Raven's Desires (Night Hunters) by Aminta Reily Read Free Book Online Page B

meant that he would probably be walking home tonight.
    “Really now? Just where would this itch be?”
    “Why don’t you sit down and I’ll tell ya.”
    Kristian grabbed his coat and slid out of the booth. As he walked over towards the young lady who caught his attention earlier, he felt this strange pull to her. When he smiled at her before, it was just a teasing smile and nothing more. But now that he stood closer to her, he felt a magnetic pull towards her.
    Not only did he feel a pull, he felt something else. A level of pain he’d never experienced before in a human. Her body screamed of agony. There was so much around this young lady. Where had he witnessed that type of pain before? He had to find out. “You mind if I have a seat here?”
    The young lady lifted her hand from her head. She looked up at him with her bloodshot eyes. He could see the agony in those eyes. He heard her heart pounding against her chest. With each beat he could feel her insides screaming for relief of the constant pressure in her head.
    The young lady looked back at the waitress and Shane then back to him.
    “If you think that I’m going to go home with you like my friend Veronica, you are wrong,” she growled at him.
    Kristian had to stop himself from smiling. If he wanted to take her home with him, there was nothing she could do to stop him. He could easily will her to do as he wanted.
    “That’s not why I asked to sit here but if you think that I’m that way, I could sit in one of the other booths. I only asked because you seemed a bit troubled.”
    As Kristian turned to walk away, her hand grasped his wrist. Kristian didn’t have time to close his mind before he was quickly pulled into hers. This woman was in pain, so much pain that he did not know if he could stop it. Image after image of her crying, begging and pleading for the pain to go away assaulted him until he thought the pain would knock him onto his knees.
    “I’m…I’m sorry. I’m not usually this way. I’ve had this headache for so long. You can have a seat, but I doubt I will be very good company.”
    Kristian knew he had to try to ease the young lady’s pain.
    “I studied the Chinese art of pain and stress massage. I could try to help ease the pain in your head. That’s if you don’t mind a complete stranger touching you.”
    She looked at him and smiled. “Does it involve any touching below the waist?”
    Kristian laughed, taking in her appearance. She was beautiful to him. Her light brown eyes were sparkling with mischief as she asked the question. Her smile could brighten anyone’s day. Anyone could easily fall in love with her. Even him…wait, he wasn’t in love, just caught up in the moment.
    He gazed into her eyes. “It will not involve any touching below the neck. I promise.”
    She shrugged. “I have tried everything. Why not try this?”
    Kristian laid his coat on the booth.
    “What is your name by the way? I would at least like to know the name of the stranger I’m letting touch me.”
    “I’m Kristian Blackburn, and you are?”
    “Raven Nowles.”
    “It’s nice to meet you, Raven Nowles. Now that we have that out the way, just relax and let me take over. Close your eyes and count backwards from twenty.”
    Once Raven closed her eyes, he placed his hands on each side of her head.
    “Now, count for me.”
    “Twenty, nineteen, eighteen…”
    Kristian released a great force of energy from him to her. It started from her head then moved through her body. He focused on her pain, searching through her body. Kristian opened his eyes when he found the problem. Raven was a new slayer being transformed. It has been over a hundred years since he had even seen a slayer. Now to be here, touching one was like a miracle. Some slayers did not have any pain while transforming. In Raven’s case, she was having a hard time because her body was rejecting the change. She was becoming stronger, more powerful with each moment.
    Kristian focused on that