Hidden in the mist

Jaw dropping....

          He went out to his car and got everything out and brought it in, then started to unpack things and asked where things went as he put everything away. When did he switch everything from his truck to his car? Maybe he did it when he unpacked his things back at his place. I did bug him once while he was putting things away, I had asked him to grab my laptop, I needed to check emails and students reports. I also sent an email to the dean to see if I could get in some vacation time, I told him I didn’t want to impose but I needed some time to recoup and heal from my injuries I had procured. I stated that it didn’t have to be right away but soon, I also updated him on my old car and the fact that I just bought a new one so that won’t be an issue again.

         To my shock he emailed me almost right away, I opened it and read his simple message and saw the number below.

         Dear miss McGrath, please give me a call on this number below, when you have a free minute.

      I was a bit nervous, but I got my phone from my bad that Zan brough in with the first load of groceries. I dialed the phone number and shortly after the second ring, almost third, the dean picked up.

       “hello this is Robert.’

       “good evening, Mr. O, its Miss McGrath.” He shuffled and spoke again.

       “Boa! Oh! How are you feeling you poor girl?”

     “well I’m okay right now, thank you for your concern, I’m sorry it’s so late, I didn’t expect for you to be up when I emailed.”

      “oh no worries dear, I’m a night owl, more so on beaks and weekends. Anyways enough about me, so explain what’s been going on Boa.” I raised a brow, I’m not use to this side of him, it was nice but very awkward.

        “well I hurt my ankle the night before my car broke down, and well since then I kept hurting it, I also kept on walking on it. I think its finally gotten to me after I hurt my knee, I had some shopping to do today and Mr. Howl was so kind to assist in taking me out for that and what not. But I think I may have over done it some.” Zan had been paying more attention to my conversation then I had thought because he had chimed up and yelled.

       “THAT’S AN UNDERSATEMENT BOA! YOU COLLAPSED TWICE! TWICE! HAD ME SCARED TO DEATH!”

The dean chuckled for a moment and then again being concerned.

       “well, Boa I think maybe you should take this coming up week off, don’t argue it either… I can’t even recall you ever taking sick leave or vacation before. Matter of fact you always schedule your trips around your classes and when school isn’t in session. You deserve time off; you need to take care of yourself Boa.”

       “yes sir, thank you. I try to not impose with requesting time off and my students mean a lot to me, I try not to cancel classes on them, I am glad they enjoy learning anthropology and occult and what not, I know my subjects aren’t normal in any way.”

       “you’re an amazing person and teacher Boa, it’s been an honor having you as a staff member at the school, you’re the only one that doesn’t call out or is late, thank you. Now please see a doctor and get some rest you more than deserve it.’

        “will do Mr. O,”

         “you can call me Rob, not on campus though. Also I’m glad you took Zan under your wing, I’m also glad he is a good lad and is helping you out.” We laughed for a moment then said out fair wells, I was in a bit of shock how that phone call had went, I guess I have to email my students and let then know later this week ill email them a video they need to review and take notes on. I know its still work but it wont take much to do and at least they wont fall behind and classes will resume in a normal manner. Zan came and sat down with me and opened a beer, he handed me one as well, he was a true hero.

         “so… was that dean Robert?” I nodded because I was taking a swig of my beer.

        “did he give you some time off?” I held the bottle in front of me and swirled it around a bit, I stared at it as I answered.

       “Ya, actually that was a very pleasant conversation. He seems so different outside of school, he even gave me compliments.”

       “oh?” he said as he sat up straight, giving me shocked look, yep I bet I had that same look on my face while on the phone with ‘Rob’.

      “ya, I didn’t think he paid much attention or even cared that much, but he said I hardly ever called out or was late. He even stated how I never take my trips while school in in session only on breaks and weekends. He even thanked me. Oh, and he brought you up right before we finished our call and disconnected.” Now he was sitting up even straighter with wide curious eyes and a grin.

       “oh? Is he daydreaming about me?” I almost choked on my beer and then my shocked eyes went to scowl, I had a grin though. I did give him one good shock in the arm though.

         “NO! nothing like that you sicko. He was glad I took you under my wing and that you are kind enough to help me, gosh you’re such a pain in the ass.” I then rolled my eyes at him as he sat there laughing, he tried taking a sip of his beer but couldn’t stop laughing so it was posed just before his lips. I watched as he laughed and as the bottle rubbed against his lips, oh how I wished I was that bottle even for a moment. Gods help me, he is so tempting, he is so contagious and so addictive.

