Bloodline Redemption

I crack my neck while his voice continues to echo throughout this giant room. Not sure if I’m overwhelmed by irritation out of the sheer amount of irrelevance for me being here or by the anxiety I haven’t been able to curb since last night, but either way I feel like my skin is on fire and I know what that means is coming soon. I tune in long enough to deduce that we are not anywhere near done yet so I begin to figure my way out of here undetected. Step one: sit in the back. And that one is always a given for me. I glance around discretely and focus in on Armi’s face for a few moments. His eyes never meet mine, so I know I’m in the clear. Next I find my parents. They are second row, deeply involved despite it being irrelevant to them as well. I don’t even bother to hold back my smirk as the plan to leave unfolds cleanly. My chair in the dining hall is against the back wall, but the best part about it is that it&

I stared for a beat too long, I knew it but I couldn’t help it. Neither of us moved, seemingly frozen there in our trance. “I’m sorry,” she said shaking her head a bit and blushing. “I didn’t mean to stare. Or to startle you, I didn’t realize you would be..” “Sleeping under the receptionist desk? Isn’t that usually where you find the Doctor?”She smiled again and this time it was genuine and it was followed by a perfect melody as her laughter filled the room. “Yes, yes of course. That’s why I checked here first, obvious spot.” I rolled out from under the desk and stood up, dusting off my shirt as I turned to face my mate, my heart beating out of my chest at the reality she was here. “I’m Novaleigh,” she extends her hand out to me and I immediately take it, happiness overfl

I thought more about that as I climbed into my car and fired it up, turning the heat to defrost the window. His eyes were the thing I found myself fixated on  but damn if I couldn’t look at everything else just as much. He was a good 5 inches taller than me. He had dark brown hair and light brown eyes. His hair was shorter on the sides and wasn’t too long on the top, just enough to be messy but not enough to look unprofessional. He was also in deliciously good shape. I’d only seen him in long sleeve button down shirts but I could make out that he was strong and lean and a part of me was dying to rip them off him. Ok, and we are now turning down the heat cause I’m hot enough to warm the car. Get it together, Novaleigh. I drove down the road and crossed through the woods until town came into view. My mind was still reeling with thoughts of Remi but as soon as I saw the old sign for that bar I felt my stomach clench

Her face is tucked down, her hair falling like a curtain around it. I can’t see her eyes but I can tell she is staring intently at the lid of her coffee. Her heart rate has increased and it only takes me a moment to deduce that she is extremely embarrassed about this, and genuinely worried what I will think. She regrets it. “Drunk night?” I ask, trying to keep it light and praying there was some other force at work that put them together that night. “The first and last of my life.” she breaths out slowly. “Quitting already? So young?” I half joke, half hope that’s true if this is what happens when she drinks. “Yep. 100%. Never a sip again. I’ve avoided it all my life because I’ve seen the decisions people make when they drink. One major fight with my dad and I became that person that I always judged and promised myself not to be. And i

“Hey you!” she calls from the front desk. I see that she is pulling togo containers from a bag and laying them out on the desk. “Hey, get some sleep?”   “A ton of it. It helped, but not nearly as much as your concoction did.” “I resent the term concoction.” I defended and she laughed. “Fine… miracle tea. Whatever you want to call the witchcraft that healed my head, I appreciate it. Sometime you should share that with me.” “Sorry, I forgot to mention its a secret trick of the trade.” She looked at me with these ‘you have got to be kidding me’ eyes and they were so adorable it broke my stoic expression. “Fine, technically it isn’t mine. It was something I found through research and adjusted as needed for a patient awhile ago who had a