“Thanks again,” she said as Helen went to the door. “Take care.”
Helen nodded once before stepping outside. I bolted the door behind her, then took my place at Val’s side. She was sipping thirstily at her juice, and I wondered whether she needed to feed, having lost so much blood last night. I hoped so. We needed that kind of intimacy right now.
“So?” I said, tracing my fingertips up and down along her thigh. “What was that all about?”
Val put down her empty glass and carefully rested her head on my shoulder. “She just wanted to ask me a few more questions about the Missionary, that’s all.”
“What did she give you?”
If our bodies hadn’t been pressed up together, I would have missed the momentary tensing of Val’s muscles that subsided as soon as it had appeared. “Just something I left at the Consortium,” she said lightly.
She was clearly leaving something unsaid, but now didn’t seem like the time to push. I brought my other arm across her body to pull her closer. She sighed, burrowing her face into my neck, and I kissed her temple. Whatever it was, I knew that she would tell me in due time.
We had forever, after all.
About the Authors
Nell Stark
grew up predominately on the East Coast of the USA, attended Dartmouth College, and is now pursuing a doctorate in medieval English literature at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. When she is not teaching, writing, or teaching in the university’s Writing Center, she enjoys cooking, sailing, reading, and most sports.
Trinity Tam
is a marketing executive in the music industry and an award-winning writer/producer of film and television. She lives, works, and parents a rambunctious toddler in New York City.
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