            “well I’m glad you got time down, can you survive while I’m at work?”

       “Geesh Zan! Of course, I can, I was able to survive this long haven’t I?”

        “shockingly, yes.” I again socked him in the arm as he laughed some more, this time though he had beer in his mouth, so he was trying not to spew it all over my kitchen.

         “swallow Zan, there is no spitting in my house.” Yep I know evil of me, but I got him to swallow with huge eyes and paled face, he turned to me with a shock like no other.

           “Boa! I can’t believe you just said that! I know what you meant too!” I just started to laugh so hard I almost fell from my seat.

      “god you say that like you saw me as some nun or something, well I guess you’re in for a rude awakening, I can be a tyrant trust me. You’ll see.” His eyes were still wide from the shock, I just shrugged at him and gave an evil little grin. 

          We ended up not having the dinner we had planned, instead he ran into town and got us some pizza. Then we sat back and watched some movies, ill tell ya this much, I will not watch mystery movies with him again, yes, I had a good laugh at his very odd questions, but man he had so many. I will have to watch a chick flick with him next to get revenge for stalling the movie we watched. 

          He helped me up to my room so I could get changed, while I was changing, he ran back to his house for some stuff for the night. He wanted to stay in the guest room just in case I needed him again, I didn’t mind that he stayed the night, I just felt bad that he felt like he had to be there to care for me. He was such a kind person, I felt like he deserved to know the truth, but I couldn’t risk telling him. There was so much I wanted to tell him, about tonight, about my nightmares, about me and the life I’ve lived so far.

       When he returned he knocked on my bedroom door, I was laying in my bed with a book, I slid it onto my table and told him to come in. he let me know he was back and he’d be down the hall if I needed anything, I gave him my thanks and said good night. I then returned to my book I was reading, it was a lore book, I was hoping id be able to find the riddle the Cailleach and told me. So far I had no luck, I needed my leg to get better soon so I could get down to the lower levels of the house, there is a huge library and archives down below, but it was a hell of a walk, up and down stairs.

     I decided, id give up for tonight, instead I retrieved my father’s pendant and looked at it. What has been going on as of late? When was Azazael coming, he might have some insight on everything, at least I hoped? I even thought of trying to reach out to the Cailleach, see if I could get more information from them, but I decided not to. It was getting late and I didn’t have the energy nor the frame of mind to go through all of that.

       Soon I was drifting to sleep, I was expecting my normal dreams, but tonight I was dreamless. I woke up around nine the next morning but I decided id go back to sleep for a bit, it think I deserved to sleep in a bit…... sadly I didn’t sleep in as long as I planned, I was woke up to Zan…. A SHIRTLESS ZAN! Right away my eyes went wide, and I fumbled back some in my bed.

      “sorry I didn’t mean to scare you.”

        “uh, um…. No, your fine I just wasn’t ready to… I am not use to having people over and waking me up, I’m sorry.” Not a complete lie, I wasn’t used to sexy as hell men waking me up with not shirt on. I felt myself cream my panties, he was so close to me right now, I could feel his heat and smell his soaps and natural smell of godly like, sexy, lust, I felt myself losing control of my hormones, he was winning, I was slipping into the deep end and he had no idea what he was doing to me, he was winning. I was lost in the deep end of my desires, I had to get space and fast, I quickly started to get out of my bed.

        “so what’s up?” I looked to my side and sort of saw him in my side view, oh my goddesses please save me, he stood, and I got to see him and all his glory. I fixed my hair to distract myself…. Didn’t work though, he walked around to me and I stopped breathing, I prayed to the gods that my eyes and cheeks didn’t give my naughty thoughts away.

       He was cut and curved in every perfect way, he seemed taller for some reason, his eyes still held some sleepiness to them, but his body looked very awake as he walked to me. I could see every muscle roll and flex, even his V line waved at me. And god his tattoos just made it worse, they made him look so much like a Viking or a warrior, naughty and tempting. If the devil took skin to walk in, it would be his, he was worse then a incubus, and they were like angles and s*x demons wrapped into one.

       “well, I came in to check on you, I noticed how late it is and I never once heard you have a nightmare,” his words were so loud over the beating of my heart in my ears, they knocked my ass back to reality, thank goddess.

