I found myself wondering if his dark brown hair was as soft as it looked. I loved the way it looked like he’d just gotten out of bed. It was cropped a little short but still spiked at the front in the current fashion. He cleared his throat and I found myself connecting with his bright green eyes. I felt my mouth drop open and realised that I might even be drooling. My eternal heart was clearly the best looking man to ever walk the earth.
L~~ Taini’s Perspective
“Good Night then! Maybe we can get together again in a few years if we can fit it into the schedule.”
I said loudly through my gritted teeth as I turned my back on Ulric and slammed the front door shut. I didn’t even bother to glance back to see if my words had any effect at all on him. The dance was nothing like I’d hoped it would be. Ulric was my eternal heart and he should have paid more attention to me and made me feel special. Instead I spent the entire dance wondering if something was wrong with me. He didn’t come within four feet of me and managed not to touch me the entire night.
His face looked strained and even when I tried to engage him in conversation he was distracted and answered with single syllables. How could I have an eternal heart that wasn’t even a little interested in me? I was probably the only woman in the history that had a disinterested eternal heart. Why I bet if we met now instead of when I was young he would have rejected me. I wondered if he even liked girls at all.
I heard my mother coming down the stairs the second I stepped into the house. I could see by the look on her face that she already knew that I was angry. I wasn’t ready to speak yet so I gave her my ‘not yet’ look and threw my cardigan on the couch. Then I stomped over to my favorite recliner and flopped down. I again looked at my mum this time indicating that I was ‘almost’ ready. I looked away and pulled the lever and kicked out the legs before turning to look at my mum. She was still standing next to me with a patient but very curious look on her face.
“I think my eternal heart is gay!” I blurted out barely holding back my tears of frustration and embarrassment
I would have expected many things from my mum but I never expected her to start laughing hard enough that she snorted. With each burst of laughter I found my face getting redder and my emotions becoming more confused.
“What? What is so funny” I said
Why would my mum laugh at my pain? It was terrible that I had an eternal heart that wasn’t going to be interested in me as a female. I was going to spend my entire life not knowing what it would feel like to be loved by a man. I know that my heart is content just to have his around but I wanted so much more than that. I wanted the kind of relationship my mum and pop have. They share everything together. My parents still dote on each other like there is no one more important in the world. Just as my mum pulled herself together enough and I thought she was going to answer me my pop came into the living room. The moment he spotted my mum’s red face and her very wet cheeks he immediately misunderstood and shouted
“What did the bastard do?”
I opened my mouth to tell my pop when my mum turned into his arms and said with laughter still in her voice
“Apparently nothing. Taini told me she thinks he’s gay.”
Then my pop looked at me before he too started laughing causing my mother to have yet another fit of laughter.
LI~~ Ulric’s Perspective
I watched her turn her back on me and slam the front door. Part of me was relieved yet another part of me wanted to kick the door open and pull her into my arms. Tonight had been one of the most difficult nights I’ve ever lived though. In fact, I was sure this was some type of premeditated torture for my past discretions. God had a funny sense of humor and he wanted to pay me back for my previous sins.
From the moment I stepped into the Chēchitl house I knew I was in trouble. The second I laid eyes on her tonight my heart went berserk, followed by my body and my emotions. Every moment I spent in her company I’d to fight tooth and nail to keep control of myself. When I bargained with them to allow me to take her to the dance I’d to agree with her parents that I would make sure tonight stayed very platonic. In fact, her father made it clear that if I so much as kissed her on the cheek he would make sure I didn’t see her again until she graduated from college.
For that reason, it had been a long grueling night. Taini is an absolutely beautiful young woman and I treated her like she was a leper. It was just that everything about her was too appealing. If it wasn’t one thing it was another. First it was her damn scent. It didn’t help that her pop pinned extra lilacs on her. Didn’t he know that just increased her appeal? I had to try not to breathe through my nose every time she came with five feet of me.
Even from afar however she was driving me insane. For the life of me I can’t understand how her father let her out of the house in that dress. For gods sakes it showed off way too much of her absolutely amazingly creamy skin. Every single time I saw one of those horny young boys glance towards her breasts I felt like ripping their heads off.
