A Cursed Midlife: A Paranormal Women's Fiction (Witching After Forty Book 2) by Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff

Author:Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff [Davis, Lia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-15T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

My sofa had never been so comfortable. After drinking entirely too much champagne last night and letting Luci drive me home, I didn’t want to be anywhere but right here, watching bad reality TV bundled up in my fluffiest robe.

Just a lazy, relaxing day.

So—of course!—my doorbell rang.

Great. I hoped it wasn’t anything that would involve me leaving the house.

“I got it,” Larry called from the kitchen. Or preferably the couch.

“Don’t answer it if it’s someone that will freak out,” I replied, frowning.

He stopped in the living room doorway. “Give me a little credit, Ava.”

I would not. The darn skeleton kept forgetting he was all bones. He liked to hang out with the flesh-wearing people too often. I even caught him meditating in the middle of the backyard the other day. It was a good thing my only neighbor close enough to see him was a demon. The demon.

“Hello, Officer,” Larry said. I sat bolt upright. Please tell me this was not Drew.

“Uh, hello?” Drew replied.

Crap!

Waving my hand over my face, I glamoured myself just enough to not look quite so crazy. Or homeless. I hadn’t taken my makeup off before collapsing in bed the night before, so I removed my dark circles and tamed my hair. I didn’t mind Drew seeing me without makeup or in my robe, but he didn’t need to see the blotchy leftover foundation or my raccoon eyes.

Too bad I couldn’t get rid of this hangover so easily. There was a potion cure for a hangover, but it was so disgusting I wouldn’t use it. Drinking raw eggs and frog toes wasn’t on my list of things to do the day after too much champagne.

“Hello,” I said softly as I muted the TV and scooted over on the couch to make room for Drew to sit next to me.

“Hey, there,” he said, studying me for a long few seconds. Did he know I was glamouring myself? Probably, since he was a born hunter and was sensitive to magic. “Late night?” He looked at his watch and raised his eyebrows.

I moaned and let my head hang back. “Yeah. There was a coven meeting. The invitation said fancy dress, and when I got there, it turned out it was a party to celebrate me accepting their invitation.”

Drew furrowed his brow. “But at our date last weekend, you said you weren’t sure if you’d join. I got the impression you were leaning toward not.”

I snorted. “They couldn’t conceive of the possibility that I might refuse them.”

He nodded. “I see.”

“That’s not the best part. Although, this ended up being a big help to me. As I pulled up to the party, Lucifer appeared in the car beside me.”

Drew’s jaw dropped. “What happened?”

I sucked in a deep breath and thought about how Luci had captivated the coven. “I don’t know, having him there took the heat off of me a bit. He was charming and made the rounds, so I wasn’t the only new person in the room. He introduced himself as my distant cousin, in for a visit.

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