          “oh… I’m fine I promise, I didn’t have a nightmare for once. Well this will be the third time this week…. Well third time ever…” I felt my hormones drain as things ran through my mind, I felt my pain on my face, I knew he saw it to. He came over and gave me a hug, I about died, I melted in his arms thought, I leaned my head against his chest and hands on his thick built arms.

           I wanted so badly to kiss his chest and run my hands everywhere, his heat matched mine for once and it was almost over whelming. I didn’t care though I let him keep hugging me and rubbing his hand on my back, my thoughts went to that one night I didn’t have a nightmare, it was a dream of him, and me wrapping my legs around his hips and….. oh goddess, stop!

       “I’m glad you got a good night’s rest. I just wanted to make sure, I didn’t mean to startle you though, so since your awake why don’t you go shower and then ill go pick up some coffee and breakfast, any request?”  oh, ill for sure need a shower now, a f*****g cold one to get my ass back to normal. God, I don’t know how but I’m glad he didn’t see through me and see my thoughts and how I was eye f*****g him damn near.

       “hmm, extra coffee, maybe blueberry muffins and chocolate donuts, I have a huge sweet tooth right now.” Hell, yeah, I did, a sweet tooth for him, f**k me! No! get out of the gutter mind!

        “sure! That sounds really good right now, message or call if you think of anything else okay. Please be careful when I’m gone okay.” He said as he gave me one good squeeze and then let me go to started walking toward my door. I watched him walk to my door, thanking the heavens that he didn’t have eyes on the back of his head, he had such beautiful tattoos on his back and arms.

        Every one of his tattoos were so f*****g lucky to be on his skin, it was like they taunted me as I watched him walk away. He had Celtic art works and symbols as well as skulls and a very large Celtic knot dragon that wrapped its way around his torso, he had a few crosses and floral work, but they were dark and gothic looking.

        “ill be fine Zan, you be safe there and back…. I don’t want to lose coffee or sweats.” I gave him a wink and an evil little grin. He just rolled his eyes at me and started to leave my room, but he paused for a moment, I almost didn’t catch it because I looked down to collect myself. I couldn’t see his features, but from they way he took a breath and let his shoulders drop I could only assume he was about to say something but changed his mind, it was like he had a good thought and decided it wasn’t as good as he first thought, like it sadden him as well. Hmm?

        I went to my closet and got out some shorts and a tank and a knitted baggy shirt, like the ones you see girls wearing on the beach in magazines and stuff. Kind of like the 70’s look, those were some great cloths back then, 80’s and 90’s kind of lost me there for a bit, such loud looking cloths and hair. Mid 90’s though, I didn’t mind to much, things started getting better.

        After getting my cloths and underwear, no bra this time, its Sunday, the day of rest. What they needed a day of rest and freedom as well… anyways I took a quick shower and then fixed my curls and went to my bed and started to put on lotion, at the time I only had my tank and shorts on, I didn’t throw my second top on yet because I wanted to get lotion on my arms and stuff beforehand.

         I was starting my legs when Zan walked in, I looked over and saw he had on jogging pants and a male cut tank, both black and a dark blue. He had one ear bud in his ear, I’m sure to listen to music, his face though... his face was pale and his eyes were glossed over and might I say lust filled, I followed his gaze and saw he was looking my over. I blushed but didn’t intervene, why would I when I myself was just doing it not long before now. Hell, even when he walked in, I was eye f*****g him.

        “hey, umm sorry I should have knocked…” he faintly said, but not moving his eyes from me as I went on rubbing lotion into my skin on my legs, I didn’t need lotion for dry skin, I have never had dry skin. What kind of water elemental goddess would I be if I had dry skin? I didn’t it for the smell, it was relaxing as well.

       “your fine, no worries I’m fully dressed so you don’t have to worry because I did leave my door open for you.”

         He brought his brows together for a moment and then nodded, then his brows went back to being rested, his eyes still looking over me here and there but not like before. He came in and rested our coffee on my table and then the bag of food. I finished rubbing in the lotion and in that time, nothing was said, I started to wonder if maybe something was wrong. I had the faintest idea of what it could be, I don’t think anything was showing, private wise, then as I finished my bad leg up, I realized that my leg didn’t look so good still, maybe that’s why? That didn’t explain the lust like look he had though, maybe I miss read him and it wasn’t a lusty look. Then again, he did see he had in a ear bud, maybe it was something that came threw that made him give a look. Guess ill never know.