One World: Worlds of Magic Book Four

By Berlinda Ivin

Michelle and her sister Taylor have always known they were different from others, they have gifts and a working knowledge of magic, but no memories of their childhood that make any sense to them. Now they are grown, they still have their gifts, but still have no memory of their childhood. Michelle is divorced with three children, while Taylor ha

• Language: English
• Publisher: Berlinda Ivin Books
• Release date: Jul 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781950981014

Berlinda Ivin

Berlinda was born in Sydney. Her childhood was spent moving around Australia with her family. Most of her adult life she has worked with children, and continued her nomadic lifestyle moving around Australia with her own family. In recent years the family made the Southern end of Central Queensland their home. In one of her many moves a work colleague laughingly suggested that she write about the characters and events that made life so interesting. So, using the personalities of close family, friends and even some of the family pets, and then adding a supernatural spin to the story, the journey that is the Worlds series was born.

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Worlds of Magic

Book Four

Berlinda Ivin

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Contents

1976

2010

Chapter One: Jack  Mine

Chapter Two: Michelle  Meeting Jack

Chapter Three: Taylor  I know you’re there

Chapter Four: Jack  The Warehouse

Chapter Five: Nikki  If this is love!

Chapter Six: Jack  Whitney

Chapter Seven: Julie  Meeting Michelle

Chapter Eight: Jack  Back again

Chapter Nine: Michelle  Making Plans

Chapter Ten: Jack  I do

Chapter Eleven: Jonathon  Families

Chapter Twelve: Michelle  I don’t like him

Chapter Thirteen: Jack  Married Life

Chapter Fourteen: Suzanne  Visions

Chapter Fifteen: Jack  Burning

Chapter Sixteen: Michelle  Childhood

Chapter Seventeen: Charmaine  Yearling memories

Chapter Eighteen: Jack  The Elders

Chapter Nineteen: Kylie  Visitors

Chapter Twenty: Jack  Blood lines

Chapter Twenty One: Michelle  Growing up

Chapter Twenty Two: Tony  Anger

Chapter Twenty Three: Michelle  Christmas

Chapter Twenty Four: Jack  Fire and Ice

Chapter Twenty Five: Taylor  Something to build on

Chapter twenty Six: Jack  Last burn

Chapter Twenty Seven: Tania  The end

Chapter Twenty Eight: Elder Thomas  Preparation

1976

1976

Elspeth hummed as she poured water from the new shiny watering can onto the daisy’s that had finally begun to grow. Their little yellow petals always looked so pretty and made her smile. She was proud of this achievement, as gardening was not one of her strong points. This was something that her beloved Bernhard had often teased her about.

She stopped humming and gasped loudly as an intense feeling of fright swept through her, her skin went clammy and she found it hard to breathe. Elsie turned towards the emotion and tuned into it. It was strong and it was close, and the fact that she could feel it this strongly, could only mean that one of her family was in trouble.

‘The girls,’ she whispered. She threw the watering can and started for the front gate. ‘Bernhard!’ she screamed.

Two sets of feet came running down the side of the house, and another person burst through the front door.

Elspeth heard her daughter in law Lillian shout out from the front door, ‘I can’t tell who it is. They’re both terrified’.

Elspeth pushed the gate open and ran as fast as she could, her son Ben overtook her, quickly followed by Bernhard as they ran up the road. Elspeth’s granddaughter Michelle ran around the corner in front of them, she was covered in blood and screaming. People from homes all around them were coming out to see what all the fuss was about.

Ben continued running while Bernhard stopped, and panting hard, waved his arm in a wide arc and called out, ‘sleep.’

Elspeth pulled up beside him, and looked around at their neighbours, checking that they did as they were told. Everybody, and everything, was frozen in place. Mrs. Hopkins across the road was as still as a statue as she peered out the curtains. Tommo from two doors up had a frozen look of concern on his face, and was in mid stride as he walked in the direction of Michelle. The sprinkler in Mr. Fiddler’s front yard had stopped, and in the air were droplets of water, hanging like decorations. Lillian ran past Elspeth and Bernhard and was catching up to her husband.

Michelle ran into her father’s legs and cried harder.

‘What’s happened?’ asked Ben as he bent down to pick her up. ‘Where’s your sister?’

Michelle pointed in the direction she had come, ‘Taylor blew up Mr. Fisher’s dog’.

