SWNOVELS Chapter 6: Zia
She unpacked the stuff on the counter while she was thinking hard. All these items were bought by his money. How was she going to repay back? And more importantly, why she felt attracted to him? This was a dangerous thing to do especially when she already had a boyfriend. Deep inside her, she felt like she had known Jaxon for her whole life. It felt like they were meant to cross path.
Zia raised her hand and touched her cheek. Even right now she still could feel the warmth of his hand against her skin. She would not lie; the skin contact sent shiver from her cheek down to her core.
Danger.
Her brain alerted her. This dangerous feeling she was having, it would ruin her relationship.
“Zia!”
She startled by the loudness of Brody’s voice and spun around. “What?”
He wasn’t wearing a shirt. His V-line was screaming for attention as his jeans hung low. But why she didn’t feel attracted to him? Every time she went out with him, the other girls would eye-rape him but Zia wouldn’t feel jealous about that.
“Baby, you were zoning out. What’s going on? Touching your cheek like that,” Brody said, pointing to her hand was still on her cheek.
Zia put down her hand and lied, “It was itchy.”
No, it wasn’t itchy. Her cheek was on fire after Jaxon touched it. And the way he called her beautiful, it melted her. Her knees almost buckled under her weight. Zia changed her attention from her boyfriend to the cereal boxes on the counter and arranged them in the cabinet.
“I thought you and Clay had work to do,” She said, watching him pacing back and forth from the counter to the fridge, helping put the stuff in.
“Vampires don’t go out during the day,” He replied in amusement.
Zia frowned. These two men would hunt for vampires. She was aching to get her first kill on a vampire. When would Joshua let her do it? She had been hunting since she was sixteen and now she was in her mid-twenties, still didn’t get a chance to kill one vampire.
“You will get your turn,” Brody spoke as if she thought out loud. “Just trust your dad.”
“He always thought I couldn’t do it.”
He put his hands on her hips and made her face him. “Baby, your dad just worried about your safety. If it was up to him, you wouldn’t even hunt at all. You’re his only little princess.”
Worried? That word never came across Joshua’s mind.
“But it’s not fair. You guys always do the fun stuff.” She pouted.
He chuckled, tilting her head before capturing her lips. “Trust your dad, okay? When the time comes, he would tell you.”
“Fine, I guess I have the bed to myself tonight.”
Brody pecked another kiss on her lips before leaving the kitchen. “Don’t let the bedbugs bite your sexy ass.”
Maybe she should hit the bar tonight and see if she could get Jaxon out of her mind. She couldn’t concentrate on anything else with him in her mind. This was driving her crazy. What was so special about his touch until she couldn’t focus on her own boyfriend?
Resuming her work in putting the stuff into their respective place, Zia listened to Clay and Brody’s discussion echoed out of the opened-door study room. The front door swung open and Joshua stepped in with Laura. He looked at Zia briefly before whispering to his wife, passing his weapon bag to her. Laura nodded several times and left them alone. He came to his daughter, putting a brown file on the counter. Zia reached for it and flipped it opened. A male photo was on the first page.
“Your next target for tomorrow,” He told her, pouring a cup of coffee for himself.
“But he’s a human.” She looked at her dad.
Joshua sipped on his hot coffee before answering his daughter. “He worked with the werewolves—providing information, funds, and weapons. Someone has told us to eliminate him.”
Zia hated it when human betrayed their own kind to work for the werewolf and vampire. This kind of people didn’t deserve to live because they were the reason other humans were suffering.
“You get that one done and there would be two more tasks for you to do.” He added, finishing his coffee. “Consider it as the next step before you get to kill a vampire.”
Finally, the words she had been waiting for. Her turn to get a kill on a vampire. She had been waiting for that words for ages since she hunted. Every time she heard Clay and Brody got to kill vampires, she envied them because that was like the ultimate kill to officially calling herself a huntress.
“Make it look like an accident?” she asked.
Joshua took out something from his bag. “You would tranquilize him at first. Move his body to where the werewolves could find him and kill him with this.”
He pulled out a plastic bag resembled an evidence bag. Inside it, there was a dagger with a red gem on the hilt. Zia looked at the sophisticated design of the dagger. It looked like it came from a video game. The engraving on the blade was beautiful.
“Put your gloves when you use this. We don’t want your fingerprints on it too.” He put the dagger on the counter. “Leave the dagger next to the victim’s body.”
“Why not gun him at long range?”
“No, they have given us clear instruction to use the dagger.”
Zia’s family never worked alone. She didn’t know who they worked for but they were always receiving instruction from the person. It was always Joshua who would pick the information and relay it to his family. Everyone else just did according to what someone told them to do.
“Do you want to do it or not?” he questioned since she hadn’t given her answer yet.
“I‘ll do it,” Zia answered with a note. “Consider it done.”
“Good. Let’s discuss your plan.”
She left the file opened before following Joshua to the study room after Clay and Brody had left.
Inside the file, there was the name of her target.
Jonathan Grover.