Susie Lavoie Novels & Stories

Nova Susie’s jaw was on the floor. I hadn’t wanted to say anything to her previously about the similarities between me and Aria or Dominic and Lila. Maybe I didn’t want to come off delusional. But when she handed me my glass of wine and asked what was really bothering me, that was definitely part of it. So I told her everything. “Let me get a better look,” Susie pulled her jaw off the floor to say. She took her glass of wine, which she’d already refilled, into the family room where she plopped down on the couch and opened her laptop.

Susie Webb was about two hundred pounds of middle-aged sweet-faced girl in a navy blue tailor-made suit. She stepped into the office like she owned the deed on every man’s soul. You didn’t need to see her résumé to know she was the girl who hired people to polish the bullets for cool guys like Elky Jennings. She was HR, if HR stood for Human Reaping. Middle-aged, yes. Overweight, sure—but carried it well. Susie wore lipstick of the color of fresh bruises, hair in up do knot, sleek and smooth as a death certificate, pulled up so tight it looked like it had to hurt her brain.

Athena had to snap fingers in front of her to bring her back to senses All the others took turns to introduce themselves and shake hands with Eva. “ Hello Eva, I am Athena. I work at Alex’s bakery.” “ Hi, I am Melisa, I bake the cakes at the bakery.” “ Hi madam, I am Ryan.” “Alex, Don’t tell me she is the same, Eva,” Susie said covering her mouth with her hands, finally coming fully back to her senses. “ Yes…” “ The one who took you to ‘The Amor Lake’” “ I can’t believe that I am finally meeting you,” Susie said hugging Eva as if they had known each other for ages.

Meanwhile, Jelena Savage was facing a challenge in her office. On her desk was a letter and painted on the letter was the lifelike image of a beautiful white lily. This was the presence of Primal, the white Lily represented unblemished Al. The claim of Primal was to restore the Al race to what they originally were. It was popularly known among humans and Al that Primal had caused the Crisis but the Coalition Administration and leaders of the Human Alliance knew better.

She still had seven minutes that, if there was no traffic would save her from a lecture from the president. Her boss, Levi Wushi was prodigy in the world of businesses carried out within and outside the country. He was one of the richest, youngest and most famous playboys of the century. She saw it ironic that, even though it was undeniable that he deserved being a member of the distinguished Wushi family that valued morals, she had seen more women enter and exit his office than her apartment building. She always wanted to keep a safe distance from him but fate, as cruel as can be, found a way to be promoted from a normal accountant in the finance department to the most coveted position of t