Her Grumpy Stone Guardian by Sidney Bristol

Author:Sidney Bristol [Sidney Bristol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

Kanza

Damn it all.

Every answer I give, Gwen will spawn ten more. I looked her up enough to realize that she’s thorough. Even some of her more obscure replies to other wild conversations is founded in facts she can point to. If I lose her trust, I lose her as an ally here. And without someone to watch my back, I’m dead. Even I have to sleep sometime and I don’t want to advertise how adept I am at this point. No doubt they saw me heal both of us, but that’s small magic.

How much do I tell her?

The fact she knows about me means her entire world is about to change. I’m not one of those monsters that’ll fuck with a humie’s brain just for my own peace of mind. I can’t do that to her, and selfishly, I don’t want to take the memories of this weekend away from her.

Gwen knows. There’s no putting that monster back under the bed.

I look at her arm, pleased it’s healing well. When I found her, it must have just happened ten or so minutes beforehand. If the poison had spread, she’d be in much worse shape.

“What did you do earlier? Why’s my arm almost healed?” she asks.

“Would you believe me if I said magic?”

Gwen just stares, no doubt waiting for the rest of the answer. But there isn’t one. Her brows swoop up in disbelief, and she doesn’t have to open her mouth.

I groan and reach over for the cup of nectar, sipping it sparingly. Drinkable liquid is going to be the hardest thing to get here.

“I’m not being funny, Gwen. Magic. I healed you with magic.”

“Then why don’t you heal yourself with magic?”

“Because that’s not how magic works. I can’t heal myself.”

“Wait.” She plops down next to me. “I thought gargoyles turned to stone during the day. What’s up with that?”

I can’t hide the sound of disgust that wells up out of me. “For fuck’s sake, can we focus on one thing at a time, Gwen?”

She holds up her hands. “Sorry. Pick your bar fucks a little more careful next time.”

I swallow down a snarl. My knee jerk reaction is that I do not like her referring to herself as a bar fuck. I take a deep breath and set that curious reaction aside. “As if it wasn’t already hard enough, now I’ve got to play twenty questions. Is that what you’re telling me?”

She shrugs.

It’s a massive improvement over the running and screaming.

I reach over and grab the skewer. “As long as you eat, I’ll talk.”

There. She can’t eat all night and I’ve given myself a comfortable out of this never-ending story I’m about to have to tell.

“It’s best if I begin where all of this started. This way, I’m not backtracking to explain things. So. There isn’t any government oversight when it comes to us. There used to be. Monsters fought monsters right alongside the humans when it came to the American Revolution. Used to be the US government operated right alongside their paranormal counterpart.

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