Kimberly POV
“Mum have you heard if the word incubus before?”
Two hours after Martin dropped me off at home I had a hot shower to clear my mind and had a big dinner and then I had to tell mum that I’ll be off to a distant land for a month. Mum hadn’t taken it pretty well, as I’d expected and I’d had to convince her that I’d be okay and that I wasn’t going there alone.
Mom froze Midway while folding a dress she was convinced I’d need for the inauguration party. It was kinda old but gorgeous and It was a gift my father had given to her.
“How do you know about that?”he voice held a hint of panic and anger and it made me shreak with fear. This wasn’t good.
“I…. ummm… Mary! She was reading this new book…. you know how she likes all these creepy stuff” I laughed awkwardly to make it sound believing while my heart speed up like I was in a race. “But why did you sound so scared?”
My mom looked at the dress she had just folded then placed it neatly inside my suitcase and locked her eyes with mine “there’s alot about them in my hometown. It is said that they are demons that went after beautiful girls especially virgins. They came a night when everyone is sleeping band rape the girls, sometimes more than once”.
I felt a pang in my chest. That can’t be true! Kaleb didn’t have to rape anyone, women were drawn to him like magnet. But what if that’s only him? Him and Denlian aren’t the only incunbi out there, then what about the others? How do they feed?
There’s so much I don’t know about the incubi race.
“And what happens to the women afterwards?”
“They died”was her Curt reply “their body was shrunk to almost nothing bones jutting out of skin and deviod of any moisture even the blood in their veins dry up. However they were some unfortunate ones who got pregnant and ended up in a far worse state. Instead if dying at once they died slowly, as the child inside them feed in their life force and ate their way out of the mother’s womb.”
“All right mum that’s all I need to know. Thanks for creeping me out”.
And then my mother burst out laughing.
“Mum!” I whined
“Oh honey you were always quite the scary cat” she wiped away tears of laughter from the corner of her eyes.
“But is true though? The things you told me?”
“Well that what my grandmother told me but I’m pretty sure she did that so I wouldn’t have sex before marriage”, she continued laughing as she folded the rest clothes into my suitcase.
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The next morning, I got up early and did my daily routine before heading downstairs for breakfast. I’d chosen to wear blue jeans instead of formal office pants and white shirt paired with a green blazer.
“Honey you hate jeans for God’s sake and put your hair down for today. You’re only traveling to the location today while not put on a dress?”
“Traveling with my boss mum, I can’t just go wearing a dress like it’s a casual date” I reminded
“Yes you can! Now go change.”
I sighed I may be over twenty but when mum raises her voice at me I feel like a five year old. Pouting I turned back and changed to the blue dress that mom had mentioned earlier.
“Mum is this okay now?” I asked whilst pulling my suitcase along with me to the living room.
“Yes honey you look great. Doesn’t she Kaleb?”
My attention snapped immediately toward the kitchen island where my mother had served my breakfast. The only difference now however was that sitting in front of the island on my chair eating pancakes was no other than Kaleb Eustis.
Kaleb POV
Kimberly looked from the plate her mother Katherine had given me and back up to my face and then repeated the process a few times before giving me a pure evil look.
I took a portion of the pancake into the fork and held it out to her “want some?” I asked raising an eyebrow which caused her mother to burst out laughing and Kimberly jaw hit the floor.
“Yes Kim” her mother said in between chuckles “want some?”
She closed her mouth and glared at her mother “yes. I would like to have my own breakfast”.
I shrugged and put that fork full of pancake into my mouth while Katherine placed some more pancakes into another plate. Kimberly took the only available seat besides me and placed her handbag on top of the counter.
As Katherine placed the plate in front of Kimberly I took my time to looked at her properly. When Kimberly had first entered the room, it had taken me some time to recognize her. With her hair down and her glasses off it was impossible for anyone to know who she really was. On top of that she was wearing and dress and not her usual pants and shirts. It hugged in the right places and for the first time I noticed how perfect she was. Long legs, slender waist and a heart shaped face. She also looked younger more of her age.
