“Hey…” Storm sighed when she heard Louise’s voice, just as she was packing her bag to get out of the class. She signaled her friend with an eyeroll to get going, that she would meet her outside, and then she turned aside to stare at the intruder. She didn’t reply to his greeting.”Are you still angry that I tried to kiss you? It had been nothing. I am sorry.” Storm would have believed that lame ass apology, if she wasn’t aware that Louise, even at this moment, was trying to compel her to stay still, to yearn for his touch, whilst he said whatever he wanted.No matter how Storm tried to understand why Louise would result to such underhanded tactics despite his handsomeness, she could come up with nothing, only that he liked the control and power it gave him, the thrill of controlling someone's senses. A bully. Storm hated bullies. “Okay, apology accepted.” She said, even though it was anything but that. She slung the bag pack along her shoulders, and stepped away from Louise’s circ
Storm watched Louise watch her. What now? She thought, aware that he was perusing her, that he was gauging her, that he was wondering what she was, just as she was wondering what he was, that the main reason for his following her wasn't that lame ass apology, or the care for her ex boss, but for this: to know how she had found that he was using compulsion.She knew that he was drafting the best way to come up with the question. “Is there anything else? I want to be going.” Storm said, cussing mentally when she saw the smirk that appeared on Louise’s lips then. “Aren’t you waiting for Jutul?” Storm only shrugged her shoulders, just before she asked a damning question.“Why did you use the compulsion on my friend?” “Your friend or your driver? Or is it your guard?” Storm ignored the question, because Jutul was actually all of the above, but then, Louise didn’t need to know that. “Well, nothing really. I never asked him for anything, not that there was anything to ask. I was just
Storm didn’t wait for Jutul to get to the parking garage, before telling him to stop the car. She got down, and immediately hurried to the back door where the old woman had been slotted in. The old woman was sleeping. Storm raised her eyebrows in incredulity, noting the countenance of the woman. The old woman was sleeping like she had no care in the world, like she hadn’t just dropped a bomb on Storm’s head this afternoon. Storm knew she couldn’t wait for the woman to be awake at her own clock. Time was ticking. She tapped the woman on the lap. “Get up….” She didn’t know the old woman’s name, so she stuttered and looked at Jutul. “Call Kaden, and the others…” She frowned as she spoke, so Jutul could understand the others she was talking about. And although he didn’t know what was going on, for Storm hadn’t given him a heads up even whilst they had been in the car—-she had just been muttering to herself—he knew that it was an emergency, and so he hurried away. He ran with all of hi
A girl walks into a bar, dressed in a black crop top and ripped blue jeans. A black chunky boot which has seen better years adorned her foot.The bar was empty, not yet open to customers. It looked normal-windowless walls painted black, rows of glass bottles, the smell of beer and stale air. But it wasn't normal, standing on the edge of Shappy Town as it did. She wasn’t surprised though. It was still late afternoon. This place gets filled and going only at night.“Storm? What are you doing here?" A man washing glasses asked her. He looked cool, at least he was still sober. There was no air of aggression, no air of menace. Well, relatively no air of menace. This was a crappy part of town, and menace was its stock-in-trade.Storm told herself she had nothing to be afraid of; at least for now. So, she shrugged her shoulders to the man’s question. He was familiar a bit, but she was surely not going to ask him how he had known her name. She wasn’t interested in knowing that. She just want
The strange man sat back down, returned his motorcycle boots to the top of the desk, and laced his hands behind his head. “He will be here in a minute. Why are you looking for him though?” He asked.The lilt in his voice was unmistakable. Storm put that with his black hair, impossibly blue eyes, and exotic name. "You're Irish." She muttered, before she could stop herself.He smiled a smile that could melt a woman at ten paces. "And who else would be running a pub?" He asked."But you don't own it." She stated, remembering that Mr. Tim was.“Perhaps.” He said with a shrug. “But I doubt that is the answer to my earlier question.”“I’m here to collect my pay. He had eaten at my step mum’s restaurant without paying up. She sent me to do the needful.” Storm replied, meeting the man’s gaze steadily.“I see. How much is that?” The man asked.His voice went frosty, the crinkles at the corners of his eyes smoothing out. “Four hundred dolls.” Storm replied, and the man’s eyes narrowed, pupils
From this angle, staring at the man’s face as he ran his eyes through the bar, Storm thought that he looked like the legendary Zofan hated the thought of using the guardian sword. His primary job was to be called in when there was no longer any hope, and that fact put a dark edge to his entire life. Not many people saw this, but she had noticed, as she had gone through the book.Storm was close enough now to the man to sense his muscles relax as people assured him, they were all right. The people climbed slowly to their feet, shaken, but there was no one dead or wounded. They'd been lucky.The floor was littered with glass and splintered wood, the smell of spilled alcohol was sharp, and bullet holes riddled the dark walls. Half the bottles and glasses behind the bar had been destroyed, and the one of the bartenders crawled shakily out from under a table.A man zoomed in through the front door and stopped by a clump of people not yet brave enough to get up. Storm didn’t know who he was
Lent dropped obediently, and the flimsy chair creaked under his weight. Lent was large and hard-muscled, his short but shaggy black hair looked uncombed. He didn't have an ounce of fat on him. Storm wasn't used to seeing as men as hot as this, having never really met one on her side of the town, except for her ex, who had left her to pursue his basketball career at a university, thousands of miles away from her.Curtis had been her high school sweetheart whom she could do anything, totally anything, even if included her right kidney. He had been a home of comfort to her whenever her step mother and step sister decided to turn on their devilish mode and wreak havoc on both her physical and mental state. Curtis had been her lifeline. He had transferred to their school in their eleventh grade, and they had hit off immediately. An act which was obvious to everyone since Curtis was the new hot male student and she was the most beautiful girl in their class, had been voted that way since
Storm pressed her thumb and index finger to the middle of her forehead, stepping back one bit, feeling a headache coming already. She wished she could unsee what she had just seen.“Storm, are you okay?” She heard Kaden ask, and shook her head.“What are you people?” She asked, wondering whether the likes of this people were why this part of the town was not deemed fitted for normal people. Does this mean that she should be staying here?“We...are...” Lent was saying when Kaden cut in sharply.“We are people with special abilities. If that pisses you off, you should leave, and of course don’t mention it to any one.” He said, meeting Storm’s stare.Storm, seeing his accessing gaze, shrugged.“You don’t have to send me away. Mr. Kaden. I also have some special abilities, and I think I can help Lent.” She stated, batting the surprised Kaden's hands aside and pressing her palm directly to the wound. Folding herself against Lent, she held her hand flat to his chest.“What are you doing, St