Chapter12
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Chapter 12
Delphine
We congregated in Kayla’s room, the soft pinks and purples of her room screamed femininity, as did the drapes, sun lounge and various varses of flowers scattered around the room. As she put the final touches on her Halloween costume, she wore a lime green Tinkerbell costume that hugged her body paired with silver stiletto heels. Charlie dressed as the joker, funny enough the purple suite and green hair suited him I thought. Mae didn’t budge about not coming, so it was just the three of us.
“I love that you left your hair natural tonight” Kayla said to me, running her fingers through my hair. “Well, I think Wonder Woman would not have time to be styling this” I said pointing to myself. Charlie started to laugh, both Kayla and I turned to look at him both feeling confused on what was so funny. “You dressed up as a tall Amazonian woman and standing next to Kayla you look small, where you Kayla have dressed up as a tiny fairy and you are the tallest female wolf here” he said continuing to laugh. Kayla and I both had not consider the irony of our costume choices. The Dhampir’s Halloween party was held in a large empty warehouse each year and this year was no different. The Fae loved Halloween, last year Charlie dressed up as teen wolf with a sports jacket and Kayla glued fur to his face that pained him to remove which was hilarious. By the time we arrived the music was playing, and the warehouse was filling fast. Test tub shots and cocktails in blood bags were handed out by bar staff.
“I am getting us shots” Kayla yelled disappearing into the crowd, Charlie and I diverted to the dance floor where a group of the witches were already dancing. Kayla returned with what looked like two dozen test tubes and started to hand them out. We continued dancing for a while before I needed a break and headed off the floor towards the exit door. I was walking through a hallway when I felt the hand pull me into them, a medium height hunter with short blonde hair held my wrist standing too close for comfort.
“You look great can we dance” he asked trying to force us to dance together there in the hallway.
“No thanks” I said prying his hands off me, he reached over and grabbed me by the other wrist yanking me back to his side
“Come on just one dance” he protested, before I could have snapped his hand off which I had planned to do, a large hand came crashing down onto the hunter's hand pulling it off my wrist, as the hunter yelped, I gazed up meeting Cillian’s eyes.
“She said to you no, that means no! Do you understand?” He roared, the hunter nodded and retreated to his group holding his hand that I was certain was broken.
“Thank you!” I said turning to face Cillian who had already started to close the proximity between us. He reached down and lifted my hands up studying them for injury.
“Are you okay?” He asked still holding onto my hands
“Yeah, I am okay, hunters are pretty annoying " I said
“Well, he should still have some respect” Cillian said, I blushed and looked down not wanting him to see my embarrassment. He dropped one of my hands and caressed my cheek, and without control I leaned into him resting my head on his chest him instinctively wrapping his arms around me into an embrace, he lowered his head and rested it on top of my head. We stayed there for what seem like forever but was barley just seconds, in silence not speaking or moving, just the sound of us breathing. I tried to take hold of his scent however it was so faint that I could not amerce myself in it, it made no sense to me why his scent was so faint, how I could feel drawn to him yet there be no mate scent, or Sparks I thought. I felt his phone buzzing in his pocket which snapped me out of my thoughts, I went to step out, - but Cillian’s arms were locked around me. Peering up at his face, I was met with his hazel eyes and gentle smile.
“You need to get back to your friends?” He asked, I nodded, they would be wondering where I was, he slowly let go of the embrace I suddenly felt exposed without his arms as comfort.
“I still want to see you again Delphine,” he said giving me a wink. I laughed
“ok” I replied, Cillian smiled and pulled out his phone and handed it to me
“Put your number in it” he exclaimed, I proceeded to enter my number and saved it. As I handed it back to him it started to buzz again to which he just put it back in his pocket with no care to answer whoever was calling. I am not sure what came over me, but I leaned up and pressed my lips to his cheek kissing it softly the same way he kissed mine out the front of my dorm, I spun around and walked away not looking back as I knew that my cheeks would show an embarrassed blush. I reached Charlie and Kayla who were still dancing, Charlie with a blood bag cocktail hanging out of his mouth, Kayla handing me another test tube shot as she spun around on the dance floor.
“How long did you want to take” he asked, I shrugged my shoulders and kept dancing.
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