Red Devil (Dangerous Spirits) by Kyell Gold

Author:Kyell Gold [Gold, Kyell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: furry ghost gay russia
ISBN: 9780985777852
Publisher: 24 Carat Words
Published: 2013-01-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Meg poked her head out of her room with a clink of earrings. “If you guys didn’t have dinner, there’s leftovers…What happened to wolfy-boy?”

Alexei closed the front door behind him and moved over to drip on the kitchen floor. “He is looking after Kendall.”

So Meg asked what happened, and he told her, and she clapped her paws together when he told her he punched Kendall. “That’s the guy who was mackin’ on your sheep, right?”

“I…suppose so.” He grimaced and rubbed his ear, where the pain had steadily increased. He had stopped at a pharmacy on the way home and couldn’t find iodine, so he asked one of the cashiers for something to put on an ear bite, and she’d given him a tube that he hadn’t looked at. He pulled the tube out of the bag and squeezed a greyish paste onto a finger, then rubbed it on his ear. “But that was not all that happened.”

So he told her the rest as well, including the departure of the people who might have hired him to play soccer. She gaped at him open-mouthed as he washed the excess salve off his fingers. “You want a hoop to go in that hole in your ear?” she said when he was done.

“There is no hole,” he said. “I think. The skin is broken, but…” he scraped at the bite with a claw and winced, “the ear is not pierced.”

“You should,” she said. “You’d look good with a pierced ear. So what pushed you to fight? I never heard of you getting in a fight.”

He crossed to the bathroom and stripped his wet shirt off, keeping the wounded ear folded down. “I fought in Samorodka,” he said, although the way he’d fought Kendall had been very different, and he was trying hard not to think about where that had come from. Thinking about Samorodka also reminded him that now he might have to return there.

“And this after you got ‘in his face’ at the game place the other night.”

He folded both ears back. “I have to take off my pants,” he said stiffly. “Perhaps you should go back into your room.”

She turned her back. “I won’t look. But I think maybe you’re tryin’ not to answer the question. You didn’t the other day, either.”

“What question?” He didn’t want to just take his pants off while she was there, but he had already said he was going to, so he had really no choice. He unfastened them and slid them down his legs.

“The question of what’s gotten into you. You used to be easygoing, more cheerful. You smiled a lot more and joked with me.” He didn’t answer. “Look, nothing happened when we did that ritual the other night, you know. I don’t know if you’ve talked yourself into thinking Niki is speaking to you, or,” her paws made air quotes, “‘empowering’ you somehow. But nothing happened. It’s all coming from you.”

“You don’t know,” he said, and then stopped. He kicked free of his pants and threw them into the hamper.

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