08 - The Mother-In-Law

Tatum watched her leave his room, her dark, curly hair flowing behind her. She had secured it neatly in a bun but they had come slightly undone.

Her scent was like a cooling balm to his rising temper. How could she smell so right?

Half the time, he had to move away from her for fear of sniffing her like an animal.

He sat down dejectedly on his chair, cradling his head in his palms. Something wasn't right. It hadn't been since he met her at Healer Freya’s shop.

First, her scent had hit him like a moving truck.

Then she'd looked at him with her stunning dark brown eyes and he had felt instantly drawn to her. It was like nothing he had ever felt before.

Then the most unseemly thing had happened— his splitting headache ebbed away slowly into nothing.

A headache he had been wrestling with since he had his first shift five years ago. A headache so terrible that he would black out for days on end. A headache he had sought remedies for countless times at Healer Freya’s shop, and while it ha