the voice won't shut up, when he says he's taking us to a safe place, the voice screams in my head, "he's taking us with him, our mate already loves us, I can tell."  

I scream at the voice in my head as he looks down at me, a few strands of his black curly hair fall over his forehead, he's blue eyes twinkle, "you've really lost the plot, look at him, he's tall, built like a sculpture of hercules for christ sake.  Why in all the world would he look twice at us, because we are fucking crazy and that is what he does for a living.  He's not interested in us for any other reason, he feels sorry for me because I have this voice in my head that I'm now talking too, not only that I'm arguing with."

I hear Margie sob, "see prayers are answered, God sent his angel to help this sweet girl."

I inwardly scoff, uh huh, 13 years too late, but hey he answered right, the voice in my head purrs again, "our mate is taking us with him, next we will mark and mate." 

My body stiffens, "mark and mate?"  I pull my hand from his only to realize I'm inside his car, he backs out of the space.  I look at him and fear grips my heart.  I look in the backseat and the other guys are sitting there staring at me.  Braddock's voice hums, "so Charlie behind you is Steve," I turn and he finger waves me, I blink at him, "the other guy is Chris," he smiles at me and I nod. 

My eyes dart between the guys, that take up the entire back seat of this SUV.  I gulp as I turn and look at Braddock, he's bigger than both of them and extremely handsome.  There all attractive, but Braddock has chiseled facial features, high cheekbones, a defined jawline with stubble and a square chin, he's charming and his baritone voice is seductive.  I realize I'm alone in this car with them, what if their like all the other guys, I won't survive all of them raping me at once like my step-dad and brother.  

Braddock reaches over and takes my hand and gives it a gentle squeeze, "Charlie your safe with us, no one is going to harm you, no one is going to do anything to you without your consent ever again, I promise you, Okay?"

I half smile at him, "okay, thanks." 

His phone rinks through the blue tooth in the car, he releases my hand and picks up the phone to his ear, "speak," he commands and my eyes widen at the amount of authority in his tone.  He winks at me as he listens, "good, did you get Stacy back?"  A frown forms on his gorgeous face and I don't like it.  "keep looking in that area, we'll be there in 15 minutes."  He looks at me, "we need to make a pit stop and I'll need you to stay in the car, keep it locked and I need you to trust me on this."

I nod, "sure, who's Stacy and why do you need to get her back?

Steve and Chris chuckle in the backseat and Braddock glares at them through the rearview, he coughs, "she's a friend and went for a walk in the woods and didn't return, so we assume she's lost, they've found sighs of her so hopefully by the time we get there they'll have found her."

I nod, "okay, I'll stay in the car, you don't need me getting lost too."

A literal growl leaves his throat and I slam my body up against the door in fear.  A small shy smile graces his face, his cheeks turn pink as he turns to look at me, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you, just the thought of you in the same situation as Stacy angered me."  He's embarrassed that he scared me and that shy smile on his face is adorable, I relax back into the seat.  I inhale deeply and smile, he smells so good, so clean, like freshly cut grass in spring mixed with lavender.  He pulls off the road and goes deep into the forest and stops the car.  "I'll leave the keys in the ignition, keep the door locked, windows up and if anything spooks you, start the car and drive away as fast and as safe as you can." 

I smile at him, and inwardly laugh, I can't drive but I don't say a word, as he and his friends get out of the car.  I watch them all walk out into the forest until they disappeared behind a bunch of large trees.  I chuckle, I don't know what he thinks could spook me out here?  The forest is quite and peaceful, the only thing that could spook me is in the town we just left.   This is the first time I've felt safe, truly safe.  I look around the car and see a sweatshirt in the back, I crawl over the seat and snatch it.  The voice in my head purrs, "he's ours and we are his, he will keep us safe," I yawn,  yup, I'm offically a nut job, I hope this man can help me gain some sort of reality back.  I ball up the sweatshirt to use as a pillow and lay down on the seat where Braddock sat and face the back, I inhale deeply, his smell calms me and I drift off to sleep.