Rock and a Hard Place: A Paranormal Monster Romance (Possessive Monsters Book 4) by Maggie Mayhem

Author:Maggie Mayhem [Mayhem, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-11-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Lillian

I stared into Gunnar’s freezer, amazed at the giant selection of meals he had ready to go. When he’d told me he had a lot of freezer meals, I’d expected the ones you’d get from the supermarket. You know, where ground beef actually meant textured soy protein with a smidgen of beef flavoring, and chicken was mechanically separated poultry product.

Instead, rows and rows of neatly arranged meals in uniform foil trays, clearly homemade, stared back at me from the chest freezer. One stack was labeled High Protein, and the other was labeled Comfort Food. There was even a stack of pies, cakes, and other desserts.

“So, this is where you spend your extra income,” I teased.

“Yeah. It’s hard to get delivery all the way out here,” Gunnar said from behind me.

“Right. Well, I love to eat, but I don’t particularly like to cook, so that’s fine by me. I do like to bake, though,” I admitted. Then I giggled. “Spending your money on gourmet freezer meals made by a personal chef is a whole lot better than spending it on drugs and whores.”

“Haha, yeah…”

I twisted around and leveled a devastating look at him. “Explain,” I said, crossing my arms.

“No whores, I promise,” he said immediately. “That wasn’t something I wanted or needed. Not to mention, The Wall could only do so much to hide what I was doing, so I had to be careful who I spent time with.”

Grr. I bet he’d had plenty of non-human women to keep him company. I tried to shove the green-eyed monster back down where it had suddenly come from. I had no right to be upset at his playboy ways from before he met me. But what about any drug habits that might linger?

“Keep talking,” I said.

He shrugged. “Let’s just say I’ve been to parties where you’d swear Tony Montana himself was there. It takes a hell of a lot of the white stuff to have any effect on a gargoyle. But that was during our party days, before we opened Redrock.”

I relaxed. “Okay, that’s fine. I’m no prude. As long as it’s not a habit.”

“Not a habit. It only shows up occasionally at parties when we’re schmoozing with the rich and famous.”

“That’s fine. I went through a wild phase when I was younger, too,” I admitted.

I looked down at the selection of meals. We’d had Beef Stroganoff yesterday for dinner, with tender egg noodles, strips of perfectly seasoned beef, garlic, onions, mushrooms, and peas finished with sour cream, so I wanted something lighter today. I picked up the one marked Maple Salmon.

According to the sticker, it was “wild Sockeye salmon, marinated in an aromatic orange and maple sauce, with seasonal vegetables and a fluffy rice pilaf”. It was also labeled high-protein and healthy. That sounded perfect.

“Tell me more about your party days,” I said as I got ready to put the meal in the oven following the directions on the label.

“My brothers and I started life under the control of a wizard. Not a nice guy.

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