All Of The Dead (a necromancer story)

Chapter 18: Client

I couldn’t stop staring at Esmeralda, I already thought she was so incredibly beautiful, ok, I had been shallow and hateful when we first met, but her personality was so beautiful that it made her beautiful to me too, the more I got to know her the more beautiful she became.

I knew she was insecure about being overweight, but I didn’t care about any of that, she was perfect to me and I loved every inch of her, I hadn’t noticed her changing, and now she had that unnatural vampire beauty again which if anything, usually turned me off more than any unattractive person would, but this was Esmeralda, and she was different from any other vampire.

She was so stunning right now I found myself blushing, which I tried to hide but probably failed, she looked so happy, which made me happy and when she came over, I was like some stupid teen boy who’d never been kissed. She reached up and kissed me lightly on the lips, and I swear I almost came in my pants. “f***k me,” I breathed.

Smiling, she teasingly said, “I just did.”

“Mm, f***k me again if you like.”

That made her giggle, I think she thought I was joking, but I was deadly serious. Dana ruined everything though by barging in and said, “if you guys are done f.ucking can I just say, please be more quiet from now on, sheesh, you’re lucky no customers came in, or they would have heard how hard you made Es come.”

Esmeralda grew shy, and I knew she was blushing hard right now. “Alright, we will be more quiet in future,” I said.

Dana looked at the torn leggings on Esmeralda, and I said, “don’t suppose you have any spare?”

Sighing, she replied, “no, but I can go buy some quick hold on.” She left us alone, and I went over to Esmeralda and stroked a piece of her hair away from her face. “You ok, beautiful?”

She nodded, smiling and I kissed her forehead softly. “These feelings are so intense.”

“Yes, they are,” she laughed.

Dana came back a few minutes later and threw some new leggings at me. “Give me the money back,” she said and shut the door, I knew by that response she was p.issed off with me.

I bowed down and gave the leggings to Esmeralda. “Here you go, my lady.”

Giggling she took them and said, “why thank you kind sir.”

“You can absolutely call me that in bed,” I grinned.

We finally did get back to work, and I was still wondering how I could find the witch who made me what I was, that’s if she was even still alive. I think I knew one who might be able to help, but she was into the dark arts, and it would probably take dark magic to find a witch like mine, but I had nowhere else to start.

Glad I had some sort of plan, I managed to work more peacefully and spoke to a few clients who wanted to hear from their loved ones. One client came in, and she was so angry I could feel it, my necromancy made it so that I felt the emotions of the dead, but my wolf side made it so I now picked up more easily on the livings’ emotions too.

“Miss Kelly, you want to talk to your boyfriend, right?” I said checking the computer to double-check.

She nodded, and her hair fell into her face. She had white blonde hair with soft curls that ran down to her waist and ice blue eyes like mine but without the flecks of gold or any other supernatural sign of course, she was human, I could tell by scent and really beautiful, her face was flawless with full red lips and a cute button nose, she was wearing a white summer dress that was low cut and showed off her big milky white breasts, she had porcelain skin so light she reminded me of a doll.

She smelt good too, and it was hard to concentrate, I didn’t understand why she smelt so good it made me hard. I ignored it as best I could and said, “ok, he is here already, he followed you to this appointment, so if you wish to say anything you can.”

“Tell him he is a piece of s.hit, I found out he was having an affair behind my back with my best friend! Why would he do that!”

“He can hear you.” I looked to her boyfriends spirit, and he said, “I’m sorry, I was shallow and stupid, and I wish I could take things back, but I can’t, all I can do is ask for your forgiveness.”

I relayed the message, and she folded her arms huffing. “No, I will never forgive you, I came here because I want to know where you put my necklace that my mom gave me, I know you took it!”

“I just wanted to get your attention, it’s under the bed.”

“He said he was trying to get your attention, sometimes spirits do this, but he said it’s under your bed.”

“That’s all I needed to know, thank you, Mr Warlow and Sam, I hate you!”

I looked at Sam and saw him growing frustrated and angry, for a second, his spirit sort of glitched and then the vase on the window sill smashed. The lady jumped, and her eyes grew wide.

This happened a lot, not the ghosts lashing out, but the people’s reactions, they’d talk to me, but it wasn’t until they saw something happen for themselves that it really hit them hard that this was all real that there really was life after death.