‘Did all this blood come from a dog?’ inquired Lillian of her daughter.

Michelle nodded her head vigorously, and through her tears she cried, ‘he ran out and barked at us, then Taylor screamed and he exploded’.

Elspeth looked past Ben, Lillian and Michelle, to see Taylor coming around the corner. She walked slowly dragging her feet, with her head lowered looking at the ground. The poor little girl was no longer frightened, but crying with remorse, and covered in fresh blood, and what looked like fur covered flesh.

Lillian went forward and picked up her youngest, ‘are you alright Taylor?’

Taylor sobbed into her mother’s neck. ‘I didn’t mean to blow him up Mummy, but he came out and started barking so loud,’ cried Taylor. ‘He frightened me’.

Lillian looked around the street and seen that the rest of the world was suspended in time. She laid the head of the devastated Taylor to her shoulder as she turned and went back towards their home.

Lillian stopped in front of Elspeth and Bernhard, ‘you two fix this, and we’ll go and start packing’.

Little Michelle was still crying, Ben held her hand, and followed his wife. ‘I’ll get the truck out of the shed, and start loading it,’ he said to his parents.

Elspeth watched them walk through the front gate and make their way up the front stairs of the house. Lillian was calling our orders to Ben. Elspeth guessed that Lillian would be locking the girls in their room, so it would be easier for Elspeth to do what she had to. Then the packing would be quicker, they would all be gone from here in a matter of hours.

She looked up at Bernhard, ‘we’ve only been here for four weeks, so it shouldn’t be too hard to erase the memory of everybody who has come into contact with us’.

Bernhard reached down for her hand and looked lovingly at her, ‘I will come with you and you can use my power with yours to get the job done quickly. We go now and do what we have to so we can leave and find a better place’. He raised her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles, ‘Elsie, we always knew that living among humans was not going to be easy, but we do this for the girls’.

Elspeth frowned, ‘yes of course I know that Bernie, but I was starting to like it here, even my daisies were starting to grow’.

Bernhard smiled, ‘it will not be long before you will like the next place too, and have another garden’. He turned and looked with concern towards the rest of their family, ‘but I do not think I will be getting the girls a dog for Christmas’.

Elspeth shrugged, ‘I’ll erase that from their memory too’.

This time it was Bernhard’s turn to frown, ‘I worry about how many times we have to do this. I do not think it is healthy for them. They wake with such terrible migraines’.

Elspeth sighed, ‘I worry more about the reasons we have to change the girl’s memory. We better move quickly, just in case you didn’t get everyone. We can’t afford for anyone to remember us or that Taylor blew up a dog’.

Bernhard held Elspeth’s hand as they began walking towards the school, ‘we will always be hunted, especially the girls with their young blood. We have known this too, it is why we pick such little towns, so it is easy to feel what is coming’.

Elspeth nodded her head, ‘yes well we better hurry and do what we have to, so we can get out of this little town, and make sure these little humans are still safe, when we leave’.

As they rounded the corner, they cast out their powers and suggestions to the wind that nobody here had ever heard of the Howard family. Everyone and everything remained stationary while the suggestions cast by Elsie changed memories. They had done this so many times that it was just a routine now.

Neither Elsie nor Bernie noticed the large scaled hand that pushed Mrs. Hopkin’s curtain from her frozen white human hand, nor did they see the sun glinting from the steel teeth of the demon watching them.

2010

Chapter One

Jack

Mine

I ran through the trees chasing a small hare, it darted into the bushes as I hurdled over a fallen log, and prepared to dive for it. In the air in front of me I saw a misty image of a woman’s face. She had long brown hair, green eyes, high cheek bones, and thin lips that made her look unhappy. Her unhappy image was haunting me more all the time.

I lost sight of the hare, tripped over the log, and rolled on the ground until I lay on my back looking up at the sky. Her image slowly disappeared. I had no idea who she was or why she was coming to me, but she was definitely interesting. Interesting enough for her to be on my mind all the time, I didn’t know how I was going to find her, but I knew I had to. I sat up to see the small hare still scurrying away.

‘You’re going to starve if you don’t keep your eye on your prey.’

I looked up, not realising that both Tony and Jonathon had been watching me. They both had a hare each for their meal, Tony sucked on his while as he stared at me with amusement.

I shook my head as I got to my feet and walked back to them, ‘I’m just tired, I haven’t slept for a few weeks, and anyway I’m not really that hungry.’

