All The Fallen – Chapter 3 – Caged

Shane straddled the
chair, chin resting on the back, watching the tension between Lara
and Marina, Jenny
ever the placatory one trying to smooth things over.  Shifting the stir stick from one corner of
her mouth to the other, Shanes eyes slid from Laras
face to Marinas,
back to Laras. 
The hunger rising in her was more sexual than bloodthirsty, but one
became the other all too easily.  She was
a long way from having any kind of control over these instincts.

Marina,
I know how you feel about.

No, Marina
said stiffly, you dont.

  I just meant that I have nothing but
respect for all youve done here.

  Si,
Marina
sniffed, so much respect that youve gutted it down to the studs and turned it
into .  this, she waved her hand at the
newly decorated room.  Completely gone
was the European ambience shed worked so hard to create, replaced with an edgy
dcor much too dark for her tastes.  Reds,
blacks, and purples, shattered here and there with splashes of neon and fluorescent
lights that cast strange shadows onto paintings that she found unsettling.

Shane was growing acutely aware of Lara,
her body, her scent, her hormones, the heat shimmering off her skin.  She squirmed in her chair and rose abruptly.  Im gonna get another one.  You guys want anything?

Marina
shook her head.  We need to go.  Ive got a meeting with Susan.

Shane froze in place, watching the swirl of red
and blue energies in Lara darken and seethe.  What the hell was inside that woman?

Oh?  Lara
said coldly.

The hard edge in her voice made Marina
hesitate.  If shed been just a little
more perceptive, she would have let it drop. 
But she missed the cues that both Shane
and Jenny immediately picked up.  Yes, were opening a new business together.  Cuffs n Coffee, but dont worry we wont
be competing for your business.  She
gave Lara a tight grin.

Lara pulled her head back and stared, muscles rippling above her jaws as she
ground her molars, inhaled deeply and exhaled an I see that held more menace than
she intended.

Shane sat back down, mesmerized, not even
bothering to conceal what she was feeling at this moment.  She watched the pulse of blood in Laras
neck, a metallic foretaste flooding her mouth. 
She swallowed hard.  She could
feel the shimmer beginning in the layers beneath her skin, the narrow
sharpening of her incisors, and wetness began to form between her thighs.  She licked her lips.