I looked to her and said, “please try not to get angry or yell, sometimes with an upsetting event like the one you two are talking about, the spirit will hold on to their guilt and pain, if you can’t forgive that’s ok, and it is your right to feel how you feel but hurling angry insults to them can make things worse, they can lose control, they can sometimes lose themselves if their guilt is deep enough.”

“What happens if they lose themselves?” She asked nervously.

“They can become lost and turn in to a damned one.”

“What’s that!” She panicked.

“It’s like a lost soul, someone who’s lost the essence of who they were as a person, trapped in their own pain.”

“And that’s happened to him?”

“Honesty?”

She nodded, so I explained, “not yet, but he’s very close to it.”

“If I say I forgive him, will that help?”

“You don’t have to, you don’t have to even believe it, but just kind words or something from the heart is usually enough.”

Nodding she turned to look at the room and said, “I’m sorry Sam, I didn’t mean that, I don’t hate you, it’s because I love you so much that I was so angry and hurt, but it’s over now, and I can make peace with it if you can? I don’t want you holding on to guilt or punishing yourself, ok? In fact, when it’s my time you better still be there waiting, so we can talk for real.”

Sam’s spirit calmed down and he came back to himself and nodded, “yes, ok, tell her yes I’ll be waiting for her.”

I did, and she smiled, I saw and felt them both sort of get some peace from this, some sort of closure and Sam’s soul felt good again, I felt his guilt and pain lift slightly and knew he’d be ok for now.

I ended the session and Sam left, when I told her she smiled and said, “thank you, what you can do is so amazing.”

“Thank you,” I smiled politely.

Standing up, we shook hands, and she leaned in to kiss my cheek, I’d had that happen once or twice, but she was braver than most and tried to kiss me on the lips too. I moved back and stood up. “Sorry, that wouldn’t be professional of me, and I’m also taken.”

“Oh, I’m so sorry I didn’t even think to ask if you had a special someone.” She was blushing so hard, I felt sorry for her and dropped the coldness. “It’s ok, don’t worry about it.”

She left fast after that and when she was gone, I called Clayton. “Lucan?” He asked.

“Yeah it’s me, I just had a woman in, and this is going to sound weird, but why did she smell so damn good, like really f.ucking good, the wolf didn’t want to eat her did it?”

“Did you feel like you wanted to eat her?” I could hear the sarcasm in his voice like he knew the answer already.

“No.”

I heard him laugh on the other end of the line, and he said, “it sounds like she was in heat, when a female is about to start her period about a week before, she smells really good and all you want to do is mate with her, usually drives wolves insane with lust, but we can learn to control it and not throw ourselves on the poor female, you have your true mate which is why you found it easy to ignore, your wolf won’t want anyone else other than your mate.”

“My wolf? Is it separate from me?”

“No, you are the wolf it’s just easier to explain it as the wolf sometimes, the more wolfish behavior.”

I nodded, “alright, thanks Clayton.”

She was my last client for the day, so I got up and went out to find Esmeralda, all I wanted to do was be near her.

She was giggling and laughing at something Dana was saying, and I watched her for a while. When they caught me looking, I stepped into the room trying to act casual. “Are you ready Esmeralda?”

Standing up, she nodded, I saw the hurt on Dana’s face and some guilt hit me, it wasn’t all on her, I could have said no after all. Sighing, I went over and asked, “how you getting home?”

“It’s not far, I’ll just walk.”

“Don’t be stupid, I’ll drive you.” I shoved her playfully, and she smiled, but it didn’t reach her eyes. Sitting down with her while Esmeralda got her things, I said, “look, I know it’s awkward between us now, and I’ve been cold, I’m sorry about that, but I just need more time and I want to focus on Esmeralda and give her the attention she deserves.”

“Of course, I would never get between you two, you know that, I feel awful about what we did too.”

“I know, I just, we can’t be how we used to be with the flirty play fighting and stuff.”

She nodded, “good, I want you to be with Es, you two are perfect together.”

Looking at her, I knew she meant it and smiled, “alright, good, let’s go.”

I almost went to hold my hand out to help her to her feet but stopped myself, it was a habit from my old ways back in the day, but these days people seemed to think it meant more, so I refrained from doing it and went over to Esmeralda. “You ready?”

She nodded, so kissing her cheek, I took her hand led her out.