Save The Last Dance For Me
Emerald eyes closed as Onyx felt her normally tired muscles come alive, her stance going from relaxed to formal in the blink of an eye as it had done in this room so many times.
She wasn’t on a hunt, or in some cheap, skeezy motel room.
No. Tonight she was home in the manor that had been left to her after the murder of her parents. It had taken months, but the whole place had been renovated. They’d had to redo the wallpaper and the carpet, even the hardood floors to erase all traces of their blood.
The hunter didn’t come home often. It was a place that held far too many memories for her, but tonight she had decided to share her past with someone very dear to her.
Onyx didn’t trust easily, that was for sure, and to get her to fall in love... that was an even bigger feat. One that Joseph Dash had accomplished seemingly effortlessly. Now she wasn’t stupid of course. Joseph was married, and the girl never once wated to get in the way of that.
She knew she would never be enough for him, and she would never be his first choice. She’d accepted that though. Hell, she’d expected it even. Onyx Snow was never anyone’s first choice.
The evening had gone as planned. They’d gotten to New Orleans a little after sundown and they’d gone out for dinner and a few drinks out in the French Quarter. They were going to stay here tonight, then sometime the next day they would leave. It was as simple as that. Onyx knew that Joseph didn’t want to leave Vick for too long in case she got suspicious.
A few hours ago they had come in, and had their fun after Onyx had given him a tour of her house, ending in her room.
Now though, she was awake; unable to sleep, and for the first time since she had started hunting, she had the urge to simply let herself drift.
Going downstairs quietly, the young woman headed to the basement where her father had created a ballet studio for her. She’d told herself she was only going to look about, ,that ever dancing again would be too painful...
Yet here she was, standing in her pointe shoes, her tights clinging to her legs and her black leotard hugging her lithe frame prefectly.
In the dead of night she stood, not a predator for once, but simply existing in the semi-darkness, the room around her only being lit by strings of fairy lights that were strung across the ceiling in rows. Their warm glow cast an almost other-worldly feel to the room as the needle of the record she put on glided over the vinyl effortlessly.
With her next inhale, her shoulders were held back with pride as she began to twirl and simply float about the room as if her feet never touched the ground beneathe her. As she listened to the music that flowed through her very core, it began to guide her, her eyes still closed. She could have stayed in this moment forever, just one last time.