Far From Center: An Imp World Novel by Debra Dunbar

Author:Debra Dunbar [Dunbar, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Terrelle managed to catch the bus just as it was about to pull away from the curb. She plopped down in the seat next to Gabriel, breathing heavily. Her hair was mussed, her shirt with several interesting stains on it, and her right eyebrow singed.

“Do I want to know?” Nyalla asked the demon.

“No. No, you do not. Let’s just say that professional kitchen equipment has changed significantly since I was last in the employees-only area of a restaurant.”

Nyalla nodded. “Was it worth it?”

The demon grinned. “Ask me how to make a flambé. Go ahead, ask.”

“I’d rather you demonstrate once we’re back home.” Nyalla smiled. “I love flambé.”

Terrelle leaned back in her seat and patted Gabriel on the arm. “Flambé for everyone, even you, sexy, G-man. That’s assuming you’re coming back with us. Are you and Nyalla an item? I saw you rush to her defense back there, so I suppose you’re going to be banging her tonight.”

Gabriel looked appalled. “I’m not banging anyone, whatever that means. And I won’t be coming back with you. I’ve got pressing matters to attend to.”

But the demon’s words made Nyalla wonder once more what to do with Gabe if his angel-ness hadn’t returned by the time they were to leave Aruba. She couldn’t leave him here with no ID and no money, trapped on the island. She’d need to get him a plane ticket. And to do that, she’d need to contact her brother, Wyatt, to provide a passport to get the angel back into the States. As an angel, Gabe was incredibly powerful, but he had no idea how to negotiate life in the human world. And Nyalla could sympathize. When she’d first been brought here after eighteen years as a slave in Hel, she’d been terrified. She couldn’t speak any languages beyond Elven and a bit of Demon. She didn’t know how to drive a car, use computers or phones, operate the toaster. All the food tasted strange. All the beverages, beyond water, juice, and wine, were unfamiliar. There were laws against public nudity that made absolutely no sense to her.

She didn’t want Gabe to have to go through that. Yes, he knew the language and she’d been teaching him how to be a human just as quickly as she could, but she was still willing to bet he’d have no clue how to operate a toaster. Food was a new experience for him.

The bus pulled up outside the hotel and the four of them climbed down the stairs, Snip nearly falling on his face at the curb. Nyalla paused inside the open-air lobby, admiring the soft lighting along the garden path that led to the beach and the sound of the waterfall fountain just out of sight. The evening felt anticlimactic. She’d not gotten the artifact. The Gormand had stolen half of her tuna steak. She was wide awake and not sure what to do with the rest of her evening. Head to the pool-side bar? Read a book up on her room balcony?

“Welp, I’m headed to bed.

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