Once Upon Stilettos by Swendson Shanna

Author:Swendson, Shanna [Swendson, Shanna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Women, Magic, Katie (Fictitious Character), Humorous, New York (N.Y.), Women - Employment, Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Humorous Fiction, Young Women, General, Employment, Chandler, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780345481276
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2006-04-25T07:00:00+00:00

In that moment, I felt my world turn upside down. If I was no longer immune, that meant I couldn’t count on anything my senses showed me. I didn’t know how it could have happened or why, and I could only begin to wonder how long it had been going on. I tried to think of the last magical thing I’d seen. I’d seen the gargoyle briefly the day before, but it had been appearing and disappearing. I hadn’t been affected by Idris’s spell in the deli, but it had made my toes tap, now that I thought about it. Since then, I couldn’t recall a thing. All that time I’d been relieved not to see anything weird I’d need to explain to Mom, and maybe I’d really been no longer capable of seeing anything weird. There was no telling what she might have seen that I didn’t.

But I didn’t have time to process it all at the moment. I was there with my parents and roommates, and I had to respond to Rod. “Hi!” I greeted him, hoping that only a second or two had passed instead of the hours it felt like. “I was showing my parents where I work.” I turned to my parents. “Mom, Dad, this is Rod Gwaltney. He’s the one who recruited me for my new job. Rod, these are my parents, Lois and Frank Chandler. And you remember Gemma and Marcia, of course.”

“Hi, Rod,” Gemma and Marcia chorused in unison, a lustful sigh in their voices. Hey, didn’t they have boyfriends? What were they doing coming on to him like that? I flipped my hair back over my shoulder and fluttered my eyelashes at him, then remembered that I had a boyfriend, too. Oops.

Rod shook my parents’ hands. “Nice to meet you,” he said. “Katie’s been such an asset to the company.”

Mom looked at him, glanced at Gemma, Marcia, and me, then frowned and looked back at him, like she was trying to figure out what all the goo-goo eyes were about. Only then did I remember that it was an illusion and that he must have been using one of those mild attraction spells he’d talked about. I didn’t realize he used it constantly. That explained his spectacularly successful social life.

I forced myself to stay aware of the illusion and the attraction spell. I was not going to become yet another notch on his bedpost. I’d hate to lose my status as one of the few women in the company who hadn’t gone out with him. To keep myself focused, I tried making a mental list of the women I knew had gone out with him, which was essentially the female side of the company roster and a good portion of the Manhattan residential white pages.

Before Gemma and Marcia reached the point of throwing themselves at him, I decided it would be best to get away. That would make it easier for me to have him all to myself later. No! I

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