Chapter 7 : Divorce

"She will talk to me now! I'm going to her and she will see me!"

Pam looked at me with a smirk on her face, shaking her head. "Have you learned nothing about her? Don't go there acting an ass, Eric.

Give her the time that she is asking for. You will lose her if you go there showing that temper of yours."

"She is my wife."

Without saying another word, Pam shrugged her shoulders and left my office. Knowing that Pam was right, I did as Sookie wanted; I waited.

Time has not been good to me these past few weeks. I cannot stand to wait.

I've waited for over a thousand years but I could not wait a day, a week, a month or even a year for a human woman to decide my fate in her life!

This was torture for me. I don't know if she is safe or not. I don't know if she is going to stay with me.

I don't know if she has decided if she still loves me. I don't know if she is going to tell me that she wants a 'divorce'. I hated to have to admit that I don't know anything.

Every night I look at the time and I wait for her. I have never been one to watch a clock. I looked at the clock one last time and I couldn't take it anymore. Tonight was the night.

She was going to have to make a decision. It had been over a month. She has had more than enough time to decide what she wants to do.

Just as I was about to go to Bon Temps, she called me. She didn't give me a chance to speak before she said what she had to say. "I am on my way to Fangtasia, Eric. We need to talk."

I hated it when she said that we needed to talk. I readied myself to speak but before I could say one word, I heard the dial tone.

I fell back onto my chair and I knew what was coming. She was going to leave me.

When I'd viciously bitten into her neck the night that we killed Victor, my harshness and disregard for her feelings helped her in making her decision. I recall asking Pam if I'd scarred her. She assured me that I hadn't.

I didn't mean physically.

Now I knew why she had not spoken to me in over a month. She wanted to take the time to figure out a way to break it to me. It was a mistake that I cannot take back and I will forever regret it.

As I waited for her in my office, I paced back and forth for the next hour or so. I looked at the clock once more. She should have been here. I called the shifter and he said that she left an hour after they'd closed.

Where are you Sookie?

I even closed Fangtasia early and sent the humans home. Only my closest and most trusted vampires were allowed to stay. We could at least have had a semblance of privacy.

I had taken the necessary steps so that we could talk undisturbed. So where in the hell was she?

I stormed from my office to see if Pam had heard from her and I see that she had. Sookie was sitting at the table with Pam, Bill, Bubba, Thalia, Indira, and Maxwell Lee.

They were laughing and talking as if they didn't have a care in the world. That made me even angrier.

I had been sitting in the office for the last hour waiting for her and she made me wait while she kept my staff company.

Pam felt my anger. She turned around and looked me. To Sookie, she said, "Uh-oh, he is mad."

They all looked towards the hallway. They didn't matter to me. All of my attention was focused on Sookie. She stood as she looked at me.

"This was fun guys. And Thalia, you need to work on your jokes. They would be funnier if you didn't look so mad while you were telling 'em."

While Thalia considered the advice, Sookie walked past Bill and ruffled his hair. "And you need to stop with the knock, knock jokes. They are horrible."

Bill snorted. "You just don't know funny when you hear it." He sipped his blood and placed his hand atop Sookie's.

Once she had considered Sookie's suggestions, Thalia stayed true to form. "I have a reputation to uphold."

Thalia then looked around the table at the other vampires and said, "Did you hear the one about the blood bag and the vampire?"

Bubba laughed and said, "Uh-huh. Tell it to me again." A big smile ran across his face. "This one is funny," he said to Pam.

Pam sat back in her chair with her arms folded across her chest. She looked as if she hadn't heard a good joke all night and considering how she felt about Thalia, she wasn't going to laugh at that joke either.

Sookie walked to me, shaking her head and smiling. When she reached me, I said to her, "You look beautiful." She didn't have on her Merlotte's uniform. She'd gone home to change.

She had on a tight fitting lilac tee shirt and a pair of jeans that hugged every curve. I brushed her hair from her face.

When she came closer to me, I was ready to go in for a kiss but that did not happen.

She wrapped her arms around my waist and started crying. The vampires looked in our direction but quickly turned away when I shot daggers at them.

I stroked her hair and let her cry. I felt … sick; well as much as a vampire can get sick.

With her head on my chest, she told me again that we needed to talk. She looked up at me with the prettiest blue eyes that I'd ever seen and I saw it. She hadn't forgiven me for the bite.