‘Are you still having that same dream, about that woman?’ asked Jonathon.

I nodded in frustration, ‘it’s not just when I’m asleep anymore. I can’t even read a book without her face appearing on the page, she seems to be everywhere.’

Tony looked at each of us, ‘what woman?’

‘It appears that baby brother has been having dreams and now visions of the same woman over and over again.’

I glared at Jonathon with annoyance. I had told him that in confidence. I didn’t want to give Tony ammunition to tease and taunt me.

Tony shrugged his shoulders, ‘well it makes sense. I mean ever since your change to a lamiahaem you’ve hidden from the world. You’re always with Mum and Dad, the only time you leave is to go to work. At this rate you’ll never meet the mate that Fate believes is for you, so of course they’d send you a little push.’

‘I haven’t hidden from anything!’ I snapped.

Tony pulled the hare from his mouth wiping his lips with his sleeve. ‘Really, when was the last time you went out?’

‘I went out last month, at that fair in France,’ I replied.

Jonathon raised his eyebrows, ‘that was for work Jack, if I remember it right you were hunting black witches and it was two years ago.’

‘Wasn’t that when you worked with that witch from the Guard, Cynthia?’ grinned Tony.

‘Yes, she was insane,’ I groaned.

‘No, she was just interested,’ said Jonathon.

‘Yeah well, after the mess of a marriage I had when I was human, I decided that I wasn’t going to get involved with anyone unless it was my mate, and I haven’t met her yet,’ I responded.

‘That’s what we’re trying to say Jack, you aren’t going to meet her unless you leave the house to find her,’ said Tony.

I shrugged, ‘to be honest, I don’t know what it is I’m looking for.’

Jonathon smiled, ‘trust me Jack, you’ll know. It’s different to anything you’ve ever experienced or will experience again. There is an attraction that’s instant and unavoidable. You will not be able to get away from it, even if you want to try.’

‘Well that’s from a demons point of view of course. I was still a human when I met your sister, and to be honest I couldn’t fight it either. Even when she told me she was a demon and I thought she was insane, I couldn’t leave her,’ added Tony.

‘So you both think that this image I’m seeing is of my mate?’

‘It has to be Jack, look we aren’t meant to be on our own. You’ve adjusted to your new life since you were changed, but you are meant to be with someone. It’s just the way we are,’ answered Jonathon.

It would be good. I did enjoy my new life, had done for over ninety years, but I knew that there was something missing. I wasn’t going to tell them but I found myself disappointed when the images disappeared.

‘What if we ask Tania to have a look, see if she gets a vision of your future,’ suggested Jonathon.

I didn’t know what to say, this was a bit too much. I didn’t want them all involved. I was sure if she existed I’d find her, I didn’t need their help.

‘I say you just do it, don’t bother asking him he’ll find a reason to back out,’ added Tony.

Yeah, you’re probably right,’ agreed Jonathon.

Both of them walked away, leaving me standing there. I called out to them, ‘you know I can organise my own love life’.

I wasn’t going in there to listen to the whole family making plans for me. It was bad enough that I had to hear their thoughts all the time. Instead I hunted down that small hare, I was starving. By the time I walked inside, the six of them were sitting together making plans. They were all so excited that I couldn’t pick up on any one of their thoughts.

‘Better pack your bags,’ smiled Charmaine.

Tony put his arm around her shoulder and grinned up at me, ‘you’re going to Australia’.

Tania looked up from where she was sitting, her eyes were still clearing from meditating, ‘if you go to the Brisbane warehouse, you’ll meet up with somebody that you know. Go with that person, and you’ll meet her.’

‘I don’t know anybody who lives in Australia,’ I argued.

The building that the taxi pulled up in front of was nothing like the warehouse we had in either London or Edinburgh. I got out and walked through the tall trees that almost covered the front of it. In the two weeks that I had been here it still amazed me that this warehouse looked like a human Motel. The only real difference was that there wasn’t any signage out the front at all that would attract attention. I walked through the arches and into the reception area. I was hoping that I had a message, and that maybe one of my family had tried to ring me, it would help alleviate the boredom. I walked up to see the same young jorgenhan sitting behind the desk, she had her red hair piled up high today, I could see more of her pale lightly freckled skin. She was giggling and answering a text message from her boyfriend her light golden eyes were glowing.

