Lissa Kasey Inheritance by Lissa Kasey

Author:Lissa Kasey [Kasey, Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lissa Kasey
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The next day was back to business as usual. I got up feeling refreshed and went to class. Brock and I walked around campus together. He waited outside of class when I was finished and followed me to the next. No one dared to stare long while he lingered. I’d never had a school friend who actually treated me like something more than a quick fuck. It was kind of nice. Sometimes he looked at me like that was what he was thinking—wondering what it would be like to screw me—but he never made an advance and I wanted to keep it that way.

He talked about classes he would take next semester, one of them being Intro to Magic 101. It was a freshman class, but apparently a lot of guys were now trying to get their foot in the magic door. He didn’t have to be accepted into the Magic Studies program to take the class, but anyone in the MS program had to take it. If Andrew Roman was inspiring the movement, I guess he couldn’t be all bad.

After an early dinner of crusted tilapia and leftover rice from last night, I got ready for work. Gabe had tried to give me the day off, but I refused. I’d need money even more now to put down a new deposit—if anyone would be willing to rent to a male witch again.

I pulled up to the bar at a quarter to seven, ready for the long evening and dressed like my normal self. Mike was behind the bar again. No Gabe. Jamie appeared to be working both the bar and the tables. It was oddly busy for a Tuesday night. Thankfully, it was all the regulars tonight: Jack in his spot at the bar, Betsy and Lara in a booth, and Jo sitting at a two-seater table by herself, crying into her beer.

Shit. I’d forgotten about Frank. Had I missed the funeral?

I grabbed my apron from the back before heading to Jo’s table and gave Jamie a nod in her direction. He shrugged and continued the frenzied pace. I sat down across from Jo and offered her a fresh napkin for her tears.

“I’m sorry, Joey,” I told her quietly. Some friend I was, not calling or anything after her boyfriend died. Had she and Frank been exclusive?

She glanced at me and burst into heavier tears. “Seiran….” Her voice got all whiny and high-pitched. I winced when she grabbed my hand with a death grip. “You’re a nice boy. You shouldn’t work here. You’ll die too, just like Frank and the professor.”

“I’ll be okay, Joey. Gabe won’t let trouble stick around here long. If he finds that serial killer, the guy better run the other way.”

Jo shook her head. “There will be trouble until everything is balanced again. They’ve been saying that for decades. Ever since they killed John Ruffman in the sixties.” Ruffman had led a cult of male witches whose power rivaled the Dominion. Every one of them who’d been caught had been burned, including Ruffman.

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