The Healing Souls

In a Bind

[Carmen]

I heard the front doors lock, then Gemma and Forrest came in. They both sat on the seats on the other side of my desk. All the furniture in the office was made to hold even the heaviest trolls. I was grateful for that.

Gemma was quiet as she passed out our lunches and put bottles on the desk. It was an awkward silence. I took the paper with Viola’s information and put it in the folder with the other applications.

Viola said she spent time with a vampire. I wondered what that was like. Echo’s other mate was a vampire, but I only met him once and it was during a party, so we didn’t really get a chance to talk. It seemed like she had an interesting life.

“So, Forrest, how are you doing?” Gemma asked.

She was avoiding asking about the dark elf. It was hard for Gemma, but I sai