Chapter 8

Chapter Eight

I pushed open his door and stepped inside the cool dark room, Marcus stood from the leather seat across from the table.  He was coming closer to me and I looked at the three people sitting on the couch.  Feeling a cold sweat start to over take me.

Inhuman eyes, the same as before, tracked my every move.  I blinked hard before regaining my composure and walking closer to Marcus.  I handed him the box, his fingertips grazing mine.

“I’m sorry Sir, I forgot this on my desk.”  I said, knowing that I must have looked like a deer in headlights, eyes wide and a clammy sweat covering my forehead making my hair stick to the back of my neck.

“Don’t worry about it, Amelia. I'd like to introduce you to the elders council.”  He said placing his hand at the small of my back and taking me closer to them.  I wanted to turn and run away as fear gripped my body, making my muscles tense in anticipation of fleeing these, these creatures.

“This is Nash,” Marcus said and I studied the man in front of me, his yellow glowing eyes watching me like a serpent’s, his nostrils flared and he licked his lips in a gesture that had me moving closer than I should to my boss.  He leaned forward causing his white button up shirt to stretch across his broad chest, muscles flexing underneath it like he might jump up and try to chase me.  His eyes glimmered in the darkness as his lips twisted in to a smirk that promised things I didn’t want to imagine.

I looked at Marcus’ calm face, didn’t he see what I did?  How could he be so calm as he looked at his guests and then back at me?

“This is Izar,” Marcus motioned to the other side of the couch where another man sat, his incandescent eyes peering at me through thick dark lashes.  Lashes that were too pretty to belong to a man, his skin far too pale like marble. He looked hungry, with thin gaunt cheeks.  His long black hair shining in the dim light of the room, he was beautiful in an otherworldly way that looked out of place with the dark shimmering material of his well-tailored suit.  He crossed his arms as he looked from Marcus to me and then from Louis leaning against Marcus’ desk, before his gaze returned to mine.  

I got the feeling that he was dismissing me and I was perfectly okay with that.

“And lastly our Vega.”  He said with a slight bow at the woman sitting in between the two men.  Looking at her made the urge to run and hide even worse, I could feel my heart beating rapidly in my chest.  Her honey blonde hair curling gracefully around her bare shoulders, as she watched me with blazing orange eyes that reminded me of a campfires flames.

She smiled her teeth were longer and sharper than a humans, behind full glossy red lips.  Power rolled off of her in waves, that even I could feel making me want to cower and hide.

Pray to long forgotten gods, that I would be spared from whatever they, no.  Not they whatever she was.

“Vega, please.”  Louis said, but I couldn’t pull me eyes away from hers. 

“Marcus, you need to get your pet under control.”  She said with a smirk, her accent was thick and one I had never heard before. I looked at Marcus and then to Louis, did they not see their guest’s eyes?  

I must have finally lost my mind, that was the only thing I could think as I looked back at the chillingly beautiful woman.  Terror running through me, as I stepped backwards closer to the door.

“Her fear is heady and it’s tempting Nash.”  She said motioning to the man beside her, his hands were on his knees and his muscles were bunched ready to pounce as he watched me hungrily.

Marcus’ hand on my back stopped me from going any further and I looked up at him again.  

Her words registering, humans couldn’t smell fear.  At least, none that I knew.  

I wasn’t dealing with humans, I felt clammy and shaky as my head swam.  Wanting out of here I turned towards the doorway and before I could take a step further Louis was in front of me.

“Little one, calm down.”  He said in a soothing hushed tone of voice, I knew was meant to comfort me.  It didn’t as I looked up into his worried violet gaze and then towards the door, I knew at that moment that I wasn’t going crazy.

He could see them too and looking over my shoulder at Marcus only confirmed my sneaking suspicion.  

What was going on and what were those creatures?