Of Wolves and Men

“I see two men around you,” I said as I pushed my long dark hair back over my shoulders, closed my almond shaped, sapphire  blue eyes, and inhaled deeply through my nose.  “One is a blue collar worker.  He works with chemicals.  Tar, I think. I can smell tar.  The other is white collar and works around computers in some capacity. The blue collar worker looks to be in his early thirties while the white collar worker looks closer to forty.”The woman sitting opposite of me smiled with satisfaction and eagerly leaned forward as she said, “Yes.  That’s right!  My husband, Jim, works on a road crew. He’s thirty-three.  The man I’m seeing works in IT.  Do you know what that is?  It’s information technology.”“I’m aware,” I informed her with a controlled, bland sounding voice.It was rare that I turned people away once I agreed to do a psychic

If I considered myself a quiet people watcher who struggled to find small talk in a room full of strangers, it was never more so than during that dinner at my patio table beneath the brilliancy of the starry night.  There may have only been one stranger amidst the trio, but his presence was so overwhelming that it felt almost crowded.Oscar Spears was a handsome, dark haired man with piercing dark eyes that I swore looked right into my soul.  His six-foot, three-inch physique was lean and muscular beneath a form fitting tee shirt and denim jeans.  When he stood next to me, I felt small and almost fragile.  Even though I was petite and shorter than most of the people I encountered, it was a feeling that I wasn’t exactly comfortable with.  Therefore, I kept my distance.Kenzie was five-feet-seven, which was an easy four inches taller than me.  Her bone and muscle structure made her appear much larger and bulkier than she was when we st

“I want to thank you for having the foresight to get the place cleaned for us,” Kenzie said as she put the last of the perishables into the refrigerator and closed the door.“Yes,” I added, “I thought we’d be spending our first few hours getting it livable.  It was a pleasant surprise to see it so neat and clean.”“I’d like to take the credit,” Oscar admitted as  he sat down in one of the overstuffed chairs in the living room section of the great room and accepted the wine glass that Kenzie offered him, “but it wasn’t my doing.  Noah uses this cabin a lot.  He never knows when he’ll be able to come or if he’ll arrive in the day or the night so he has a cleaner from the nearby town come in biweekly to make sure it’s all up to snuff.  The man hates dust.”“That explains why I didn’t need to prime the generator to get it going,”

The male voices sounded distant as I slowly regained consciousness. It took my head a moment to clear enough for me to realize that I was being carried by one of them and he wasn’t being particularly cautious about jostling me about.Confused and uncertain of what to do, I kept my eyes closed while I focused on the words being passed back and forth between the two brothers.“I can’t believe you brought them here just before the full moon.  What were you thinking?” snapped Noah.“I had no choice,” Oscar defensively said. “I’m on a time crunch. Kenzie’s the only one I could find to help at the last minute.  When she asked to bring Lisa, what was I supposed to say… no psychics allowed?”“It’s bad enough that she’s psychic and could pick up on something, but she carries a touch of the bloodline,” Noah complained.  “It’s faint, but I could smel

After raiding the outhouse that was in the opposite direction from the one I took when searching for it and placing the contents they’d removed from it in a hefty pile over the spot where I’d urinated,  Oscar and Noah said their good-byes.  Kenzie had been given last minute instructions and had audibly vowed to start out first thing with the intention of getting the job done in record time.  Oscar vowed the same.That night, I slept very little.  Every sound in the night made me jump. With the moon on the verge of being full, it was bright enough for me to see the cabin’s surroundings without the aid of a light.  I periodically peered out of the window to search the tree line for a man who was really a werewolf come to steal me away.I was still awake when I heard Kenzie clambering about the kitchen in an effort to get going for the day. It was obvious that she wasn’t a morning person. I’d neglected to bring a robe