I couldn’t even have a decent conversation with her since I was either fighting myself or fighting imaginary foes. It was awful how she tried so hard to engage me in meaningful conversation and I could do no more than grunt like a caveman. It was clear my eternal heart has an amazing mind and a really quirky sense of humor. I was sure after tonight she thought I was incapable of intelligent conversation.
I took a deep breath and felt my shoulders slump as I headed back towards my car. I turned over the engine and was halfway down the street when I felt something hit the side of the car. I slammed on the breaks and was shocked to see Taini standing at my window. I pressed the button and watched as the glass the separated us disappeared. Then she leaned in towards me and said almost in a whisper
“I need to know why you commingled your essence with mine if you’re gay. I deserve at least that much from you.”
I knew what I was going to do was wrong. I knew that when her father found out he would want my head on a silver platter but I was done fighting. My heart, body and soul wanted Taini more than I wanted anything in the world. I reached out of the window with one intention… to prove to her there wasn’t a gay bone in my body.
THE END
Sample of Skinwalker book two; Harden My Heart
IAlastair’s Perspective
I saw several human males enter the laboratory. They had Tasers in their hands and I knew they were going to zap me, so I would be very complacent and they could use drugs on me or run more of their vial and disgusting tests. I knew this would be my best chance. I could not let them take me down. I charged them the moment my cage door was opened. I felt several Tasers attach to my side and send electrical shocks through me. If I had been in a run of the mill human, I would have been stunned and probably knocked out. But I was no human. I was a Jötnar; one of the magical Vaettir. Most would call me a giant. I was five hundred pounds plus of pure muscle and was completely unaffected by their little puny Tasers. I tore into the body of the men left nothing but bloody pieces of flesh scattered on the floor of the lab.
This was my chance to end all of this once and for all. I would not continue to hurt others, nor could I be a lab rat any longer. I’d been caged, tested and brutalized for nearly eighty years. It needed to end, even if that meant I needed to die. I moved to the back of the laboratory and prepared myself for death. I closed my eyes and tried not to see or feel the carnage that I’d done to the human men. Then, before I could change my mind, I opened my mouth and swallowed the carborane. Carborane is a superacid and is a million times more powerful than even concentrated sulphuric acid. It burned down my throat and into my stomach reinforcing that I had very little time left. The pain was much worse than what I thought it would be forcing silent tears to drop from my eyes as I waited for death to take me.
IIFynlie’s Perspective
I was never as grateful as I was when I heard the voice of my pop. I had no idea why he was in Mecca but I was grateful as hell that he was. I
was in real trouble. The life and death kind. It didn’t matter that I was a Nagual or trained US Marine. Without intervention from one of my own kind, I was a dead duck.
While some believe I like all of Pau’s nagual children are indestructible, I believe I could probably die just like any other chupacabra. I mean honestly what is a nagual... Just a chupacabra and skinwalker genetically combined. Why anyone would think we are indestructible is just ridiculous. Of course, I believe we have the same four major weaknesses of any chupacabra.
The easiest way for an enemy to kill me would be to simply sever my head from my shoulders. Now that might sound easier than it actual is. The truth is chupacabra and nagual like myself are very strong and I have mastered the art of fighting over the years. If you want to remove my head from my shoulders you had better take me by surprise and get it right the first time because no other creature alive is stronger than a nagual and there are very few my equal in battle.
The second way to kill me is to remove my heart from my chest and completely destroy it. If even a tiny little piece remains, a chupacabra or a nagual could completely regenerate their heart. All it would take is a little help from a shaman like Waylon.
The third way would be of course to burn my body to ashes. That is the easiest and most effective way to kill a chupacabra or a nagual. Trapping us long enough to burn our bodies however is far easier said than done.
I was ripe for any of these things to happen to me. I was in Mecca, dressed as an American soldier unconscious in a public place. Anyone could cut off my head, remove my heart or burn me to ashes. I was having an out of body experience and trying to understand how I could return to my damaged body without my totem animal guide. Worse, I knew it was my own stupidity that I was in this predicament to begin with. I was taken by surprise because the life force of my eternal heart finally called for me. I became distracted when I realized he only reached out to me because his life was in danger and he wanted to say goodbye.
