Accidentally Ever After by Dakota Cassidy

Author:Dakota Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dakota Cassidy

Squirrels and rabbits and all manner of small forest creatures hovered in a corner by the fireplace, shivering as Nina began scooping them up, stroking their heads while she ordered the bluebirds to explain that they weren’t there to harm them.

Seven small men in pointy red-and-white-striped knit caps with festive suspenders attached to their breeches stood to the right inside the cozy cottage, arms crossed over their chests, stout, short legs wide apart, stoic faces in place.

One sneezed, and without thinking, Toni said, “Gesundheit.” She approached him with slow steps, taking care not to frighten him. “I’m Toni. You’re Sneezy, right?”

“Who?” he barked up at her, his face scrunching, making his bulbous red nose almost disappear into his face.

“Sorry. I meant, what’s your name?”

“Charming’s my name,” he growled at her, his face screwing up into a scowl. “We’re the Seven Wharfs. And I warn ye, harm one hair on her head, I’ll make yer liver my supper!”

“Okay, little man, chill on the death threats,” Nina said, patting him on the head with a grin. “We ain’t gonna hurt anybody. Sit yourself down over there with your little friends and mind your manners.”

Then she turned to Toni, dropping two fuzzy rabbits into her arms. “Make nice. They’re freaked-out.”

Jon sat beside the tub on his haunches as he listened to Muriel explain to him how she’d ended up in a cottage in the middle of nowhere after a battle with some sea witch named Pricilla, while the real Marty and Wanda rifled around in the kitchen, scavenging for food.

Muriel was simply stunning, her red hair spilling from the bathtub and falling to the floor in pools of color. The sapphire-blue of her clamshell bikini top shimmered, reflecting against the four or five inches of water left in the tub.

But her tail? Her tail was magnificent, regal in its ever-changing color, iridescent against the firelight.

And it was a tail.

She was a real mermaid.

O. M. G.

“What happened?” Jon asked, his gorgeous face full of concern.

Yeah, what happened, Perfect Ten?

Muriel’s eyes burned with anger, her creamy cheeks flushing red. “It was Pricilla the Sea Bitch! I angered her when I clubbed one of her smarmy pet eels to death after he made a pass at me. She hurled me from the sea and I landed here.”

“How long have you been here?” Jon asked, looking around the cozy cottage with its homemade quilts and tiny chairs made out of rough wood.

“Too long,” she drawled, fanning her fin, her eyes sad.

“How have you survived like this, Muriel?” Jon asked, leaning into the beautiful woman…er, fish.

She lifted a long, slender finger and pointed to the small, very angry-looking Wharf men with a gentle smile. “These little darlings fill the bathtub to keep my fin alive. But they can’t carry me to the ocean and they simply cannot do this forever. I so long for home,” she wailed, a tear escaping her emerald-green eye. “Damn that thorn in my side Pricilla! When I get my hands on her, I’m going to dine on her eels for supper!”

“You know each other?” Toni asked, her eyebrow raised.

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