On Your Sole by Caitlin Ricci

Author:Caitlin Ricci [Ricci, Caitlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786514516
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

He wasn’t wrong though. Within a week, I knew the numbers were better than they’d ever been. By the end of the month, he was practically grinning every time he brought me his sales slips for the day. The male shoppers had outnumbered the female ones, and Casey looked like he’d expected it all from the beginning.

“How did you do it?” I asked him as he turned in the final pack of receipts for the month.

He just smiled at me. “Dinner tonight? Then off to the cabin tomorrow? I’ll bring a movie and stay over.” As he spoke, he slid himself over my lap and I was forced to lean back in the computer chair.

“Give me one answer please?” I was ready to beg him. The last month hadn’t made any sense to me. From the store being fixed magically overnight to suddenly every man in the city apparently wanting to start wearing heels, I needed answers before my head was going to explode from all the absolute craziness going on around me.

He leaned forward and rested his forearms over my shoulders. “What’s up? And why do you look so freaked out?”

“What the hell happened this month?”

He smiled at me. “I had some friends help me out.”

It was the same non-answer I’d heard from him before and that wasn’t going to cut it this time. Not with me. I needed a lot more than that from him.

But if asking what had happened wasn’t the right question, maybe there was one that was. Only, I was afraid to give voice to the words because I didn’t know what they’d really mean for me. “What are you?” I whispered as fear raced through me. There was something different about him. It wasn’t necessarily wrong and I didn’t feel afraid of him at all, but something didn’t make sense. He didn’t add up for me.

Casey cocked his head to the side. “You finally asked the right question. Promise not to scream?”

“No.” There was no way in hell I was going to promise something like that.

He rolled his eyes. “Fine. Then you promise not to shoot me with the nine millimeter your dad keeps under the desk?”

I didn’t even know there was a gun down there. “Uh. Sure.”

Casey tried to push himself off my lap, but I grabbed his hips and held him into place.

“I’m fae,” he quietly admitted.

And even as I started to laugh him off, I saw some of his human features shift out of place. His eyes became brighter, his nose a little more pointed, and his perfect mouth got a little fuller. I turned his head to the side so that I could see his ears. I even touched them to make sure.

“What are you doing?” he asked me, his voice whisper soft.

“Seeing if your ears are pointy.” It seemed like a perfectly natural thing to say to him, given the situation.

“Wrong type of fae. I’m not the movie kind.” Casey chuckled and turned his head back so that he was facing me.

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