Her Heart

CHAPTER TWO

The drive to my house from the city was a long one. I live in a nice neighborhood, if you can call it that. All the houses are actually mansions and my closest neighbor is five miles down the road. They all keep to themselves, unless they're having a party of some sort. Then they invite people from the neighborhood, but they always just send invitations. They never just show up at your house.

My house sits on about sixteen thousand acres of land. The driveway was about a quarter of a mile long. My house was surrounded by miles of woods. There's a gate that has a pass-code to get through. If you're on foot you could just go around, but I like it that way. If someone trespasses on to my land, I hunt them like they're game. It's quite fun, but now there are rumors going around about the woods on my land. The two most common are that the woods are hunted and the ghost torture you until you get so lost that you die, and the other is that there is a beast that live in the woods that hunts down any human being that steps foot on its land and eats them.

I don't like having visitors over, or random humans or supernatural creates coming over either. I much rather be alone than have people thinking we are friends or trying to get with me for my power. I used to have friends and other supernatural creatures that needed help come over all the time, but shit happens and that stopped years ago.

My house is fifteen thousand five hundred square feet. There are ten bedrooms and fifteen full bathrooms. On the first floor there is a foyer, dining room, chef's kitchen, mud room, three car garage, laundry room, traditional kitchen, breakfast area, family room, living room, bar, gallery hall, guest bed room with attached bathroom, guest lounge/media room, study, two half-bathrooms, covered terrace, and patio. On the second floor there is a balcony, master bedroom with attached his and her bathrooms and closets, six other guest rooms with their own attached bathrooms, kitchenette, living space, and terrace. On the lower floor there is a gym, changing room, steam room, sauna, two bathrooms, lounge, home theater, wine room, wine cellar, bowling alley, bar, two storage closets, pantry, and two guest rooms with attached bathrooms.

When I pulled into my garage, I sighed in relief. Never had the drive home felt that long before. It couldn't have felt longer if I even tried. Usually when I have a lot on my mind it makes the drive shorter.

Once I got home I had planned on going straight to bed, but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to go up the stairs. So, I decided to the wine cellar to get a bottle of my finest blood, O-negative. I preferred straight from the vein, sometimes a nice cold glass of blood could put me to sleep. Like a warm glass of milk will a child.

After three or four glasses of blood, I was finally about to go to sleep. I no longer had that nagging feeling in the back of my mind.

I woke up to the sound of my alarm going off. I felt like I didn't get any sleep at all last night. I still felt drained, but I had to get up. I had a meeting in a few hours. I had a nagging feeling like something big was going to happen today. Bad or good, I did not know. I hoped it met that things with my meeting will go well.

As I showered I couldn't help but think of the dream I had last night. It was very odd. I could hear a beating heart, but no matter in what direction I would go in I could never find it. I was running down hallway after hallway opening every door that came in sight, but no luck.

I think it means I'm destined to never find my heart.

I tried to forget the dream. It's not like I didn't already know that by now. I better things to think about. I needed to focus on my meeting today. I needed to have a clear mind. This was no ordinary meeting I was having. It was very important.

I got dressed in a black pencil skirt that hugged my curves and went to my knees. For the blouse I chose a silk, crimson red, long sleeve button up . I left the top two buttons undone. I matched a black blazer to skirt. I left the blazer unbutton. I decided on putting on black stockings . I don't always wear stocking to work, but today seem like a good day to wear them. I wore my favorite red, six-inch, Louis Vuitton, red bottom, stiletto heels that match to match the shirt.