Fire Brand by Kristen Strassel

Author:Kristen Strassel [Strassel, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The girls usually woke me up when they came home in the middle of the night, unless I was dead drunk or I’d been summoned by the Queen of the known universe. Neither of those happened often, so I wasn’t surprised to find myself alone when I went to the kitchen to make some coffee in the morning.

Even though Asher burned last night after his shift, I felt really good about our date. I laughed to myself, knowing if I said that out loud to either of my roommates they’d dispute what the night was. Or make gagging noises. I’d turn those two into romantics yet. It was the first time Asher and I had been together where I didn’t destroy him. It was possible. He’d encouraged me to think of the night as a new beginning, and it was.

Now I had to figure out where to go from here.

“You better have made enough coffee for all of us.” Teal looked like absolute shit when she appeared in the doorway of the kitchen. Smudged makeup all over her cheeks, hair in knots, clothes torn. And the smell. Holy starfish. Death had a rotten egg, low tide stench that tended to cling to clothes and hair, especially in mass quantities.

My girls had been busy last night. They’d give me crap for not going with them. I wouldn’t let my guilt take away from my happiness. I’d done something important last night too.

“How can you even think about coffee at a time like this?” Penelope groaned from somewhere behind her. “I’m going for a swim to wash last night off me, and then straight to bed. Wake me in time for the show. Until then, I don’t want to see anything but the inside of my eyelids.”

I got up to make more coffee. “What the hell happened last night?”

Teal practically collapsed at the table. “All hell broke loose. The League considers our visit to the castle a serious offense. There’s talk of dissolving The Bay as an independent state. They insist it’s a decree of the King, but I kind of doubt that, since he looked at you like you hung the stars in the sky during yoga. Whether Asher’s on board or not, The League wants us gone.” She stopped to snicker and take a sip of coffee. I was too shocked to protest that it was from my mug. “They’re fools. They’ll ruin both The Bay and Chronopolis. Teal and I took on a whole whack of them on last night. The ocean floor is more full of trash than ever. At least some of them could eat a mean pussy before they met their maker.”

Her wicked smile disappeared behind the mug.

“They said…Asher wanted that?”

“I knew that was the only part you’d hear. Yeah, according to them, he’s all butt hurt that the sirens undermined his authority and ignored his orders.” That part sounded a little too accurate. “And they wouldn’t act on such a serious matter without his blessing.

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