‘Hi Jack,’ smiled Trudy.

‘Hi Trudy, are there any messages for me?’

She put her mobile down, ‘actually, there aren’t any messages but somebody very important would like to see you. He’s in room twelve.’

The phone rang she answered it and waved me on. I couldn’t hear her thoughts about who wanted to see me the phone conversation had her full attention.

I went straight to room twelve, curious as to who wanted to see me. There were two well-built casanova Guards standing at the door with their arms folded across their chest. They were like matching statues. Both of them were over 6ft, with dark skin and tight curly black hair, and had obviously spent their spare time weight lifting anything they could get their hands on.

‘I was told to come up here that somebody wanted to see me.’

One of them knocked on the door and whispered that I was here. The door opened, Elder Thomas, the lead Elder in our sector was standing there wrapped in a towel. ‘Jack, come in. I’ve been waiting for you.’

I hesitated before I walked in and closed the door. The only time we’d seen him in the last sixty years or more was if he wanted us to work, there hadn’t been any social contact at all. ‘Is there a job you want me to go on?’

He went into the bathroom to get dressed, his voice echoed as he answered. ‘No Jack, I was talking to your father last week and he told me you were here, and what you were doing.’

He walked back out, fully dressed in jeans and T-shirt, drying his long grey and brown striped goatee with a towel. He probably should have dried his bald head it still had moisture on it.

‘I have somebody I need to meet with personally, so I thought I’d drop in to see how you are going with your search. As your grandfather, I am interested in your life and your happiness, and what you’ve been up to’.

His answer surprised me. I knew that he talked to Dad regularly, but he’d never appeared interested in any of the rest of us before. ‘I’ve been looking around the city, and doing a bit of sightseeing.’

‘There is quite a bit to see here,’ he responded. ‘Now meet me in the downstairs restaurant in an hour Jack we’ll have a drink before I need to leave for the airport.’

I walked into the empty restaurant an hour later. He was sitting in the corner of the room with another person, both of them had their heads lowered, talking secretly. The two body guards were close by they stopped me from going closer. I looked up and noticed that they both had blue eyes that really stood out against their dark skin.

‘You must wait.’

I nodded and stepped back into the reception area. It probably wouldn’t do to be seen listening to his conversation. He was an Elder first and a grandfather second. I wasn’t under any illusion that he wouldn’t have me locked up if he thought I was any sort of threat to the Guard.

A lamiahaem couple walked through the door they were the first of my species I had seen since I arrived. To a human there was nothing that made us stand out in a crowd, but to a demon of any species our scent was easy to distinguish. I watched as they walked through the foyer going to their room, he had his arm around her, they were both laughing. They looked as happy as Mum and Dad, Jonathon and Tania, and Charmaine and Tony. If this woman’s image I was seeing and Tania’s vision was right, I would meet my mate soon and would be just as happy. I loved my life, but it would be infinitely better if I had someone special to share it with.

‘You can come in now.’

I turned at the sound of the deep voice and went into the restaurant to meet with my grandfather. The other person was still there, it was another casanova. I recognised him immediately he had been my carer when I was a yearling.

‘Jarrod, I haven’t seen you since... I can’t remember when?’

‘It has been awhile,’ he answered smiling. ‘What are you doing here without the family?’

Elder Thomas put his glass down, ‘Jack’s having some time off from work.’

The three of us sat and talked until my grandfather had to leave. He shook my hand, winked at me, and silently said, ‘good luck Jack, keep your eyes open and listen to where the gods of Fate direct you. You’ll find her.’

I nodded and smiled at him. Jarrod and I watched him leave.

‘Instead of staying here on your own, why don’t you come back to my place? It’s a nice little town, right on the beach, there’s lots to do and at least this way you won’t be on your own?’

I wondered if he knew that his nice little town was where I had to go.

I’d been in the little beach side town, for two weeks and really felt at home. Jarrod had been living here for ten years, held a human job at the local bottle shop and was known amongst the locals. Jarrod was right, there was a lot to see here and the hunting was good. I had a good supply of rabbits they were everywhere, I didn’t even have to go that far out of town. I liked it that much that in the end I looked around and bought myself a small home.

Everywhere I went I kept my eyes open looking for her, Jarrod had noticed me staring at every woman that we went passed.

‘Are you looking for somebody?’

I shrugged, ‘I’m just looking.’