In recent years, I started thinking that I would never find my eternal heart. It was just my luck that I waited a lifetime for my eternal heart and he finally decides to call me in the middle of major battle. Here I was in enemy territory, defending myself against fifty well-armed human terrorists, when I felt my eternal heart suddenly calls to me. I was so shocked that I got sloppy. I didn’t want to lose my eternal heart even before I got to meet him. My body was twisted around and I tried to keep the attackers at bay. I heard and felt him at the same time, but from the position I was in I could not see him.
I so wanted to see him so bad that I turned my head just a tiny bit. That's when the bastard got. They riddled me with bullets. There were more than two dozen bullets lodged into my body, including my heart, lungs and brain. The ones in my brain are what knocked me out. I think I was out cold for a while because when I came to, my eternal heart was gone and so were the terrorists. I can only pray that my eternal heart is still alive and waiting for me. My pop took me to the car and gently led me into the back seat. I could see my body quickly repairing and my pops partner Waylon started using his shaman skills to help guide me back inside my body. Then moment I was safely back inside, I opened my eyes. I watched pops face light with shock and joy.
I craned my neck and momentarily considered telling Waylon and my pop about my eternal heart. Then fear set in and I suddenly had the feeling if I said anything, it would be bad luck. So when I opened my mouth, I said nothing of my Spirit eternal heart but instead joked about the whole incident.
I sat in the seat and started moving around my neck a little more and then I looked at Waylon and my pop and thanked them for helping me in a bad situation. Waylon laughed but pop seemed distraught, before I could question him however Waylon started speaking.
“Fynlie, it isn’t an accident that we are here. We tracked a Sjövættir named Amada Laurita here. She’s evil and stole the body of Taini. We think she might have come here in search of you. She’s looking for allies and probably thought she could fool you into believing she’s the real Taini. We need to capture her alive and bring Taini’s body back to the United States with us. We are pretty sure she’s staying in the compound with the rebels.”
It took just under an hour for them to fill me in on all the details and for the three of us to come up with a plan to sneak into the compound. Their only agenda was finding the Sjövættir in Taini’s body. Mine was to see if I could find my eternal heart. With that in mind, I followed my feelings directly into the compound.
I knew the moment I stepped inside, he was still there and he was alive. I couldn’t help but wonder how he was he connected to this mess. Was he a terrorist too? Perhaps he was scientist? I knew they were conducting some strange experiments in the compound. Part of me really hoped he wasn’t one of the doctors. Maybe he was just a lab hand, I could understand if he did what was necessary to survive in this poor country.
It suddenly struck me odd, that the compound appeared to be almost empty. I wasn’t sure, but it seemed to be less crowded than when I was here the night before. I was even more surprised when I suddenly realized I could smell the scent of my eternal heart in the air. I was surprised and delighted that he smelled like leafy trees on a windy autumn night. His smell reminded me of the rain forest. I listened carefully and I could still hear the beating of his heart slowly and calmly. Then I realized that each beat was a little slower than the previous beat.
I hid behind several rocks and allowed my mind to separate from my body. I slipped through the door and into the underground chamber. I let my life force lead me to my eternal heart. I found him lying in the corner of an empty lab. He was bleeding profusely from his eyes, ears, nose and throat. I looked around and I saw test tubes and broken glass and I knew he’d drunk the acid one of the scientists were using in their experiments. That’s when I realized what my eternal heart was and what he’d done to himself.
I had a few minutes to decide my best course of action. I knew my family would never accept my eternal heart or forgive him for what he did to my pop or the others during World War II. I had to leave and never look back. Just a little more time and he would be gone from this earth. I cried and I felt the tears flow from my eyes. I knew I could never walk away. Yet, my eternal heart was a monster who deserved to be punished. He was a Jötnar and one of the SS scientists that helped to turn my pop into a nagual. Yet… was he not punished with pain and tribulation that no one should have to endure? It was clear he was a test subject as much as my pop and the others had been during the war. I returned to my body and ran full speed into the compound with a purpose. I was going to save me eternal heart no matter what it took. Then, later, much later, I would decide what is good or bad
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