Hunter: Eclipse

Chapter 3

The soft mellow tunes of a flute mixed with the steady trickling of the water fountain, and breathing in I tried so damn hard to clear my mind. Of course, that was about as possible as Ailin relaxing with a bottle of tequila instead of this meditation nonsense. Peeking out of my left eye, she sat beside me in her lotus pose, looking completely serene and as calm as I wished I could be. Straightening my shoulders, I took an even deeper breath and tried again.

"It is said that your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." Ailin murmured.

"Which fortune cookie did you get that from?" I groaned, flopping down onto the mat and stretching out before rolling onto my back to stare up at the very plain, white ceiling of Ailin's office.

She opened her eyes and looked over at me, hiding her agitation so well that I might not even think she was annoyed with me if I didn't know her better. It was in her lips, the way she tightly pressed them together for the briefest of moments like she was literally swallowing down her rage.

"It was actually from an American novelist."

"That's very new age of you Ailin. If you claim it as yours though, I won't tell anyone." Again, her lips lighten and thin. "Why won't he tell me?"

"Hunter, you do not have to know-"

"Yes, I do." This time she exhales loudly and ends up moving so she's laying beside me.

"To know everything is to know nothing but to know nothing is to know everything." She quotes, smirking as we face each other.

"I'm going to have to get you to repeat that Confucius."

"I'm messing with you now Elise, and I am sure Logan has his reasons for not telling you. Maybe, just once, you should respect that." Ailin paused, looking thoughtful for a moment before sitting up to look down at me. "What is it that bothers you so much? I go places and do things all the time, and you don't carry on this way when I don't tell you about it."

"As much as I love you, we aren't dating, and we don't have any promises of not keeping secrets. You know who he really is, how he hid all of that and of course, there was the Sam bombshell a couple of years ago-"

"Stop." She raised her hand, and I went quiet. "Do you not trust him then?"

My mouth opened and closed. Of course, I did; otherwise, we wouldn't be together now, so I nodded. I was moving on from the past. We were starting new. Together.

"Do you really?" Ailin pushed.

"Yes."

"Really?" Her eyebrow raised as I nodded, a little less certain, again. "If you love him and trust him as you say you do, why waste time and energy on this?"

"Because I just want to know if Cain is okay." I blurted, not even thinking about it.

"Cain?"

"I know! But he's still a friend right? We parted on good terms, and we owe him for getting us back together too. I just want to know how he is." I admit.

"And Logan wouldn't tell you this if you simply asked and explained to him your reasons?"

No. He wouldn't. Anytime in the past few months, if I even mention his sibling, he got all, touchy and moody about it. So, of course, whatever was happening had to be involving him for Logan to stay so reserved about it all and every time I pushed, he was pulling away because of it.

"You found your answer?" Ailin asked.

"I already knew it, but-"

"You didn't want to know." She finished. "A lot has happened to everyone these last few years Elise, not just to you. He has his own fears, insecurities, needs and hopes. Give it time, and I am sure you will be told when he is ready."