Chapter 19: Don’t leak power
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Lucan
Esmeralda was sorting through some files on the desk and I stood by the door until Dana hissed in my ear, “go on then, talk to her.”
I groaned inwardly, but slowly made my way over to Esmeralda. “Hey,” I said.
“Hey, are you ok?” She beamed up at me.
“Uh, yeah I’m fine, are you?”
“Of course I am, I’m happy if you’re happy.”
She got up and hugged me tight.
I looked at Dana and could tell she didn’t believe me about the weirdness.
“All I see is that you’ve been secretly dating her, and she’s all loved up,” Dana rose an eyebrow in annoyance.
“No, I swear, watch this then.” I looked down at Esmeralda and said, “hey, you remember you said you would do anything I want to make me happy?”
When she nodded against my chest, I carried on, “well, I was wondering if you would want to have s**x with me.”
She looked up at me excitedly and squealed, “yes!” She climbed onto the desk and sat there with her legs dangling over the side and started to remove her clothes, her top fell to the floor and I grabbed her wrists before she could remove her b*a.
It meant I was between her legs, and she tried to grind against me.
“See it now?” I asked.
Dana nodded and then laughed and laughed and laughed some more.
“What the f***k is so funny.”
“You, you’re an i.diot, you got angry last night didn’t you, and I bet she was standing right beside you.”
I just looked at her, confused.
Sighing she explained, “it’s your power dimwit, you’ve used it to seduce vampires before to lure them somewhere quiet to kill, it looks like some of your power leaked out while you weren’t in control of your emotions, and you’ve accidentally enthralled Poor Esmeralda here.”
I just looked at Dana, and then it hit me, “I really am a stupid p.rick. I should have known that could happen, I’ve just never had it affect a vampire or a zombie enough that they become enthralled.”
“Well no because you’ve always been in control of it and how much you’re using on them, and now thinking about it, I’m wondering because Esmeralda only feeds on the emotions of people that it could have something to do with why it hit her so hard. She mentioned to me that when she feeds on their emotions that she feels their pain and suffering for a while afterward, like an aftershock or something, and it’s also made her an extremely empathic person, so she feels everything ten times harder than we do.”
Esmeralda was still nuzzling against my neck at this point, and I had to wrap my arms around her just to keep us both standing because she was pressing against me so hard.
“I’m not really sure how to undo what I’ve done.”
“Well I’m guessing it should work the same way it does for your zombies, right? When you put them back in the ground, you take back the power you lent them. Can’t hurt to try.”
I pulled back to look down at Esmeralda and gently held her face in both of my hands. While she stared happily at me, I focused on that cold power that was inside of me and woke it up, I could feel it running through my veins and knew they would be glowing a soft electric blue as it ran down my arms into my hands and into her.
I felt it connect with the power I had unintentionally leaked out and let affect Esmeralda and I clung to it.
I felt it reconnect with my necromancy energy and slowly withdraw from Esmeralda and back into me, flowing through my veins back up my arms and back into that cold place that it slept until I needed it. It was the best way I could describe it.
She looked at me and blinked a few times like she had just woken from a dream. I smiled at her, and she screamed, “oh my god!” Then she ran away to the toilet out back and locked herself in there. What the f***k that was about, I didn’t know.
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