And what had me worried was how attractive I thought she looked. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Denlian and I out of our entire race had decided not to sleep with our employees. It was not a written rule anywhere but personally we both knew it would tamper with the efficiency of the workers. But ever since Kimberly came to my office, she’s been a cause of distraction. One way or the other I find myself thinking about her.
She had a strong moral compass and backbone of steel. She’d even made me change my mind and hire her after the one week deadline I placed on her. And then there was the fact that I’d not only tried to make her feel comfortable yesterday, but here I was sitting in the kitchen and having pancakes, worried that after she gotten over her shock she might have turned hysterical. The things this woman make me do…..
We finished our breakfast in silence and Kimberly collected my plate before I had the chance to put it in the sink. She stayed quite the entire time we said goodbye to her mother and I brought her in front of the car. She gave her mother a final embrace before placing her luggage in the back seat where I had placed mine and got in the passengers seat if my SUV.
“Ask” I told her as I started the ignition and started driving “I can feel your about to burst with your curiosity”. It was about two and a half hour drive from Kim’s house to the hotel, so I had plenty of time to answer her questions.
“How did you eat normal food” she gushed out the second I finished my sentence.
I couldn’t help myself. I threw back my head laughing so hard that my cheeks hurt. Damn! I had never laughed this hard in my entire life!
Kimberly POV
I felt my eyes go wide as I heard kaleb laughing with his head thrown back against the seat. I’d never seen him laugh like this before. He looked less intimidating and I had to say I found him gorgeous.
“Really Kim that’s what had been bothering you?” He spoke through this laughter. I felt my heart beat increase when I heard him call me Kim.
Sure Dan calls me Kim all the time but I’d worked for him for three years and we were friends of sort but Kaleb? It’s like my name was meant to be said only by him. The way it rolled off his tongue so easily…. it made me hot.
“To answer your question” he said once he calmed down “I don’t just rely on sex as my diet otherwise I wouldn’t have been barking at you every morning to get me my coffee. I can eat all sorts of food and before you ask I use the bathroom like every other human does, but unlike humans my body can’t extract the nutrients out if those food to provide me energy. I can only borrow energy from females and I’m sure you know the rest”.
I knew the rest all too well and though I finally understand the logic behind him sleeping around I still felt annoyed “will you sleep with anyone if she could give you the energy you need?”I found myself asking before I could hold myself
Suddenly the temperature I’d the car dropped a few degrees just like It had when Kaleb found out what I did at the office. “You don’t get it do you?” It was more like a growl “it’s the only way we can survive, I didn’t choose this life myself, I was born into it and that’s how it worked for me over two hundred years now. I can’t change who I am Kim and I hope you won’t keep judging me for who I am”.
Of everything he said “two hundred years” kept ringing in my ears. Dear God Kaleb how old are you?
The temperature of the car went back to normal again “first you need to tell me why you just asked that question”.
“I….. I … was just c…. curious” i told him stuturing
“That doesn’t sound like normal curiosity to me Kim and neither did calling all the women in the diary to my office just so you could teach me a lesson”
“Kim” it sounded like a warning when I didn’t reply for a long time.
“Fine!” I snapped out. “I was jealous okay! I couldn’t watch you sleep with one woman after the other and I had to be the one to make the arrangements for you to fuck when all I wanted to do was to strangle the life out of you both!”
I was panting when I finished my rant. Well aware that u had blown my cover by every word I said but I didn’t give a fuck. Yes, I was attracted to him my boss Kaleb Eustis, who was a bloody Incubus! Why hadn’t I be able to stop myself from liking him wasn’t my question. I know kaleb was out of my league but for some reason my brain couldn’t get that point to my heart.
The car screeched to halt at the side of the road making me to hit my head at the dashboard and the next thing I knew, Kaleb had pulled me close to him and his lips had descended on mine, still in a haze I clutched his hand bringing us closer to each other.
When we finally pulled away for air I was feeling more light headed while Kaleb held me in his arms, my heart hammering against my chest. When I could finally speak, I asked him what I had in mind. “Why d-did you k-kiss me?”
“You’re not the only one who had to hold back till now” he released me gently. “But I can never be with you or any other human for that matter”.
“Why? You want me. I had felt it in the kiss, the way you held onto me”.
“Yes. And this distraction will only lead to one thing; your death”.