‘You’re not going to tell me are you?’

I shook my head grinning, ‘I’ll tell you, if you tell me what you had to have a private meeting about with Elder Thomas.’

He laughed loudly, ‘you know I can’t tell you that. It’s Friday night, I finish work at ten. I’ll meet you at the pub afterwards. Most of the town will be there so maybe you’ll find who or what you’re looking for.’

I walked up to the local hotel to meet Jarrod. I could hear the laughter of the clientele a block from the venue. Jarrod was easy to pick out, leaning against the bar with women around him. He’d been drinking for some time his blue eyes were glassy already.

‘Using your casanova charm, I see.’

He grinned as he swallowed his drink, ‘if you had it you’d use it.’

‘I don’t need it,’ I joked.

We talked and laughed, ordered more drinks and went out to the garden tables, to see the ocean views. He had picked a great place to live.

‘What made you move here?’

He shook his head and snorted, ‘would you believe, I followed a human woman. We lived together for five years, she knew who and what I was, and I was completely in love. She wanted children. I have known some casanova/human couples that have been able to conceive. We did try, but unfortunately I couldn’t give her what she wanted. We separated, she met another human that she could breed with, and his work brought him here. I followed, hoping that she would regret her decision and come back to me. It’s been eleven years since we separated and ten years that I’ve been here. She has four children and doesn’t look like changing her mind, and unfortunately I can’t leave. So, I get to see her on a regular basis with her mongrel husband and her brats.’

Jarrod was obviously still hurt and bitter about it, he was the only casanova I knew who wanted a family. Normally his species thought of sex as sport or useful for breeding with their own kind. Love was a word only used by the weak minded. ‘Why can’t you leave?’

He drank his drink, ‘I’m not allowed to speak about it Jack, and don’t bother picking it from my mind either. If your grandfather found out we would both be in trouble. It hasn’t been all bad. Don’t say anything to Jonathon but our breeding grounds are close. There are a few sirens in the area as well, so I’m never bored or lonely.’

He stood from the table, ‘come on let’s go back inside. I don’t want to wallow, I feel like playing pool and getting drunk.’

We walked back through the dining room. There were people sitting at every table. I heard two women laugh, one of them came to me clearer than everything else in the room. I didn’t have to look I knew that the owner of that laugh was mine. I felt her presence in every bone in my body. I turned towards them. One of them had long blonde hair, and was very attractive, she looked up and smiled. I didn’t care about her though; it was the woman that was sitting across from her that had my attention. Even from this angle, and with her back to me, I knew who she was. My brothers had been right the immediate attraction was undeniable. I wanted to go to her now, keep her with me and protect her forever. She was meant to be with me. She was my other half.

Jarrod tapped me on the arm, ‘are you coming?’

I reluctantly followed him into the bar and sat as close to the windows that separated it from the dining room as I could. I watched and listened to them, they were celebrating an anniversary of something. Both of them were so happy, their thoughts and conversation was all over the place. I found myself smiling, just listening to them, until the blonde started giving my woman suggestions on what men she should approach. I wasn’t amused with that at all.

I turned to Jarrod who had been watching me, ‘do you know them?’

Even as he answered I kept listening to her happy thoughts, wishing it was me she was sitting with. He shook his head, ‘no, I’ve never met them personally. The one on the left is Michelle, the other one is her sister Taylor she lives in Sydney. For the last eight years they’ve tried to get together at this time to celebrate Michelle’s divorce.’

Michelle, even her name was perfect, and better still she was single, I wouldn’t have to kill her human mate. I turned to Jarrod, ‘for somebody who hasn’t met her you seem to know a lot?’

Jarrod shrugged, ‘it’s a small town, you live here long enough you end up knowing something about everybody. Plus there’s always gossip about Michelle and her family. Nothing to worry about, they’re just seen as a bit different to others.’

‘What do you mean different?’

He shrugged again and walked up to the bar. I turned back to the sisters to watch them. Taylor reached forward and grabbed Michelle’s hand. There was sudden silence coming from them. I couldn’t hear their voices or their thoughts at all. I stood from my stool and watched closer. They were obviously still communicating, their facial expressions kept changing. Taylor started laughing again, and Michelle had a look of shock on her face that had her blushing. They let go of each other’s hands, and instantly I could hear both of their thoughts again. I knew why Michelle was blushing her sister had a few mating suggestions that would make me turn red as well.

