The door knob to her office turned but didn’t open. She had a happy moment when that happened. It had taken her a while to get used to locking the door behind her and sometimes she still forgot but not today.
Finally, there was a knock at the door.
“Who is it?”
“Skye, it’s Nathanial.”
Nathanial who didn’t have permission to use her first name but did it anyway. She hit the button on the bottom of her desk that would bring the security guards. It wasn’t like she was scared. No, she was scared some days terrified, he was a stalker, and she was his victim.
Getting up she went to answer the door. “You shouldn’t be here. How many times have I told you I’m not interested?”
“Skye, you have to hear me out. This is going to happen whether you want it to or not. If you give in, I swear I will make it painless.”
Why couldn’t he be a regular stalker someone who was saying he would love her forever. She wouldn’t be less scared, but she might think she had a chance. His brand of crazy was over the top even for a stalker. He wanted to kill her, talked about it like it was inevitable. She had gone to police several times, and he even spent time in jail, but his threats had eventually been deemed the harmless ramblings of a mad man, but she knew better.
“The time is almost here. He demands your power. There is no way you will be allowed to unite with the dragon.”
And there it was the madman part that finally made the courts stop listening. He never touched her only talked about how she would have to die for her own good and the good of the glorious new world.
“Skye.” He took a step towards her, and she backed up as two security guards flanked him.
“Mr. Bell you shouldn’t be in here. Per the court, you’re not allowed to be in this hotel.”
He turned bright blue orbs on Andre. “I just want to talk to her, try to get her to understand why she must die. It’s not for me, I’ve argued in her defense, but he insists. Either she allows me to perform the ritual on her that will cleanse her soul and allow him entry into the world or he will send others after her that will cut her down in the street and laugh. I can’t let her die like that.”
“I’m not dying, period.”
He turned sad eyes on her filled with pity.
Andre grabbed him by one arm, and Steve took the other.
“If you come back in here I swear I will have you locked up until one day after you die. Then when I’m sure you’re not coming back, they can bury you.”
“Skye!” he screamed as they dragged him out. “I’m only trying to help you.”
Thanks, with that type of help my life will be over in a blink of an eye. She ran her sweaty hands down the side of the slacks she was wearing today before she went and sat back in her chair. She was the manager in charge of this hotel it would be inappropriate for her to sit in the corner, wrap her arms around her legs and rock. How she wished she was ten again.
She picked up the form she dropped when Nathanial tried to open her door. These forms won’t fill themselves out she reminded herself as she attempted to get lost in work.
*~*~*~*
Zeno took the elevator down to the first floor where one of the three restaurants in the hotel was located. This wasn’t the one he liked to eat breakfast at, but he decided to change his routine today.
Coming here had seemed like a good idea at the time. There was no way he was going to find his mate in Dragon Cove and Eternity the goddess of the plane after death had pointed him in this direction with a few interesting words. He might have laughed if he hadn’t been there and seen how his brothers mate almost died.
The longer he stayed in this hotel, the more convinced he became that she was here, but it had been two weeks. How could he have not seen all the females in that time? He gave a small shrug as he walked into the Strange Place. That was the name of the restaurant. This hotel was buried on an ancient burial ground that was before the time of the Indians. It spanned back to the time of a very powerful people the remnants of who lived on the island with him. Their spirits and the power they still possessed kept this place safe. The humans didn’t know it, but they felt it.
He took a seat at one of the tables that would give him a view of the staff as well as the customers as they walked past. He liked the inside of this place although he liked their lunch the best. It had a warm cozy feel the chairs were done in a dark blue and weren’t hard. They made you want to stay a while. The tables were a warm wood, and there was a fireplace. At times, it felt like a home away from home.
“Hi, what can I get you?”
He looked up into the face of a waitress he had never seen before. Was she a dragon mate? Something about her pulled at him making him uncomfortable. He wasn’t sure what she was, but she wasn’t his mate.
“I’ll take a glass of orange juice as well as a glass of water. Then I would like your stack of pancakes, two eggs over easy, your breakfast steak the twelve ounces please and hash browns.”
“I always did like a man with a good appetite. I’ll be back in a few with your drinks.”
“What’s your name?”
“Willow.”
“I’m Zeno nice to meet you.”
He would have to tell Syn and Zeno about her when he got home. She was setting off sparks, but he didn’t know why. That was the downside of this hotel as long as you were in it, no one could get an actual read on what you were. Maybe he should arrange to meet her outside? No, he gave up on that idea he needed his mate that was why he was here.
There was a possibility that he might not know who she was when he met her but he dismissed that thought. He had been waiting thousands of years he would know who she was.
He thanked Willow when she brought his drinks and then his food. Eating slowly he watched as each female passed by him, he tasted the air around them and watched how they moved. Mostly he paid attention to his dragon the who wasn’t perking up when any of the females crossed his path. Finally, he gave up and paid the bill. How much longer would he be able to stay here?
He walked down the grand staircase into the lobby to see two guards escorting a man out.
His eyes narrowed as his nose took in the scents in the room. He knew that stench, the man reeked of contact with Mutufa.
“No! Hell no, you can’t have her. You won’t defeat our glorious plans.” Nathanial went crazy fighting against the guards.
The guest moved over. Parents clutched the hands of scared children, while women tucked their purses closer as the men in their lives tucked them closer.
He watched the actions of the human men and gave his head a small nod in reaction to them. Tuck your females close and guard them they are irreplaceable. He followed the man outside curious to see what the guards would do with him. They didn’t let him go they escorted him several blocks down the street and warned him not to return.
Zeno stayed in the shadows even as the man’s eyes sought him out.
“I know you’re here,” he whispered low enough for the guards not to hear him. They turned around and left.
“I’ve been tasked with making sure you don’t find her. It won’t matter even if you do. I already have everything I need in play. Soon she will be the last sacrifice for Mutufa and when he comes back, he will bring her back with him and then she will be mine.” He laughed with an edge of insanity.
Zeno slipped away without alerting the man to where he was. Eternity was correct. His dragon mate’s life was in jeopardy he had to find her soon.
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