Happy Endings by Alice Winters

Author:Alice Winters [Winters, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Amazon: B0787MCP2M
Published: 2017-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

I park the truck outside of Rehna’s forest and get out.

“Badrick?” I ask as he jumps out of the bed of the truck. “I’ve been thinking…and I feel like…you kind of owe me.”

He nods. “Yes, I owe you my life,” he says.

“So…this council thing is a big deal. They’ve never invited me so I would like to make an impression when I arrive,” I say.

“Understandable,” he says.

“I’ll just cut to the chase. Can I ride on your back?” I ask.

He stares at me for a long moment then looks over at Havoc. “Fine. I always repay my debts and if this is how you’d prefer them repaid then so be it,” he says. “But this will be my repayment. So, if in the future you need me for something…say to save your life, I will have to remind you my debt is paid.”

“That’s fine. Everyone will remember how awesome I looked when they share stories at my funeral,” I say as I walk over to him and set my hand on his back before jumping on. It takes me back to the good old days when I raised hell atop my black stallion. “Get a picture of me,” I say and Havoc pulls out the phone I’d bought him so we didn’t have to struggle with the archaic tradition of printing directions again.

“I wish you would have left me to die,” Badrick says and I laugh before posing for Havoc’s picture.

“Got it,” Havoc says.

“Awesome. Now get me like a theme song to ride in to,” I say. “What about ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’? I feel like I could connect to my inner gangster.”

“I gotcha covered,” Havoc says as he starts the song. He hands me the phone then shifts and flies to my shoulder.

“Onward!” I shout over the blaring music a moment before the lyrics cut in to ‘Amish Paradise’.

Havoc is cawing maniacally in his birdlike way of laughing so I shut the song off.

“Fine, no song,” I say. “Let’s go.”

Badrick bolts and I grab onto him as he lopes into the woods, moving between the trees with ease and a part of me realizes how much I miss the old days. Back when I tore across this land with a horse and my magic. No rules. Nothing. Just pure power.

“I miss this,” I admit.

“I do too,” Havoc says. “My favorite times were always when I pretended I couldn’t hear you and I’d sit back and make bets with the townspeople on who would win the fight.”

I look over at him startled. “Is that where you kept getting all of that money? I thought you were like…stealing it or something.”

“No, my dear. I was betting. I was very good at it because no one else would put money on you.”

“Of course,” I grumble.

Badrick slows down as he reaches the shrine and my audience looks up at me. Rehna is the first to react by rushing up to me and grabbing my arm so she can yank me down. “He is a

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