Jarrod handed me my drink, and whispered low enough that human ears couldn’t hear. ‘You came here to look for your mate didn’t you?’

I nodded guiltily. He looked at the sisters and back at me, ‘did you know she was here?’

I shook my head and whispered, ‘not exactly, I started seeing images of a woman. Tania meditated, had a vision and said I had to go to Brisbane, and that I would run into somebody I knew and that I was to go with that person.’

‘How long ago was that?’

‘Tania had her vision, a little over two weeks ago, and I was packed and ready to leave the day after, why?’

He looked over at Michelle, ‘so is she the one?’

I nodded, ‘yes, it really is an overwhelming feeling.’

‘So what are you going to do now?’

I shook my head grinning, ‘I have no idea. It’s been so long since I talked to a woman about anything besides the demons we were hunting down.’

He looked at me in surprise, ‘just before your change was complete you told me that you were going to wait for your mate. Are you saying that you really stuck to your word and have waited all these years for her?’

I swallowed my scotch, ‘that’s exactly what I’m saying.’

‘You wouldn’t have lasted a week if you were a love demon.’

‘Well, I’m not. I’m a lamiahaem. It’s easier for us to control ourselves.’

He looked up at the two sisters, ‘well, by the looks of things they’ve been here for some time already, so I wouldn’t try introducing yourself tonight. Let’s have a game,’ he suggested’.

Playing a game of pool while you’re watching and listening to your future isn’t easy. Somehow we did win a few games keeping us on some competition board, and keeping a smile on Jarrod’s face.

A band started playing in the corner, people were up dancing. Michelle and Taylor joined them. It was the first time I really got to look at her. Her black jeans clung to all the right places and the green shirt she was wearing hugged her breasts just right. I sat on a stool and watched as she swung her hips in time with the music, it looked provocative. It wasn’t staged, she wasn’t trying to attract the attention of anybody she was just having fun with her sister. I wanted to be dancing with her, holding her close with my hands on her hips, her breasts rubbing against my chest. Her body would be warm against mine. I silently groaned as my body responded, this wasn’t the place to be having those thoughts. If I kept it up I’d embarrass myself. I closed my eyes to clear my mind.

‘Your name is up. Maybe you should break instead of making us wait,’ growled an angry male voice.

I looked up into the green eyes of a very angry young human male, who was literally forcing a cue in my hands, while thought of destruction were sent my way. ‘Sorry, I was distracted,’ I said. ‘I didn’t realise that I was holding up the game.’

He walked off and stood between me and the dance floor. I no longer had a clear view of Michelle, just an angry young male, with thoughts on how he wanted to damage me. I got up looking at Jarrod as I walked towards him whispering, ‘what was that about?’

He grinned and answered just as quietly, ‘I’ll tell you later, just keep your cool, and whatever you do, don’t start any fights with him or his friends.’

It wasn’t the friendliest game I’d ever played, at one stage I actually thought we were going to get into a physical confrontation. The angry young man glared at me the whole time, while his thoughts of him beating me with the pool cue until I lay in a puddle of my own blood paraded through his head. I was happy when we’d lost and could leave the area. Jarrod and I went back out into the garden after it.

‘Will you now tell me what that was about? That human wanted to see me dead,’ I exclaimed.

‘I think he seen you ogling Michelle when she was dancing, and he obviously wasn’t very happy about it,’ grinned Jarrod.

‘What business would it be of his?’

Jarrod laughed, ‘that was her oldest son, Dillon.’

‘Are you going hunting or stalking this time?’

I pulled the black jumper over my head, ‘I’m going to listen to Michelle first and then I’m going hunting.’

Jarrod shook his head in disbelief, ‘you’re the weirdest lamiahaem I’ve ever met, just go and introduce yourself. Has she seen you at all?’

I grinned, ‘I can track down Renegade for weeks and not be seen, but when it comes to Michelle I just can’t seem to move, I just stand there like an idiot. So yes she’s seen me a few times, once where she works, once outside of the supermarket and another time when I walked past her house. It was all from a distance’.

‘You know you are cheating. Normally you introduce yourself first and then you get to know the person you’re attracted to’.

I shrugged, ‘I just want to know what interests her before I meet her. Then there’s the whole, I’m a demon and she’s a human problem.’

‘You’ve been watching her for two weeks now